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CHAPTER XIV, 14-31.
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unless it be my servant ? 22. Who is deaf?, but the messenger (firistak) I am appointing ? 23. Who is blind like the king 2?' And it is declared that their king is the Lord himself
24. Elsewhere it also says this, that the worshippers (parastakân) of his fire are defiled. 25. Also this, that his deeds bring blinding smoke, (26) and his fighting is the shedding of blood. 27. And this, that is, 'I pour forth mankind one upon the other, (28) and I sit upon the sky, over their limbs.' 29. Likewise this, that, in one night, a hundred and sixty thousand were slain by him, through a wretched death, out of the champions and troops of the Mâzendarânse. 30. And, on another occasion, he slew six hundred thousand men, besides women and young children, out of the Israelites in the wilderness ; (31) only two men escaped?.
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2 Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that. I sent? who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the Lord's servant ?' (Is. xlii. 19). 3 The Lord is our king' (Is. xxxiii. 22).
About five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the Lord, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east. Then he said unto me, “Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here?”' (Eze. viii. 16, 17).
6 And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had. taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again, and slew the men of Ai' (Jos. viii. 21).
o Then the angel of the Lord went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand : and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses' (Is. xxxvii. 36).
?! And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot, that were men, beside
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