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“Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the Lord; curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against the mighty.”– Judges 5:23. In these deeply solemn words two things claim our attention – the sin of the inhabitants of Meroz, and the judgment of the Lord against them because of it. Let me rapidly touch on this sentence; on the judgment; with one or two practical lessons arising out of both.