YOU WILL FIND REST FOR YOUR SOUL!

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For John came neither eating nor 

drinking, and they say, He hath a 

devil. The Son of man came 

eating and drinking, and they 

say, Behold a man gluttonous, 

and a winebibber, a friend of 

publicans and sinners. But 

wisdom is justified of her 

children. Then began he to 

upbraid the cities wherein 

most of his mighty works 

were done, because they 

repented not: Woe unto thee, 

Chorazin! woe unto thee, 

Bethsaida! for if the mighty 

works, which were done in you, 

had been done in Tyre and Sidon, 

they would have repented long 

ago in sackcloth and ashes. But 

I say unto you, It shall be more 

tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at 

the day of judgment, than for you.

And thou, Capernaum, which 

art exalted unto heaven, shalt 

be brought down to hell: for if 

the mighty works, which have 

been done in thee, had been 

done in Sodom, it would have 

remained until this day. But I 

say unto you, That it shall be 

more tolerable for the land of 

Sodom in the day of judgment, 

than for thee. At that time 

Jesus answered and said, I thank 

thee, O Father, Lord of heaven 

and earth, because thou hast hid 

these things from the wise and 

prudent, and hast revealed them 

unto babes. Even so, Father: for 

so it seemed good in thy sight. All 

things are delivered unto me of my 

Father: and no man knoweth the 

Son, but the Father; neither knoweth 

any man the Father, save the Son, 

and he to whomsoever the Son will 

reveal him. Come unto me, all ye 

that labour and are heavy laden, 

and I will give you rest. Take my 

yoke upon you, and learn of me; 

for I am meek and lowly in heart: 

and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

For my yoke is easy, and my burden 

is light.

Matthew 11:18-30

WINGS OF THE MORNING

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O LORD, thou hast searched me, 

and known me.  Thou knowest 

my downsitting and mine uprising, 

thou understandest my thought afar 

off.  Thou compassest my path and 

my lying down, and art acquainted 

with all my ways. For there is not a 

word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, 

thou knowest it altogether.  Thou hast 

beset me behind and before, and laid 

thine hand upon me.  Such knowledge 

is too wonderful for me; it is high, I 

cannot attain unto it. Whither shall I 

go from thy spirit? or whither shall 

I flee from thy presence?  If I ascend 

up into heaven, thou art there: if I make 

my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.  If 

I take the wings of the morning, and dwell 

in the uttermost parts of the sea;  Even there 

shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand 

shall hold me.  If I say, Surely the darkness 

shall cover me; even the night shall be 

light about me.  Yea, the darkness hideth 

not from thee; but the night shineth as the 

day: the darkness and the light are both 

alike to thee.  For thou hast possessed 

my reins: thou hast covered me in my  

mother’s womb.  I will praise thee; 

for I am fearfully and wonderfully  

made: marvellous are thy works; 

and that my soul knoweth right well.

My substance was not hid from thee, 

when I was made in secret, and 

curiously wrought in the lowest parts 

of the earth.  Thine eyes did see my 

substance, yet being unperfect; 

and in thy book all my members 

were written, which in continuance 

were fashioned, when as yet there 

was none of them.  How precious 

also are thy thoughts unto me, O 

God! how great is the sum of them!

If I should count them, they are 

more in number than the sand: 

when I awake, I am still with thee.

Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, 

O God: depart from me therefore, 

ye bloody men.  For they speak 

against thee wickedly, and thine 

enemies take thy name in vain.

Do not I hate them, O LORD, 

that hate thee? and am not I 

grieved with those that rise up 

against thee?  I hate them with 

perfect hatred: I count them mine 

enemies.  Search me, O God, 

and know my heart: try me, 

and know my thoughts:  And see 

if there be any wicked way in me, 

and lead me in the way everlasting.

Psalm 139

THE LORD MAKE HIS FACE SHINE UPON THEE

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On this wise ye shall bless the 

children of Israel, saying unto 

them.  The LORD bless thee, 

and keep thee:  The LORD make 

his face shine upon thee, 

and be gracious unto thee:

The LORD lift up his 

countenance upon thee, 

and give thee peace. And they 

shall put my name upon the 

children of Israel; and I will 

bless them.

