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your all-powerful word leaped from heaven, from the royal throne, into the midst of the land that was doomed, a stern warrior
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carrying the sharp sword of your authentic command, and stood and filled all things with death, and touched heaven while standing on the earth.
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Then at once apparitions in dreadful dreams greatly troubled them, and unexpected fears assailed them;
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and one here and another there, hurled down half dead, made known why they were dying;
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for the dreams that disturbed them forewarned them of this, so that they might not perish without knowing why they suffered.
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