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the more and the easier you can teach from the Ekklesia Bible. With the coding
made especially for computers you can electronic illustrate most anything
needed for the Ekklesia Bible translation. A picture is a thousand times better
to teach truth of the Bible.
In our world of fierce
warfare in this Bible translation, there is no better translated Bible in the
entire world like the Ekklesia Bible translation. The true Ekklesia Bible translation is hated
not only by the enemies of God but also from total ignorance of the Holy people
of God. You have no idea our struggle in
the warfare being made from the world in our fight from those that oppose the
true Ekklesia Bible translation.
Take careful note the Entire
Ekklesia Bible is written in the ancient languages only in the natural time
mode. (This last Edit we have corrected
some chapter number identifications in the Old Testament.) Some minor word changes were made in The New
Testament.
This Ekklesia Bible
translation tears down the wall between modern science, God and the Bible by
restoring to the Bible the natural time mode.
All the more popular Bibles are mistranslated first by ruling members of
the Catholic Church into the pagan sidereal time mode of the week days of the
seven pagan sky gods. The Ekklesia Bible removes from this Bible translation
all the Sidereal time mode found mistranslated in all the more popular
translated Bibles.
All the more popular Bibles
are mistranslated first by ruling members of the Catholic Church in the pagan
religions of the sidereal time mode of the week days of the seven pagan sky
gods. For over seven hundred years
ruling members of the Catholic Church has set the standard for all Bibles of
Protestants to be mistranslated in the sidereal time mode of the week days of
the seven pagan sky gods. This Bible translation altogether removes the
crippling Sidereal time mode from this Bible translation. Ekklesia Bible now
becomes the most powerful and the most convincing of all Bible translations.
See how Mark 16:1-2 is
correctly translated in restoring the Ekklesia Bible. The Archbishop Stephen Langton was very clever
to manipulate Chapter numbers in the Bible to make all popular Bible
translations to appear to be written in the pagan sidereal time mode of the
week days of the seven pagan sky gods. Look
close in restoring the natural time to the Ekklesia Bible is removing many hard
contradictions that completely wreck the prophecies and the resurrection
records of Christ found in other Bible translations.
In 1385 a member of the
Catholic Church John Wycliffe and others will translate the first Bible into
English and the Wycliffe Bible translation will set the standard of sidereal
time mode for all mistranslated Bibles for over seven hundred years. Wycliffe and others of the Catholic church will
add much of the false Catholic Catechism to his false Bible translations to
make the Bible of Protestants to read the same as the Catholic Catechism. The
Ekklesia Bible is the only Bible in the entire world that can prove this Bible
completely removes all false Catholic catechism from out of the Ekklesia Bible
translation.
The Ruling members of the Catholic Church in
October 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII has
established the pagan religious calendar of the sidereal week days of the seven
pagan sky gods as the civil calendar for all popular translated Bibles in the
entire world.
The main difference in this Ekklesia Bible
translation from all other Bible translations in the Entire world is this
Ekklesia Bible is restoring the power of God to convince by correctly
translated the Ekklesia Bible in “the natural occurring time mode.” All other
Bibles are mistranslated first by ruling members of the Catholic Church to make
the Bibles of Protestants to read the same as the false Catholic Catechism. All
influences of the false Catholic Catechism is removed this Bible translation.
The Ekklesia Bible
translation removes all false Catholic Catechism from out of this Bible
translation that since the proven discovery of the Big Bang (1927) is making
the Bible cripple to convince ninety three percent of all scientist and the
higher educated that God exist and the Bible is from God (see the poll give by
the celebrated astrophysicist Neil DeGrass Tyson “Can Science and religion (the
Bible) Coexist.”
Welcome to restoring the Ekklesia of Christ
to the entire world. Think of “Ekklesia” is the invitation the holy people of God
in the warfare of God made against the gates of hell (Mat 16:18). Your choice
to choose on which side you continue to be passive or you will take your stand
and you will fight the good fight of faith.
The purpose of the Ekklesia is established by God as warfare made
against the gates of hell (Mat 16:18).
The Ekklesia of Christ is the fulfilling of the prophecy of restoring
the Ekklesia and restoring the primary purpose of the Ekklesia Bible is to
restore the holy people of God to the warfare of the Ekklesia of God. See
(Daniel 7: 25-26).
1) Ekklesia is restoring
truth to The Catholic Latin Vulgate Bible, “the Council,” “The Court,” “The
Called Out Assembly” to public warfare of the Ekklesia” to deliberate the
translation of the Bible in open warfare (polemic debate) established by God
with the purpose to reason and to protect the word of God against the gates of
Hades or Hell (Mat 16:18).
2) The purpose of Ekklesia is to restore the
power of God to convince in Bible translation that will tear down the wall made
in other false Bible translations that are making division in the majority of
modern scientists and near all the higher educated through their false Bible
translations.
It is patently false Bible translations that
cause modern astrophysicists and other scientist and those of a higher
education to with a passion hate false Bible translations that are making the
majority of Scientist and the higher educated to hate God and hate the Bible.
Look carefully at false
translated Bibles we must be honest and we must admit that the honest truth
loving Scientist and all those of a higher education are correct to hate a false
god and hate the false mistranslated Bibles when all the most popular Bibles
are mistranslated in the sidereal time mode of the week days of the seven pagan
sky gods. You as a novice may not know or cannot see the world of difference
between the Bible written in the natural time mode but mistranslated in the
pagan calendar of the sidereal time mode. All particle astrophysicists, and
astronomers that make a life time study in “time” and they know perfectly well
the difference the natural occurring or the normal occurring time mode from the
pagan sidereal time mode.
The Ekklesia Bible in restoring truth to the
Ekklesia Bible that is guaranteed to tear down the wall made by other false
Bible translations that separates the majority of the scientist and the
majority of the higher educated from believing in God and the Bible. Look and
see all the modern more popular mistranslated Bibles stops all the majority
(Ninety three percent) of all Sciences and the higher educated from believing
in God and in the Bible.
Modern Scientist has become
gods to the people and it is the modern scientist that for over seventy years
is leading the people away from God and the Bible by the billions into godless
atheism.
Data given in a poll made by
scientist in 2021 (see the celebrated astrophysicists Neil DeDegrass Tyson on
YOUTUBE “Can science and religion coexist is saying ninety three (93) percent
of all scientist hate God and hate the Bible. We do not need data from the poll
to know millions of the most conservative of all Bible believers are falling
away and they are closing church doors by the multiplied thousands.
Note this fact. When modern astrophysicists and scientist
give true proven scientific facts of the new information age then the scientist
and the higher educated teach proven science they in their new proven
scientific facts only prove the Ekklesia Bible is from God. Do you fully understand what was just stated
about how proven scientific facts of modern science only prove that the
Ekklesia Bible from God is true? Proven
scientific facts are proving other more popular translated Bibles are
false? In all the more popular Bible translations
modern proven scientific facts are proving either there are false Bible
translations or else the more popular translated Bibles are nothing more than a
pagan superstition.
Modern Bibles that are
mistranslated in the sidereal time mode of week days of the seven pagan sky
gods must be corrected to stop the great falling away of the holy people of God
by the multiplied thousands. Do you fully understand this horrendous problem of
false Bible translations made in the sidereal time mode? The Ekklesia Bible
removes this false Bible translation of the sidereal time mode.
Restoring the Ekklesia Bible
will remove all paganism from the Catholic Catechism that is mistranslated in
other false translated Bibles. The Ekklesia Bible can and will convince even
the scientist and the higher educated the Bible is from God. The Ekklesia Bible proves all new scientific
facts of the new information age is proving
the true Ekklesia Bible translation will cause even the majority of all
the higher educated in all the sciences has the power of god to convince to
believe and accept that the Ekklesia Bible truly is God breathed.
3) Ekklesia restores the laws
of God mistranslated in Bible that other Bible translations have removed the
laws of God from their false Bible translations. 4) The Ekklesia restores “The
holy people of God” that are deceived from false Bible translations and are now
in the hands of their deceiver against the truth of the Bible. 5) The Ekklesia restores “set times” of God
to worship. In their deceptions even the holy people of God because of false
Bible translation do not even so much as know that there is a set time to
worship God. 6) Ekklesia removes “words” and names of blasphemy from the other
mistranslated Bibles.
We will define before the
entire world this true Bible translation. Guaranteed this Bible translation now
is open for discussion and debate in Ekklesia warfare. We make a war room for polemics and our
purpose is give Ekklesia a chance turn the word of God lose only to unite all
who want truth in your Bible translations. If you know the ancient languages of
the Bible and if you see any life saving instructions written wrong in this
Bible translation anything you can see that you think is dangerous, then we beg
you to show where you think the Ekklesia Bible is mistranslating dangerous
false Bible translations.
Others make the claim they
are open for discussion on their false Bible translations but just try and get
any other Bible translation to open their Bible translation for open dispute.
They will cut you off and they will say you are only wanting to argue and then
so others on their web site can not see what you wrote they will erase what you
teach against their false Bible translations.
If you have a download before
September 27, 2021 you need to upgrade to the revised translation we fix a
small problem in Philippians Chapter Three.
The Ekklesia Bible is the
only Bible in the entire world that can stand the proven scientific facts of
the new information age. All Scientist that are teaching ”The Cold Big Bang”
are teaching truth of the cold Big Bang written in the Ekklesia Bible.
The words “Big Bang” may be a
pseudonym or misnomer. No one can prove that there was a “Big Bang” in the
beginning of the creation of the dark, the elements of the earth and the
Universe. Because the words “Big Bang” has become so popular with scientists
and the higher educated we will also use the words “Big Bang” to describe the
beginning of creation.
Scientist can be honest and
loving truth and still believe in the Ekklesia Bible. This Ekklesia Bible is translated correct
only in the natural time mode because the entire Bible is written only in the
natural time mode. All the more popular Bibles are mistranslated in the pagan
religion of the sidereal week days of the seven pagan sky gods.
For your eternal life learn
the world of differences in the time modes. Read Genesis 1:1-2 to learn the
exact cold “The Big Bang moment of the dark, the earth and the universe. Then
read all records of the resurrection of the Christ and see Christ resurrects
precisely on a solar cycle of the exact moment of “The Cold Big Bang.” We call
it “the cold Big Bang” but creation of the dark is very complicated to
scientifically describe why it is “the cold Big Bang.” In the Ekklesia Bible these is five records
disciples gathering to worship on the night at the exact moment of the
resurrection and on the same exact moment of the solar cycle the cold Big Bang.
When you learn the power of this true Ekklesia Bible translation only then you
will be convinced proven science is teaching truth of the Bible. Then you will
understand why this is the only true Bible translation in the entire world. In
the future all Bibles will be forced to restore to the natural time mode or the
true and powerful Ekklesia Bible will cause all other mistranslated Bibles to
become obsolete.
Here is how to use this Ekklesia Bible
translation. Because we do not have the program or the finances needed to hire some
one to write the program for this very complex Electronic Ekklesia Bible
Translation. To find certain Bible chapters and verses you must first learn how
to type in the code numbers. In the
future for the preacher or Bible teacher or student; you will only speak or
write commands for this Bible to speak certain verses on a loud speak, your
phone, your Ipad or your computer. This Ekklesia Bible translation with
thousands of number codes to speak Bible verses and at the same time the
electronics will project on the screen any illustration in, Hebrew or Greek
words and the words being spoken from the Ekklesia Bible. When holy people see the truth of the
Ekklesias Bible they will see the great advantages of this most modern Bible
but the more exacting Bible translation.
The Ekklesia Bible is translated in continual
Electronic Edit Mode. As disputes over
certain Bible translations are to be settled by the court of the entire
Ekklesia. These deliberating Bible translations will unite us to make the most
trusted Ekklesia Bible translation in the entire world. On this web site www.ekklesiabibleproject.com
keep looking for print and other changes in this open Bible translation and see
what the changes are to make your salvation certain.
We the Ekklesia of Christ
believe there will come a time that a world of computer programmers will
volunteer to help make this special web site made to deliberate to settle any
disputes between the holy people of God.
We translated to help to make this Bible translation easier to read and
to make this agape love Bible will unite the Holy People of God. Even now you
can easily learn how to use this electronic version of the Ekklesia Bible
translation.
If you are not computer savvy do not let what
appears to be complicated, stop you from learning how to use this Ekklesia
Bible translation. Like driving a car, in trial and error, you can easily learn
how to use this Ekklesia Bible translation.
For the student, verse search
is made electronic easy to use any search engine for books and Chapters by
simply learning to use and write the prefix as a quick reference. For the Bible
Teacher or Preacher when this Bible translation is complete to find and to
quickly show on a monitor and then hear the Bible speak the verse out loud to
the audience can be manipulated simply by just giving the correct code for the
verse number or numbers in braces. In the Ekklesia Bible is about thirty one
thousands braces added to separate every verse number in the entire Bible. This makes the Ekklesia Bible easy to electronic
command the Bible to speak and to show certain illustration for any verse in
the entire Bible.
In the future for the
Preacher or Bible teachers of the Ekklesia Bible, to easy program to speak or
type to command verse search to instantly find and read the text out loud to a
loud speaker, on you phone or just listen to the Ekklesia Bible speak the Bible
verses you command. . Braces "{
}" are added for electronic manipulation to filter unwanted text apparatus
and for illustration and to speak only the Bible text. For the Hebrew or Greek
can also be used to illustrate using braces.
Multiplied thousands of" Braces" are added to the electronic
version so you can use the computer to manipulate to project the Bible words on
to a movie screen and at the same time speak the text of the Bible. You can
filter or eliminate speaking any verse numbers.
Speaking numbers can cause to distract from what is being said. Our
purpose is if we can program our own software then we can give this entire very
complex electronic Ekklesia Bible away for free. So far no one offers to
program this Bible for free.
Many hands with laborious and
tiresome nights and days of adding braces and the time killing search for
mistakes to try and make certain numbers will make this the Bible of choice for
Bible teachers or for those who like to listen to the Bible speak. To find and
read a verse, Learn the prefix numbers and you can easily find the verse
number.
Another huge task to make the
Ekklesia Bible ready to print then all these multitudes of numbers and the
braces must be removed from the electronic version and leave only Chapter and
verse numbers to print the Bible.
We recommend the speaking software "Text
Aloud" made by "Next Up Software" for the Ekklesia Bible
translation. We ask this company to make their software more compatible and
more user friendly for the Ekklesia Bible.
The most human-like voices are "Mike" and "Mary"
voices that are made by AT&T software.
In the electronic versions of the Ekklesia
Bible is written in the front of each Book of The Ekklesia Bible is given a
prefix letter and number. The letter "O" is the prefix to run a
search in the Old Testament. The Letter "N" is the prefix run a
search in the New Testament.
Easy to learn the order
numbers of the Books of the Ekklesia Bible. Use this example go to search to
find the book of "Exodus" Chapter One verse 1. The First step in the
search is to type the letter O as in “old.” Exodus is the second book so type
2. then 12 for the Chapter number. The
search is to write the prefix number will look like this O2)12 --- (The
"O" is for the Old Testament, the number "2)" is for the
order number of the book of Exodus and the "12" is the Chapter
number. When our computer program is
finished you will be able to speak to your phone or your computer and your
phone, I-Pad or computer will speak and at the same to write the verses as
being are spoken can be displayed on the screen.
Next, make this easy verse
search, to find Matthew 6:18. Go to the
computer search, then write this prefix is N1)16 (the "N" is for the
New Testament, the order number of Matthew is one. N1), The last number
"n1)16" is the Chapter number.
We also add the last numbers in the index reveals how many Chapters are
in each book.
Book Code numbers for Old Testament (The Old Covenant)
book number, name and number of chapters in each book.
O1) Genesis (50 Chapters) O21) Eclesiastés (12)
O2) Exodus (40) O22)
Song Of Solomon (8)
O3) Leviticus (27) O23)
Isaiah (66)
O4) Numbers (36) O24) Jeremiah (52)
O5) Deuteronomy (34) O25) Lamentations (5)
O6) Joshua (24) O26)
Ezekiel (48)
O7 Judges (21) O27)
Daniel (12)
O8) Ruth
(4) O28)
Hosea (14)
O9) First Samuel
(31) O29) Joel
(3)
O10) Second Samuel
(24) O30) Amos (9)
O11) First Kings
(22) O31 Obadiah (1)
O12) Second Kings
(25) O32) Jonah (4)
O13) First Chron (29) O33) Micah
(7)
O14) Second Chron (36) O34)
Nahum (3)
O15) Ezra
(10) O35) Habakkuk
(3)
O16) Nehemiah (13) O36) Zephaniah (3)
O17) Esther
(10) O37) Haggai
(2)
O18) Job
(42) O38) Zechariah
(14)
O19) Psalms (150) O39) Malachi (4)
O20) Proverbs
(31)
New Testament code numbers
(The New Covenant)
N1) Matthew (28 Chapters) N15)
FirstTimothy (6)
N2) Mark (16) N16) Second Timothy (4)
N) Luke (24) N17) Titus
(3)
N4) John (20) N18)
Philemon (1)
N5) Acts (28) N19)
Hebrews (13)
N6) Romans (16) N20)
James (5)
N7) First Corinthians
(16) N21) First Petros (5)
N8) Second Corinthians
(13) N22) Second Petros (3)
N9) Galatians (6) N23) First John (5)
N10) Ephesians (6) N24) Second John (1)
N11) Philippians (4) N25) Third John (1)
N12) Colossians (4) N26)
Jude (1)
N13) First Thessolonians
(5) N27) Revelation (22)
N14) Second Thessolonians (3)
Start Here The Ekklesia Bible Translation of The Book of Genesis:
{O1)1} Genesis Chapter One. {1:1} In the beginning God created the heavens
and the earth. {1:2} And the earth was empty, formless, gaseous clouds; and
[the created] darkness was upon the face of space: and the Spirit of God moved
upon the face of the waters. {1:3} And God said, Let there be light: and there
was light . {1:4} And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the
light from the darkness.
