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I will declare your righteousness And your works, For they will not profit you.
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When you cry out, Let your collection of idols deliver you. But the wind will carry them all away, A breath will take them. But he who puts his trust in Me shall possess the land, And shall inherit My holy mountain."
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And one shall say, "Heap it up! Heap it up! Prepare the way, Take the stumbling block out of the way of My people."
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For thus says the High and Lofty One Who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "I dwell in the high and holy place, With him who has a contrite and humble spirit, To revive the spirit of the humble, And to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
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For I will not contend forever, Nor will I always be angry; For the spirit would fail before Me, And the souls which I have made.
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For the iniquity of his covetousness I was angry and struck him; I hid and was angry, And he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.
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I have seen his ways, and will heal him; I will also lead him, And restore comforts to him And to his mourners.
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"I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace to him who is far off and to him who is near," Says the Lord, "And I will heal him."
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But the wicked are like the troubled sea, When it cannot rest, Whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
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"There is no peace," Says my God, "for the wicked."