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Consider the ancient generations and see: who ever trusted in the Lord and was put to shame? Or who ever persevered in the fear of the Lord and was forsaken? Or who ever called upon him and was overlooked?
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For the Lord is compassionate and merciful; he forgives sins and saves in time of affliction.
12
Woe to timid hearts and to slack hands, and to the sinner who walks along two ways!
13
Woe to the faint heart, for it has no trust! Therefore it will not be sheltered.
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Woe to you who have lost your endurance! What will you do when the Lord punishes you?
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.