Numbers 6:25-27

BE YE KIND

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From whom the whole body fitly joined 

together and compacted by that which 

every joint supplieth, according to the 

effectual working in the measure of 

every part, maketh increase of the 

body unto the edifying of itself in love.

This I say therefore, and testify in the 

Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as 

other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of 

their mind, Having the understanding 

darkened, being alienated from the life 

of God through the ignorance that is in 

them, because of the blindness of their 

heart: Who being past feeling have given 

themselves over unto lasciviousness, to 

work all uncleanness with greediness.

But ye have not so learned Christ;

If so be that ye have heard him, and 

have been taught by him, as the truth 

is in Jesus: That ye put off concerning 

the former conversation the old man, 

which is corrupt according to the 

deceitful lusts; And be renewed in 

the spirit of your mind; And that ye 

put on the new man, which after 

God is created in righteousness 

and true holiness.Wherefore putting 

away lying, speak every man truth 

with his neighbour: for we are members 

one of another. Be ye angry, and sin not: 

let not the sun go down upon your wrath:

Neither give place to the devil.  Let him 

that stole steal no more: but rather let him 

labour, working with his hands the thing 

which is good, that he may have to give 

to him that needeth.  Let no corrupt 

communication proceed out of your 

mouth, but that which is good to the 

use of edifying, that it may minister 

grace unto the hearers. And grieve 

not the holy Spirit of God, whereby 

ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. 

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and 

anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, 

be put away from you, with all malice:

And be ye kind one to another, 

tenderhearted, forgiving one another, 

even as God for Christ’s sake hath 

forgiven you.

Ephesians 4:16-32

WHO PROVIDETH THE RAVEN HIS FOOD

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 Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? 

canst thou set the dominion thereof in 

the earth?  Canst thou lift up thy voice 

to the clouds, that abundance of waters 

may cover thee?  Canst thou send 

lightnings, that they may go, and 

say unto thee, Here we are?  Who 

hath put wisdom in the inward parts? 

or who hath given understanding to 

the heart?  Who can number the 

clouds in wisdom? or who can 

stay the bottles of heaven,  When 

the dust groweth into hardness, 

and the clods cleave fast together?

Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? 

or fill the appetite of the young lions,

When they couch in their dens, and 

abide in the covert to lie in wait?  Who 

provideth for the raven his food? when 

his young ones cry unto God, they 

wander for lack of meat.

Job 38:33-41

Then Job answered the LORD, and said,

I know that thou canst do every thing, 

and that no thought can be withholden 

from thee.

Job 42:1-2

HIS MERCIES ARE NEW EVERY MORNING

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This I recall to my mind, 

therefore have I hope. It 

is of the LORD’S mercies 

that we are not consumed, 

because his compassions 

fail not.  They are new 

every morning: great is 

thy faithfulness.  The 

LORD is my portion, 

saith my soul; therefore 

will I hope in him.  The 

LORD is good unto 

them that wait for him, 

to the soul that seeketh him.

Lamentations 2:22-25

OUR INHERITANCE BY STEVE LONG

Our Inheritance

This is an article written by my husband, I thought you would enjoy.

Then the LORD said to Aaron: "You shall have no inheritance in their land, nor shall you have any portion among them; I am your portion and your inheritance among the children of Israel. – Numbers 18.20

Does it ever seem like you’re getting the short end of the deal when you can’t seem to have everything everyone else is getting? That new boat, bigger house, promotion, early retirement, clean bill of health – others have it but you don’t. Their marriage may seem more ideal and their children may seem to have it better together than yours. “Why can’t I be more like everyone else?” you may ask.

The Levites of old, as recorded in the bible, may have felt the same way. The Levites (descendants of Levi, one of the 12 sons of Jacob) were the tribe of priests. All of the other tribes of Israel were given a portion of land to live in, but not the Levites.

