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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)
Meanwhile, the Lord has issued his sentence against Jacob, his writ is out against Israel: (Isaiah 9, 8)
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)
A remnant will turn back, only a remnant of Jacob, to God, the Mighty One. (Isaiah 10, 21)
The day of her doom is close at hand, not long the respite that will be granted her.And now the Lord will have pity on Jacob; on the sons of Israel, his chosen people as of old. On their own lands they shall live undisturbed, whose new inhabitants will make common cause with them, and throw in their lot with Jacob’s race. (Isaiah 14, 1)