{1:5} And God called the light Day, and the
darkness he called Night. And there was [creation of the beginning dark of] the
evening and there was [the creation of the beginning light of] the morning, day
one.
Genesis
{1:6} And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters,
and let it divide the waters from the waters. {1:7} And God made the firmament,
and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which
were above the firmament: and it was so. {1:8} And God called the [above]
firmament Heaven. And there was [the passing of the beginning dark of the]
evening and there was the [creation of the beginning light of the] morning, a
second day.
Genesis {1:9} And God said,
Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together unto one place, and let
the dry land appear: and it was so. {1:10} And God called the dry land earth;
and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it
was good. {1:11} And God said, Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding
seed, [and] fruit-trees bearing fruit after their kind, wherein is the seed
there, upon the earth: and it was so.
{1:12} And the earth brought
forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit,
wherein is the seed there, after their kind: and God saw that it was good. {1:13} And there was [the passing of the
beginning dark of the" evening and there was [the creation of the
beginning light of the] morning, a third day.
Genesis {1:14} And God said, Let there be
lights in the firmament of heaven to divide the day from the night; and let
them be for [the created] signs, and for seasons, and for days and years:
{1:15} and let them be for [the created] lights in the firmament of heaven to
give light upon the earth: and it was so. {1:16} And [on the fourth day] God
made the two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser
light to rule the night: [He made] the stars also [on the fourth day]. {1:17}
And God set them in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth,
{1:18} and [light] to rule over the day and [dark to rule] over the night, and
to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. {1:19} And there was [the passing of the
beginning dark of the] evening and there was [the creation of the beginning
light of the] morning, the fourth day.
Genesis {1:20} And God said,
Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above
the earth in the open firmament of heaven. {1:21} And God created the great
sea-monsters, and every living creature that moves, wherewith the waters
swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind: and God saw
that it was good. {1:22} And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and
multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the
earth. {1:23} And there was the [passing
of the beginning dark of the] evening and there was the [creation of the
beginning light of the] morning, a fifth day.
{1:24} And God said, Let the earth bring
forth living creatures after their kind, cattle, and creeping things, and
beasts of the earth after their kind: and it was so. {1:25} And God made the
beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and
everything that creeps upon the ground after its kind: and God saw that it was
good.
{1:26} And God said, Let us make man in our
image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea,
and over the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth,
and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth. {1:27} And God
created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and
female created he them. {1:28} And God blessed them: and God said unto them, Be
fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have
dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over
every living thing that moves upon the earth.
{1:29} And God said, Behold, I have given
you every herb yielding seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and
every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be
for food: {1:30} and to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the
heavens, and to everything that creeps upon the earth, wherein there is life,
[I have given] every green herb for food: and it was so. {1:31} And God saw everything that he
had made, and, behold, it was very good. And there was the [passing of the
beginning dark of the] evening and there was the [creation of the beginning
light of the] morning, the sixth
day.
{O1)2} Genesis Chapter Two. {2:1} And the
heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. {2:2} And on the
seventh day God finished his work which he had made; and he rested on the
seventh day from all his work which he had made. {2:3} And God blessed the
seventh day, and hallowed it; because that in it he rested from all his work
which God had created and made.
{2:4} These are the generations of the
heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that The God Yahweh
made earth and heaven. {2:5} And no plant of the field was yet in the earth,
and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for The God Yahweh had not caused
it to rain upon the earth: and there was not a man to till the ground; {2:6}
but there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the
ground. {2:7} And The God Yahweh formed man of the dust of the ground, and
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
{2:8} And The God Yahweh planted a garden eastward, in
{2:13} And the name of the second river is
Gihon: the same is it that compasses the entire
{2:18} And The God Yahweh said, It is not
good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him. {2:19}
And out of the ground The God Yahweh formed every beast of the field, and every
bird of the heavens; and brought them unto the man to see what he would call
them: and what ever the man called every living creature, that was the name
there {2:20} And the man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the
heavens, and to every beast of the field; but for man there was not found a
help meet for him.
2:21} And The God Yahweh caused a deep sleep
to fall upon the man, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up
the flesh instead there: {2:22} and the rib, which The God Yahweh had taken
from the man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. {2:23} And the man
said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called
Woman, because she was taken out of
{O1)3} Genesis Chapter Three. {3:1} Now the
serpent was more adroit than any creature of the land which The God Yahweh had
made. And he said unto the woman, behold,
God has said, you shall not eat of any tree of the garden? {3:2} And the
woman said unto the serpent, Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may
eat: {3:3} but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden,
God has said, you shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you
die. {3:4} And the serpent said unto the woman, you shall not surely die: {3:5}
for God does know that in the day you eat there, then your eyes shall be opened,
and you shall be as God, knowing good and evil. {3:6} And when the woman saw
that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and
that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit there,
and did eat; and she gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat. {3:7}
And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and
they sewed fig-leaves together, and made themselves aprons. {3:8} And they
heard the voice of The God Yahweh walking in the garden in the [evening] cool
of the day: and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of The
God Yahweh amongst the trees of the garden.
{3:9} And The God Yahweh called unto the
man, and said unto him, Where are you? {3:10} And he said, I heard your voice
in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself. {3:11}
And he said, Who told you that you was naked? Have you eaten of the tree, where
I commanded you that you should not eat? {3:12} And the man said, The woman
whom you gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. {3:13} And
The God Yahweh said unto the woman, What is this you have done? And the woman
said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. {3:14} And The God Yahweh said
unto the serpent, Because you have done this, A cursed are you above all
cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon your belly shall you go, and
dust shall you eat all the days of your life: {3:15} and I will put enmity
between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed: he shall bruise
your head, and you shall bruise his heel. {3:16} Unto the woman he said, I will
greatly multiply your pain and your conception; in pain you shall bring forth
children; and your desire shall be to your husband, and he shall rule over you.
{3:17} And unto Adam he said, Because you
have heard unto the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree, of which I
commanded you, saying, you shall not eat of it: cursed is the ground for your
sake; in toil shall you eat of it all the days of your life; {3:18} thorns also
and thistles shall it bring forth to you; and you shall eat the herb of the
field; {3:19} in the sweat of your face shall you eat bread, till you return
unto the ground; for out of it was you taken: for dust you are, and unto dust
shall you return. {3:20} And the man called his wife's name Eve; because she
was the mother of all living. {3:21} And The God Yahweh made [covering] for
Adam and for his wife long coats of skins, and clothed them. {3:22} And The God Yahweh said, Behold, the
man is become as one of us, to know good and evil; and now, lest he put forth
his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever--
{3:23} therefore The God Yahweh sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till
the ground from where he was taken. {3:24} So he drove out the man; and he
placed at the east of the garden of Eden the Cherubim, and the flame of a sword
which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
{O1)4} Genesis Chapter Four. {4:1} And the man knew Eve his wife; and she
conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man with [the help of] Yahweh.
{4:2} And again she bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but
Cain was a tiller of the ground. {4:3} And in process of time it came to pass,
that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto Yahweh. {4:4} And
Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat there. And Yahweh
had respect unto Abel and to his offering: {4:5} but unto Cain and to his
offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.
{4:6} And Yahweh said unto Cain, Why are you wroth? and why is your countenance
fallen? {4:7} If you do well, shall it not be lifted up? and if you do not
well, sin couches at the door: and unto you shall be its desire, but do you
rule over it. {4:8} And Cain told Abel his brother. And it came to pass, when
they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew
him.
{4:9} And Yahweh said unto
Cain, Where is Abel your brother? And he said, I know not: am I my brother's
keeper? {4:10} And he said, What have you done? the voice of your brother's
blood cries unto me from the ground. {4:11} And now cursed are you from the
ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your
hand; {4:12} when you till the ground, it shall not from here on yield unto you
its strength; a fugitive and a wanderer shall you be in the earth. {4:13} And
Cain said unto Yahweh, My punishment is greater than I can bear. {4:14} Behold,
you have driven me out this day from the face of the ground; and from your face
shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth; and it
will come to pass, that anyone who finds me will slay me. {4:15} And Yahweh
said unto him, Therefore anyone who slays Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him
sevenfold. And Yahweh appointed a sign for Cain, lest any finding him should
smite him.
{4:16} And Cain went out from the presence
of Yahweh, and dwelt in the
{O1)5} Genesis Chapter Five {5:1} This is the book of the generations of
Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
{5:2} male and female created he them, and blessed them, and called their name
Adam, in the day when they were created. {5:3} And Adam lived a hundred and
thirty years, and begot [a son] in his own likeness, after his image; and
called his name Seth: {5:4} and the days of Adam after he begot Seth were eight
hundred years: and he begot sons and daughters. {5:5} And all the days that
Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.
{5:6} And Seth lived a hundred and five
years, and begot Enosh: {5:7} and Seth lived after he begot Enosh eight hundred
and seven years, and begot sons and daughters: {5:8} and all the days of Seth
were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died.
{5:9} And Enosh lived ninety years, and
begot Kenan. {5:10} and Enosh lived after he begot Kenan eight hundred and
fifteen years, and begot sons and daughters: {5:11} and all the days of Enosh
were nine hundred and five years: and he died.
{5:12} And Kenan lived seventy years, and
begot Mahalalel: {5:13} and Kenan lived after he begot Mahalalel eight hundred and forty years, and
begot sons and daughters: {5:14} and all the days of Kenan were nine hundred
and ten years: and he died.
{5:15} And Mahalalel lived sixty and five
years, and begot Jared: {5:16} And Mahalalel lived after he begot Jared eight
hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters: {5:17} and all the days
of Mahalalel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died.
{5:18} And Jared lived a hundred sixty and
two years, and begot Enoch: {5:19} and Jared lived after he begot Enoch eight
hundred years, and begot sons and daughters: {5:20} And all the days of Jared
were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died. {5:21} And Enoch lived sixty and five
years, and begot Methuselah: {5:22} and Enoch walked with God after he begot
Methuselah three hundred years, and begot sons and daughters: {5:23} and all the days of Enoch
were three hundred sixty and five years: {5:24} and Enoch walked with God: and
he was not; for God took him.
{5:25} And Methuselah lived a hundred
eighty and seven years, and begot Lamech: {5:26} and Methuselah lived after he
begot Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begot sons and daughters.
{5:27} And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years:
and he died.
{5:28} And Lamech lived a hundred eighty
and two years, and begot a son: {5:29} and he called his name Noah, saying,
This same shall comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, [which
comes] because of the ground which Yahweh has cursed. {5:30} And Lamech lived
after he begot Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begot sons and
daughters: {5:31} And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and
seven years: and he died.
{5:32} And Noah was five hundred years
old: And Noah begot Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
{O1)6} Genesis Chapter Six. {6:1} And it came to pass, when men began to
multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born unto them, {6:2}
that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they
took them wives of all that they chose. {6:3} And Yahweh said, My spirit shall
not strive with man for ever, for that he also is flesh: yet shall his days be
a hundred and twenty years. {6:4} The Nephilim was in the earth in those days,
and also after that, when the sons of God came unto the daughters of men, and
they bare children to them: the same were the mighty men that were of old, the
men of renown.
{6:5} And Yahweh saw that the wickedness of
man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his
heart was only evil continually. {6:6} And it repented Yahweh that he had made
man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. {6:7} And Yahweh said, I
will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the ground; both man, and
beast, and creeping things, and birds of the heavens; for it repents me that I
have made them. {6:8} But Noah found favor in the eyes of Yahweh.
{6:9} These are the generations of Noah.
Noah was a righteous man, [and] perfect
in his generations: Noah walked with God. {6:10} And Noah begot three sons,
Shem, Ham, and Japheth. {6:11} And the earth was corrupt before God, and the
earth was filled with violence. {6:12} And God saw the earth, and, behold, it
was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.
{6:13} And God said unto Noah, The end of
all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through
them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth. {6:14} Make you an ark
of gopher wood; rooms shall you make in the ark, and shall pitch it within and
outside with pitch. {6:15} And this is how you shall make it: the length of the
ark three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it
thirty cubits. {6:16} A light shall you make to the ark, and to a cubit shall
you finish it upward; and the door of the ark shall you set in the side there;
with lower, second, and third stories shall you make it. {6:17} And I, behold,
I do bring the flood of waters upon this earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein
is the breath of life, from under heaven; everything that is in the earth shall
die. {6:18} But I will establish my covenant with you; and you shall come into
the ark, you, and your sons, and your wife, and your sons' wives with you.
{6:19} And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shall you
bring into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female.
{6:20} Of the birds after their kind, and of the cattle after their kind, of
every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort shall come
unto you, to keep them alive. {6:21} And
take you unto you of all food that is eaten, and gather it to you; and it shall
be for food for you, and for them. {6:22} Thus did Noah; according to all that
God commanded him, so did he.
{O1)7} Genesis Chapter Seven. {7:1} And Yahweh said unto Noah, Come you
and your entire house into the ark; for you have I seen righteous works before
me in this generation. {7:2} Of every clean beast you shall take to you seven
and seven, the male and his female; and of the beasts that are not clean two,
the male and his female: {7:3} of the birds also of the heavens, seven and
seven, male and female, to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
{7:4} For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days
and forty nights; and every living thing that I have made will I destroy from
off the face of the ground. {7:5} And Noah did according unto all that Yahweh
commanded him.
{7:6} And Noah was six hundred years old
when the flood of waters was upon the earth. {7:7} And Noah went in, and his
sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the
waters of the flood. {7:8} Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean,
and of birds, and of everything that creeps upon the ground, {7:9} there went
in two and two unto Noah into the ark, male and female, as God commanded Noah.
{7:10} And it came to pass after the seven days, that the waters of the flood
were upon the earth. {7:11} In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the
second moon cycle, on the seventeenth day of the moon, on the same day were all
the fountains of the great deep broken up,
and the windows of heaven were opened. {7:12} And the rain was upon the
earth forty days and forty nights.
{7:13} In the selfsame day entered Noah, and
Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three
wives of his sons with them, into the ark; {7:14} they, and every beast after
its kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that
creeps upon the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird
of every sort. {7:15} And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of
all flesh wherein is the breath of life. {7:16}
And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God
commanded him: and Yahweh shut him in. {7:17} And the flood was forty days upon
the earth; and the waters increased, and raised up the ark, and it was reaised
up above the earth. {7:18} And the waters prevailed, and increased greatly upon
the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters. {7:19} And the waters
prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high mountains that were
under the whole heaven were covered. {7:20} Fifteen cubits upward did the
waters prevail; and the mountains were covered. {7:21} And all flesh died that
moved upon the earth, both birds, and cattle, and beasts, and every creeping
thing that creeps upon the earth, and every man: {7:22} all in whose nostrils
was the breath of the spirit of life, of all that was on the dry land, died.
{7:23} And every living thing was destroyed that was upon the face of the
ground, both man, and cattle, and creeping things, and birds of the heavens;
and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only was left, and they that
were with him in the ark. {7:24} And the waters prevailed upon the earth a
hundred and fifty days.
{O1)8}
Genesis Chapter Eight. {8:1} And God remembered Noah, and all the
beasts, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark: and God made a wind
to pass over the earth, and the waters subside; {8:2} the fountains also of the
deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was
restrained; {8:3} and the waters returned from off the earth continually: and
after the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters decreased. {8:4} And the
ark rested in the seventh moon cycle, on the seventeenth day of the moon, upon
the mountains of Ararat. {8:5} And the waters decreased continually until the
[cycle of] the tenth moon: in the tenth of the moon cycle, on the first day of
the [all] dark [night] of the moon, were the tops of the mountains seen.
{8:6} And it came to pass at the end of
forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made: {8:7} and
he sent forth a raven, and it went forth to and fro, until the waters were
dried up from off the earth. {8:8} And he sent forth a dove from him, to see if
the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; {8:9} but the dove
found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him to the ark;
for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: and he put forth his hand,
and took her, and brought her in unto him into the ark. {8:10} And he stayed
yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark; {8:11}
and the dove came in to him at eventide; and, lo, in her mouth an olive-leaf
plucked off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
{8:12} And he stayed yet other seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she
returned not again unto him any more.
{8:13} And it came to pass in the six
hundred and first year, in the first moon cycle ["Abib,"] the Moon of
resurrection], the first [all dark night of the] day of the dark of the
[resurrection] moon [Abib], the waters were dried up from off the earth: and
Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the
ground was dried. {8:14} And in the second moon cycle, on the seven and
twentieth day of the [second moon], was the earth dry. {8:15} And God spoke unto Noah, saying,
{8:16} Go forth from the ark, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons'
wives with you. {8:17} Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you
of all flesh, both birds, and cattle, and every creeping thing that creeps upon
the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and
multiply upon the earth. {8:18} And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his
wife, and his sons' wives with him: {8:19} every beast, every creeping thing,
and every bird, what ever moves upon the earth, after their families, went
forth out of the ark.
