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The cursed fig tree: Is withered from the roots

For Thou, O God, didst widen my heart,                but they straiten it with affliction                and hedge me about with darkness.            I eat the bread of wailing                and drink unceasing tears;            truly, my eyes are dimmed by grief,                and my soul by daily bitterness.            [Groaning] and sorrow encompass me                and ignominy covers my face.            My bread is turned into an adversary                and my drink into an accuser;            it has entered into my bones                causing my spirit ...

Mystery, Babylon the Great: The Great city

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  For wisdom has been poured out like water, and glory will not fail in his presence forever and ever. For he is mighty in all the secrets of righteousness; and unrighteousness will vanish like a shadow, and will have no place to stand. For the Chosen One has taken his stand in the presence of the Lord of Spirits; and his glory is forever and ever, and his might, to all generations.           And in him dwell the spirit of wisdom and the spirit of insight, and the spirit of instruction and might, and the spirit of those who have fallen asleep in righteousness. And he will judge the things that are secret, and a lying word none will be able to speak in his presence; For he is the Chosen One in the presence of the Lord of Spirits according to his good pleasure.  George W. E. Nickelsburg and James C. VanderKam, 1 Enoch: The Hermeneia Translation (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2012), 63.   “And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us ...