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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Tanach: Isaiah 10: 1 Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers that write iniquity;
Isaiah 10: 2 To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right of the poor of My people, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
Isaiah 10: 3 And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the ruin which shall come from far? To whom will ye flee for help? And where will ye leave your glory?
Isaiah 10: 4 They can do nought except crouch under the captives, and fall under the slain. For all this His anger is not turned away, but His hand is stretched out still.
Isaiah 10: 5 O Asshur, the rod of Mine anger, in whose hand as a staff is Mine indignation!
Isaiah 10: 6 I do send him against an ungodly nation, and against the people of My wrath do I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Isaiah 10: 7 Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off nations not a few.
Isaiah 10: 8 For he saith: 'Are not my princes all of them kings?
Isaiah 10: 9 Is not Calno as Carchemish? Is not Hamath as Arpad? Is not Samaria as Damascus?
Isaiah 10: 10 As my hand hath reached the kingdoms of the idols, whose graven images did exceed them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;
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