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For evils worse than those which you have now seen happen shall be done hereafter.
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For the weaker the world becomes through old age, the more shall evils be multiplied among its inhabitants.
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For truth shall go farther away, and falsehood shall come near. For the eagle which you saw in the vision is already hastening to come."
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Then I answered and said, "Let me speak in thy presence, Lord.
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For behold, I will go, as thou hast commanded me, and I will reprove the people who are now living; but who will warn those who will be born hereafter? For the world lies in darkness, and its inhabitants are without light.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.