1 WOE to thee that
aspoilesta, and thou
wast not spoiled; and dealest
btreacherouslya, and
they dealt not treacherously with thee!
when thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; and when thou
shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with
thee.
2 O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have
awaited for thee: be thou their barm
every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.
3 At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered.
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1a Woe to thee that spoilest ... and
dealest treacherously There is evil guile in the person who seeks
to raise himself at the expense of others, who despoils the lifes of others,
not for the sake of justice, but for the sake of the promotion of self over
others. Now those that do this are not easily detected for all men are but
sinners before God and often one will justify how they treat another decrying
their shortcommings to justify themselves in their position against them, but
beware, we are cautioned not to so judge for how we judge so shall we be
judged. We are to seek and promote the best in others that we associate with
and not to defame them because of their shortcomings, to do so will justify
God to so deal with us if we so despoil anothers life, career, reputation,
etc. when it ought to have been our work to be our brother's keeper in seeking
there welfare, but we did not and rather dealt treacherously with them in
seeking their demise so that we might promote ourselves at their expense. Many
do business and treat others in such a manner, using them in benefiting
themselves without any care for and even treacherously contriving another's
fall that they themselves might benefit and rise above their brother at their
brother's expense either financially or in terms of reputaion and other such
matters which effects one's brother negatively while benefiting one's self.
We are our brother's keeper and we are to serve one another and not find
fault and tear down another. As is often the case, one tears down another
that they might appear the better than their brother. It in a none temporal
frame is 'comminting murder to get gain'.
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