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There should be very few left peradventure in an innumerable multitude.

For when the body is fashioned now in the mother’s womb, and thou givest it members, thy creature is preserved in fire and water, and nine months doth thy workmanship endure thy creature which is created in her.

For when the body is fashioned now in the mother’s womb, and thou givest it members, thy creature is preserved in fire and water, and nine months doth thy workmanship endure thy creature which is created in her.

For when the body is fashioned now in the mother’s womb, and thou givest it members, thy creature is preserved in fire and water, and nine months doth thy workmanship endure thy creature which is created in her.

But that which keepeth and is kept shall both be preserved: and when the time cometh, the womb preserved delivereth up the things that grew in it.

Thou broughtest it up with thy righteousness, and nurturedst it in thy law, and reformedst it with thy judgment.

Now therefore, Lord, I will speak; touching man in general, thou knowest best; but touching thy people, for whose sake I am sorry;

Therefore will I begin to pray before thee for myself and for them: for I see the falls of us that dwell in the land.

O Lord, thou that dwellest in everlastingness which beholdest from above things in the heaven and in the air;

O Lord, thou that dwellest in everlastingness which beholdest from above things in the heaven and in the air;

O Lord, thou that dwellest in everlastingness which beholdest from above things in the heaven and in the air;

Whose service is conversant in wind and fire; whose word is true, and sayings constant; whose commandment is strong, and ordinance fearful;

O look not upon the sins of thy people; but on them which serve thee in truth.

Regard not the wicked inventions of the heathen, but the desire of those that keep thy testimonies in afflictions.

Take thou no indignation at them which are deemed worse than beasts; but love them that always put their trust in thy righteousness and glory.

For in truth them is no man among them that be born, but he hath dealt wickedly; and among the faithful there is none which hath not done amiss.

For in this, O Lord, thy righteousness and thy goodness shall be declared, if thou be merciful unto them which have not the confidence of good works.

For as the husbandman soweth much seed upon the ground, and planteth many trees, and yet the thing that is sown good in his season cometh not up, neither doth all that is planted take root: even so is it of them that are sown in the world; they shall not all be saved.

For as the husbandman soweth much seed upon the ground, and planteth many trees, and yet the thing that is sown good in his season cometh not up, neither doth all that is planted take root: even so is it of them that are sown in the world; they shall not all be saved.

Like as the husbandman’s seed perisheth, if it come not up, and receive not thy rain in due season; or if there come too much rain, and corrupt it:

In this also thou art marvellous before the most High:

In that thou hast humbled thyself, as it becometh thee, and hast not judged thyself worthy to be much glorified among the righteous.

For many great miseries shall be done to them that in the latter time shall dwell in the world, because they have walked in great pride.

For many great miseries shall be done to them that in the latter time shall dwell in the world, because they have walked in great pride.

For many great miseries shall be done to them that in the latter time shall dwell in the world, because they have walked in great pride.

Sorrows are passed, and in the end is shewed the treasure of immortality.

And said in their heart, that there is no God; yea, and that knowing they must die.

Behold, O Lord, now hast thou shewed me the multitude of the wonders, which thou wilt begin to do in the last times: but at what time, thou hast not shewed me.

He answered me then, and said, Measure thou the time diligently in itself: and when thou seest part of the signs past, which I have told thee before,

Therefore when there shall be seen earthquakes and uproars of the people in the world:

For like as all that is made in the world hath a beginning and an end, and the end is manifest:

Even so the times also of the Highest have plain beginnings in wonder and powerful works, and endings in effects and signs.

Even so the times also of the Highest have plain beginnings in wonder and powerful works, and endings in effects and signs.

Shall be preserved from the said perils, and shall see my salvation in my land, and within my borders: for I have sanctified them for me from the beginning.

Then shall they be in pitiful case, which now have abused my ways: and they that have cast them away despitefully shall dwell in torments.

Then shall they be in pitiful case, which now have abused my ways: and they that have cast them away despitefully shall dwell in torments.

For such as in their life have received benefits, and have not known me;

And now when I prepared the world, which was not yet made, even for them to dwell in that now live, no man spake against me.

For then every one obeyed: but now the manners of them which are created in this world that is made are corrupted by a perpetual seed, and by a law which is unsearchable rid themselves.

Let the multitude perish then, which was born in vain; and let my grape be kept, and my plant; for with great labour have I made it perfect.

Nevertheless, if thou wilt cease yet seven days more, (but thou shalt not fast in them,

O Lord, thou that shewest thyself unto us, thou wast shewed unto our fathers in the wilderness, in a place where no man treadeth, in a barren place, when they came out of Egypt.

O Lord, thou that shewest thyself unto us, thou wast shewed unto our fathers in the wilderness, in a place where no man treadeth, in a barren place, when they came out of Egypt.

O Lord, thou that shewest thyself unto us, thou wast shewed unto our fathers in the wilderness, in a place where no man treadeth, in a barren place, when they came out of Egypt.

For, behold, I sow my law in you, and it shall bring fruit in you, and ye shall be honoured in it for ever.

For, behold, I sow my law in you, and it shall bring fruit in you, and ye shall be honoured in it for ever.

For, behold, I sow my law in you, and it shall bring fruit in you, and ye shall be honoured in it for ever.

Yet they that received it perished, because they kept not the thing that was sown in them.

Notwithstanding the law perisheth not, but remaineth in his force.

And when I spake these things in my heart, I looked back with mine eyes, and upon the right side I saw a woman, and, behold, she mourned and wept with a loud voice, and was much grieved in heart, and her clothes were rent, and she had ashes upon her head.

