_Deut_. 7. 15 I will lay them on all them that hate thee. 26. 18, 19 to make thee high above all nations, and an holy people. 27. 9 this day thou art become the people of the Lord thy God. 2 _Chron_. 9. 8 because the Lord loved Israel, to establish them forever. _Psalm_ 105. 6 ye seed of Abraham, his servant, ye children of Jacob, his chosen. 135. 4 Lord hath chosen Jacob for himself, and Israel for his peculiar treasure. 137. 8, 9 O Babylon, happy shall he be that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. _Isa_. 10. 5-19 Assyria to be taken and destroyed. 14. 2 they shall take them captives whose captives they were. 29. 7, 8 all the nations that fight against Ariel shall be as a dream. 41. 8 Jacob, whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham, my friend. 9. 43. 10 my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen. 20. 45. 4 Israel, mine elect. I have even called thee by name. 49. 24, 25 even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away. 26 I will feed them that oppress thee on their own flesh. 54. 15 whosoever shall gather against thee shall fall. 17. _Jer_. 2. 3 all that devour him shall offend; evil shall consume upon them. 10. 25 pour out thy fury on the heathen, for they have eaten up Jacob. 30. 11 though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, I will not make a full end of thee. 16, 24. _Heb_. 8. 10 I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people. SPIRITS IN PRISON. The writings of every dispensation of the Priesthood evidence that the Creator provided a place of confinement or retention, where intelligences await future events concerning themselves. Several hundred years before the flood, the Lord, speaking to Enoch concerning the wicked, said: "Behold, these which thine eyes are upon shall perish in the floods; and behold, I will shut them up; a prison have I prepared for them;" _P. of G. P., page_ 20. The idea of a pit or prison for man, appears to have been quite definite in the mind of Job; speaking of God's dealings with man, he says, "He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword;" 33. 18. The Psalmist David called this place hell or place of departed spirits, for he said of the Lord, "Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell;" _Psalm_ 16. 10. The latter part of the passage evidences that he was looking forward to the resurrection of Christ, to open the way for his release, "Neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption."