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"You have said, 'It is vain to serveGod; and whatprofit is it that we have kept His charge, and that we have walked in mourningbefore* the LORD of hosts?
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Then those who feared the LORDspoke to oneanother, and the LORDgaveattention and heard it, and a book of remembrance was writtenbefore Him for those who fear the LORD and who esteem His name.
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"They will be Mine," says the LORD of hosts, "on the day that I prepare My own possession, and I will spare them as a manspares his own son who serves him."