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¹⁵So the heathen shall fear the name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth thy glory.
¹⁶When the Lord shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory.
¹⁷He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.
¹⁸This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the Lord.
¹⁹For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did the Lord behold the earth;
²⁰To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;
²¹To declare the name of the Lord in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem;
²²When the people are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to serve the Lord.
²³He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days.
²⁴I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are throughout all generations.
²⁵Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands.
²⁶They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed:
²⁷But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.
²⁸The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before thee.

Psalm 117

¹O praise the Lord, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people.
²For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the Lord endureth for ever. Praise ye the Lord.

45Thus saith the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut;
²I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:
³And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the Lord, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel.
⁴For Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.
⁵I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:
⁶That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the Lord, and there is none else.
⁷I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.
⁸Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the Lord have created it.
⁹Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?
¹⁰Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What begettest thou? or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth?
¹¹Thus saith the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me.
¹²I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.
¹³I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, saith the Lord of hosts.
¹⁴Thus saith the Lord, The labour of Egypt, and merchandise of Ethiopia and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over unto thee, and they shall be thine: they shall come after thee; in chains they shall come over, and they shall fall down unto thee, they shall make supplication unto thee, saying, Surely God is in thee; and there is none else, there is no God.
¹⁵Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour.

¹⁴What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
¹⁵For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
¹⁶So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.
¹⁷For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
¹⁸Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.
¹⁹Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?
²⁰Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
²¹Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
²²What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
²³And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
²⁴Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
²⁵As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.
²⁶And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.