This, however, is only part of the story because the Lord God had not only told the Levites they would receive no land, he also promised them a portion that he promised to no other tribe – that He would be all they would need. “I am your portion and your inheritance” He said.

Dear Christian brother or sister – the Lord is our portion. Why should we settle for second best? Sure, houses and land are wonderful blessings from God as are the many other physical and earthly gifts that come to us from God, but they cannot hold a candle to the glorious light of the blessing of God Himself. “I will never leave you or forsake you” he promises his people.

After my Mom and Dad died, my brothers and sisters and I received our inheritance. The seven of us received a few thousand dollars apiece. It wasn’t much compared to what many others receive from their parents but was actually more than I ever expected.

I will never complain and wish for more than I received from my Mom and Dad because they were both Christians who lived their faith. The knowledge of God and the demonstration of faith in Jesus Christ I received from them have been by far the greatest portion and the greatest inheritance I could have ever asked for.

If you had your choice right now, what would you choose – God or goods?

Some day all of our earthly blessings will be either gradually or suddenly stripped away from us. Then, what will we have left? As believers in Christ, we will have, always, the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ as our portion. There can be no greater joyous gift in our lives than God Himself. He is not only the Giver, but the Gift.

TEACH US TO NUMBER OUR DAYS

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So teach us to number our days,
that we may apply our hearts unto
wisdom.  Return, O LORD, how
long? and let it repent thee
concerning thy servants.  O satisfy
us early with thy mercy; that
we may rejoice and be glad all
our days.  Make us glad according to
the days wherein thou hast afflicted
us, and the years wherein we have
seen evil.  Let thy work appear
unto thy servants, and thy glory
unto their children.  And let the
beauty of the LORD our God be
upon us: and establish thou the work
of our hands upon us; yea, the
work of our hands establish thou it.

Proverbs 90:12-17

LOOKING FOR THE COMING OF THE LORD

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Looking for and hasting unto the 

coming of the day of God, wherein 

the heavens being on fire shall be 

dissolved, and the elements shall melt 

with fervent heat?  Nevertheless we, 

according to his promise, look 

for new heavens and a new earth,

wherein dwelleth righteousness.  

Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye 

look for such things, be diligent that 

ye may be found of him in peace, 

without spot, and blameless.  And 

account that the longsuffering of our 

Lord is salvation; even as our beloved 

brother Paul also according to the 

wisdom given unto him hath written 

unto you;  As also in all his epistles, 

speaking in them of these things; 

in which are some things hard to be 

understood, which they that are

unlearned and unstable wrest, as 

they do also the other scriptures, 

unto their own destruction.

Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye 

know these things before, beware 

lest ye also, being led away with 

the error of the wicked, fall from 

your own stedfastness.

But grow in grace, and in the 

knowledge of our Lord and Saviour 

Jesus Christ. To him be glory both 

now and for ever. Amen.

II Peter 3:12-13

PERFECT PEACE

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THE LORD SHALL SATISFY THEE IN DROUGHT

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Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, 

and that thou bring the poor that 

are cast out to thy house? when thou 

seest the naked, that thou cover him; 

and that thou hide not thyself from thine 

own flesh?   Then shall thy light 

break forth as the morning, and 

thine health shall spring forth 

speedily: and thy righteousness shall 

go before thee; the glory of the 

LORD shall be thy rereward.

Then shalt thou call, and the 

LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, 

and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take 

away from the midst of thee the yoke, 

the putting forth of the finger, and 

speaking vanity;  And if thou draw 

out thy soul to the hungry, and 

satisfy the afflicted soul; then 

shall thy light rise in obscurity, and 

thy darkness be as the noonday:

And the LORD shall guide thee 

continually, and satisfy thy soul in 

drought, and make fat thy bones: and 

thou shalt be like a watered garden, 

and like a spring of water, whose 

waters fail not.

Isaiah 58:7-11

WHO IS A WISE MAN?

