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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 64: 10 (64:9) Thy holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
Isaiah 64: 11 (64:10) Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised Thee, is burned with fire; and all our pleasant things are laid waste.
Isaiah 64: 12 (64:11) Wilt Thou refrain Thyself for these things, O LORD? Wilt Thou hold Thy peace, and afflict us very sore?
Isaiah 65: 1 I gave access to them that asked not for Me, I was at hand to them that sought Me not; I said: 'Behold Me, behold Me', unto a nation that was not called by My name.
Isaiah 65: 2 I have spread out My hands all the day unto a rebellious people, that walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;
Isaiah 65: 3 A people that provoke Me to My face continually, that sacrifice in gardens, and burn incense upon bricks;
Isaiah 65: 4 That sit among the graves, and lodge in the vaults; that eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;
Isaiah 65: 5 That say: 'Stand by thyself, come not near to me, for I am holier than thou'; these are a smoke in My nose, a fire that burneth all the day.
Isaiah 65: 6 Behold, it is written before Me; I will not keep silence, except I have requited, yea, I will requite into their bosom,
Isaiah 65: 7 Your own iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the LORD, that have offered upon the mountains, and blasphemed Me upon the hills; therefore will I first measure their wage into their bosom.
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