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Book V: The Great Gathering of the Redeemed and the Fourfold Deliverance
O give thanks unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
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Tahiliym 107
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The Gathering from the Four Coordinates
Let the redeemed of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy;
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And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south.
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The First Trial: The Wanderers in the Wilderness
They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.
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Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.
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The Activation of the Cry Protocol
Then they cried unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses.
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And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.
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The Requisite Thanksgiving
Oh that men would praise 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
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For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.
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The Second Trial: The Prisoners in Iron
Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;
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The Legal Cause of the Chains
Because they rebelled against the words of El, and contemned the counsel of Elyon:
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Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and there was none to help.
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The Second Cry
Then they cried unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.
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The Shattering of the Perimeter
He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.
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Oh that men would praise 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
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For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.
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The Third Trial: The Biological Strike on the Fools
Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.
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The Failure of the Flesh
Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death.
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The Third Cry
Then they cry unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 in their trouble, and he saveth them out of their distresses.
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The Kinetic Healing of the Word
He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.
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Oh that men would praise 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
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And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works with rejoicing.
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The Fourth Trial: The Mariners in the Cosmic Storm
They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters;
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These see the works of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, and his wonders in the deep.
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The Engineering of the Tempest
For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof.
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They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble.
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The Exhaustion of Human Skill
They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end.
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The Fourth Cry
Then they cry unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses.
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The Command to the Waves
He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.
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Then are they glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven.
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Oh that men would praise 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
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The Public Declaration
Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders.
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The Ecological and Geopolitical Reversals
He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground;
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A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
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He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings.
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And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation;
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And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits of increase.
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He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and suffereth not their cattle to decrease.
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The Cycle of Discipline
Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.
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The Contempt of the Princes
He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.
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The Exaltation of the Poor
Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock.
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The Silencing of Iniquity
The righteous shall see it, and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.
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The Final Axiom of Wisdom
Whoso is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄.