CHORUS OF WATCHMEN

Go through, go through the gates;

Prepare ye the way of the people;

Cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones;
Lift up an ensign for the peoples.

Behold, the LORD hath proclaimed unto the end of the earth,

Say ye to the daughter of Zion,

Behold, thy salvation cometh;
Behold, his reward is with him,

And his recompence before him.

And they shall call them The holy people,
The redeemed of the LORD:

And thou shalt be called Sought out,

A city not forsaken.

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VISION VII

THE DAY OF JUDGMENT

i

Judgment on the Nations

CHORUS OF WATCHMEN

Who is this that cometh from Edom,

With crimsoned garments from Bozrah ? This that is glorious in his apparel, Marching in the greatness of his strength?

HE WHO COMETH

I that speak in righteousness,

Mighty to save.

CHORUS OF WATCHMEN

Wherefore art thou red

In thine apparel,

And thy garments

Like him that treadeth in the winefat?

HE WHO COMETH

I have trodden the winepress alone;

And of the peoples there was no man with me:

Yea, I trod them in mine anger,

And trampled them in my fury;

And their lifeblood is sprinkled upon my garments,

And I have stained all my raiment.

For the day of vengeance was in mine heart,

And the year of my redeemed is come.

And I looked, and there was none to help;

And I wondered that there was none to uphold:

Therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me;
And my fury, it upheld me.

And I trod down the peoples in mine anger,
And made them drunk in my fury,

And I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.

ii

Judgment in Zion

REPENTANT ISRAEL

I will make mention of the lovingkindnesses of the LORD, and the praises of the LORD, according to all that

the LORD hath bestowed on us; and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses. For he said, Surely, they are my people, children that will not deal falsely so he was their saviour. In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old. But they rebelled, and grieved his holy spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and himself fought against them. Then his people remembered the ancient days of Moses: 'Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? where is he that put his holy spirit in the midst of them? that caused his glorious arm to go at the right hand of Moses? that divided the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name? that led them through the depths, as an horse in the wilderness, that they stumbled not? As the cattle that go down into the valley, the spirit of the LORD caused them to rest: so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name.'

Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy mighty acts? the yearning of thy bowels and thy compassions are restrained toward me. For thou art our father, though Abraham knoweth us not, and Israel doth not acknowledge us: thou, O LORD, art our father; our re

deemer from everlasting is thy name. O LORD, why dost thou make us to err from thy ways, and hardenest our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance. Thy holy people possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary. We are become as they over whom thou never barest rule; as they that were not called by thy name. Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldst come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence; as when fire kindleth the brushwood, and the fire causeth the waters to boil: to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence! When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence. For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen a God beside thee, which worketh for him that waiteth for him. Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou wast wroth, and we sinned: in them have we been of long time, and shall we be saved? For we are all become as one that is unclean, and all our righteousnesses are as a polluted garment: and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away. And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us by means of our iniquities. But now, O