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This is the rejoicing city - The city in which mirth, jocularity, and pleasure, reigned without interruption.

And wag his hand - Will point her out as a mark and monument of Divine displeasure.

Those are really in a woful condition who have the word of the Lord against them, for no word of his shall fall to the ground. God will restore his people to their rights, though long kept from them. It has been the common lot of God's people, in all ages, to be reproached and reviled. God shall be worshipped, not only by all Israel, and the strangers who join them, but by the heathen. Remote nations must be reckoned with for the wrongs done to God's people. The sufferings of the insolent and haughty in prosperity, are unpitied and unlamented. But all the desolations of flourishing nations will make way for the overturning Satan's kingdom. Let us improve our advantages, and expect the performance of every promise, praying that our Father's name may be hallowed every where, over all the earth.

The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword
and the glittering spear:
And there is a multitude of slain.... PK 364.1

“Behold, I am against thee,
Saith the Lord of hosts.” PK 364.2

Nahum 3:1-5. PK 364

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