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islied at it. And I will scatter you among the 

 heathen, and I will draw out a sword after you: 

 and your land shall be desolate, and your cities 

 waste. Then shall the land enjoy her Sabbaths, 

 as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your 

 enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and 

 enjoy her Sabbaths. As long as it did not rest 

 in your Sabbaths when ye dwelt upon it. And 

 upon them that are left alive of you I will send 

 faintness into their hearts in the lands of their 

 enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall 

 -chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a 

 a- sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth. 

 And they shall fall one upon another, as it were 

 "before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall 

 have no power to stand before your enemies. 

 And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the 

 land of your enemies shall eat you up. And they 

 that are left of you shall pine away in their ini- 

 quity in your enemies' lands; and also in the ini- 

 quities of their fathers shall they pine away with 

 them." 



The foregoing description of the manner in 

 which God treats offenders against His law 

 challenges the most fanciful imagination. There 

 is the utter absence of apology or explanation. 

 That God has acted in the manner just described 

 by his own words should, at least, fill his 

 creatures with fear, that under similar circum- 



