The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the
pit.
PSA 28:2 Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when
I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
PSA 28:3 Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of
iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in
their hearts.
PSA 28:4 Give them according to their deeds, and according to the
wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands;
render to them their desert.
PSA 28:5 Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: JER 17:26 And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the
places about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the
plain, and from the mountains, and from the south, bringing burnt
offerings, and sacrifices, and meat offerings, and incense, and bringing
sacrifices of praise, unto the house of the LORD.
JER 17:27 But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day,
and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on
the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it
shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.
JER 18:1 The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
JER 18:2 Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and
into the hand of his servants: and afterward it shall be inhabited, as
in the days of old, saith the LORD.
JER 46:27 But fear not thou, O my servant Jacob, and be not dismayed, O
Israel: for, behold, I will save thee from afar off, and thy seed from
the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and be in rest and
at ease, and none shall make him afraid.
JER 46:28 Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the LORD: for I am
with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have
driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in
measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished.
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