This would be my comfort; I would even exult in pain unsparing, for I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
I have not departed from the commandment of his lips; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my portion of food.
For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
“Speak to all the congregation of the people of Israel and say to them, You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.
And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night they never cease to say, “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!”
“And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: ‘The words of the holy one, the true one, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, who shuts and no one opens.
For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;
He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?
for I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.
how I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and teaching you in public and from house to house,
God came from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah His splendor covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise.
Are you not from everlasting, O Lord my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O Lord, you have ordained them as a judgment, and you, O Rock, have established them for reproof.
I will not execute my burning anger; I will not again destroy Ephraim; for I am God and not a man, the Holy One in your midst, and I will not come in wrath.
leave the way, turn aside from the path, let us hear no more about the Holy One of Israel.” Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, “Because you despise this word and trust in oppression and perverseness and rely on them,
With my lips I declare all the rules of your mouth.
O God, from my youth you have taught me, and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds. So even to old age and gray hairs, O God, do not forsake me, until I proclaim your might to another generation, your power to all those to come.
I have told the glad news of deliverance in the great congregation; behold, I have not restrained my lips, as you know, O Lord. I have not hidden your deliverance within my heart; I have spoken of your faithfulness and your salvation; I have not concealed your steadfast love and your faithfulness from the great congregation.
The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks justice.
Receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.
The clods of the valley are sweet to him; all mankind follows after him, and those who go before him are innumerable.
He is wise in heart and mighty in strength —who has hardened himself against him, and succeeded?—
who rejoice exceedingly and are glad when they find the grave?
“There is none holy like the Lord: for there is none besides you; there is no rock like our God.
The Lord will not be willing to forgive him, but rather the anger of the Lord and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and the curses written in this book will settle upon him, and the Lord will blot out his name from under heaven.
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