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Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear 

olive berries? either a vine, figs? 

so can no fountain both yield salt 

water and fresh. Who is a wise man 

and endued with knowledge among 

you? let him shew out of a good 

conversation his works with 

meekness of wisdom.  But if ye 

have bitter envying and strife in 

your hearts, glory not, and lie not 

against the truth. This wisdom 

descendeth not from above, 

but is earthly, sensual, devilish.

For where envying and strife is, 

there is confusion and every evil 

work  But the wisdom that is from 

above is first pure, then peaceable, 

gentle, and easy to be intreated, full 

of mercy and good fruits, without 

partiality, and without hypocrisy. 

And the fruit of righteousness is 

sown in peace of them that 

make peace.

James 3:13-18

JESUS CHRIST, THE SAME YESTERDAY, TODAY AND FOREVER

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 Let brotherly love continue.

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: 

for thereby some have entertained 

angels unawares. Remember them 

that are in bonds, as bound with them; 

and them which suffer adversity, 

as being yourselves also in the 

body. Marriage is honourable in all, 

and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers 

and adulterers God will judge.

Let your conversation be without 

covetousness; and be content with such 

things as ye have: for he hath said, I will 

never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

So that we may boldly say, The 

Lord is my helper, and I will not 

fear what man shall do unto me.  

Remember them which have the rule 

over you, who have spoken unto you the 

word of God: whose faith follow, 

considering the end of their conversation.

Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and 

to day, and for ever.

Hebrews 13:1-8

THE LORD, HIS UNDERSTANDING IS INFINITE

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Praise ye the LORD: for it is good 

to sing praises unto our God; for 

it is pleasant; and praise is comely.

The LORD doth build up Jerusalem: 

he gathereth together the outcasts of 

Israel He healeth the broken in heart, 

and bindeth up their wounds. He telleth 

the number of the stars; he calleth them 

all by their names.  Great is our Lord, 

and of great power: his understanding 

is infinite.  The LORD lifteth up the 

meek: he casteth the wicked down to 

the ground.  Sing unto the LORD 

with thanksgiving; sing praise upon 

the harp unto our God:  Who covereth 

the heaven with clouds, who prepareth 

rain for the earth, who maketh grass to 

grow upon the mountains.  He giveth 

to the beast his food, and to the young 

ravens which cry.  He delighteth not in 

the strength of the horse: he taketh not 

pleasure in the legs of a man.  The LORD 

taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in 

those that hope in his mercy.  Praise the 

LORD, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O 

Zion.  For he hath strengthened the bars 

of thy gates; he hath blessed thy children 

within thee.  He maketh peace in thy 

borders, and filleth thee with the finest 

of the wheat.  He sendeth forth his 

commandment upon earth: his word 

runneth very swiftly.  He giveth snow 

like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost 

like ashes.  He casteth forth his ice 

like morsels: who can stand before 

his cold?\  He sendeth out his word, 

and melteth them: he causeth his 

wind to blow, and the waters flow.

He sheweth his word unto Jacob, 

his statutes and his judgments unto 

Israel.   He hath not dealt so with 

any nation: and as for his judgments, 

they have not known them. Praise 

ye the LORD.

Psalm 147

GOD, RICH IN MERCY AND LOVE

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And you hath he quickened, who were

dead in trespasses and sins; Wherein in 

time past ye walked according to the 

course of this world, according to the 

prince of the power of the air, the spirit 

that now worketh in the children of 

disobedience: Among whom also we all 

had our conversation in times past in the 

lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires 

of the flesh and of the mind; and were 

by nature the children of wrath, even as 

others. But God, who is rich in mercy, 

for his great love wherewith he loved us,

Even when we were dead in sins, hath 

quickened us together with Christ, (by 

grace ye are saved;) And hath raised us 

up together, and made us sit together in 

heavenly places in Christ Jesus: 

That in the ages to come he might 

shew the exceeding riches of his grace 

in his kindness toward us through Christ 

Jesus. For by grace are ye saved through 

faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the 

gift of God: Not of works, lest any man 

should boast. For we are his workmanship,

created in Christ Jesus unto good works, 

which God hath before ordained that we 

should walk in them.