{8:20} And Noah built an altar unto Yahweh,
and took of every clean beast, and of every clean bird, and offered
burnt-offerings on the altar. {8:21} And Yahweh smelled the sweet savor; and Yahweh
said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake,
for that the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; either will I again smite any more everything
living, as I have done. {8:22} While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest,
and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
{O1)9} Genesis Chapter Nine. {9:1} And God blessed Noah and his sons, and
said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. {9:2} And
the fear of you and the dread of you
shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every bird of the heavens;
with all wherewith the ground teems, and all the fishes of the sea, into your
hand are they delivered. {9:3} Every moving thing that lives shall be food for
you; as the green herb have I given you all. {9:4} But flesh with the life
there, [which is] the blood there, shall you not eat. {9:5} And surely your
blood, [the blood] of your lives, will I require; at the hand of every beast
will I require it. And at the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's
brother, will I require the life of man. {9:6} Who so sheds man's blood, by man
shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man. {9:7} And you, be
you fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply
therein.
{9:8} And God spoke unto Noah, and to his
sons with him, saying, {9:9} And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you,
and with your seed after you; {9:10} and with every living creature that is
with you, the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you. Of all
that go out of the ark, even every beast of the earth. {9:11} And I will
establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by
the waters of the flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the
earth. {9:12} And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make
between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual
generations: {9:13} I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token
of a covenant between me and the earth. {9:14} And it shall come to pass, when
I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud, {9:15}
and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living
creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy
all flesh. {9:16} And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it,
that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living
creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
{9:17} And God said unto Noah, This is the
token of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is
upon the earth. {9:18} And the sons of
Noah, that went forth from the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is
the father of
{9:20} And Noah began to be a husbandman,
and planted a vineyard: {9:21} and he drank of the wine, and was drunk. And he
was uncovered within his tent. {9:22} And Ham, the father of
{O1)10} Genesis Chapter Ten.
{10:1} Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, [namely], of Shem,
Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood. {10:2} The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and
Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras. {10:3} And the
sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, and Riphas, and
ogarmah. {10:4} And the sons of Javan: Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim,
and Dodanim. {10:5} Of these were the isles of the nations divided in their
lands, every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
{10:6} And the sons of Ham:
{O1)11} Genesis Chapter
Eleven. {11:1} And the whole earth was
of one language and of one speech. {11:2} And it came to pass, as they journey
east, that they found a plain in the
{O1)12} Genesis Chapter Twelve. {12:1} Now Yahweh said unto Abram, Get you
out of your country, and from your kindred, and from your father's house, unto
the land that I will show you: {12:2} and I will make of you a great nation,
and I will bless you, and make your name great; and be you a blessing; {12:3}
and I will bless them that bless you, and him that curses you will I curse: and
in you shall all the families of the earth be blessed. {12:4} So Abram went, as
Yahweh had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and
five years old when he departed out of
{O1)13} Genesis Chapter Thirteen. {13:1} And Abram went up out of
{O1)14} Genesis Chapter Fourteen. {14:1} And it came to pass in the days of
Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and
Tidal king of Goiim, {14:2} that they made war with Bera king of Sodom, and
with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of
Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar). {14:3} All these joined
together in the vale of Siddim (the same is the
{O1)15} Genesis Chapter Fifteen. {15:1} After these things the word of Yahweh
came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am your shield, [and]
your exceeding great reward. {15:2} And Abram said, O Lord Yahweh, what will
you give me, seeing I go childless, and he that shall be possessor of my house
is Eleazar of Damascus? {15:3} And Abram said, Behold, to me you have given no seed:
and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir. {15:4} And, behold, the word of Yahweh
came unto him, saying, This man shall not be your heir; But he that shall come
forth out of your own bowels shall be your heir. {15:5} And he brought him
forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and number the stars, if you be
able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall your seed be. {15:6} And he
believed in [obedience] Yahweh; and he reckoned it to him for [good] works of
the law. {15:7} And he said unto him, I am Yahweh that brought you out of
{O1)16} Genesis Chapter Sixteen. {16:1} Now Sara, Abram's wife, bare him no
children: and she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar. {16:2} And
Sara said unto Abram, Behold now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing; go in,
I pray you, unto my handmaid; it may be that I shall obtain children by her.
And Abram heard the voice of Sara. {16:3} And Sara, Abram's wife, took Hagar
the Egyptian, her handmaid, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the
{O1)17} Genesis Chapter Seventeen. {17:1} And when Abram was ninety years old
and nine, Yahweh appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am God Almighty; walk
before me, and be you perfect. {17:2} And I will make my covenant between me
and you, and will multiply you exceedingly. {17:3} And Abram fell on his face:
and God talked with him, saying, {17:4} As for me, behold, my covenant is with
you, and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations. {17:5} Neither
shall your name any more be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; for
the father of a multitude of nations have I made you. {17:6} And I will make
you exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come
out of you. {17:7} And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your
seed after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be
a God unto you and to your seed after you. {17:8} And I will give unto you, and
to your seed after you, the land of your traveling the
{O1)18} Genesis Chapter Eighteen. {18:1} And Yahweh appeared unto him by the
oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day; {18:2} and he
lifted up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood over against him: and
when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to
the earth, {18:3} and said, My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight,
pass not away, I pray you, from your servant: {18:4} let now a little water be
fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree: {18:5} and I
will fetch a morsel of bread, and strengthen you your heart; after that you
shall pass on: forasmuch as you are come to your servant. And they said, So do,
as you have said. {18:6} And Abraham hurried into the tent unto Sarah, and said,
Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes.
{18:7} And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetched a calf tender and good, and
gave it unto the servant; and he hurried to dress it. {18:8} And he took
butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them;
and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat. {18:9} And they said unto him, Where is
Sarah your wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent. {18:10} And he said, I will
certainly return unto you when the season comes round; and, lo, Sarah your wife
shall have a son. And Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.
{18:11} Now Abraham and Sarah were old, [and] well stricken in age; it had
ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women. {18:12} And Sarah laughed
within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord
being old also? {18:13} And Yahweh said unto Abraham, Therefore did Sarah
laugh, saying, shall I of a guarantee bear a child, who am old? {18:14} Is
anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return unto you, when the
season comes round, and Sarah shall have a son. {18:15} Then Sarah denied,
saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. And he said, No; but you did
laugh. {18:16} And the men rose up
from there, and looked toward
{O1)19}
Genesis Chapter Nineteen.
{19:1} And the two messengers came to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the
gate of Sodom: and Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself
with his face to the earth; {19:2} and he said, Behold now, my lords, turn
aside, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash
your feet, and you shall rise up early, and go on your way. And they said, No;
but we will abide in the street all night. {19:3} And he urged them greatly;
and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a
feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat. {19:4} But before they
lay down, the men of the city, [even] the men of Sodom, compassed the house
round, both young and old, all the people from every quarter; {19:5} and they
called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men that came in to you this
night? bring them out unto us, that we may have sexual intercourse with them.
{19:6} And Lot went out unto them to the door, and shut the door after him.
{19:7} And he said, I pray you, my brethren, do not so wickedly. {19:8} Behold
now, I have two daughters that have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring
them out unto you, and do you to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these
men do nothing, forasmuch as they are come under the shadow of my roof. {19:9}
And they said, Stand back. And they said, This one fellow came in to sojourn,
and he becomes our judge: now will we deal worse with you, than with them. And
they pressed sore upon the man, even
{O1)20} Genesis Chapter Twenty. {20:1} And Abraham traveled from there
toward the land of the South, and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur. And he sojourned
in Gerar. {20:2} And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister. And
Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah. {20:3} But God came to Abimelech
in a dream of the night, and said to him, Behold, you are but a dead man,
because of the woman whom you have taken. For she is a man's wife. {20:4} Now
Abimelech had not come near her. And he said, Lord, will you slay even a
righteous working nation? {20:5} Said he not himself unto me, She is my sister?
And she, even she herself said, He is my brother. In the integrity of my heart
and the innocence of my hands have I done this. {20:6} And God said unto him in
the dream, behold, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done
this, and I also withheld you from sinning against me. Therefore suffered I you
not to touch her. {20:7} Now therefore restore the man's wife. For he is a
prophet, and he shall pray for you, and you shall live. And if you restore her
not, know you that you shall surely die, you, and all that are yours. {20:8} And Abimelech rose early in the
morning, and called all his saves, and told all these things in their ear. And
the men were sore afraid. {20:9} Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said unto
him, What have you done unto us? And wherein have I sinned against you that you
have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? you have done deeds unto me
that ought not to be done. {20:10} And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What saw
you, that you have done this thing? {20:11} And Abraham said, Because I
thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place. And they will slay me for
my wife's sake. {20:12} And she is
indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother;
and she became my wife: {20:13} and it came to pass, when God caused me to
wander from my father's house, that I said unto her, This is your kindness
which you shall show unto me. At every place where we shall come, say of me, He
is my brother. {20:14} And Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and men-slaves and
women-slaves, and gave them unto Abraham, and restored him Sarah his wife.
{20:15} And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before you. Dwell where it
pleases you. {20:16} And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have given your brother
a thousand pieces of silver. Behold, it is for you a covering of the eyes to
all that are with you. And in respect of all you are righted. {20:17} And
Abraham prayed unto God. And God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maid-slaves.
And they bare children. {20:18} For Yahweh had fast closed up all the wombs of
the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.
{O1)21} Genesis Chapter Twenty
One. {21:1} And Yahweh visited Sarah as
he had said, and Yahweh did unto Sarah as he had spoken. {21:2} And Sarah
conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God
had spoken to him. {21:3} And Abraham called the name of his son that was born
unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac. {21:4} And Abraham circumcised his son
Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him. {21:5} And Abraham
was a hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him. {21:6} And Sarah
said, God has made me to laugh. Every one that hears will laugh with me. {21:7}
And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should give children
suck? For I have borne him a son in his old age. {21:8} And the child grew, and was weaned.
And Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned. {21:9} And
Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne unto Abraham,
mocking. {21:10} Therefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this handmaid and
her son. For the son of this handmaid shall not be heir with my son, even with
Isaac. {21:11} And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight on account of
his son. {21:12} And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in your
sight because of the young man, and because of your handmaid. In all that Sarah
said unto you, hear unto her voice. For in Isaac shall your seed be called.
{21:13} And also of the son of the handmaid will I make a nation, because he is
your seed. {21:14} And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and
a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and
[gave her] the child, and sent her away. And she departed, and wandered in the
wilderness of Beer-sheba. {21:15} And the water in the bottle was spent, and
she cast the child under one of the shrubs. {21:16} And she went, and sat her
down over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot. For she said, Let
me not look upon the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and
lifted up her voice, and wept. {21:17} And God heard the voice of the young
man. And the messenger of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her,
What ails you, Hagar? Fear not. For God has heard the voice of the young man
where he is. {21:18} Arise, lift up the young man, and hold him in your hand.
For I will make him a great nation. {21:19} And God opened her eyes, and she
saw a well of water. And she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave
the young man drink. {21:20} And God was with the young man, and he grew. And
he dwelt in the wilderness, and became, as he grew up, an archer. {21:21} And
he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran. And his mother took him a wife out of the
{O1)22} Genesis Chapter Twenty Two. {22:1} And it came to pass after these
things, that God did prove Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham. And he said,
Here am I. {22:2} And he said, Take now your son, your only son, whom you agape
love, even Isaac, and get you into the
{O1)23} Genesis Chapter twenty Three. {23:1} And the life of Sarah was a hundred
and twenty seven years. These were the years of the life of Sarah. {23:2} And
Sarah died in Kiriath-arba (the same is
{O1)24} Genesis Chapter Twenty Four. {24:1} And Abraham was old, [and] well
stricken in age. And Yahweh had blessed Abraham in all things. {24:2} And
Abraham said unto his servant, the elder of his house, that ruled over all that
he had, Please I pray you put your hand under my thigh. {24:3} And I will make
you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will
not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I
dwell. {24:4} But you shall go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a
wife for my son Isaac. {24:5} And the servant said unto him, Perhaps the woman
will not be willing to follow me unto this land. Must I need to bring your son
again unto the land from where you came? {24:6} And Abraham said unto him,
Beware you that you bring not my son there again. {24:7} Yahweh, the God of
heaven, who took me from my father's house, and from the land of my nativity,
and who spoke unto me, and who swore unto me, saying, Unto your seed will I
give this land. He will send his messenger before you, and you shall take a
wife for my son from there. {24:8} And if the woman be not willing to follow
you, then you shall be clear from this my oath. Only you shall not bring my son
there again. {24:9} And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his
master, and swore to him concerning this matter. {24:10} And the servant took ten camels,
of the camels of his master, and departed, having all goodly things of his
master's in his hand. And he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of
{24:61} And Rebekah arose, and her
damsels, and they rode upon the camels, and followed the man. And the servant
took Rebekah, and went his way. {24:62} And Isaac came from the way of
Beer-lahai-roi. For he dwelt in the land of the South. {24:63} And Isaac went
out to meditate in the field at the eventide. And he lifted up his eyes, and
saw, and, behold, there were camels coming. {24:64} And Rebekah lifted up her
eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she alighted from the camel. {24:65} And she said
unto the servant, What man is this that walks in the field to meet us? And the
servant said, It is my master. And she took her veil, and covered herself.
{24:66} And the servant told Isaac all the things that he had done. {24:67} And
Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she
became his wife. And he agape loved her. And Isaac was comforted after his
mother's death.
{O1)25} Genesis Chapter Twenty Five. {25:1} And Abraham took another wife, and
her name was Keturah. {25:2} And she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and
{O1)26} Genesis Chapter Twenty Six. {26:1} And there was a famine in the land,
besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto
Abimelech king of the Philistines, unto Gerar. {26:2} And Yahweh appeared unto
him, and said, Go not down into
{O1)27} Genesis Chapter Twenty Seven. {27:1} And it came to pass, that when Isaac
was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his
elder son, and said unto him, My son. And he said unto him, Here am
{O1)28} Genesis Chapter Twenty Eight {28:1}
And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him,
you shall not take a wife of the daughters of
{O1)29} Genesis Chapter Twenty Nine. {29:1} Then Jacob went on his journey, and
came to the land of the children of the east. {29:2} And he looked, and behold,
a well in the field, and, lo, three flocks of sheep lying there by it. For out
of that well they watered the flocks. And the stone upon the well's mouth was
great. {29:3} And there were all the flocks gathered. And they rolled the stone
from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again upon the
well's mouth in its place. {29:4} And Jacob said unto them, My brethren, where
are you? And they said, Of Haran are we. {29:5} And he said unto them, Know you
Laban the son of Nahor? And they said, We know him. {29:6} And he said unto
them, Is it well with him? And they said, It is well. And, behold, Rachel his
daughter comes with the sheep. {29:7} And he said, Lo, it is yet high day,
neither is it time that the cattle should be gathered together. Water you the
sheep, and go and feed them. {29:8} And they said, We cannot, until all the
flocks be gathered together, and they roll the stone from the well's mouth.
Then we water the sheep. {29:9} While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel
came with her father's sheep. For she kept them. {29:10} And it came to pass,
when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep
of Laban his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from
the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother. {29:11}
And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept. {29:12} And Jacob
told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and that he was Rebekah's son.
And she ran and told her father.
{29:13} And it came to pass, when Laban heard the tidings of Jacob his
sister's son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him, and kissed him, and
brought him to his house. And he told Laban all these things. {29:14} And Laban
said to him, Surely you are my bone and my flesh. And he abode with him the
space of a moon cycle. {29:15} And Laban said unto Jacob, Because you are my
brother, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what shall your
wages be? {29:16} And Laban had two daughters. The name of the elder was Leah,
and the name of the younger was Rachel. {29:17} And Leah's eyes were tender.
But Rachel was beautiful and well favored. {29:18} And Jacob agape loved
Rachel. And he said, I will serve you seven years for Rachel your younger
daughter. {29:19} And Laban said, It is better that I give her to you, than
that I should give her to another man. Abide with me. {29:20} And Jacob served
seven years for Rachel. And they seemed unto him but a few days, for the agape
love he had for her. {29:21} And
Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may
go in unto her. {29:22} And Laban gathered together all the men of the place,
and made a feast. {29:23} And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah
his daughter, and brought her to him. And he went in unto her. {29:24} And
Laban gave Zilpah his handmaid unto his daughter Leah for a handmaid. {29:25}
And it came to pass in the morning that, behold, it was Leah. And he said to
Laban, What is this you have done unto me? Did not I serve with you for Rachel?
