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    "name": "Book II — Book of Parables (Similitudes)"
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    "num": 25,
    "slug": "56-chapter-lxiii",
    "title": "Chapter LXIII — The Mighty Plead in Vain",
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    "words": 500,
    "text": "## Chapter LXIII\n\n\nLXIII. *The unavailing Repentance of the Kings and the Mighty*.\n\n#### CHAPTER LXIII.\n\n1. In those days shall the mighty and the kings who possess the earth implore (Him) to grant them a little respite from His angels of punishment to whom they were delivered, that they might fall down and worship before the Lord of Spirits, and confess their sins before Him. 2. And they shall bless and glorify the Lord of Spirits, and say:\n\n'Blessed is the Lord of Spirits and the Lord of kings,\n\nAnd the Lord of the mighty and the Lord of the rich,\n\nAnd the Lord of glory and the Lord of wisdom,\n\n3. And splendid in every secret thing is Thy power from generation to generation,\n\nAnd Thy glory for ever and ever:\n\nDeep are all Thy secrets and innumerable,\n\nAnd Thy righteousness is beyond reckoning.\n\n4. We have now learnt that we should glorify\n\nAnd bless the Lord of kings and Him who is king over all kings.' p. 84\n\n5. And they shall say:\n\n'Would that we had rest to glorify and give thanks\n\nAnd confess our faith before His glory!\n\n6. And now we long for a little rest but find it not:\n\nWe follow hard upon and obtain (it) not:\n\nAnd light has vanished from before us,\n\nAnd darkness is our dwelling-place for ever and ever:\n\n7. For we have not believed before Him\n\nNor glorified the name of the Lord of Spirits, [nor glorified our Lord]\n\nBut our hope was in the sceptre of our kingdom,\n\nAnd in our glory.\n\n8. And in the day of our suffering and tribulation He saves us not,\n\nAnd we find no respite for confession\n\nThat our Lord is true in all His works, and in His judgements and His justice,\n\nAnd His judgements have no respect of persons.\n\n9. And we pass away from before His face on account of our works,\n\nAnd all our sins are reckoned up in righteousness.'\n\n10. Now they shall say unto themselves: 'Our souls are full of unrighteous gain, but it does not prevent us from descending from the midst thereof into the †burden† of Sheol.'\n\n11. And after that their faces shall be filled with darkness\n\nAnd shame before that Son of Man,\n\nAnd they shall be driven from his presence,\n\nAnd the sword shall abide before his face in their midst.\n\n12. Thus spake the Lord of Spirits: 'This is the ordinance and judgement with respect to the mighty and the kings and the exalted and those who possess the earth before the Lord of Spirits.'\n\n## Chapter LXIV\n\n\n\nLXIV. *Vision of the fallen Angels in the Place of Punishment*.\n\n#### CHAPTER LXIV.\n\n1. And other forms I saw hidden in that place. 2. I heard the voice of the angel saying: 'These are the angels who descended to the earth, and revealed what was hidden to the children of men and seduced the children of men into committing sin.'",
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