Ephesians 2:1-10

PONDER THE PATH OF THY FEET

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But the path of the just is as the 

shining light, that shineth more 

and more unto the perfect day.

The way of the wicked is as 

darkness: they know not at 

what they stumble.  My son, 

attend to my words; incline 

thine ear unto my sayings.  Let 

them not depart from thine eyes; 

keep them in the midst of thine 

heart.  For they are life unto those 

that find them, and health to all 

their flesh.  Keep thy heart with 

all diligence; for out of it are 

the issues of life.  Put away from 

thee a froward mouth, and perverse 

lips put far from thee.  Let thine 

eyes look right on, and let thine 

eyelids look straight before thee.

Ponder the path of thy feet, 

and let all thy ways be established.

Turn not to the right hand 

nor to the left: remove thy 

foot from evil.

Proverbs 4:18-27

DWELLING UNDER HIS SHADOW

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O Israel, return unto the LORD 

thy God; for thou hast fallen by 

thine iniquity.  Take with you words, 

and turn to the LORD: say 

unto him, Take away all iniquity,

 and receive us graciously: so 

will we render the calves of our 

lips. Asshur shall not save us; 

we will not ride upon horses: 

neither will we say any more to 

the work of our hands, Ye are 

our gods: for in thee the fatherless 

findeth mercy.  I will heal their 

backsliding, I will love them freely: 

for mine anger is turned away from 

him.  I will be as the dew unto 

Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and 

cast forth his roots as Lebanon.

His branches shall spread, and his 

beauty shall be as the olive tree, 

and his smell as Lebanon.  They that 

dwell under his shadow shall return; 

they shall revive as the corn, and 

grow as the vine: the scent thereof 

shall be as the wine of Lebanon.

Hosea 14:1-7

THE AUTHOR AND FINISHER OF OUR FAITH

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Wherefore seeing we also are compassed 

about with so great a cloud of witnesses, 

let us lay aside every weight, and the sin 

which doth so easily beset us, and let us 

run with patience the race that is set before 

us, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher 

of our faith; who for the joy that was set 

before him endured the cross, despising the 

shame, and is set down at the right hand of 

the throne of God.  For consider him that 

endured such contradiction of sinners against 

himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your 

minds. Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, 

striving against sin.  And ye have forgotten 

the exhortation which speaketh unto you as 

unto children, My son, despise not thou the 

chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou 

art rebuked of him:  For whom the Lord 

loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every 

son whom he receiveth.

Hebrews 12:1-6

THOU SHALT REST

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 Come unto me, all ye that labour 

and are heavy laden, and I will 

give you rest. Take my yoke upon 

you, and learn of me; for I am meek 

and lowly in heart: and ye shall 

find rest unto your souls.  For my 

yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

Matthew 11:28-29

Remember the sabbath day, to keep 

it holy.  Six days shalt thou labour, 

and do all thy work:  But the seventh 

day is the sabbath of the LORD thy 

God: in it thou shalt not do any work, 

thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, 

thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, 

nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger 

that is within thy gates:  For in six 

days the LORD made heaven and earth, 

the sea, and all that in them is, and 

rested the seventh day: wherefore the 

LORD blessed the sabbath day, and 

hallowed it.

Exodus 20:8-11

I WILL TEACH YOU THE FEAR OF THE LORD

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The angel of the LORD encampeth 

round about them that fear him, and 

delivereth them.  O taste and see that 

the LORD is good: blessed is the man 

that trusteth in him.  O fear the LORD, 

ye his saints: for there is no want to 

them that fear him.  The young lions 

do lack, and suffer hunger: but they 

that seek the LORD shall not want 

any good thing.  Come, ye children, 

hearken unto me: I will teach you the 

fear of the LORD.