Therefore then have you beguiled me? {29:26} And Laban said, It is not so done
in our place, to give the younger before the first-born. {29:27} Fulfilling the
seven solar years this one, and we will give you the other also for the service
which you shall serve with me yet seven other years. {29:28} And Jacob did
also, and [he] fulfilled her seven year Shebuah. And he gave him Rachel his
daughter to wife. {29:29} And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his
handmaid to be her handmaid. {29:30} And he went in also unto Rachel, and he
agape loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other
years. {29:31} And Yahweh saw that
Leah was loved less, and he opened her womb. But Rachel was barren. {29:32} And
Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his name Reuben. For she said,
Because Yahweh has looked upon my affliction. For now my husband will agape
love me. {29:33} And she conceived again, and bare a son: and said, Because Yahweh
has heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me this [son] also. And she
called his name Simeon. {29:34} And she conceived again, and bare a son. And
said, Now this time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have borne him
three sons. Therefore was his name called Levi. {29:35} And she conceived
again, and bare a son. And she said, This time will I praise Yahweh. Therefore
she called his name
{O1)30} Genesis Chapter Thirity. {30:1} And when Rachel saw that she bare
Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and she said unto Jacob, Give me
children, or else I die. {30:2} And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel:
and he said, Am I in God's stead, who has withheld from you the fruit of the
womb? {30:3} And she said, Behold, my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; that she may
bear upon my knees, and I also may obtain children by her. {30:4} And she gave
him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her. {30:5} And Bilhah
conceived, and bare Jacob a son. {30:6} And Rachel said, God has judged me, and
has also heard my voice, and has given me a son: therefore called she his name
Dan. {30:7} And Bilhah Rachel's handmaid conceived again, and bare Jacob a
second son. {30:8} And Rachel said, With mighty struggle have I withheld with my
sister, and have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali. {30:9} When Leah saw that she had left off
bearing, she took Zilpah her handmaid, and gave her to Jacob to wife. {30:10}
And Zilpah Leah's handmaid bare Jacob a son. {30:11} And Leah said, Fortunate!
and she called his name Gad. {30:12} And Zilpah Leah's handmaid bare Jacob a
second son. {30:13} And Leah said, Happy am I! for the daughters will call me
happy: and she called his name Asher.
{30:14} And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found [vines
of] love-apples in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah. Then
Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray you, of your son's love-apples. {30:15}
And she said unto her, Is it a small matter that you have taken away my
husband? and would you take away my son's love apples also? And Rachel said,
Therefore he shall lie with you to-night for your son's love apples. {30:16}
And Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him,
and said, you must come in unto me; for I have surely hired you with my son's
love apples. And he lay with her that night. {30:17} And God heard unto Leah,
and she conceived, and bare Jacob a fifth son. {30:18} And Leah said, God has
given me my hire, because I gave my handmaid to my husband: and she called his
name Issachar. {30:19} And Leah conceived again, and bare a sixth son to Jacob.
{30:20} And Leah said, God has endowed me with a good dowry; now will my
husband dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons: and she called his name
Zebulun. {30:21} And afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her name Dinah.
{30:22} And God remembered Rachel, and God heard her, and opened her womb.
{30:23} And she conceived, and bare a son: and said, God has taken away my
reproach: {30:24} and she called his name Joseph, saying, Yahweh add to me
another son. {30:25} And it came to
pass, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said unto Laban, Send me away,
that I may go unto mine own place, and to my country. {30:26} Give me my wives
and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go: for you know my
service wherewith I have served you.
{30:27} And Laban said unto him, If now I have found favor in your eyes,
[tarry]: [for] I have divined that my god has blessed me for your sake. {30:28}
And he said, Appoint me your wages, and I will give it. {30:29} And he said unto him, you know how I
have served you, and how your cattle have fared with me. {30:30} For it was
little which you had before I came, and it has increased unto a multitude; and Yahweh
[your God] has blessed you where so ever I turned: and now when shall I provide
for mine own house also? {30:31} And he said, What shall I give you? And Jacob
said, you shall not give me anything: if you will do this thing for me, I will
again feed your flock and keep it. {30:32} I will pass through all your flock
to-day, removing from there every speckled and spotted one, and every black one
among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and [of such]
shall be my hire. {30:33} So shall my working good works answer for me
hereafter, when you shall come concerning my hire that is before you: every one
that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the sheep,
that [if found] with me, shall be counted stolen. {30:34} And Laban said,
Behold, I would it might be according to your word. {30:35} And he removed that
day the he-goats that were ring streaked and spotted, and all the she-goats
that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the black
ones among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons; {30:36} and he
set three days' journey between himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of
Laban's flocks. {30:37} And Jacob
took him rods of fresh poplar, and of the almond and of the plane-tree. And
peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.
{30:38} And he set the rods which he had peeled over against the flocks in the
gutters in the watering-troughs where the flocks came to drink; and they
conceived when they came to drink. {30:39} And the flocks conceived before the
rods, and the flocks brought forth ring streaked, speckled, and spotted.
{30:40} And Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward
the ring streaked and all the black in the flock of Laban: and he put his own
droves apart, and put them not unto Laban's flock. {30:41} And it came to pass,
when ever the stronger of the flock did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods
before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they might conceive among the
rods; {30:42} but when the flock were feeble, he put them not in: so the
feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's. {30:43} And the man increased
exceedingly, and had large flocks, and maid-servants and men-servants, and
camels and asses.
{O1)31} Genesis Chapter Thirty One. {31:1} And he heard the words of Laban's
sons, saying, Jacob has taken away all that was our father's; and of that which
was our father's has he gotten all this glory. {31:2} And Jacob beheld the
countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as beforetime. {31:3}
And Yahweh said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of your fathers, and to your
kindred; and I will be with you. {31:4} And Jacob sent and called Rachel and
Leah to the field unto his flock, {31:5} and said unto them, I see your
father's countenance, that it is not toward me as beforetime; but the God of my
father has been with me. {31:6} And you know that with all my power I have
served your father. {31:7} And your father has deceived me, and changed my
wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me. {31:8} If he said thus,
The speckled shall be your wages; then all the flock bare speckled: and if he
said thus, The ring streaked shall be your wages; then bare all the flock ring
streaked. {31:9} Thus God has taken away the cattle of your father, and given
them to me. {31:10} And it came to pass at the time that the flock conceive,
that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the he-goats which
leaped upon the flock were ring streaked, speckled, and grizzled. {31:11} And
the messenger of God said unto me in the dream, Jacob: and I said, Here am I.
{31:12} And he said, Lift up now your eyes, and see, all the he-goats which
leap upon the flock are ring streaked, speckled, and grizzled: for I have seen
all that Laban does unto you. {31:13} I am the God of Beth-el, where you
anointed a pillar, where you vowed a vow unto me: now arise, get you out from
this land, and return unto the land of your nativity. {31:14} And Rachel and
Leah answered and said unto him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us
in our father's house? {31:15} Are we not accounted by him as foreigners? for
he has sold us, and has also quite devoured our money. {31:16} For all the
riches which God has taken away from our father, that is ours and our
children's: now then, what ever God has said unto you, do. {31:17} Then Jacob rose up, and set his
sons and his wives upon the camels; {31:18} and he carried away all his cattle,
and all his substance which he had gathered, the cattle of his getting, which
he had gotten in Paddan-aram, to go to Isaac his father unto the land of
Canaan. {31:19} Now Laban was gone to shear his sheep: and Rachel stole the
idol images that were her father's. {31:20} And Jacob stole away unawares to
Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled. {31:21} So he fled with
all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the River, and set his face
toward the
{O1)32} Genesis Chapter Thirty Two. {32:1} And Jacob went on his way, and the
messengers of God met him. {32:2} And Jacob said when he saw them, This is
God's host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim. {32:3} And Jacob sent messengers before
him to Esau his brother unto the
{O1)33} Genesis Chapter Thirty Three. {33:1} And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and
looked, and, behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. And he
divided the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids.
{33:2} And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her
children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost. {33:3} And he himself passed
over before them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came
near to his brother. {33:4} And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and
fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept. {33:5} And he lifted up his
eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, Who are these with you? And
he said, The children whom God has graciously given your servant. {33:6} Then
the handmaids came near, they and their children, and they bowed themselves.
{33:7} And Leah also and her children came near, and bowed themselves: and
after came Joseph near and Rachel, and they bowed themselves. {33:8} And he
said, What meanest you by all this company which I met? And he said, To find
favor in the sight of my lord. {33:9} And Esau said, I have enough, my brother;
let that which you have be yours. {33:10} And Jacob said, No, I pray you, if
now I have found favor in your sight, then receive my present at my hand;
forasmuch as I have seen your face, as one sees the face of God, and you was
pleased with me. {33:11} Take, I pray you, my gift that is brought to you;
because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough. And he
urged him, and he took it. {33:12} And he said, Let us take our journey, and
let us go, and I will go before you. {33:13} And he said unto him, My lord
knows that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have
their young: and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die.
{33:14} Let my lord, I pray you, pass over before his servant: and I will lead
on gently, according to the pace of the cattle that are before me and according
to the pace of the children, until I come unto my lord unto Seir. {33:15} And
Esau said, Let me now leave with you some of the folk that are with me. And he
said, What needs it? let me find favor in the sight of my lord. {33:16} So Esau
returned that day on his way unto Seir. {33:17} And Jacob journeyed to Succoth,
and built him a house, and made Temporary Shelters for his cattle: therefore
the name of the place is called Succoth.
{33:18} And Jacob came in peace to the city of
{o1)34} Genesis Chapter
Thirty Four. {34:1} And Dinah the
daughter of Leah, whom she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of
the land. {34:2} And Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the
land, saw her; And he took her, and lay with her, and humbled her. {34:3} And
his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he agape loved the damsel,
and spoke kindly unto the damsel. {34:4} And Shechem spoke unto his father
Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to wife. {34:5} Now Jacob heard that he had
defiled Dinah his daughter; and his sons were with his cattle in the field: and
Jacob held his peace until they came. {34:6} And Hamor the father of Shechem
went out unto Jacob to commune with him. {34:7} And the sons of Jacob came in
from the field when they heard it: and the men were grieved, and they were very
wroth, because he had wrought folly in
{34:18} And their words
pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor's son. {34:19} And the young man deferred not
to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter: and he was honored
above all the house of his father. {34:20} And Hamor and Shechem his son came
unto the gate of their city, and communed with the men of their city, saying,
{34:21} These men are peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell in the land,
and trade therein; for, behold, the land is large enough for them; let us take
their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters. {34:22}
Only on this condition will the men consent unto us to dwell with us, to become
one people, if every male among us be circumcised, as they are circumcised.
{34:23} shall not their cattle and their substance and all their beasts be
ours? only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell with us. {34:24} And
unto Hamor and unto Shechem his son heard all that went out of the gate of his
city; and every male was circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his
city. {34:25} And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that
two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his
sword, and came upon the city unawares, and slew all the males. {34:26} And
they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah
out of Shechem's house, and went forth. {34:27} The sons of Jacob came upon the
slain, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister. {34:28}
They took their flocks and their herds and their asses, and that which was in
the city, and that which was in the field; {34:29} and all their wealth, and
all their little ones and their wives, took they captive and made a prey, even
all that was in the house. {34:30} And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, you have
troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the
Canaanites and the Perizzites: and, I being few in number, they will gather
themselves together against me and smite me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my
house. {34:31} And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with a prostitute?
{O1)35}
Genesis Chapter Thirty Five.
{35:1} And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Beth-el, and dwell
there: and make there an altar unto God, who appeared unto you when you fled
from the face of Esau your brother. {35:2} Then Jacob said unto his household,
and to all that were with him, Put away the foreign gods that are among you,
and purify yourselves, and change your garments: {35:3} and let us arise, and
go up to Beth-el; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in
the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went. {35:4} And
they gave unto Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hand, and the
rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by
Shechem. {35:5} And they journeyed: and a terror of God was upon the cities
that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.
{35:6} So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the
{O1)36} Genesis Chapter Thirty Six. {36:1} Now these are the generations of
Esau (the same is
{O1)37} Genesis Chapter Thirty Seven. {37:1} And Jacob dwelt in the land of his
father's roaming about, in the
{O1)38} Genesis Chapter Thirty Eight. {38:1} And it came to pass at that time,
that
{O1)39} Genesis Chapter Thirty Nine. {39:1} And Joseph was brought down to
Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard, an
Egyptian, bought him of the hand of the Ishmaelites, that had brought him down
there. {39:2} And Yahweh was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he
was in the house of his master the Egyptian. {39:3} And his master saw that Yahweh
was with him, and that Yahweh made all that he did to prosper in his hand.
{39:4} And Joseph found favor in his sight, and he ministered unto him: and he
made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand.
{39:5} And it came to pass from the time that he made him overseer in his
house, and over all that he had, that Yahweh blessed the Egyptian's house for
Joseph's sake; and the blessing of Yahweh was upon all that he had, in the
house and in the field. {39:6} And he left all that he had in Joseph's hand;
and he kept not anything [that was] with him, save the bread which he did eat.
And Joseph was handsome, and well-favored. {39:7} And it came to pass after these
things, that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie
with me. {39:8} But he refused, and said unto his master's wife, Behold, my
master knows not what is with me in the house, and he has put all that he has
into my hand: {39:9} he is not greater in this house than I; neither has he
kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife: how then can I do
this great wickedness, and sin against God? {39:10} And it came to pass, as she
spoke to Joseph day by day, that he rejected her, to lie by her, [or] to be
with her. {39:11} And it came to pass about this time, that he went into the
house to do his work; and there was none of the men of the house there within.
{39:12} And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his
garment in her hand, and fled, and he got out. {39:13} And it came to pass,
when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and was fled forth,
{39:14} that she called unto the men of her house, and spoke unto them, saying,
See, he has brought in a Hebrew unto us to mock us: he came in unto me to lie
with me, and I cried with a loud voice: {39:15} and it came to pass, when he
heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment by me, and
fled, and he got out. {39:16} And she laid up his garment by her, until his
master came home. {39:17} And she spoke unto him according to these words,
saying, The Hebrew servant, whom you have brought unto us, came in unto me to
mock me: {39:18} and it came to pass, as I lifted up my voice and cried, that
he left his garment by me, and fled out.
{39:19} And it came to pass, when his master heard the words of his
wife, which she spoke unto him, saying, After this manner did your servant to
me; that his wrath was kindled. {39:20} And Joseph's master took him, and put
him into the prison, the place where the king's prisoners were bound: and he
was there in the prison. {39:21} But Yahweh was with Joseph, and showed
kindness unto him, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.
{39:22} And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the
prisoners that were in the prison; and what ever they did there, he was the
doer of it. {39:23} The keeper of the prison looked not to anything that was
under his hand, because Yahweh was with him; and that which he did, Yahweh made
it prosper.
{O1)40}
Genesis Chapter Forty. {40:1} And it came to pass after these things,
that the butler of the king of
{O1)41} Genesis Chapter Forty One. {41:1} And it came to pass at the end of
two full years that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river. {41:2}
And, behold, there came up out of the river seven cows, well-favored and
fat-fleshed; and they fed in the reed-grass. {41:3} And, behold, seven other
cows came up after them out of the river, ill-favored and lean-fleshed, and
stood by the other cows upon the brink of the river. {41:4} And the ill-favored
and lean-fleshed cows did eat up the seven well-favored and fat cows. So
Pharaoh awoke. {41:5} And he slept and dreamed a second time: and, behold,
seven ears of grain came up upon one stalk, rank and good. {41:6} And, behold,
seven ears, thin and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them. {41:7}
And the thin ears swallowed up the seven rank and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke,
and, behold, it was a dream. {41:8} And it came to pass in the morning that his
spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and
all the wise men there: and Pharaoh told them his dream; but there was none
that could interpret them unto Pharaoh.
{41:9} Then spoke the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, I do remember
my faults this day: {41:10} Pharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put me in
ward in the house of the captain of the guard, me and the chief baker: {41:11}
and we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he; we dreamed each man according to
the interpretation of his dream. {41:12} And there was with us there a young
man, a Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard; and we told him, and he
interpreted to us our dreams; to each man according to his dream he did
interpret. {41:13} And it came to pass, as he interpreted to us, so it was; me
he restored unto mine office, and him he hanged. {41:14} Then Pharaoh sent and called
Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved himself,
and changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh. {41:15} And Pharaoh said
unto Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and there is none that can interpret it:
and I have heard say of you, that when you hear a dream you Can interpret it.
{41:16} And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me: God will give
Pharaoh an answer of peace. {41:17} And Pharaoh spoke unto Joseph, In my dream,
behold, I stood upon the brink of the river: {41:18} and, behold, there came up
out of the river seven cows, fat-fleshed and well-favored: and they fed in the
reed-grass: {41:19} and, behold, seven other cows came up after them, poor and
very ill-favored and lean-fleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt
for badness: {41:20} and the lean and ill-favored cows did eat up the first
seven fat cows: {41:21} and when they had eaten them up, it could not be known
that they had eaten them; but they were still ill-favored, as at the beginning.
So I awoke. {41:22} And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up upon
one stalk, full and good: {41:23} and, behold, seven ears, withered, thin,
[and] blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them: {41:24} and the thin
ears swallowed up the seven good ears: and I told it unto the magicians; but
there was none that could declare it to me.
{41:25} And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one: what
God is about to do he has declared unto Pharaoh. {41:26} The seven good cows
are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.
{41:27} And the seven lean and ill-favored cows that came up after them are
seven years, and also the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind; they
shall be seven years of famine. {41:28} That is the thing which I spoke unto
Pharaoh: what God is about to do he has showed unto Pharaoh. {41:29} Behold,
there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt:
{41:30} and there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the
plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume
the land; {41:31} and the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of
that famine which follows; for it shall be very grievous. {41:32} And for that
the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh, it is because the thing is established by
God, and God will shortly bring it to pass. {41:33} Now therefore let Pharaoh
look out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt. {41:34}
Let Pharaoh do [this], and let him appoint overseers over the land, and take up
the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years. {41:35} And
let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and lay up grain under
the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it. {41:36} And
the food shall be for a store to the land against the seven years of famine,
which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the
famine. {41:37} And the thing was
good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants. {41:38} And
Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom
the spirit of God is? {41:39} And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God
has showed you all of this, there is none so discreet and wise as you: {41:40}
you shall be over my house, and according unto your word shall all my people be
ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than you. {41:41} And Pharaoh said
unto Joseph, See, I have set you over all the land of Egypt. {41:42} And
Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand,
and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;
{41:43} and he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they
cried before him, Bow the knee: and he set him over all the land of Egypt.
