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street, and equity cannot enter.<br />
Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from<br />
evil maketh himself a prey; and <strong>the</strong> Lord saw it,<br />
and it displeased him that <strong>the</strong>re was no judgment.<br />
"And he saw that <strong>the</strong>re was no man, and<br />
wondered that <strong>the</strong>re was no intercessor." (Isaiah<br />
59:14-16)<br />
I think that <strong>the</strong> next two verses, which speak of<br />
our Lord's putting on <strong>the</strong> "garments of vengeance<br />
for clothing," <strong>to</strong> "repay fury <strong>to</strong> his adversaries,"<br />
point <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> wrath of God in <strong>the</strong> seven last plagues.<br />
God has shown this day of wrath, in prophetic<br />
vision, <strong>to</strong> some of his servants by different<br />
symbols. Ezekiel saw it in <strong>the</strong> men with "slaughterweapons,"<br />
slaying "utterly, old and young." (Eze.<br />
9:5-6) John saw it in <strong>the</strong> "seven last plagues;"<br />
while Esdras saw it in <strong>the</strong> famine, pestilence, and<br />
<strong>the</strong> sword. The Bible contains many descriptions of<br />
this soon expected day of wrath.<br />
"A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten<br />
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