Psalm 34:7-11

THEREFORE WILL THE LORD WAIT

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Get you out of the way, turn aside out of 

the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to 

cease from before us. Wherefore thus 

saith the Holy One of Israel, Because 

ye despise this word, and trust in 

oppression and perverseness, and 

stay thereon:  Therefore this iniquity 

shall be to you as a breach ready to 

fall, swelling out in a high wall, 

whose breaking cometh suddenly 

at an instant.  And he shall break 

it as the breaking of the potters’ 

vessel that is broken in pieces; 

he shall not spare: so that there 

shall not be found in the bursting 

of it a sherd to take fire from the 

hearth, or to take water withal out 

of the pit.  For thus saith the Lord 

GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In 

returning and rest shall ye be 

saved; in quietness and in 

confidence shall be your strength: 

and ye would not.  But ye said, 

No; for we will flee upon horses; 

therefore shall ye flee: and, We 

will ride upon the swift; therefore 

shall they that pursue you be swift.

One thousand shall flee at the rebuke 

of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye 

flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon 

the top of a mountain, and as an ensign 

on an hill.  And therefore will the LORD 

wait, that he may be gracious unto you, 

and therefore will he be exalted, that he 

may have mercy upon you: for the LORD 

is a God of judgment: blessed are all they 

that wait for him.  For the people shall 

dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt 

weep no more: he will be very gracious 

unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when 

he shall hear it, he will answer thee.  And 

though the Lord give you the bread of 

adversity, and the water of affliction, yet 

shall not thy teachers be removed into a 

corner any more, but thine eyes shall see 

thy teachers:  And thine ears shall hear a 

word behind thee, saying, This is the way,

walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, 

and when ye turn to the left.  Ye shall defile 

also the covering of thy graven images of 

silver, and the ornament of thy molten 

images of gold: thou shalt cast them away 

as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it,

Get thee hence.  Then shall he give the rain 

of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the ground 

withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, 

and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day 

shall thy cattle feed in large pastures.  The 

oxen likewise and the young asses that ear 

the ground shall eat clean provender, which 

hath been winnowed with the shovel and 

with the fan.  And there shall be upon every 

high mountain, and upon every high hill, 

rivers and streams of waters in the day of 

the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

Moreover the light of the moon shall be 

as the light of the sun, and the light of the 

sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of 

seven days, in the day that the LORD 

bindeth up the breach of his people, 

and healeth the stroke of their wound.

Behold, the name of the LORD cometh 

from far, burning with his anger, and the 

burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full 

of indignation, and his tongue as a 

devouring fire:  And his breath, as an 

overflowing stream, shall reach to the 

midst of the neck, to sift the nations 

with the sieve of vanity: and there shall 

be a bridle in the jaws of the people, 

causing them to err.  Ye shall have a song, 

as in the night when a holy solemnity is 

kept; and gladness of heart, as when one 

goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain 

of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel.

And the LORD shall cause his glorious 

voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting 

down of his arm, with the indignation of his 

anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, 

with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.

For through the voice of the LORD shall the 

Assyrian be beaten down, which smote with a 

rod.  And in every place where the grounded 

staff shall pass, which the LORD shall lay upon 

him, it shall be with tabrets and harps: and in 

battles of shaking will he fight with it.

Isaiah 30:11:32

THE PATH OF THE JUST ARE AS THE SHINING LIGHT

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But the path of the just is as 

the shining light, that shineth 

more and more unto the perfect 

day.  The way of the wicked is 

as darkness: they know not at 

what they stumble.  My son, 

attend to my words; incline 

thine ear unto my sayings.

Let them not depart from 

thine eyes; keep them in 

the midst of thine heart.  

For they are life unto those 

that find them, and health 

to all their flesh.  Keep thy 

heart with all diligence; for 

out of it are the issues of life.

Put away from thee a froward 

mouth, and perverse lips put far 

from thee. Let thine eyes look 

right on, and let thine eyelids 

look straight before thee. Ponder 

the path of thy feet, and let all 

thy ways be established.  Turn 

not to the right hand nor to the 

left: remove thy foot from evil.

Proverbs 4:18-27