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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Tanach: Isaiah 10: 15 Should the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? Should the saw magnify itself against him that moveth it? as if a rod should move them that lift it up, or as if a staff should lift up him that is not wood.
Isaiah 10: 16 Therefore will the Lord, the LORD of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory there shall be kindled a burning like the burning of fire.
Isaiah 10: 17 And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day.
Isaiah 10: 18 And the glory of his forest and of his fruitful field, he will consume both soul and body; and it shall be as when a sick man wasteth away.
Isaiah 10: 19 And the remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them down.
Isaiah 10: 20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and they that are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
Isaiah 10: 21 A remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto God the Mighty.
Isaiah 10: 22 For though thy people, O Israel, be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them shall return; an extermination is determined, overflowing with righteousness.
Isaiah 10: 23 For an extermination wholly determined shall the Lord, the GOD of hosts, make in the midst of all the earth.
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