| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: him; and he caused him to come up into the chariot.
KI1 20:34 And Ben-hadad said unto him, The cities, which my father took
from thy father, I will restore; and thou shalt make streets for thee in
Damascus, as my father made in Samaria. Then said Ahab, I will send thee
away with this covenant. So he made a covenant with him, and sent him
away.
KI1 20:35 And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said unto his
neighbour in the word of the LORD, Smite me, I pray thee. And the man
refused to smite him.
KI1 20:36 Then said he unto him, Because thou hast not obeyed the voice
of the LORD, behold, as soon as thou art departed from me, a lion shall
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: to him less than nothing, and vanity.
ISA 40:18 To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye
compare unto him?
ISA 40:19 The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith
spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
ISA 40:20 He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth
a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to
prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved.
ISA 40:21 Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told
you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of
the earth?
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: such is our expectation, whither we flee for help to be delivered from
the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape?
ISA 21:1 The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the
south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.
ISA 21:2 A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer
dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege,
O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.
ISA 21:3 Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold
upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at
the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.
ISA 21:4 My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my
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