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down; for the corn is withered. How do the beasts groan! the herds
of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks
of sheep are made desolate.” “The vine is dried up, and the fig tree
languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple
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tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered
away from the sons of men.”
Joel 1:15-18, 12
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“I am pained at my very heart; ... I cannot hold my peace, because
thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled.”
Jeremiah 4:19, 20
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“Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the
time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.”
Jeremiah 30:7
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“Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge,
Even the Most High, thy habitation;
There shall no evil befall thee,
Neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.”
Psalm 91:9, 10
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“O daughter of Zion, ... the Lord shall redeem thee from the hand
of thine enemies. Now also many nations are gathered against thee,
that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion. But
they know not the thoughts of the Lord, neither understand they His
counsel.”
Micah 4:10-12
. God will not fail His church in the hour of
her greatest peril. He has promised deliverance. “I will bring again the
captivity of Jacob’s tents,” He has declared, “and have mercy on His
dwelling places.”
Jeremiah 30:18
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Then will the purpose of God be fulfilled; the principles of His
kingdom will be honored by all beneath the sun.
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