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42.
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I stretched out my hands and approached my Lord:
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42.
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For the stretching of my hands is His sign:
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42.
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My expansion is the outspread tree which was set up on the way of the Righteous One.
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42.
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And I became of no account to those who did not take hold of me; and I shall be with those who love me.
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42.
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All my persecutors are dead; and they sought after me who hoped in me, because I was alive:
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And I rose up and am with them; and I will speak by their mouths.
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42.
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For they have despised those who persecuted them;
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42.
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And I lifted up over them the yoke of my love;
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42.
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Like the arm of the bridegroom over the bride,
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So was my yoke over those that know me:
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And as the couch that is spread in the house of the bridegroom and bride,
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42.
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So is my love over those that believe in me.
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42.
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And I was not rejected though I was reckoned to be so.
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42.
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I did not perish, though they devised it against me.
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42.
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Sheol saw me and was made miserable:
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42.
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Death cast me up, and many along with me.
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42.
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I had gall and bitterness, and I went down with him to the utmost of his depth:
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42.
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And the feet and the head he let go, for they were not able to endure my face:
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42.
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And I made a congregation of living men amongst his dead men, and I spake with them by living lips:
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42.
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Because my word shall not be void:
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42.
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And those who had died ran towards me: and they cried and said, Son of God, have pity on us, and do with us according to thy kindness,
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42.
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And bring us out from the bonds of darkness: and open to us the door by which we shall come out to thee.
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For we see that our death has not touched thee.
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Let us also be redeemed with thee: for thou art our Redeemer.
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And I heard their voice; and my name I sealed upon their heads:
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For they are free men and they are mine. Hallelujah.
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