And when I spake these things in my heart, I looked back with mine eyes, and upon the right side I saw a woman, and, behold, she mourned and wept with a loud voice, and was much grieved in heart, and her clothes were rent, and she had ashes upon her head.

Then let I my thoughts go that I was in, and turned me unto her,

And said unto her, Wherefore weepest thou? why art thou so grieved in thy mind?

And she said unto me, Sir, let me alone, that I may bewail myself, and add unto my sorrow, for I am sore vexed in my mind, and brought very low.

Then left I the meditations wherein I was, and spake to her in anger, saying,

And now, seeing we all mourn and are sad, for we are all in heaviness, art thou grieved for one son?

But the earth not so: for the multitude present in it according to the course of the earth is gone, as it came:

For if thou shalt acknowledge the determination of God to be just, thou shalt both receive thy son in time, and shalt be commended among women.

Do not so, but be counselled by me: for how many are the adversities of Sion? be comforted in regard of the sorrow of Jerusalem.

Our psaltery is laid on the ground, our song is put to silence, our rejoicing is at an end, the light of our candlestick is put out, the ark of our covenant is spoiled, our holy things are defiled, and the name that is called upon us is almost profaned: our children are put to shame, our priests are burnt, our Levites are gone into captivity, our virgins are defiled, and our wives ravished; our righteous men carried away, our little ones destroyed, our young men are brought in bondage, and our strong men are become weak;

Then said I, Speak on, my lord, in me; only forsake me not, lest I die frustrate of my hope.

Or is my sense deceived, or my soul in a dream?

Whereas, I say, she said unto thee, that she hath been thirty years barren: those are the thirty years wherein there was no offering made in her.

And whereas she told thee that she nourished him with labour: that was the dwelling in Jerusalem.

And therefore I bade thee remain in the field where no house was builded:

For in the place wherein the Highest beginneth to shew his city, there can no man’s building be able to stand.

And therefore fear not, let not thine heart be affrighted, but go thy way in, and see the beauty and greatness of the building, as much as thine eyes be able to see:

And so shall the Highest shew thee visions of the high things, which the most High will do unto them that dwell upon the earth in the last days. So I slept that night and another, like as he commanded me.

But her heads were at rest: the head in the midst was greater than the other, yet rested it with the residue.

Watch not all at once: sleep every one in his own place, and watch by course:

Then I beheld, and, lo, in process of time the feathers that followed stood up upon the right side, that they might rule also; and some of them ruled, but within a while they appeared no more:

Then saw I also that two little feathers divided themselves from the six, and remained under the head that was upon the right side: for the four continued in their place.

And I beheld, and, lo, the two that remained thought also in themselves to reign:

And when they so thought, behold, there awaked one of the heads that were at rest, namely, it that was in the midst; for that was greater than the two other heads.

But this head put the whole earth in fear, and bare rule in it over all those that dwelt upon the earth with much oppression; and it had the governance of the world more than all the wings that had been.

But this head put the whole earth in fear, and bare rule in it over all those that dwelt upon the earth with much oppression; and it had the governance of the world more than all the wings that had been.

And after this I beheld, and, lo, the head that was in the midst suddenly appeared no more, like as the wings.

But there remained the two heads, which also in like sort ruled upon the earth, and over those that dwelt therein.

Art not thou it that remainest of the four beasts, whom I made to reign in my world, that the end of their times might come through them?

And I saw, and, behold, they appeared no more, and the whole body of the eagle was burnt so that the earth was in great fear: then awaked I out of the trouble and trance of my mind, and from great fear, and said unto my spirit,

Lo, this hast thou done unto me, in that thou searchest out the ways of the Highest.

Lo, yet am I weary in my mind, and very weak in my spirit; and little strength is there in me, for the great fear wherewith I was afflicted this night.

Lo, yet am I weary in my mind, and very weak in my spirit; and little strength is there in me, for the great fear wherewith I was afflicted this night.

Lo, yet am I weary in my mind, and very weak in my spirit; and little strength is there in me, for the great fear wherewith I was afflicted this night.

The eagle, whom thou sawest come up from the sea, is the kingdom which was seen in the vision of thy brother Daniel.

In the same shall twelve kings reign, one after another:

That after the time of that kingdom there shall arise great strivings, and it shall stand in peril of failing: nevertheless it shall not then fall, but shall be restored again to his beginning.

That in him there shall arise eight kings, whose times shall be but small, and their years swift.

In his last days shall the most High raise up three kingdoms, and renew many things therein, and they shall have the dominion of the earth,

For he shall set them before him alive in judgment, and shall rebuke them, and correct them.

Therefore write all these things that thou hast seen in a book, and hide them:

What have we offended thee? and what evil have we done against thee, that thou forsakest us, and sittest here in this place?

For of all the prophets thou only art left us, as a cluster of the vintage, and as a candle in a dark place, and as a haven or ship preserved from the tempest.

If thou shalt forsake us, how much better had it been for us, if we also had been burned in the midst of Sion?

For the Highest hath you in remembrance, and the Mighty hath not forgotten you in temptation.

For the Highest hath you in remembrance, and the Mighty hath not forgotten you in temptation.

But I remained still in the field seven days, as the angel commanded me; and did eat only in those days of the flowers of the field, and had my meat of the herbs

But I remained still in the field seven days, as the angel commanded me; and did eat only in those days of the flowers of the field, and had my meat of the herbs

For as I conceive in mine understanding, woe unto them that shall be left in those days and much more woe unto them that are not left behind!

For as I conceive in mine understanding, woe unto them that shall be left in those days and much more woe unto them that are not left behind!