en: for all things are yours;
whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death,
or things present, or things to come; all are yours; and ye are
Christ's; and Christ is God's,' 1 Cor. 3:21.

"'It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. He
sitteth alone and keepeth silence; he putteth his mouth in the dust,
if so be there may be hope; he giveth his cheek to him that smiteth
him: he is filled full with reproach.' Lam. 3:27.

"'That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open
thy mouth any more, because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward
thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord.' Ezek. 16:63.
_Amen._

"'A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of
thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains. Therefore,
also now, saith the Lord, turn ye unto me with all your heart, with
fasting, with weeping, and with mourning. Rend your heart, and not
your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God; for he is gracious and
merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of
the evil,' Joel 2:2, 12.

"'I will visit upon her the days of Baalim: she went after her
lovers, and forgat me, saith the Lord. I will allure her, and bring
her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her. And I will
betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in
righteousness, and in judgment, and in loving-kindness, and in
mercies. I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou
shalt know the Lord.' Hosea 2:13.

"'O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thy help.'
'Return unto the Lord thy God, for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.
Take with you words, and turn to the Lord; say unto him, Take away all
iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of
our lips. Ashur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses:
neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our
gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.' Hosea 13:14.

"'I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely; for
mine anger is turned away from him. I will be as the dew unto Israel;
he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.
Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard
him, and observed him. I am like a green fir-tree; from me is thy
fruit found.' Hosea 14.

"'O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, because we have
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