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Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you. Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.

— Isaiah The Book of Isaiah (-500)

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They shall build houses and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit. They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat.

But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.

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I shall make you a light to the nations so that my salvation may reach the remotest parts of earth.

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The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.

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And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.

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