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Hello, this is Father Paul and I'm glad we're

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taking this journey together to read the Bible

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in a year. Today's reading is from the book of

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Isaiah chapter 14 and we're also going to be

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starting the book of Micah chapters 1 and 2.

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From the book of Isaiah chapter 14. For the Lord

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will have mercy on Jacob and will still choose

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Israel and settle them in their own land. The

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strangers will be joined with them and they will

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cling to the house of Jacob. Then people will

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take them and bring them to their place, and

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the house of Israel will possess them for servants

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and maids in the land of the Lord. They will

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take them captive whose captives they were, and

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rule over their oppressors. It shall come to

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pass in the day the Lord gives you rest from

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your sorrow and from your fear and the hard bondage

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in which you were made to serve, that you will

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take up this proverb against the king of Babylon

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and say, How the oppressor has ceased, the golden

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city ceased. The Lord has broken the staff of

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the wicked, the scepter of the rulers. He who

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struck the people in wrath with a continual stroke,

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he who ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted

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and no one hinders. The whole earth is at rest

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and quiet. They break forth into singing. Indeed

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the cypress trees rejoice over you, and the cedars

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of Lebanon, saying, Since you were cut down,

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no woodsman has come up against us. Hell from

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beneath is excited about you, to meet you at

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your coming. It stirs up the dead for you, all

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the chief ones of the earth. It has raised up

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from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

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They all shall speak and say to you, Have you

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also become as weak as we? Have you become like

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us? Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, and the

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sound of your stringed instruments. The maggot

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is spread under you, and worms cover you. How

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you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of

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the morning! How you are cut down to the ground!

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you who weaken the nations. For you have said

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in your heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will

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exalt my throne above the stars of God. I will

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also sit on the mount of the congregation on

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the farthest sides of the north. I will ascend

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above the heights of the clouds. I will be like

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the Most High. Yet you shall be brought down

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to Sheol, to the lowest depth of the pit. Those

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who see you will gaze at you and consider you

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saying, Is this the man who made the earth tremble?

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who shook kingdoms, who made the world as a wilderness

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and destroyed its cities, who did not open the

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house of his prisoners. All the kings of the

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nations, all of them, sleep in glory, everyone

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in his own house. But you are cast out of your

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grave like an abominable branch, like the garment

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of those who are slain, thrust through with a

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sword, who go down to the stones of the pit,

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like a corpse trodden underfoot. You will not

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be joined with them in burial. because you have

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destroyed your land and slain your people. The

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brood of evildoers shall never be named. Prepare

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slaughter for his children because of the iniquity

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of their fathers, lest they rise up and possess

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the land, and fill the face of the world with

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cities. For I will rise up against them, says

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the Lord of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the

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name and remnant, and offspring and posterity,

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says the Lord. I will also make it a possession

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for the porcupine, and marches of muddy water.

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I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,

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says the Lord of hosts. The Lord of hosts has

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sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so it

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shall come to pass, and as I have purposed, so

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it shall stand, that I will break the Assyrian

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in my land, and on my mountains tread him underfoot.

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Then his yoke shall be removed from them, and

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his burden removed from their shoulders. This

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is the purpose that is purposed against the whole

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earth, and this is the hand that is stretched

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out over all the nations. For the Lord of hosts

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has purposed, and who will annul it? His hand

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is stretched out, and who will turn it back?

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This is the burden which came in the year that

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king Ahaz died. Do not rejoice, all you of Philistia,

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because the rod that struck you is broken. For

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out of the serpent's roots will come forth a

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viper. and its offspring will be a fiery flying

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serpent. The firstborn of the poor will feed,

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and the needy will lie down in safety. I will

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kill your roots with famine, and it will slay

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your remnant. Wail, O gate! Cry, O city! All

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you of Philistia are dissolved, for smoke will

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come from the north, and no one will be alone

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in his appointed times. What will they answer

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the messengers of the nation? That the Lord has

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founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall

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take refuge. in it. The Book of Micah Chapter

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1 The mountains will melt under him, and the

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valleys will split, like quacks before the fire,

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like waters poured down a steep place. All this

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is for the transgression of Jacob, and for the

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sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression

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of Jacob? Is it not Samaria? And what are the

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high places of Judah? Are they not Jerusalem?

