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compensation.

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money<00:18:54.099><c> and</c><00:18:55.059><c> without</c><00:18:55.400><c> price.</c>

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Did<00:20:57.259><c> an</c><00:20:57.480><c> angel</c><00:20:57.640><c> visit</c><00:20:58.000><c> him?</c>

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You<00:21:11.660><c> read</c><00:21:11.799><c> about</c><00:21:11.980><c> a</c><00:21:12.200><c> message</c><00:21:12.480><c> to</c><00:21:12.759><c> you</c><00:21:13.039><c> and</c><00:21:13.180><c> your</c><00:21:13.460><c> accomplishments</c><00:21:14.039><c> before</c><00:21:14.440><c> you'd</c>

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even<00:21:15.140><c> begun</c><00:21:15.700><c> making</c><00:21:16.079><c> them.</c>

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Would<00:21:22.859><c> you</c><00:21:23.039><c> take</c><00:21:23.299><c> notice?</c>

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chosen<00:21:31.680><c> to</c><00:21:31.940><c> fulfill</c><00:21:32.200><c> a</c><00:21:32.420><c> purpose?</c>

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Verse<00:21:35.339><c> two,</c><00:21:36.059><c> thus</c><00:21:36.200><c> says</c><00:21:36.460><c> Cyrus,</c><00:21:37.000><c> King</c><00:21:37.119><c> of</c><00:21:37.299><c> Persia,</c><00:21:38.599><c> Yahweh,</c>

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which<00:21:48.599><c> is</c><00:21:48.859><c> in</c><00:21:49.039><c> Judah.</c>

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Whoever<00:21:50.680><c> is</c><00:21:50.960><c> among</c><00:21:51.140><c> you</c><00:21:51.319><c> of</c><00:21:51.480><c> all</c><00:21:51.680><c> his</c><00:21:51.900><c> people,</c><00:21:52.220><c> may</c><00:21:52.400><c> his</c><00:21:52.680><c> God</c>

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be<00:21:53.180><c> with</c><00:21:53.400><c> him</c><00:21:53.700><c> and</c><00:21:54.059><c> let</c><00:21:54.240><c> him</c><00:21:54.420><c> go</c><00:21:54.599><c> up</c><00:21:54.839><c> to</c>

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Jerusalem,<00:21:55.440><c> which</c><00:21:55.619><c> is</c><00:21:55.819><c> in</c><00:21:56.019><c> Judah</c><00:21:56.279><c> and</c><00:21:56.799><c> rebuild</c><00:21:57.259><c> the</c><00:21:57.519><c> house</c><00:21:58.200><c> of</c>

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Yahweh,<00:21:58.880><c> the</c><00:21:59.000><c> God</c><00:21:59.160><c> of</c><00:21:59.319><c> Israel.</c>

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Because<00:28:38.079><c> Nebuchadnezzar,</c><00:28:39.160><c> as</c><00:28:39.480><c> you</c><00:28:39.680><c> remember,</c><00:28:40.140><c> he</c><00:28:40.359><c> forgot</c><00:28:40.640><c> that</c><00:28:41.240><c> and</c><00:28:41.900><c> he</c>

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let<00:28:42.279><c> his</c><00:28:42.640><c> pride</c><00:28:43.000><c> and</c>

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his<00:28:43.660><c> flesh,</c><00:28:44.240><c> you</c><00:28:45.559><c> know,</c><00:28:45.819><c> take</c><00:28:45.960><c> over</c><00:28:46.500><c> verse</c><00:28:48.240><c> 37.</c>

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Now<00:28:48.940><c> I</c><00:28:49.220><c> Nebuchadnezzar</c><00:28:50.039><c> praise</c><00:28:50.400><c> and</c><00:28:50.619><c> extol</c><00:28:50.940><c> and</c><00:28:51.259><c> honor</c><00:28:51.420><c> the</c>

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We<00:29:04.440><c> see</c><00:29:04.640><c> it</c><00:29:04.779><c> again</c><00:29:04.940><c> in</c><00:29:05.480><c> chapter</c><00:29:05.819><c> five,</c><00:29:07.640><c> verse,</c><00:29:07.799><c> verse</c><00:29:08.180><c> 18.</c>

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father,<00:29:13.220><c> kingship</c><00:29:13.660><c> and</c>

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darkness<00:33:00.119><c> for</c><00:33:00.839><c> not</c><00:33:01.119><c> by</c><00:33:01.500><c> might</c><00:33:01.779><c> shall</c><00:33:02.059><c> a</c><00:33:02.259><c> man</c><00:33:02.460><c> prevail.</c>

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against<00:33:08.480><c> them.</c>

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of<00:33:21.640><c> his</c><00:33:21.940><c> anointed.</c>

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So<00:33:24.279><c> brothers</c><00:33:24.460><c> and</c><00:33:24.720><c> sisters,</c><00:33:25.079><c> we</c><00:33:25.480><c> to</c><00:33:25.799><c> rejoice</c><00:33:26.500><c> the</c><00:33:28.059><c> feeble,</c>

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the<00:33:29.519><c> hungry,</c><00:33:30.579><c> the</c><00:33:30.859><c> barren,</c><00:33:32.019><c> the</c>

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needy,<00:33:33.400><c> the</c><00:33:33.619><c> sinners.</c>

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mountain<00:33:54.140><c> and</c><00:33:54.380><c> hill</c><00:33:54.519><c> made</c><00:33:54.799><c> low,</c><00:33:55.759><c> we</c><00:33:56.039><c> will</c><00:33:56.259><c> rejoice</c><00:33:56.819><c> with</c><00:33:57.700><c> him</c>

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