FORMAL COMPLAINT - Sweden Confidential

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display my splendour.'
But I said, 'I have laboured to no purpose; I have spent my strength in
vain and for nothing. Yet what is due to me is in the LORD's hand,
and my reward is with my God.'
And now the LORD says — he who formed me in the womb to
be his servant to bring Jacob back to him and gather Israel to
himself, for I am honoured in the eyes of the LORD and my God has
been my strength— he says:
'It is too small a thing for you to be my servant to restore the tribes
of Jacob and bring back those of Israel I have kept. I will also make
you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring my salvation to the
ends of the earth.'
This is what the LORD says — the Redeemer and Holy One of
Israel — to him who was despised and abhorred by the nation, to
the servant of rulers; 'Kings will see you and rise up, princes will
see and bow down, because of the LORD, who is faithful, the Holy
One of Israel, who has chosen you.'
Surely the arm of the LORD is not too short to save, nor his ear
too dull to hear. But your iniquities have separated you from
your God; your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will
not hear. For your hands are stained with blood, your fingers with
guilt. Your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters wicked
things. No-one calls for justice; no-one pleads his case with integrity.
They rely on empty arguments and speak lies; they conceive trouble
and give birth to evil. They hatch the eggs of vipers and spin a
spider‟s web. Whoever eats their eggs will die, and when one
is broken, an adder is hatched. Their cobwebs are useless for
clothing; they cannot cover themselves with what they make.
Their deeds are evil deeds, and acts of violence are in their
hands. Their feet rush into sin; they are swift to shed innocent
blood. Their thoughts are evil thoughts; ruin and destruction
mark their ways. The way of peace they do not know; there
is no justice in their paths. They have turned them into crooked
roads; no-one who walks in them will know peace.
The Sovereign LORD has given me an instructed tongue, to know
the word that sustains the weary. He wakens me morning by
morning, wakens my ear to listen like one being taught. The
Sovereign LORD has opened my ears, and I have not been
rebellious; I have not drawn back. I offered my back to those
who beat me, my cheeks to those who pulled out my beard;
I did not hide my face from mocking and spitting. Because the
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FORMAL COMPLAINT VS THE KINGDOM OF NORWAY
by Wilh. Werner WINTHER, Norway
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