But now for a brief moment favor has been shown by the Lord our God, to leave us a (A)remnant and to give us a (B)secure hold[a] within his holy place, that our God may (C)brighten our eyes and grant us a little reviving in our slavery.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 9:8 Hebrew nail, or tent-pin

(A)Consider and answer me, O Lord my God;
    (B)light up my eyes, lest (C)I sleep the sleep of death,

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So too at the present time there is (A)a remnant, chosen by grace. (B)But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.

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After two days (A)he will revive us;
    on the third day he will raise us up,
    that we may live before him.

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O Lord, (A)I have heard the report of you,
    and (B)your work, O Lord, do I fear.
In the midst of the years (C)revive it;
    in the midst of the years make it known;
    (D)in wrath remember mercy.

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11 Then he said to me, (A)“Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and (B)our hope is lost; (C)we are indeed cut off.’ 12 Therefore (D)prophesy, and say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, (E)I will open your graves and raise you from your graves, O my people. And (F)I will bring you into the land of Israel. 13 And (G)you shall know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves, and raise you from your graves, O my people. 14 And (H)I will put my Spirit within you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land. Then you shall know that I am the Lord; (I)I have spoken, and I will do it, declares the Lord.”

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15 For thus says (A)the One who is high and lifted up,
    who inhabits eternity, whose name is (B)Holy:
(C)“I dwell in the high and holy place,
    and also (D)with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit,
(E)to revive the spirit of the lowly,
    and to revive the heart of the contrite.

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Will you not (A)revive us again,
    that your people may (B)rejoice in you?

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12 (A)The one who conquers, I will make him (B)a pillar in the temple of my God. Never shall he go out of it, and I will write on him (C)the name of my God, and (D)the name of the city of my God, (E)the new Jerusalem, (F)which comes down from my God out of heaven, and my own (G)new name.

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27 And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: (A)“Though the number of the sons of Israel[a] be as the sand of the sea, (B)only a remnant of them will be saved,

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 9:27 Or children of Israel

From him shall come (A)the cornerstone,
    from him (B)the tent peg,
from him the battle bow,
    from him every ruler—(C)all of them together.

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12 (A)For there shall be a sowing of peace. The vine shall give its fruit, and the ground shall give its produce, (B)and the heavens shall give their dew. (C)And I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.

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Thus says the Lord of hosts: (A)If it is marvelous in the sight of the remnant of this people in those days, (B)should it also be marvelous in my sight, declares the Lord of hosts?

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22 But behold, (A)some survivors will be left in it, sons and daughters who will be brought out; behold, when they come out to you, and (B)you see their ways and their deeds, you will be consoled for the disaster that I have brought upon Jerusalem, for all that I have brought upon it.

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(A)“Yet I will leave some of you alive. When you have among the nations (B)some who escape the sword, and when you are scattered through the countries, then those of you who escape (C)will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how (D)I have been broken over their whoring heart that has departed from me and over their eyes (E)that go whoring after their idols. (F)And they will be loathsome in their own sight for the evils that they have committed, for all their abominations.

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14 (A)so that none of the remnant of Judah who have come to live in the land of Egypt shall escape or survive (B)or return to the land of Judah, to which they desire to return to dwell there. For they shall not return, (C)except some fugitives.”

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and said to Jeremiah the prophet, “Let (A)our plea for mercy come before you, and (B)pray to the Lord your God for us, for all (C)this remnant—(D)because we are left with but a few, as your eyes see us—

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(A)I will give in my house and within my walls
    a (B)monument and a name
    better than sons and daughters;
(C)I will give them an everlasting name
    that shall not be cut off.

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23 And I will fasten him (A)like a peg in a secure place, and he will become (B)a throne of honor to his father's house. 24 And they will hang on him the whole honor of his father's house, the offspring and issue, every small vessel, from the cups to all the flagons. 25 In that day, declares the Lord of hosts, (C)the peg that was fastened in a secure place will give way, and it will be cut down and fall, and the load that was on it will be cut off, for the Lord has spoken.”

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(A)If the Lord of hosts
    had not left us (B)a few survivors,
we should have been like (C)Sodom,
    and become like (D)Gomorrah.

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11 (A)The words of the wise are like goads, and like (B)nails firmly fixed are the collected sayings; they are (C)given by (D)one Shepherd.

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(A)Though I walk in the midst of trouble,
    you (B)preserve my life;
you (C)stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies,
    and your (D)right hand delivers me.

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Those who look to him are (A)radiant,
    and their faces shall never be ashamed.

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30 to bring back his soul from the pit,
    that he may be lighted with (A)the light of life.

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31 Nevertheless, (A)in your great mercies (B)you did not make an end of them or forsake them, (C)for you are a gracious and merciful God.

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