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And brought thine unfeigned commandment as a sharp sword, and standing up filled all things with death; and it touched the heaven, but it stood upon the earth.
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For while all things were in quiet silence, and that night was in the midst of her swift course,
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Thine Almighty word leaped down from heaven out of thy royal throne, as a fierce man of war into the midst of a land of destruction,
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And brought thine unfeigned commandment as a sharp sword, and standing up filled all things with death; and it touched the heaven, but it stood upon the earth.
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Then suddenly visions of horrible dreams troubled them sore, and terrors came upon them unlooked for.
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And one thrown here, and another there, half dead, shewed the cause of his death.