{41:44} And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and outside you shall no
man lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt. {41:45} And Pharaoh
called Joseph's name Zaphenath-paneah; and he gave him to wife Asenath, the
daughter of Poti-phera priest of On. And Joseph went out over the land of
Egypt. {41:46} And Joseph was thirty
years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from
the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt. {41:47} And
in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls. {41:48} And
he gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt,
and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round
about every city, laid he up in the same. {41:49} And Joseph laid up grain as
the sand of the sea, very much, until he left off numbering; for it was outside
number. {41:50} And unto Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine
came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bare unto him.
{41:51} And Joseph called the name of the first-born Manasseh: For, [said he],
God has made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house. {41:52} And the
name of the second called he Ephraim: For God has made me fruitful in the land
of my affliction. {41:53} And the seven years of plenty, that was in the land
of Egypt, came to an end. {41:54} And the seven years of famine began to come,
according as Joseph had said: and there was famine in all lands; but in all the
land of Egypt there was bread. {41:55} And when all the land of Egypt was
famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread: and Pharaoh said unto all the
Egyptians, Go unto Joseph; what he said to you, do. {41:56} And the famine was
over all the face of the earth: and Joseph opened all the store-houses, and
sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine was sore in the land of Egypt. {41:57}
And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine
was sore in all the earth.
{O1)42} Genesis Chapter Forty Two. {42:1} Now Jacob saw that there was grain
in Egypt, and Jacob said unto his sons, Why do you look one upon another?
{42:2} And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt: get you
down there, and buy for us from there; that we may live, and not die. {42:3}
And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy grain from Egypt. {42:4} But
Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest
Perhaps harm befall him. {42:5} And the sons of Israel came to buy among those
that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan. {42:6} And Joseph was the
governor over the land; he it was that sold to all the people of the land. And
Joseph's brethren came, and bowed down themselves to him with their faces to
the earth. {42:7} And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made
himself strange unto them, and spoke roughly with them; and he said unto them.
Where come you? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food. {42:8} And
Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him. {42:9} And Joseph remembered
the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said unto them, you are spies; to see
the nakedness of the land you are come. {42:10} And they said unto him, No, my
lord, but to buy food are your servants come. {42:11} We are all one man's
sons; we are true men, your servants are no spies. {42:12} And he said unto
them, No, but to see the nakedness of the land you are come. {42:13} And they
said, We your servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of
Canaan; and, behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not.
{42:14} And Joseph said unto them, That is it that I spoke unto you, saying,
you are spies: {42:15} hereby you shall be proved: by the life of Pharaoh you
shall not go forth from here, except your youngest brother come here. {42:16}
Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and you shall be bound, that
your words may be proved, whether there be truth in you: or else by the life of
Pharaoh surely you are spies. {42:17} And he put them all together into ward
three days. {42:18} And Joseph said
unto them the third day, This do, and live: for I fear God: {42:19} if you be
true men, let one of your brethren be bound in your prison-house; but go you,
carry grain for the famine of your houses: {42:20} and bring your youngest
brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and you shall not die. And
they did so. {42:21} And they said one to another, We are verily guilty
concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he beg
us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us. {42:22} And
Reuben answered them, saying, Spoke I not unto you, saying, Do not sin against
the child; and you would not hear? therefore also, behold, his blood is
required. {42:23} And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for there was
an interpreter between them. {42:24} And he turned himself about from them, and
wept; and he returned to them, and spoke to them, and took Simeon from among
them, and bound him before their eyes. {42:25} Then Joseph commanded to fill
their vessels with grain, and to restore every man's money into his sack, and
to give them provisions for the way: and thus was it done unto them. {42:26} And they And they loaded their
asses with their grain, and departed from there. {42:27} And as one of them
opened his sack to give his donkey feed in the lodging-place, he saw his money;
and, behold, it was in the mouth of his sack. {42:28} And he said unto his
brethren, My money is restored; and, lo, it is even in my sack: and their heart
failed them, and they turned trembling one to another, saying, What is this
that God has done unto us? {42:29} And they came unto Jacob their father unto
the land of Canaan, and told him all that had happened [to] them, saying,
{42:30} The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for
spies of the country. {42:31} And we said unto him, We are true men; and we are
no spies: {42:32} we are twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and
the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan. {42:33} And the
man, the lord of the land, said unto us, Hereby shall I know that you are true
men: leave one of your brethren with me, and take [grain for] the famine of
your houses, and go your way; {42:34} and bring your youngest brother unto me:
then shall I know that you are no spies, but that you are true men: so will I
deliver you your brother, and you shall traffic in the land. {42:35} And it came to pass as they
emptied their sacks that behold, every man's bundle of money was in his sack:
and when they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid.
{42:36} And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have you bereaved of my
children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and you will take Benjamin away:
all these things are against me. {42:37} And Reuben spoke unto his father,
saying, Slay my two sons, if I bring him not to you: deliver him into my hand,
and I will bring him to you again. {42:38} And he said, My son shall not go
down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left: if harm befall him
by the way in which you go, then will you bring down my gray hairs with sorrow
to Sheol.
{O1)43} Genesis Chapter Forty Three. {43:1} And the famine was sore in the land.
{43:2} And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the grain which they had
brought out of Egypt, their father said unto them, Go again, buy us a little
food. {43:3} And Judah spoke unto him, saying, The man did solemnly protest
unto us, saying, you shall not see my face, except your brother be with you.
{43:4} If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy you food:
{43:5} but if you will not send him, we will not go down; for the man said unto
us, you shall not see my face, except your brother be with you. {43:6} And
Israel said, Therefore dealt you so ill with me, as to tell the man whether you
had yet a brother? {43:7} And they said, The man asked strictly concerning
ourselves, and concerning our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have
you [another] brother? and we told him according to the tenor of these words:
could we in any wise know that he would say, Bring your brother down? {43:8}
And Judah said unto Israel his father, Send the young man with me, and we will
arise and go; that we may live, and not die, both we, and you, and also our
little ones. {43:9} I will be a guarantee for him; of my hand shall you require
him: if I bring him not unto you, and set him before you, then let me bear the
blame for ever: {43:10} for except we had lingered, surely we had now returned
a second time. {43:11} And their father Israel said unto them, If it be so now,
do this: take of the choice fruits of the land in your vessels, and carry down
the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices and myrrh, nuts,
and almonds; {43:12} and take double money in your hand; and the money that was
returned in the mouth of your sacks carry again in your hand; perhaps it was an
oversight: {43:13} take also your brother, and arise, go again unto the man:
{43:14} and God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release
unto you your other brother and Benjamin. And if I be bereaved of my children,
I am bereaved. {43:15} And the men took that present, and they took double
money in their hand, and Benjamin; and rose up, and went down to Egypt, and
stood before Joseph. {43:16} And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to
the steward of his house, Bring the men into the house, and slay, and make
ready; for the men shall dine with me at noon. {43:17} And the man did as
Joseph bade; and the man brought the men to Joseph's house. {43:18} And the men
were afraid, because they were brought to Joseph's house; and they said,
Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time are we
brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, and fall upon us, and take us
for bondmen, and our asses. {43:19} And they came near to the steward of
Joseph's house, and they spoke unto him at the door of the house, {43:20} and
said, Oh, my lord, we came indeed down at the first time to buy food: {43:21}
and it came to pass, when we came to the lodging-place, that we opened our
sacks, and, behold, every man's money was in the mouth of his sack, our money
in full weight: and we have brought it again in our hand. {43:22} And other
money have we brought down in our hand to buy food: we know not who put our
money in our sacks. {43:23} And he said, Peace be to you, fear not: your God,
and the God of your father, has given you treasure in your sacks: I had your
money. And he brought Simeon out unto them. {43:24} And the man brought the men
into Joseph's house, and gave them water, and they washed their feet. And he
gave their asses provender. {43:25} And they made ready the present against
Joseph's coming at noon: for they heard that they should eat bread there. {43:26} And when Joseph came home, they
brought him the present which was in their hand into the house, and bowed down
themselves to him to the earth. {43:27} And he asked them of their welfare, and
said, Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he yet alive?
{43:28} And they said, Your servant our father is well, he is yet alive. And
they bowed the head, and made obeisance. {43:29} And he lifted up his eyes, and
saw Benjamin his brother, his mother's son, and said, Is this your youngest
brother, of whom you spoke unto me? And he said, God be gracious unto you, my
son. {43:30} And Joseph made haste; for his heart yearned over his brother: and
he sought where to weep; and he entered into his chamber, and wept there.
{43:31} And he washed his face, and came out; and he refrained himself, and
said, Set on bread. {43:32} And they set on for him by himself, and for them by
themselves, and for the Egyptians, that did eat with him, by themselves:
because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews; for that is an
abomination unto the Egyptians. {43:33} And they sat before him, the first-born
according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth: and the
men marveled one with another. {43:34} And he took [and sent] messes unto them
from before him: but Benjamin's mess was five times so much as any of theirs.
And they drank, and were merry with him.
{O1)44} Genesis Chapter Forty Four. {44:1} And he commanded the steward of his
house, saying, Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and
put every man's money in his sack's mouth. {44:2} And put my cup, the silver
cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, and his grain money. And he did
according to the word that Joseph had spoken. {44:3} As soon as the morning was
light, the men were sent away, they and their asses. {44:4} [And] when they
were gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said unto his
steward, Up, follow after the men; and when you do overtake them, say unto
them, Therefore have you rewarded evil for good? {44:5} Is not this that in
which my lord drinks, and by which he indeed divines? you have done evil in so
doing. {44:6} And he overtook them, and he spoke unto them these words. {44:7}
And they said unto him, Therefore speaks my lord such words as these? Far be it
from your servants that they should do such a thing. {44:8} Behold, the money,
which we found in our sacks' mouths, we brought again unto you out of the land
of Canaan: how then should we steal out of your lord's house silver or gold?
{44:9} With whom so ever of your servants it be found, let him die, and we also
will be my lord's bondmen. {44:10} And he said, Now also let it be according
unto your words: he with whom it is found shall be my bondman; and you shall be
blameless. {44:11} Then they hurried, and took down every man his sack to the
ground, and opened every man his sack. {44:12} And he searched, [and] began at
the eldest, and left off at the youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamin's
sack. {44:13} Then they rent their clothes, and loaded every man his ass, and
returned to the city. {44:14} And
Judah and his brethren came to Joseph's house; and he was yet there: and they
fell before him on the ground. {44:15} And Joseph said unto them, What deed is
this that you have done? know you not that such a man as I can indeed divine?
{44:16} And Judah said, What shall we say unto my lord? what shall we speak? or
how shall we clear ourselves? God has found out the work against law of your
servants: behold, we are my lord's bondmen, both we, and he also in whose hand
the cup is found. {44:17} And he said, Far be it from me that I should do so:
the man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my bondman; but as for you,
get you up in peace unto your father.
{44:18} Then Judah came near unto him, and said, Oh, my lord, let your
servant, I pray you, speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not your anger
burn against your servant; for you are even as Pharaoh. {44:19} My lord asked
his servants, saying, Have you a father, or a brother? {44:20} And we said unto
my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little
one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother; and his
father agape loves him. {44:21} And you said unto your servants, Bring him down
unto me, that I may set mine eyes upon him. {44:22} And we said unto my lord,
The young man cannot leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his
father would die. {44:23} And you said unto your servants, Except your youngest
brother come down with you, you shall see my face no more. {44:24} And it came
to pass when we came up unto your servant my father, we told him the words of
my lord. {44:25} And our father said, Go again, buy us a little food. {44:26}
And we said, We cannot go down: if our youngest brother be with us, then will
we go down: for we may not see the man's face, expect our youngest brother be
with us. {44:27} And your servant my father said unto us, you know that my wife
bare me two sons: {44:28} and the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he
is torn in pieces; and I have not seen him since: {44:29} and if you take this
one also from me, and harm befall him, you will bring down my gray hairs with
sorrow to Sheol. {44:30} Now therefore when I come to your servant my father,
and the young man is not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the young
man's life; {44:31} it will come to pass, when he sees that the young man is
not [with us], that he will die: and your servants will bring down the gray
hairs of your servant our father with sorrow to Sheol. {44:32} For your servant
became A bond for the young man unto my father, saying, If I bring him not unto
you, then shall I bear the blame to my father for ever. {44:33} Now therefore,
let your servant, I pray you, abide instead of the young man a bondman to my
lord; and let the young man go up with his brethren. {44:34} For how shall I go
up to my father, if the young man be not with me? lest I see the evil that
shall come on my father.
{O1)45} Genesis Chapter Forty Five. {45:1} Then Joseph could not refrain himself
before all them that stood before him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out
from me. And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known unto
his brethren. {45:2} And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians heard, and the house
of Pharaoh heard. {45:3} And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph; does
my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him; for they were
troubled at his presence. {45:4} And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near
to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother,
whom you sold into Egypt. {45:5} And now be not grieved, nor angry with
yourselves, that you sold me here: for God did send me before you to preserve
life. {45:6} For these two years has the famine been in the land: and there are
yet five years, in which there shall be neither plowing nor harvest. {45:7} And
God sent me before you to preserve you a remnant in the earth, and to save you
alive by a great deliverance. {45:8} So now it was not you that sent me here,
but God: and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and
ruler over all the land of Egypt. {45:9} Haste you, and go up to my father, and
say unto him, Thus said your son Joseph, God has made me lord of all Egypt:
come down unto me, tarry not; {45:10} and you shall dwell in the land of
Goshen, and you shall be near unto me, you, and your children, and your
children's children, and your flocks, and your herds, and all that you have:
{45:11} and there will I nourish you; for there are yet five years of famine;
lest you come to poverty, you, and your household, and all that you have.
{45:12} And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that
it is my mouth that speaks unto you. {45:13} And you shall tell my father of
all my glory in Egypt, and of all that you have seen: and you shall haste and
bring down my father here. {45:14} And he fell upon his brother Benjamin's
neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck. {45:15} And he kissed all his
brethren, and wept upon them: and after that his brethren talked with him.
{45:16} And the report of it was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, Joseph's
brethren are come: and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants. {45:17} And
Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto your brethren, This do you: load your
beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan; {45:18} and take your father
and your households, and come unto me: and I will give you the good of the land
of Egypt, and you shall eat the fat of the land. {45:19} Now you are commanded,
this do you: take you wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and
for your wives, and bring your father, and come. {45:20} Also regard not your
stuff; for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours. {45:21} And the sons of Israel did so: and
Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them
provision for the way. {45:22} To all of them he gave each man changes of
raiment; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five
changes of raiment. {45:23} And to his father he sent after this manner: ten
asses loaded with the good things of Egypt, and ten she-asses loaded with grain
and bread and provision for his father by the way. {45:24} So he sent his
brethren away, and they departed: and he said unto them, See that you fall not
out by the way. {45:25} And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land
of Canaan unto Jacob their father. {45:26} And they told him, saying, Joseph is
yet alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt. And his heart fainted,
for he believed them not. {45:27} And they told him all the words of Joseph,
which he had said unto them: and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent
to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived: {45:28} and Israel
said, It is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go and see him before I
die.
{O1)46} Genesis Chapter Forty Six. {46:1} And Israel took his journey with all
that he had, and came to Beer-sheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his
father Isaac. {46:2} And God spoke unto Israel in the visions of the night and
said, Jacob, and Jacob. And he said, Here am I. {46:3} And he said, I am God,
the God of your father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make
of you a great nation: {46:4} I will go down with you into Egypt; and I will
also surely bring you up again: and Joseph shall put his hand upon your eyes.
{46:5} And Jacob rose up from Beer-sheba: and the sons of Israel carried Jacob
their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which
Pharaoh had sent to carry him. {46:6} And they took their cattle, and their
goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob,
and all his seed with him: {46:7} his sons, and his sons' sons with him, his
daughters, and his sons' daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt. {46:8} And these are the names of the
children of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's
first-born. {46:9} And the sons of Reuben: Hanoch, and Pallu, and Hezron, and
Carmi. {46:10} And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin,
and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman. {46:11} And the sons of
Levi: Gershon, Kohas, and Merari. {46:12} And the sons of Judah: Er, and Onan,
and Shelah, and Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
And the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul. {46:13} And the sons of Issachar:
Tola, and Puvah, and Iob, and Shimron. {46:14} And the sons of Zebulun: Sered,
and Elon, and Jahleel. {46:15} These are the sons of Leah, whom she bare unto
Jacob in Paddan-aram, with his daughter Dinah: all the souls of his sons and
his daughters were thirty and three. {46:16} And the sons of Gad: Ziphion, and
Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli. {46:17} And the sons of
Asher: Imnah, and Ishvah, and Ishvi, and Beriah, and Serah their sister; and
the sons of Beriah: Heber, and Malchiel. {46:18} These are the sons of Zilpah,
whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter; and these she bare unto Jacob, even
sixteen souls. {46:19} The sons of Rachel Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin.
