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Surely he has turned his hand against me, all day long.

He has bent his bow and set me as the target for the arrow.

He shot the arrows of his quiver into my kidneys.

The loyal love of Yahweh does not cease; his compassions do not come to an end.

It is good for a man who carries the yoke of his childhood.

Let him put his mouth in the dust; perhaps there is hope.

Let him give a cheek to his smiter, let him be filled with disgrace.

For even though he causes grief he has compassion according to the greatness of his royal love.

To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth;

Why should any living person complain about his sin?

Yahweh has completed his anger, he has poured out his fierce anger; he has kindled a fire in Zion, it consumed her foundations.

The breath of our nostrils, the anointed one of Yahweh, was captured in their pits; of whom we said, "In his shadow we will live among the nations."

And I saw something like the outward appearance of amber, something like the appearance of fire, with a covering around it, from the likeness of his loins and upward. And from the likeness of his loins and downward I saw something like the appearance of fire, and it was radiant all around.

When I say to the wicked, ‘Surely you will die,' and you do not warn him and you do not speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way so that he may live, that wicked person will die because of his guilt, and from your hand I will seek his blood.

And you, if you do warn the wicked and he does not turn from his wickedness and from his wicked way, on account of his guilt he will die, and you yourself will have saved your life.

And when the righteous turns from his righteousness and does injustice, and I place a stumbling block before him, he will die, for you did not warn him. Because of his sin he will die, and his righteousness that he did will not be remembered, and his blood I shall seek from your hand.

For the seller will not return to the merchandise while they are still alive, for the vision is about all of its multitude; it will not change, and a man because of his guilt will not be able to hold onto his life.

And if their survivors will escape, they will be on the mountains, like the doves of the valley, all of them groaning, each because of his guilt.

and I saw, and look! A figure like the appearance of a man; from the appearance of his waist and below was fire, and from his waist and upward was like the appearance of brightness, like the outward appearance of amber.

And seventy men from the elders of the house of Israel, and Jaazaniah, the son of Shaphan, was standing in the midst of them, and they were standing before them. Each one had his censer in his hand, and the fragrance of the cloud of the incense was going up.