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As the wings of doves over their nestlings; and the mouth of their nestlings towards their mouths.
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28.
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So also are the wings of the Spirit over my heart:
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28.
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My heart is delighted and exults: like the babe who exults in the womb of his mother:
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28.
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I believed; therefore I was at rest; for faithful is He in whom I have believed:
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He has richly blessed me and my head is with Him: and the sword shall not divide me from Him, nor the scimitar;
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28.
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For I am ready before destruction comes; and I have been set on His immortal pinions:
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And He showed me His sign: forth and given me to drink, and from that life is the spirit within me, and it cannot die, for it lives.
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28.
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They who saw me marvelled at me, because I was persecuted, and they supposed that I was swallowed up: for I seemed to them as one of the lost;
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28.
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And my oppression became my salvation; and I was their reprobation because there was no zeal in me;
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28.
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Because I did good to every man I was hated,
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28.
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And they came round me like mad dogs, who ignorantly attack their masters,
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28.
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For their thought is corrupt and their understanding perverted.
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28.
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But I was carrying water in my right hand, and their bitterness I endured by my sweetness;
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28.
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And I did not perish, for I was not their brother nor was my birth like theirs.
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28.
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And they sought for my death and did not find it: for I was older than the memorial of them;
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28.
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And vainly did they make attack upon me and those who, without reward, came after me:
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28.
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They sought to destroy the memorial of him who was before them.
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For the thought of the Most High cannot be anticipated; and His heart is superior to all wisdom. Hallelujah.
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