{46:20} And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim,
whom Asenath, the daughter of Poti-phera priest of On, bare unto him. {46:21}
And the sons of Benjamin: Bela, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi,
and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard. {46:22} These are the sons of Rachel,
who were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen. {46:23} And the sons of
Dan: Hushim. {46:24} And the sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer,
and Shillem. {46:25} These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave unto Rachel
his daughter, and these she bare unto Jacob: all the souls were seven. {46:26}
All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, that came out of his loins,
besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were threescore and six; {46:27} and
the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls: all the
souls of the house of Jacob, that came into Egypt, were threescore and
ten. {46:28} And he sent Judah before
him unto Joseph, to show the way before him unto Goshen; and they came into the
land of Goshen. {46:29} And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet
Israel his father, to Goshen; and he presented himself unto him, and fell on
his neck, and wept on his neck a good while. {46:30} And Israel said unto
Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen your face, that you are yet alive.
{46:31} And Joseph said unto his brethren, and unto his father's house, I will
go up, and tell Pharaoh, and will say unto him, My brethren, and my father's
house, who were in the land of Canaan, are come unto me; {46:32} and the men
are shepherds, for they have been keepers of cattle; and they have brought
their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have. {46:33} And it shall
come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say, What is your
occupation? {46:34} that you shall say, Your servants have been keepers of
cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and our fathers: that you may
dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians.
{O1)47} Genesis Chapter Forty Seven. {47:1} Then Joseph went in and told
Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their
herds, and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold,
they are in the land of Goshen. {47:2} And from among his brethren he took five
men, and presented them unto Pharaoh. {47:3} And Pharaoh said unto his
brethren, What is your occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh, Your servants
are shepherds, both we, and our fathers. {47:4} And they said unto Pharaoh, To
sojourn in the land are we come; for there is no pasture for your servants'
flocks; for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray
you, let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen. {47:5} And Pharaoh spoke
unto Joseph, saying, Your father and your brethren are come unto you: {47:6}
the land of Egypt is before you; in the best of the land make your father and
your brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if you know
any able men among them, then make them rulers over my cattle. {47:7} And
Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh: and Jacob
blessed Pharaoh. {47:8} And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How many are the days of
the years of your life? {47:9} And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the
years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years: few and evil have been
the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained unto the days of
the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage. {47:10}
And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from the presence of Pharaoh. {47:11}
And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in
the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh
had commanded. {47:12} And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and
all his father's household, with bread, according to their families. {47:13} And there was no bread in all the
land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and the land of
Canaan fainted by reason of the famine. {47:14} And Joseph gathered up all the
money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the
grain which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.
{47:15} And when the money was all spent in the land of Egypt, and in the land
of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why
should we die in your presence? for [our] money fails. {47:16} And Joseph said,
Give your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, if money fail. {47:17}
And they brought their cattle unto Joseph; and Joseph gave them bread in
exchange for the horses, and for the flocks, and for the herds, and for the
asses: and he fed them with bread in exchange for all their cattle for that
year. {47:18} And when that year was ended, they came unto him the second year,
and said unto him, We will not hide from my lord, how that our money is all
spent; and the herds of cattle are my lord's; there is nothing left in the
sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands: {47:19} Therefore should we
die before your eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and
we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may
live, and not die, and that the land be not desolate. {47:20} So Joseph bought all the land of
Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the
famine was sore upon them: and the land became Pharaoh's. {47:21} And as for
the people, he removed them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt
even to the other end there. {47:22} Only the land of the priests bought he
not: for the priests had a portion from Pharaoh, and did eat their portion
which Pharaoh gave them; Therefore they sold not their land. {47:23} Then
Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land
for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land. {47:24} And
it shall come to pass at the ingathering, that you shall give a fifth unto
Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your
food, and for them of your households, and for food for your little ones.
{47:25} And they said, you have saved our lives: let us find favor in the sight
of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants. {47:26} And Joseph made it a
statute concerning the land of Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh should have
the fifth; only the land of the priests alone became not Pharaoh's. {47:27} And Israel dwelt in the land of
Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they got them possessions therein, and were
fruitful, and multiplied exceedingly. {47:28} And Jacob lived in the land of
Egypt seventeen years: so the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were a
hundred forty and seven years. {47:29} And the time drew near that Israel must
die: and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found favor
in your sight, put, I pray you, your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and
truly with me: bury me not, I pray you, in Egypt; {47:30} but when I sleep with
my fathers, you shall carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their
burying-place. And he said, I will do as you have said. {47:31} And he said,
Swear unto me: and he swore unto him. And Israel bowed himself upon the bed's
head.
{O1)48} Genesis Chapter Forty Eight. {48:1} And it came to pass after these
things, that one said to Joseph, Behold, your father is sick: and he took with
him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim. {48:2} And one told Jacob, and said,
Behold, your son Joseph comes unto you: and Israel strengthened himself, and
sat upon the bed. {48:3} And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto
me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me, {48:4} and said unto me,
Behold, I will make you fruitful, and multiply you, and I will make of you a
Ekklesia of peoples, and will give this land to your seed after you for an
everlasting possession. {48:5} And now your two sons, who were born unto you in
the land of Egypt before I came unto you into Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and
Manasseh, even as Reuben and Simeon, shall be mine. {48:6} And your issue, that
you beget after them, shall be your; they shall be called after the name of
their brethren in their inheritance. {48:7} And as for me, when I came from
Paddan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when there was
still some distance to come unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way to
Ephrath (the same is Beth-lehem).
{48:8} And Israel beheld Joseph's sons, and said, Who are these? {48:9}
And Joseph said unto his father, They are my sons, whom God has given me here.
And he said, Bring them, I pray you, unto me, and I will bless them. {48:10}
Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he could not see. And he
brought them near unto him; and he kissed them, and embraced them. {48:11} And
Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see your face: and, lo, God has
let me see your seed also. {48:12} And Joseph brought them out from between his
knees; and he bowed himself with his face to the earth. {48:13} And Joseph took
them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in
his left hand toward Israel's right hand, and brought them near unto him.
{48:14} And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim's
head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh's head, guiding his
hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the first-born. {48:15} And he blessed
Joseph, and said, The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk,
the God who has fed me all my life long unto this day, {48:16} the messenger
who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the young men; and let my name be
named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow
into a multitude in the midst of the earth. {48:17} And when Joseph saw that his
father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he
held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's
head. {48:18} And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father; for this is
the first-born; put your right hand upon his head. {48:19} And his father
refused, and said, I know [it], my son, I know [it]. He also shall become a
people, and he also shall be great: howbeit his younger brother shall be
greater than he, and his seed shall become a
multitude of nations. {48:20} And he blessed them that day, saying, In
you will Israel bless, saying, God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he
set Ephraim before Manasseh. {48:21} And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I
die: but God will be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your
fathers. {48:22} Also I have given to you one portion above your brethren,
which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.
{O1)49} Genesis Chapter Forty
Nine. {49:1} And Jacob called unto his sons,
and said: gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall
befall you in the latter days. {49:2}
Assemble yourselves, and hear, you sons of Jacob; And hear unto Israel your
father. {49:3} Reuben, you are my first-born, my might, and the beginning
of my strength; The pre-eminence of
dignity, and the pre-eminence of power. {49:4} Boiling over as water, you shall
not have the pre-eminence; Because you went up to your father's bed; Then you
defiled it: he went up to my couch. {49:5} Simeon and Levi are brethren;
Weapons of violence are their swords. {49:6} O my soul, come not you into their
Ekklesia, my glory, you be not united; For in their anger they slew a man, And
in their self-will they hocked an ox. {49:7} A cursed be their anger, for it
was fierce; And their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, And
scatter them in Israel. {49:8} Judah,
you shall your brethren praise: Your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies;
Your father's sons shall bow down before you. {49:9} Judah is a lion's whelp;
From the prey, my son, you are gone up: He stooped down, he couched as a lion,
And as a lioness; who shall rouse him up?
{49:10} The Scepter shall not depart from Judah, Nor the ruler's staff
from between his feet, Until Shiloh come: And unto him shall the obedience of
the peoples be. {49:11} Binding his foal unto the vine, And his ass's colt unto
the choice vine; He has washed his garments in wine, And his vesture in the
blood of grapes: {49:12} His eyes shall be red with wine, And his teeth white
with milk. {49:13} Zebulun shall
dwell at the haven of the sea; And he shall be for a haven of ships; And his
border shall be upon Sidon. {49:14}
Issachar is a strong ass, Couching down between the sheepfolds: {49:15} And he
saw a resting-place that it was good, And the land that it was pleasant; And he
bowed his shoulder to bear, And became a servant under task work. {49:16} Dan shall judge his people, As one
of the tribes of Israel. {49:17} Dan shall be a serpent in the way, An adder in
the path, That bit the horse's heels, So that his rider falls backward. {49:18} I have waited for your salvation,
O Yahweh. {49:19} Gad, a troop shall press upon him; But he shall press upon
their heel. {49:20} Out of the Asher his bread shall be fat, And he shall yield
royal dainties. {49:21} Naphtali is a hind let loose: He gives goodly words.
{49:22} Joseph is a fruitful bough, A fruitful bough by a fountain; His
branches run over the wall. {49:23} The archers have sorely grieved him, And
shot at him, and persecute him: {49:24} But his bow abode in strength, And the
arms of his hands were made strong, By the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob,
(From there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel), {49:25} Even by the God of
your father, who shall help you, And by the Almighty, who shall bless you, With blessings of heaven above, Blessings of
the deep that couches beneath, Blessings of the breasts, and of the womb.
{49:26} The blessings of your father Have prevailed above the blessings of my
progenitors Unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: They shall be on
the head of Joseph, And on the crown of the head of him that was separate from
his brethren. {49:27} Benjamin is a
wolf that ravens: In the morning she shall devour the prey, And at even he
shall divide the spoil. {49:28} All
these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it that their father spoke
unto them and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed
them. {49:29} And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto
my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron
the Hittite, {49:30} in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is
before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from
Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a burying-place. {49:31} there they
buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his
wife; and there I buried Leah: {49:32} the field and the cave that is therein,
which was purchased from the children of Heth. {49:33} And when Jacob made an
end of charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up
the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.
{o1)50} Genesis Chapter Fifty. {50:1} And Joseph fell upon his father's
face, and wept upon him, and kissed him. {50:2} And Joseph commanded his
servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed
{O2)1} Exodus Chapter One. The
Book of Exodus The Second Book of The Torah Called The Exodus From Out of
Egypt {1:1} Now these are the names of
the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt (every man and his household came with
Jacob): {1:2} Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, {1:3} Issachar, Zebulun, and
Benjamin, {1:4} Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher. {1:5} And all the souls that
came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: and Joseph was in
{O2)2} Exodus Chapter two {2:1} And there went a man of the house of Levi,
and took to wife a daughter of Levi. {2:2} And the woman conceived, and bare a
son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three moons.
{2:3} And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of
bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch; and she put the child
therein, and laid it in the flags by the river's brink. {2:4} And his sister
stood afar off, to know what would be done to him. {2:5} And the daughter of
Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river; and her maidens walked along by the
river-side; and she saw the ark among the flags, and sent her handmaid to fetch
it. {2:6} And she opened it, and saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And
she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children.
{2:7} Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, shall I go and call you a
nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you? {2:8} And
Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maiden went and called the child's
mother. {2:9} And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and
nurse it for me, and I will give you your wages. And the woman took the child,
and nursed it. {2:10} And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's
daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses, and said,
Because I drew him out of the water.
{2:11} And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown up, that
he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he saw an
Egyptian smiting a Hebrew, one of his brethren. {2:12} And he looked this way
and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he smote the Egyptian, and
hid him in the sand. {2:13} And he went out the second day, and, behold, two
men of the Hebrews were striving together: and he said to him that did the
wrong, Therefore smite you your fellow? {2:14} And he said, Who made you a
prince and a judge over us? You think to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian?
And Moses feared, and said, Surely the thing is known. {2:15} Now when Pharaoh
heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of
Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well. {2:16} Now the priest of Midian had seven
daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their
father's flock. {2:17} And the shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses
stood up and helped them, and watered their flock. {2:18} And when they came to
Reuel their father, he said, How is it that you are come so soon to-day? {2:19}
And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and
he also drew water for us, and watered the flock. {2:20} And he said unto his
daughters, And where is he? Why is it that you have left the man? Call him,
that he may eat bread. {2:21} And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and
he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter. {2:22} And she bare a son, and he called
his name Gershom; for he said, I have been a alien in a foreign land. {2:23} And it came to pass in the course of
those many days that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed
by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by
reason of the bondage. {2:24} And God heard their groaning, and God remembered
his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. {2:25} And God saw the
children of Israel, and God took knowledge [of them].
{O2)3} Exodus Chapter Three. {3:1} Now Moses was keeping the flock of
Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the
back of the wilderness, and came to the mountain of God, unto Horeb. {3:2} And
the messenger of Yahweh appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst
of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush
was not consumed. {3:3} And Moses said, I will turn aside now, and see this
great sight, why the bush is not burnt. {3:4} And when Yahweh saw that he
turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and
said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I. {3:5} And he said, Draw not near
here: put off your shoes from off your feet, for the place whereon you stands
is holy ground. {3:6} He also said, I am the God of your father, the God of
Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he
was afraid to look upon God. {3:7} And Yahweh said, I have surely seen the
affliction of my people that are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason
of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows; {3:8} and I am come down to
deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that
land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey;
unto the place of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the
Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite. {3:9} And now, behold, the cry of
the children of Israel is come unto me: I also have seen the oppression
wherewith the Egyptians oppress them. {3:10} Come now therefore, and I will
send you unto Pharaoh, that you may bring forth my people the children of
Israel out of Egypt. {3:11} And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go
unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of
Egypt? {3:12} And he said, Certainly I will be with you; and this shall be the
token unto you, that I have sent you: when you have brought forth the people
out of Egypt, you shall serve God upon this mountain. {3:13} And Moses said unto God, Behold,
when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of
your fathers has sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name?
What shall I say unto them? {3:14} And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and
he said, Thus shall you say unto the children of Israel, I AM has sent me unto
you. {3:15} And God also said unto
Moses, Thus shall you say unto the children of Israel, Yahweh, the God of your
fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent
me unto you: this is my name forever, and this is my memorial unto all
generations. {3:16} Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto
them, Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of
Jacob, has appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you, and [seen] that
which is done to you in Egypt: {3:17} and I have said, I will bring you up out
of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and
the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, unto a land
flowing with milk and honey. {3:18} And they shall hear to your voice: and you
shall come, you and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and you shall
say unto him, Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us: and now let us
go, we pray you, three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice
to Yahweh our God. {3:19} And I know that the king of Egypt will not give you
leave to go, no, not by a mighty hand. {3:20} And I will put forth my hand, and
smite Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the midst there: and after
that he will let you go. {3:21} And I will give this people favor in the sight
of the Egyptians: and it shall come to pass, that, when you go, you shall not
go empty. {3:22} But every woman shall ask of her neighbor, and of her that
sojourns in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: and
you shall put them upon your sons, and upon your daughters; and you shall
despoil the Egyptians.
{O2)4} Exodus Chapter Four. {4:1} And Moses answered and said, But,
behold, they will not believe me, nor hear unto my voice; for they will say, Yahweh
has not appeared unto you. {4:2} And Yahweh said unto him, What is that in your
hand? And he said, A rod. {4:3} And he said, Cast in on the ground. And he cast
it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it. {4:4}
And Yahweh said unto Moses, Put forth your hand, and take it by the tail: (and
he put forth his hand, and laid hold of it, and it became a rod in his hand:)
{4:5} That they may believe that Yahweh, the God of their fathers, the God of
Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared unto you. {4:6}
And Yahweh said furthermore unto him, Put now your hand into your bosom. And he
put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand was
leprous, as [white as] snow. {4:7} And he said, Put your hand into your bosom
again. (And he put his hand into his bosom again; and when he took it out of
his bosom, behold, it was turned again as his [other] flesh.) {4:8} And it
shall come to pass, if they will not believe you, neither hear to the voice of
the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign. {4:9} And
it shall come to pass, if they will not believe even these two signs, neither
hear unto your voice, that you shall take of the water of the river, and pour
it upon the dry land: and the water which you takes out of the river shall
become blood upon the dry land. {4:10}
And Moses said unto Yahweh, Oh, Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore,
nor since you have spoken unto your servant; for I am slow of speech, and of a
slow tongue. {4:11} And Yahweh said unto him, Who has made man's mouth? Or who
makes[a man] dumb, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, Yahweh? {4:12}
Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach you what you shall
speak. {4:13} And he said, Oh, Lord, send, I pray you, by the hand of him whom
you will send. {4:14} And the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Moses, and he
said, Is there not Aaron your brother the Levite? I know that he can speak
well. And also, behold, he comes forth to meet you: and when he sees you, he
will be glad in his heart. {4:15} And you
shall speak unto him, and put the words in his mouth: and I will be with
your mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what you shall do. {4:16} And
he [Aaron] shall be your spokesman unto the people; and it shall come to pass,
that he shall be to you a mouth, and you shall be [to] him [from] God. {4:17} And you shall take in
your hand this rod, wherewith you shall do the signs. {4:18} And Moses went and
returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said unto him, Let me go, I pray you,
and return unto my brethren that are in Egypt, and see whether they be yet
alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace. {4:19} And Yahweh said unto Moses
in Midian, Go, return into Egypt; for all the men are dead that sought your
life. {4:20} And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass,
and he returned to the land of Egypt: and Moses took the rod of God in his
hand. {4:21} And Yahweh said unto Moses, When you go back into Egypt, see that
you do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in your hand: but I will
harden his heart and he will not let the people go. {4:22} And you shall say
unto Pharaoh, Thus said Yahweh, Israel is my son, my first-born: {4:23} and I
have said unto you, Let my son go, that he may serve me; and you have refused
to let him go: behold, I will slay your son, your first-born. {4:24} And it
came to pass on the way at the lodging-place, that Yahweh met him, and sought
to kill him. {4:25} Then Zipporah took a flint, and cut off the foreskin of her
son, and cast it at his feet; and she said, Surely a bridegroom of blood are
you to me. {4:26} So he let him alone. Then she said, A bridegroom of blood
[are you], because of the circumcision.
