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O your perversity! Shall the potter be esteemed as clay; that the thing made should say of him that made it: 'He made me not'; or the thing framed say of him that framed it: 'He hath no understanding?'
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Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?
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And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of a book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of darkness.
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The humble also shall increase their joy in HaShem, and the neediest among men shall exult in the Holy One of Israel.
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For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner ceaseth, and all they that watch for iniquity are cut off;
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That make a man an offender by words, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just with a thing of nought.
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Therefore thus saith HaShem, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob: Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale;
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When he seeth his children, the work of My hands, in the midst of him, that they sanctify My name; yea, they shall sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall stand in awe of the G-d of Israel.
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They also that err in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmur shall learn instruction.