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The Book of Isaiah, Chapter 31, Verse 6

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As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver [it; and] passing over he will preserve it.
King James Version
Turn ye unto [him from] whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.
American Standard Version
Turn ye unto him from whom ye have deeply revolted, O children of Israel.
New English Translation
You Israelites! Return to the one against whom you have so blatantly rebelled!
World English Bible
Return to him from whom you have deeply revolted, children of Israel.
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For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you [for] a sin.
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Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him: but he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be discomfited.
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And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the ensign, saith the LORD, whose fire [is] in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.
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Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment.
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And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
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And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken.
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The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.
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The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said [to be] bountiful.
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For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
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The instruments also of the churl [are] evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.