{4:27} And Yahweh said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses.
And he went, and met him in the mountain of God, and kissed him. {4:28} And
Moses told Aaron all the words of Yahweh wherewith he had sent him, and all the
signs wherewith he had charged him. {4:29} And Moses and Aaron went and
gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel: {4:30} and Aaron
spoke all the words which Yahweh had spoken unto Moses, and did the signs in
the sight of the people. {4:31} And the people believed: and when they heard
that Yahweh had visited the children of Israel, and that he had seen their
affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped.
{O2)5} Exodus Chapter Five. {5:1} And afterward Moses and Aaron came,
and said unto Pharaoh, Thus said Yahweh, the God of Israel, Let my people go,
that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness. {5:2} And Pharaoh said
Who is Yahweh that I should listen to his voice [or] to let Israel go? I know
not Yahweh, and also I will not let Israel go. {5:3} And they said, The God of
the Hebrews has met with us: let us go, we pray you, three days' journey into
the wilderness, and sacrifice unto Yahweh our God, lest he fall upon us with
pestilence, or with the sword. {5:4} And the king of Egypt said unto them,
Therefore do you, Moses and Aaron, loose the people from their works? get you
unto your burdens. {5:5} And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land are
now many, and you make them rest from their burdens. {5:6} And the same day
Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying,
{5:7} you shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let
them go and gather straw for themselves. {5:8} And the number of the bricks,
which they did make heretofore, you shall lay upon them; you shall not diminish
anything there: for they are idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and
sacrifice to our God. {5:9} Let heavier work be laid upon the men that they may
labor therein; and let them not regard lying words. {5:10} And the taskmasters of the people went
out, and their officers, and they spoke
to the people, saying, Thus said Pharaoh, I will not give you straw. {5:11} Go
yourselves, get you straw where you can find it: for nothing of your work shall
be diminished. {5:12} So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the
land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw. {5:13} And the taskmasters were
urgent saying, Fulfill your works, [your] daily tasks, as when there was straw.
{5:14} And the officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters
had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Therefore have you not fulfilled
your task both yEstherday and to-day, in making brick as heretofore? {5:15} Then the officers of the children of
Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Therefore deal you thus with your
servants? {5:16} There is no straw given unto your servants, and they say to
us, Make brick: and, behold, your servants are beaten; but the fault it in your
own people. {5:17} But he said, you are idle, you are idle: therefore you say,
Let us go and sacrifice to Yahweh. {5:18} Go therefore now, and work; for there
shall no straw be given you, yet shall you deliver the number of bricks. {5:19}
And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they were in evil case,
when it was said, you shall not diminish anything from your bricks, [your]
daily tasks. {5:20} And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they
came forth from Pharaoh: {5:21} and they said unto them, Yahweh look upon you,
and judge: because you have made our savor to be abhorred in the eyes of
Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay
us. {5:22} And Moses returned unto Yahweh,
and said, Lord, Therefore have you dealt ill with this people? why is it that
you have sent me? {5:23} For since I
came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has dealt ill with this people;
neither have you delivered your people at all.
{O2)6} Exodus Chapter Six. {6:1} And Yahweh said unto Moses, Now shall
you see what I will do to Pharaoh: for by a strong hand shall he let them go,
and by a strong hand shall he drive them out of his land. {6:2} And God spoke unto Moses, and said
unto him, I am Yahweh: {6:3} and I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto
Jacob, as God Almighty; but by my name Yahweh I was not known to them. {6:4}
And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of
Canaan, the land of their wonderings, wherein they traveled. {6:5} And I also
have heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in
bondage; and I have remembered my covenant. {6:6} Therefore say unto the
children of Israel, I am Yahweh, and I will bring you out from under the
burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will
redeem you with an outstretched arm, and with great judgments: {6:7} and I will
take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God; and you shall know
that I am Yahweh your God, who brings you out from under the burdens of the
Egyptians. {6:8} And I will bring you in unto the land which I swore to give to
Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for a heritage: I am Yahweh.
{6:9} And Moses spoke so unto the children of Israel: but they heard not unto
Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage. {6:10} And Yahweh spoke unto Moses, saying,
{6:11} Go in, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of
Israel go out of his land. {6:12} And Moses spoke before Yahweh, saying,
Behold, the children of Israel have not heard unto me; how then shall Pharaoh
hear me, who am of uncircumcised lips? {6:13} And Yahweh spoke unto Moses and
unto Aaron, and gave them a charge unto the children of Israel, and unto
Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of
Egypt. {6:14} These are the heads of
their fathers' houses. The sons of Reuben the first-born of Israel: Hanoch, and
Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi; these are the families of Reuben. {6:15} And the sons
of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the
son of a Canaanitish woman; these are the families of Simeon. {6:16} And these
are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon, and
Kohas, and Merari; and the years of the life of Levi were a hundred thirty and
seven years. {6:17} The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, according to their
families. {6:18} And the sons of Kohas: Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and
Uzziel; and the years of the life of Kohas were a hundred thirty and three
years. {6:19} And the sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families
of the Levites according to their generations. {6:20} And Amram took him
Jochebed his father's sister to wife; and she bare him Aaron and Moses: and the
years of the life of Amram were a hundred and thirty and seven years. {6:21}
And the sons of Izhar: Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri. {6:22} And the sons of
Uzziel: Mishael, and Elzaphan, and Sithri. {6:23} And Aaron took him Elisheba,
the daughter of Amminadab, the sister of Nahshon, to wife; and she bare him
Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. {6:24} And the sons of Korah: Assir, and
Elkanah, and Abiasaph; these are the families of the Korahites. {6:25} And
Eleazar Aaron's son took him one of the daughters of Putiel to wife; and she
bare him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the Levites
according to their families. {6:26} These are that Aaron and Moses, to whom Yahweh
said, Bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt according to
their hosts. {6:27} These are they that spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to
bring out the children of Israel from Egypt: these are that Moses and
Aaron. {6:28} And it came to pass on
the day when Yahweh spoke unto Moses in the land of Egypt, {6:29} that Yahweh
spoke unto Moses, saying, I am Yahweh: speak you unto Pharaoh king of Egypt all
that I speak unto you. {6:30} And Moses said before Yahweh, Behold, I am of
uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh hear unto me?
{O2)7} Exodus Chapter Seven. {7:1} And Yahweh said unto Moses, See, I
have made you as God to Pharaoh; and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet.
{7:2} you shall speak all that I command you; and Aaron your brother shall
speak unto Pharaoh, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land.
{7:3} And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders
in the land of Egypt. {7:4} But Pharaoh will not hear unto you, and I will lay
my hand upon Egypt, and bring forth my hosts, my people the children of Israel,
out of the land of Egypt by great judgments. {7:5} And the Egyptians shall know
that I am Yahweh, when I stretch forth my hand upon Egypt, and bring out the
children of Israel from among them. {7:6} And Moses and Aaron did so; as Yahweh
commanded them, so did they. {7:7} And Moses was fourscore years old, and Aaron
fourscore and three years old, when they spoke unto Pharaoh. {7:8} And Yahweh spoke unto Moses and unto
Aaron, saying, {7:9}When Pharaoh shall speak unto you, saying, Show a wonder
for you; then you shall say unto Aaron, Take your rod, and cast it down before
Pharaoh, that it become a serpent. {7:10} And Moses and Aaron went in unto
Pharaoh, and they did so, as Yahweh had commanded: and Aaron cast down his rod
before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it became a serpent. {7:11} Then
Pharaoh also called for the wise men and the sorcerers: and they also, the
magicians of Egypt, did in like manner with their enchantments. {7:12} For they
cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron's rod
swallowed up their rods. {7:13} And Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he heard
not unto them; as Yahweh had spoken.
{7:14} And Yahweh said unto Moses, Pharaoh's heart is stubborn, he
refuses to let the people go. {7:15} Get you unto Pharaoh in the morning; lo,
he goes out unto the water; and you shall stand by the river's brink to meet
him; and the rod which was turned to a serpent shall you take in your hand.
{7:16} And you shall say unto him, Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me
unto you, saying, Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness:
and, behold, hereto you have not heard. {7:17} Thus said Yahweh, In this you
shall know that I am Yahweh: behold, I will smite with the rod that is in my
hand upon the waters which are in the river, and they shall be turned to blood.
{7:18} And the fish that are in the river shall die, and the river shall become
foul; and the Egyptians shall loathe to drink water from the river. {7:19} And Yahweh
said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Take your rod, and stretch out your hand over
the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their streams, and over their
pools, and over all their ponds of water, that they may become blood; and there
shall be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in
vessels of stone. {7:20} And Moses and
Aaron did so, as Yahweh commanded; and he lifted up the rod, and smote the
waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his
servants; and all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood.
{7:21} And the fish that were in the river died; and the river became foul, and
the Egyptians could not drink water from the river; and the blood was
throughout all the land of Egypt. {7:22} And the magicians of Egypt did in like
manner with their enchantments: and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he heard
not unto them; as Yahweh had spoken. {7:23} And Pharaoh turned and went into
his house, neither did he lay even this to heart. {7:24} And all the Egyptians
dug round about the river for water to drink; for they could not drink of the
water of the river. {7:25} And seven days were fulfilled, after that Yahweh had
smitten the river.
{O2)8} Exodus Chapter Eight. {8:1} And Yahweh spoke unto Moses, Go in
unto Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus said Yahweh, Let my people go, that they
may serve me. {8:2} And if you refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all
your borders with frogs: {8:3} and the river shall swarm with frogs, which
shall go up and come into your house, and into your bedchamber, and upon your
bed, and into the house of your servants, and upon your people, and into your
ovens, and into your kneading-troughs: {8:4} and the frogs shall come up both
upon you, and upon your people, and upon all your servants. {8:5} And Yahweh
said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch forth your hand with your rod over the
rivers, over the streams, and over the pools, and cause frogs to come up upon
the land of Egypt. {8:6} And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of
Egypt; and the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt. {8:7} And the
magicians did in like manner with their enchantments, and brought up frogs upon
the land of Egypt. {8:8} Then Pharaoh
called for Moses and Aaron, and said, Entreat Yahweh, that he take away the
frogs from me, and from my people; and I will let the people go, that they may
sacrifice unto Yahweh. {8:9} And Moses said unto Pharaoh, Have you this glory
over me: against what time shall I entreat for you, and for your servants, and
for your people, that the frogs be destroyed from you and your houses, and
remain in the river only? {8:10} And he said, Against to-morrow. And he said,
Be it according to your word; that you may know that there is none like unto Yahweh
our God. {8:11} And the frogs shall depart from you, and from your houses, and
from your servants, and from your people; they shall remain in the river only.
{8:12} And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh: and Moses cried unto Yahweh
concerning the frogs which he had brought upon Pharaoh. {8:13} And Yahweh did
according to the word of Moses; and the frogs died out of the houses, out of
the courts, and out of the fields. {8:14} And they gathered them together in
heaps; and the land stank. {8:15} But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite,
he hardened his heart, and heard not unto them, as Yahweh had spoken. {8:16} And Yahweh said unto Moses, Say unto
Aaron, Stretch out your rod, and smite the dust of the earth, that is may
become lice throughout all the land of Egypt. {8:17} And they did so; and Aaron
stretched out his hand with his rod, and smote the dust of the earth, and there
were lice upon man, and upon beast; all the dust of the earth became lice
throughout all the land of Egypt. {8:18} And the magicians did so with
their enchantments to bring forth lice,
but they could not: and there were lice upon man, and upon beast. {8:19} Then
the magicians said unto Pharaoh, This is the finger of God: and Pharaoh's heart
was hardened, and he heard not unto them; as Yahweh had spoken. {8:20} And Yahweh said unto Moses, Rise up
early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh; lo, he comes forth to the
water; and say unto him, Thus said Yahweh, Let my people go, that they may
serve me. {8:21} Else, if you will not let my people go, behold, I will send
swarms of flies upon you, and upon they servants, and upon your people, and
into your houses: and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of
flies, and also the ground whereon they are. {8:22} And I will set apart in
that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies
shall be there; to the end you may know that I am Yahweh in the midst of the
earth. {8:23} And I will put a division between my people and your people: by
to-morrow shall this sign be. {8:24} And Yahweh did so; and there came grievous
swarms of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants' houses: and
in all the land of Egypt the land was corrupted by reason of the swarms of
flies. {8:25} And Pharaoh called for
Moses and for Aaron, and said, Go you, sacrifice to your God in the land.
{8:26} And Moses said, It is not meet so to do; for we shall sacrifice the
abomination of the Egyptians to Yahweh our God: lo, shall we sacrifice the
abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they not stone us?
{8:27} We will go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Yahweh
our God, as he shall command us. {8:28} And Pharaoh said, I will let you go,
that you may sacrifice to Yahweh your God in the wilderness; only you shall not
go very far away: entreat for me. {8:29} And Moses said, Behold, I go out from
you, and I will entreat Yahweh that the swarms of flies may depart from
Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, to-morrow: only let not
Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to Yahweh.
{8:30} And Moses went out from Pharaoh, and entreated Yahweh. {8:31} And Yahweh
did according to the word of Moses; and he removed the swarms of flies from
Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people; there remained not one. {8:32}
And Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also, and he did not let the people
go. {O2)9} Exodus Chapter Nine. {9:1} Then Yahweh said unto Moses, Go in
unto Pharaoh, and tell him, Thus said Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, Let my
people go, that they may serve me. {9:2} For if you refuse to let them go, and
will hold them still, {9:3} behold, the hand of Yahweh is upon your cattle
which are in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon
the herds, and upon the flocks: [there shall be] a very grievous murrain. {9:4}
And Yahweh shall make a distinction between the cattle of Israel and the cattle
of Egypt; and there shall nothing die of all that belongs to the children of
Israel. {9:5} And Yahweh appointed a set time, saying, To-morrow Yahweh shall
do this thing in the land. {9:6} And Yahweh did that thing on the morrow; and
all the cattle of Egypt died; but of the cattle of the children of Israel died
not one. {9:7} And Pharaoh sent, and, behold, there was not so much as one of
the cattle of the Israelites dead. But the heart of Pharaoh was stubborn, and
he did not let the people go. {9:8}
And Yahweh said unto Moses and unto Aaron, Take to you handfuls of ashes of the
furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward heaven in the sight of Pharaoh. {9:9}
And it shall become small dust over all the land of Egypt, and shall be a boil
breaking forth with blains upon man and upon beast, throughout all the land of
Egypt. {9:10} And they took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and
Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven; and it became a boil breaking forth with
blains upon man and upon beast. {9:11} And the magicians could not stand before
Moses because of the boils; for the boils were upon the magicians, and upon all
the Egyptians. {9:12} And Yahweh hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he heard
not unto them, as Yahweh had spoken unto Moses. {9:13} And Yahweh said unto
Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and say unto
him, Thus said Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may
serve me. {9:14} For I will this time send all my plagues upon your heart, and
upon your servants, and upon your people; that you may know that there is none
like me in all the earth. {9:15} For now I had put forth my hand, and smitten
you and your people with pestilence, and you had been cut off from the earth:
{9:16} but in very deed for this cause have I made you to stand, to show you my
power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth. {9:17} As yet
exalts you yourself against my people that you will not let them go? {9:18}
Behold, to-morrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail,
such as has not been in Egypt since the day it was founded even until now.
{9:19} Now therefore send, hurry in your cattle and all that you have in the
field; [for] every man and beast that shall be found in the field, and shall
not be brought home, the hail shall come down upon them, and they shall die.
{9:20} He that feared the word of Yahweh among the servants of Pharaoh made his
servants and his cattle flee into the houses. {9:21} And he that regarded not
the word of Yahweh left his servants and his cattle in the field. {9:22} And Yahweh said unto Moses, Stretch
forth your hand toward heaven, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt,
upon man, and upon beast, and upon every herb of the field, throughout the land
of Egypt. {9:23} And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and Yahweh
sent thunder and hail, and fire ran down unto the earth; and Yahweh rained hail
upon the land of Egypt. {9:24} So there was hail, and fire mingled with the
hail, very grievous, such as had not been in all the land of Egypt since it
became a nation. {9:25} And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all
that was in the field, both man and beast; and the hail smote every herb of the
field, and brake every tree of the field. {9:26} Only in the land of Goshen,
where the children of Israel were, was there no hail. {9:27} And Pharaoh sent, and called for
Moses and Aaron, and said unto them, I have sinned this time: Yahweh is
righteous worker, and I and my people are wicked. {9:28} Entreat Yahweh; for
there has been enough of [these] mighty thundering and hail; and I will let you
go, and you shall stay no longer. {9:29} And Moses said unto him, As soon as I
am gone out of the city, I will spread abroad my hands unto Yahweh; the
thunders shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that you may know
that the earth is Yahweh's. {9:30} But as for you and your servants, I know
that you will not yet fear The God Yahweh. {9:31} And the flax and the barley
were smitten: for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was in bloom. {9:32}
But the wheat and the spelt were not smitten: for they were not grown up.