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Therefore I will make Samaria a heap of ruins

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in the field, places for planting a vineyard.

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I will pour down her stones into the valley.

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and I will uncover her foundations. All her carved

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images shall be beaten to pieces, and all her

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pay as a harlot shall be burned with the fire.

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All her idols I will lay desolate, for she gathered

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it from the pay of a harlot, and they shall return

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to the pay of a harlot. Therefore I will wail

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and howl, I will go stripped and naked, I will

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make a wailing like the jackals, and a mourning

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like the ostriches, for her wounds are incurable,

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for it has come to Judah, It has come to the

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gate of my people, to Jerusalem. Tell it not

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in Gath. Weep not at all in Beit Afra. Roll yourself

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in the dust. Pass by in naked shame, you inhabitant

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of Shafir. The inhabitant of Zanan does not go

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out. Beit Ezel mourns. Its place to stand is

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taken away from you. For the inhabitant of Marot

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pined for good. But disaster came down from the

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Lord, to the gate of Jerusalem. O inhabitant

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of Lashish! Harness the chariot to the swift

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steeds. She was the beginning of sin to the daughter

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of Zion. For the transgressions of Israel were

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found in you. Therefore you shall give presents

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to Moresheth Gad. The houses of Agzeeb shall

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be a lie to the kings of Israel. I will yet bring

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an heir to you, O inhabitant of Maresha. The

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glory of Israel shall come to Adulam. Make yourself

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bald and cut off your hair, because of your precious

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children. Enlarge your baldness like an eagle,

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for they shall go from you into captivity. Chapter

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2 Woe to those who devise iniquity, and work

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out evil on their beds! At morning light they

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practice it, because it is in the power of their

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hand. They covet fields, and take them by violence,

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also houses, and seize them. So they oppress

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a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.

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Therefore thus says the Lord, Behold, against

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this family I am devising disaster, from which

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you cannot remove your necks, nor shall you walk

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haughtily, for this is an evil time. In that

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day one shall take up a proverb against you,

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and lament with a bitter lamentation, saying,

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We are utterly destroyed. He has changed the

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heritage of my people. how he has removed it

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from me, to a turncoat he has divided our fields.

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Therefore you will have no one to determine boundaries

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by lot in the assembly of the Lord. Do not prattle,

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you say to those who prophesy, so they shall

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not prophesy to you, they shall not return insult

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for insult. You who are named the house of Jacob,

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is the spirit of the Lord restricted? Are these

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his doings? Do not my words do good to him who

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walks uprightly? Lately my people have risen

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up as an enemy. You pull off the robe with the

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garment from those who trust you as they pass

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by, like men returned from war. The women of

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my people you cast out from their pleasant houses,

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from their children you have taken away my glory

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forever. Arise and depart, for this is not your

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rest, because it is defiled, it shall destroy.

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Yes, with utter destruction, if a man should

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walk in a false spirit and speak a lie, saying,

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I will prophesy to you of wine and drink, even

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he would be the prattler of this people. I will

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surely assemble all of you, O Jacob. I will surely

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gather the remnant of Israel. I will put them

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together like sheep of the fold, like a flock

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in the midst of their pasture. They shall make

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a loud noise because of so many people. The one

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who breaks open will come up before them. They

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will break out, pass through the gate, and go

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out by it. Their king will pass before them with

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the Lord at their head. I hope you enjoyed today's

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reading as much as I did, and I look forward

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to seeing you again tomorrow to continue on our

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journey. God bless you and have a great day.