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        could not endure My displeasure and My wrath. I have seen the
      
      
        perverse ways of every sinner. He who repents and does the works of
      
      
        righteousness, I will convert and heal, and restore unto My favor.”
      
      
        Concerning those who have been deceived and led astray by uncon-
      
      
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        secrated men, the Lord says: “Their course of action has not been in
      
      
        accordance with My will; yet for the righteousness of My own cause,
      
      
        for the truth’s sake, I will heal everyone who shall honor My name.
      
      
        All the penitent of Israel shall see of My salvation. I, the Lord, do
      
      
        rule, and I will fill with praise and thanksgiving the hearts of all who
      
      
        are nigh and far off, even all the penitent of Israel who have kept My
      
      
        ways.”
      
      
        “Thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose
      
      
        name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is
      
      
        of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and
      
      
        to revive the heart of the contrite ones.”
      
      
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