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- They take up all of them with the angle,
- They catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag:
- Therefore they rejoice and are glad.
- Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag;
- Because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous.
- Shall they therefore empty their net,
- And not spare continually to slay the nations?
- I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower,
- And will watch to see what he will say unto me,
- And what I shall answer when I am reproved.
- And the Lord answered me, and said,
- Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables,
- That he may run that readeth it.
- For the vision is yet for an appointed time,
- But at the end it shall speak, and not lie:
- Though it tarry, wait for it;
- Because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
- Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him:
- But the just shall live by his faith.
- Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine,
- He is a proud man, neither keepeth at home,
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