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You have also set up prophets to proclaim in Jerusalem concerning you, ‘There is a king in Judah!’ And now it will be reported to the king according to these words. So come, therefore, and let us confer together.”
I have told the glad news of deliverance in the great congregation; see, I have not restrained my lips, as you know, O Lord.
Give her a share in the fruit of her hands, and let her works praise her in the city gates.
See, this is what I found, says the Teacher, adding one thing to another to find the sum,
The spirit of the Lord God is upon me because the Lord has anointed me; he has sent me to bring good news to the oppressed, to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to the prisoners,
“Get up, go to Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim to it the message that I tell you.”
and if he did not spare the ancient world, even though he saved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;