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and there, face to face, imparting commandments to him, the law that gives life and wisdom; here, Jacob, was thy covenant, here Israel, the rule thou wast to live by. (Ecclesiasticus 45, 6)
Power was his to administer the divine decrees, a justiciary by right, handing on to Jacob its tradition, giving Israel the law’s light to guide it. (Ecclesiasticus 45, 21)
Well was the divine law kept, when he ruled our commonwealth, and the God of Jacob was gracious to it; here was a prophet of proved loyalty, (Ecclesiasticus 46, 17)
Jacob must have a stock to breed from; the root of David should burgeon yet. (Ecclesiasticus 47, 25)
May life spring from the bones of the twelve prophets, where they lie buried; men that put heart into the sons of Jacob, and by trusting in God’s power won deliverance. (Ecclesiasticus 49, 12)
A multitude of peoples will make their way to it, crying, Come, let us climb up to the Lord’s mountain-peak, to the house where the God of Jacob dwells; he shall teach us the right way, we will walk in the paths he has chosen. The Lord’s commands shall go out from Sion, his word from Jerusalem, (Isaiah 2, 3)
Come you too (they will say), children of Jacob, let us walk together in the path where the Lord shews us light. (Isaiah 2, 5)
And still they are cast off, these children of Jacob, the Lord’s own people; ever since they grew rich, like the men who went before them,✻ and began to trust in divination, like the Philistines, and to ally themselves with men of alien breed. (Isaiah 2, 6)
Alas, it is the house of Israel that the Lord called his vineyard; the men of Juda are the plot he loved so. He looked to find right reason there, and all was treason; to find plain dealing, and he heard only the plaint of the oppressed. (Isaiah 5, 7)
Meanwhile, the Lord has issued his sentence against Jacob, his writ is out against Israel: (Isaiah 9, 8)
Like a proud forest, or a garden plot, he shall be eaten up, body and soul; see where he flies in terror! (Isaiah 10, 18)
And when that day comes, the remnant of Israel, the survivors of Jacob’s line, will learn to trust, not in the staff that turns into rod to smite them,✻ but in the Lord, the Holy One of Israel; here he shall find loyalty. (Isaiah 10, 20)
