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WISDOM AND SOUND ADVICE FROM THE TORAH

Even from birth the wick ed go astray; from the womb they
are way ward and speak lies. (Psalms, 58:3)

Listen to me, you is lands; hear this, you dis tant na tions: Be-
fore I was born the Lord called me; from my birth He has
made men tion of my name. (Isaiah, 49:1)

The lot is cast in to the lap, but its ev ery de ci sion is from the
Lord. (Proverbs, 16:33)

Have you not heard? Long ago I or dained it. In days of old I
planned it; now I have brought it to pass, that you have
turned for ti fied cit ies in to piles of stone... But I know where
you stay and when you come and go... (Isaiah, 37:26,28)

... But you did not look to the One Who made it, or have re -
gard for the One Who planned it long ago... "Till your dy ing
day this sin will not be atoned for"... (Isaiah, 22:11, 14)

Let this be writ ten for a fu ture gen er a tion, that a peo ple not
yet cre at ed may praise the Lord. (Psalms, 102:18)

... All the curs es writ ten in this book will fall up on him, and
the Lord will blot out his name from un der heav en.
(Deuteronomy, 29:20)

... I am go ing to bring dis as ter on this place and its peo ple—
all the curs es writ ten in the book... (2 Chronicles, 34:24)

"Have you not heard? Long ago I or dained it. In days of old
I planned it; now I have brought it to pass, that you have
turned for ti fied cit ies in to piles of stone." (2 Kings, 19:25)

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