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¶ Fear not, little flock, for your Father, in His good pleasure, hath given you the Kingdom; the dominion is yours forever;
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Ye shall smite the nations with a continual stroke; for the Lord, your God, hath spoken it:
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Ye shall break them in pieces, and destroy them; for the day of His vengeance has come.
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¶ He hath judged the nations that are near, and decreed destruction upon them, and their day continueth not:
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The nations far away are covered with their abominations as with a garment: their iniquities are not hid: He will not spare them.
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¶ The Saints of the former days have sat in judgment upon them; they have judged the earth, and the nations thereof shall not be spared:
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Fire goeth before, famine followeth after; and the pestilence shall waste them.
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¶ Arise and smite them, O Daughter of Zion; and thou, O Tower of the Flock, whose power is above the clouds, possess thy dominion, and be thou a refuge:
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For Judah shall be bent, in his strength; as an arrow, Ephraim shall fill him:
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Manasseh shall be his barb; and Jacob shall be in the midst of the Gentiles, in the empire of nations, as a Lion among the beasts of the forest;
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As a young Lion in the flocks of sheep, who, when he goeth through, treadeth down and teareth in pieces, and none shall deliver.
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¶ Let your fear be upon all men; and the terror of you upon your enemies; for this is the day of vengeance of the Lord, and of your recompense upon your enemies.
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Joseph shall possess his land again; for the throne of David is established as the days of the sun; His Kingdom is everlasting.
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¶ And now, O Daughter of Zion, the land of robbers, the empire of many nations, shall gather her troops against thee, to look upon thee, and to defile thy dominion:
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But they have not known the thought of the Lord; neither have they understood His counsel; for He shall gather them as sheaves of the floor.
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¶ Arise and thrash, for I will make thy power iron: the tread of thy foot shall crush:
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Thou shalt break in pieces many people, and shalt consecrate their spoil unto God, and their dominion to the Lord of the whole earth.
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¶ Babylon the Great shall perish before thee; for thou shalt do unto her as she hath done unto thee:
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Thou shalt render unto her as she hath rendered to thee, and reward her double for all her sins.
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Her cities shall be given to the flames, and the inhabitants to the sword: her government shall be broken in pieces, and her dominion taken away.
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¶ For in her is found the blood of Saints and Prophets; and the spoil of the children of God in the midst of her:
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And she hath drank of the cup of the indignation, and of the fury of God, with all the nations of the Gentiles.
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¶ Against her, Apostles have washed their feet on earth, and borne witness in heaven;
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And by the testimony and the blood of Prophets have her sins been made known in heaven:
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The great Prince, whose throne is as burning fire, hath judged her, saying: Let not her days be prolonged.
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¶ For by this Law shall men be judged in the portion of Joseph: God will give it to you, that you may possess it for an everlasting dominion.
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In the midst of the Gentiles shall ye establish your Synagogues, and gather out the just while ye wait for the judgments of God.
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¶ Ye shall, therefore, read in it all the days of your lives.
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Ye shall read it in your solemn assemblies, and in your joyous meetings; with the shout of triumph when your enemies flee before you;
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And in the voice of mourning when you have sinned against God, and have fled before them; ye shall read it in the gathering of your neighbors, and in the household with your children.
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¶ Ye shall talk of it in the house, and in the field, and by the wayside, and in the forest, and on the waters; in the camp, and on the march:
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When ye labor, and when ye rest shall ye speak of this Law to your neighbors, and to your wives, and to your children, and to your servants.
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¶ And ye shall think upon it in your joy, and in your sorrow; when upon the land which the Lord your God giveth you, and when far away;
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Both in the midst of the multitude, and in your loneliness;
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All the days of your lives shall ye read it, and talk of it, and think upon it; and it shall be inscribed upon your hearts continually.
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¶ For by this Law hath the Lord, your God, sanctified you, and given you judgment, and justice, and dominion.
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Remember that ye stood before him; your king, and your princes, and your nobles, the men of you, with your wives and your children, and your little ones,
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And entered into covenant with the Lord, your God, to be a people unto Him, and to obey His Commandments, and to keep this Law;
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And that He covenanted with you to be your God, and to make you a nation of kings and Priests to the nations of the earth.
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¶ Keep, therefore, this Law, and obey these Commandments;
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For so doth God sanctify you, and so will He establish you, and prosper you, more abundantly than in former days.
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The land of Joseph shall ye possess forever, and Israel and Judah shall dwell again upon their own mountains.
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¶ Your vineyards, your gardens, and your orchards, ye shall plant again, and they shall flourish,
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And ye shall eat the fruit thereof: ye shall build houses, and shall inhabit them;
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And children's children shall be in them, for a crown of glory to you, if ye remember the Lord, your God, whose name is great and glorious, and keep His statutes.
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¶ And now if there be among you a man whose heart turneth away from the Lord your God, to serve the god of Babylon, and to honor the names of the nations;
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If there be a root that beareth gall and wormwood;
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And when he heareth the curse in this Law, he bless himself, saying: I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of my heart, the Lord will not spare him.
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¶ But the anger of the Lord, and His jealousy, and His fierce wrath, shall smoke against that man:
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And all the curses that are written in this book shall be upon him, and the Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven.
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¶ At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year, when all the children of the kingdom are gathered together before the Lord in Temples, and in Tabernacles,
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And all the people are assembled; princes and nobles, men, and women, and children, and the stranger that dwelleth in your gates;
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Ye shall read this Law before them all, in their hearing, and shall make it known in the midst of them.
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¶ And your children, and the strangers dwelling in your gates, that have not heard it, shall learn this Law, and shall all remember it again,
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And ye shall all lift up your hands, and shall enter into covenant with the Lord your God to keep this Law, and to obey His statutes, that He may prolong your days upon the land.