{9:33} And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad his hands
unto Yahweh: and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured upon
the earth. {9:34} And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the
thunders were ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his
servants. {9:35} And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the
children of Israel go, as Yahweh had spoken by Moses. {O2)10} Exodus Chapter One. {10:1} And Yahweh said unto Moses, Go in
unto Pharaoh: for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants,
that I may show these my signs in the midst of them, {10:2} and that you may
tell in the ears of your son, and of your son's son, what things I have wrought
upon Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that you may know that I
am Yahweh. {10:3} And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him,
Thus said Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, How long will you refuse to humble
yourself before me? let my people go, that they may serve me. {10:4} Else, if
you refuse to let my people go, behold, to-morrow will I bring locusts into
your border: {10:5} and they shall cover the face of the earth, so that one
shall not be able to see the earth: and they shall eat the residue of that
which is escaped, which remains unto you from the hail, and shall eat every
tree which grows for you out of the field: {10:6} and your houses shall be
filled, and the houses of all your servants, and the houses of all the
Egyptians; as neither your fathers nor your fathers' fathers have seen, since
the day that they were upon the earth unto this day. And he turned, and went
out from Pharaoh. {10:7} And Pharaoh's servants said unto him, How long shall
this man be a snare unto us? let the men go, that they may serve Yahweh their God:
know you not yet that Egypt is destroyed? {10:8} And Moses and Aaron were
brought again unto Pharaoh: and he said unto them, Go, serve Yahweh your God;
but who are they that shall go? {10:9} And Moses said, We will go with our
young and with our old; with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks
and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast unto Yahweh. {10:10}
And he said unto them, So be Yahweh with you, as I will let you go, and your
little ones: look to it; for evil is before you. {10:11} Not so: go now you
that are men, and serve Yahweh; for that is what you desire. And they were
driven out from Pharaoh's presence.
{10:12} And Yahweh said unto Moses, Stretch out your hand over the land
of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt, and eat
every herb of the land, even all that the hail has left. {10:13} And Moses
stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and Yahweh brought an east wind
upon the land all that day, and all the night; and when it was morning, the
east wind brought the locusts. {10:14} And the locusts went up over all the
land of Egypt, and rested in all the borders of Egypt; very grievous were they;
before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be
such. {10:15} For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land
was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the
trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing, either
tree or herb of the field, through all the land of Egypt. {10:16} Then Pharaoh
called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said, I have sinned against Yahweh
your God, and against you. {10:17} Now therefore forgive, I pray you, my sin
only this once, and entreat Yahweh your God, that he may take away from me this
death only. {10:18} And he went out from Pharaoh, and entreated Yahweh. {10:19}
And Yahweh turned an exceeding strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and
drove them into the Red Sea; there remained not one locust in all the border of
Egypt. {10:20} But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not let the
children of Israel go. {10:21} And Yahweh
said unto Moses, Stretch out your hand toward heaven, that there may be
darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt. {10:22} And
Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in
all the land of Egypt three days; {10:23} they saw not one another, neither
rose any one from his place for three days: but all the children of Israel had
light in their dwellings. {10:24} And Pharaoh called unto Moses, and said, Go
you, serve Yahweh; only let your flocks and your herds be stayed: let your
little ones also go with you. {10:25} And Moses said, you must also give into
our hand sacrifices and burnt-offerings that we may sacrifice unto Yahweh our
God. {10:26} Our cattle also shall go with us; there shall not a hoof be left
behind: for of it must we take to serve Yahweh our God; and we know not with
what we must serve Yahweh, until we come there. {10:27} But Yahweh hardened
Pharaoh's heart, and he would not let them go. {10:28} And Pharaoh said unto
him, Get you from me, take heed to yourself, see my face no more; for in the
day you sees my face you shall die. {10:29} And Moses said, you have spoken
well. I will see your face again no more.
{O2)11} Exodus Chapter One. {11:1} And Yahweh said unto Moses, yet one
plague more will I bring upon Pharaoh, and upon Egypt; afterwards he will let
you go from here: when he shall let you go, he shall surely thrust you out from
here altogether. {11:2} Speak now in the ears of the people, and let them ask
every man of his neighbor, and every woman of her neighbor, jewels of silver,
and jewels of gold. {11:3} And Yahweh gave the people favor in the sight of the
Egyptians. Also the man Moses was very
great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh's servants, and in the
sight of the people. {11:4} And Moses
said, Thus said Yahweh, About midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt:
{11:5} and all the first-born in the land of Egypt shall die, from the
first-born of Pharaoh that sits upon his throne, even unto the first-born of
the maid-servant that is behind the mill; and all the first-born of cattle.
{11:6} And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as
there has not been, nor shall be any more. {11:7} But against any of the
children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast: that
you may know how that Yahweh does make a distinction between the Egyptians and
Israel. {11:8} And all these your servants shall come down unto me, and bow
down themselves unto me, saying, Get you out, and all the people that follow
you: and after that I will go out. And he went out from Pharaoh in hot anger. {11:9} And Yahweh said unto Moses, Pharaoh
will not hear unto you; that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.
{11:10} And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh: and Yahweh
hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not let the children of Israel go out of
his land.
{O2)12} Exodus Chapter One2. {12:1} And Yahweh spoke unto Moses and
Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, {12:2} This moon [of resurrection Abib,
determined by vernal equinox] shall be unto you the beginning of moons: it
shall be [Abib] the first moon of the repetition to you. {12:3} Speak you unto
all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth [day] of this moon [of
resurrection] [Abib] they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to
their fathers' houses, a lamb for a household: {12:4} and if the household be
too little for a lamb, then shall he and his neighbor next unto his house take
one according to the number of the souls; according to every man's eating you shall make your count for the
lamb. {12:5} Your lamb shall be outside blemish, a male a year old: you shall
take it from the sheep, or from the goats: {12:6} and you shall keep it until
the fourteenth day of the same moon [of resurrection] [Abib]; and the whole
assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it between the [two]
evenings. {12:7} And they shall take of the blood, and put it on the two
side-posts and on the lintel, upon the houses wherein they shall eat it. {12:8}
And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened
bread; with bitter herbs they shall eat it. {12:9} Eat not of it raw, nor
boiled at all with water, but roast with fire; its head with its legs and with
the inwards there. {12:10} And you shall let nothing of it remain until the
morning; but that which remains of it until the morning you shall burn with
fire. {12:11} And thus shall you eat it: with your loins girded, your shoes on
your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste: it is Yahweh's
Passover. {12:12} For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and
will smite all the first-born in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and
against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am Yahweh. {12:13}
And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where you are: and when
I see the blood, I will pass over you, and there shall no plague be upon you to
destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt. {12:14} And this day shall be unto
you for a memorial, and you shall keep it a feast to Yahweh: throughout your
generations you shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever. {12:15} Seven days shall you eat
unleavened bread; even the first day you shall put away leaven out of your
houses: for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh
day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel. {12:16} And in the first day there
shall be to you a holy convocation, and in the seventh day a holy convocation;
no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat,
that only may be done by you. {12:17} And you shall observe the [feast of]
unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your hosts out of the
land of Egypt: therefore shall you observe this day [of Passover] throughout
your generations by an ordinance for ever. {12:18} In the first moon [of
resurrection, fruiting, budding and sprouting “Abib”], on the fourteenth day of
the moon {Abib] at even, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and
twentieth day of the moon at even. {12:19} Seven days shall there be no leaven
found in your houses: for anyone who eats that which is leavened, that soul
shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a alien, or one
that is born in the land. {12:20} you shall eat nothing leavened; in all your
habitations shall you eat unleavened bread.
{12:21} Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto
them, Draw out, and take you lambs according to your families, and kill the
Passover. {12:22} And you shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood
that is on the threshold, and strike the lintel and the two side-posts with the
blood that is on the threshold; and none of you shall go out of the door of his
house until the morning. {12:23} For Yahweh will pass through to smite the
Egyptians; and when he sees the blood upon the lintel, and on the two
side-posts, Yahweh will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer
to come in unto your houses to smite you. {12:24} And you shall observe this instruction
for an ordinance to you and to your sons for ever. {12:25} And it shall come to
pass, when you are come to the land which Yahweh will give you, according as he
has promised, that you shall keep this service. {12:26} And it shall come to
pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean you by this service?
{12:27} that you shall say, It is the sacrifice of Yahweh's Passover, who
passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the
Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and
worshipped. {12:28} And the children of Israel went and did so; as Yahweh had
commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they. {12:29} And it came to pass at midnight,
that Yahweh smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born
of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the first-born of the captive that was
in the dungeon; and all the first-born of cattle. {12:30} And Pharaoh rose up
in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a
great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead.
{12:31} And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, get you
forth from among my people, both you and the children of Israel; and go, serve Yahweh,
as you have said. {12:32} Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have
said, and be gone; and bless me also. {12:33} And the Egyptians were urgent
upon the people, to send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We are
all dead men. {12:34} And the people took their dough before it was leavened,
their kneading-troughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.
{12:35} And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they
asked of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment.
{12:36} And Yahweh gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that
they let them have what they asked. And they despoiled the Egyptians. {12:37} And the children of Israel
journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were
men, besides children. {12:38} And a mixed multitude went up also with them;
and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle. {12:39} And they baked unleavened
cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt; for it was not
leavened, because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither
had they prepared for themselves any victuals. {12:40} Now the time that the
children of Israel dwelt in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years. {12:41}
And it came to pass at the end of four hundred and thirty years, even the
selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of Yahweh went out from the
land of Egypt. {12:42} It is a night to be much observed unto Yahweh for
bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this is that night of Yahweh, to be
much observed of all the children of Israel throughout their generations. {12:43} And Yahweh said unto Moses and
Aaron, This is the ordinance of the Passover: there shall no foreigner eat
there; {12:44} but every man's servant that is bought for money, when you have
circumcised him, then shall he eat there. {12:45} A alien and a hired servant
shall not eat there. {12:46} In one house shall it be eaten; you shall not
carry forth anything of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall you
break a bone there. {12:47} All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
{12:48} And when a stranger shall sojourn with you, and will keep the Passover
to Yahweh, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and
keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: but no uncircumcised
person shall eat there. {12:49} One law shall be to him that is home-born, and
unto the stranger that sojourns among you. {12:50} Thus did all the children of
Israel; as Yahweh commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they. {12:51} And it came
to pass the selfsame day, that Yahweh did bring the children of Israel out of
the land of Egypt by their hosts.
{O2)13} Exodus Chapter Thirteen. {13:1} And Yahweh spoke unto Moses, saying,
{13:2} Sanctify unto me all the first-born, what ever opens the womb among the
children of Israel, both of man and of beast: it is mine. {13:3} And Moses said unto the people,
Remember this day, in which you came out from Egypt, out of the house of
bondage; for by strength of hand Yahweh brought you out from this place: there
shall no leavened bread be eaten. {13:4} This day you go forth in the moon
Abib. {13:5} And it shall be, when Yahweh shall bring you into the land of the
Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite,
which he swore unto your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and
honey, that you shall keep this service in this moon. {13:6} Seven days you
shall eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to Yahweh.
{13:7} Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout the seven days; and there
shall no leavened bread be seen with you, neither shall there be leaven seen
with you, in all your borders. {13:8} And you shall tell your son in that day,
saying, It is because of that which Yahweh did for me when I came forth out of
Egypt. {13:9} And it shall be for a sign unto you upon your hand, and for a
memorial between your eyes, that the law of Yahweh may be in your mouth: for
with a strong hand has Yahweh brought you out of Egypt. {13:10} you shall
therefore keep this ordinance in its season from year to year. {13:11} And it shall be, when Yahweh shall
bring you into the land of the Canaanite, as he swore unto you and to your
fathers, and shall give it you, {13:12} that you shall set apart unto Yahweh
all that opens the womb, and every firstling which you have that comes of a
beast; the males shall be Yahweh's. {13:13} And every firstling of an donkey you
shall redeem with a lamb; and if you will not redeem it, then you shall break
its neck: and all the first-born of man among your sons shall you redeem.
{13:14} And it shall be, when your son asks you in time to come, saying, What
is this? that you shall say unto him, By strength of hand Yahweh brought us out
from Egypt, from the house of bondage: {13:15} and it came to pass, when Pharaoh
would hardly let us go, that Yahweh slew all the first-born in the land of
Egypt, both the first-born of man, and the first-born of beast: therefore I
sacrifice to Yahweh all that opens the womb, being males; but all the
first-born of my sons I redeem. {13:16} And it shall be for a sign upon your
hand, and for frontlets between your eyes: for by strength of hand Yahweh
brought us forth out of Egypt. {13:17}
And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not
by the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God
said, Lest perhaps the people repent when they see war, and they return to
Egypt: {13:18} but God led the people about, by the way of the wilderness by
the Red Sea: and the children of Israel went up armed out of the land of Egypt.
{13:19} And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him: for he had straightly
sworn the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you; and you shall
carry up my bones away from here with you. {13:20} And they took their journey
from Succoth, and encamped in Ethan, in the edge of the wilderness. {13:21} And
Yahweh went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead them the way, and
by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light, that they might go by day and
by night: {13:22} the pillar of cloud by day, and the pillar of fire by night,
departed not from before the people.
{O2)14} Exodus Chapter Fourteen. {14:1} And Yahweh spoke unto Moses, saying,
{14:2} Speak unto the children of Israel, that they turn back and encamp before
Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, before Baal-zephon: over against it
shall you encamp by the sea. {14:3} And Pharaoh will say of the children of
Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness has shut them in. {14:4}
And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and he shall follow after them; and I will
get me honor upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host: and the Egyptians shall know
that I am Yahweh. And they did so. {14:5} And it was told the king of Egypt
that the people were fled: and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was
changed towards the people, and they said, What is this we have done, that we
have let Israel go from serving us? {14:6} And he made ready his chariot, and
took his people with him: {14:7} and he took six hundred chosen chariots, and
all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over all of them. {14:8} And Yahweh
hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued after the children
of Israel: for the children of Israel went out with a high hand. {14:9} And the
Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses [and] chariots of Pharaoh, and his
horsemen, and his army, and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside
Pihahiroth, before Baal-zephon.
{14:10} And when Pharaoh drew near, the children of Israel lifted up
their eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians were marching after them; and they were
sore afraid: and the children of Israel cried out unto Yahweh. {14:11} And they
said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away
to die in the wilderness? Therefore have you dealt thus with us, to bring us
forth out of Egypt? {14:12} Is not this the word that we spoke unto you in
Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it were
better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the
wilderness. {14:13} And Moses said unto the people, Fear you not, stand still,
and see the salvation of Yahweh, which he will work for you to-day: for the
Egyptians whom you have seen to-day, you shall see them again no more for ever.
{14:14} Yahweh will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace. {14:15} And Yahweh said unto Moses,
Therefore cry you unto me? Speak unto the children of Israel that they go
forward. {14:16} And lift you up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the
sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go into the midst of the
sea on dry ground. {14:17} And I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the
Egyptians, and they shall go in after them: and I will get me honor upon
Pharaoh, and upon all his host, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.
{14:18} And the Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have gotten me
honor upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen. {14:19} And the
messenger of God, who went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind
them; and the pillar of cloud removed from before them, and stood behind them:
{14:20} and it came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel; and there
was the cloud and the darkness, yet gave it light by night: and the one came
not near the other all the night.
{14:21} And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and Yahweh caused
the sea to go [back] by a strong east wind all the night, and made the sea dry
land, and the waters were divided. {14:22} And the children of Israel went into
the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them
on their right hand, and on their left. {14:23} And the Egyptians pursued, and
went in after them into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots,
and his horsemen. {14:24} And it came to pass in the morning watch, that Yahweh
looked forth upon the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of
cloud, and discomfited the host of the Egyptians. {14:25} And he took off their
chariot wheels, and they drove them heavily; so that the Egyptians said, Let us
flee from the face of Israel; for Yahweh fights for them against the
Egyptians. {14:26} And Yahweh said
unto Moses, Stretch out your hand over the sea that the waters may come again
upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen. {14:27} And
Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its
strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and Yahweh
overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea. {14:28} And the waters
returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, even all the host of
Pharaoh that went in after them into the sea; there remained not so much as one
of them. {14:29} But the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst
of the sea; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on
their left. {14:30} Thus Yahweh saved Israel that day out of the hand of the
Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea-shore. {14:31} And
Israel saw the great work which Yahweh did upon the Egyptians, and the people
feared Yahweh: and they believed in Yahweh, and in his servant Moses.
{O2)15} Exodus Chapter Fifteen. {15:1} Then sang Moses and the children of
Israel this song unto Yahweh, and spoke, saying, I will sing unto Yahweh, for
he has triumphed gloriously: The horse and his rider has he thrown into the
sea. {15:2} Yahweh is my strength and song, And he is become my salvation: This
is my God, and I will praise him; My father's God, and I will exalt him. {15:3}
Yahweh is a man of war: Yahweh is his name. {15:4} Pharaoh's chariots and his
host has he cast into the sea; And his chosen captains are sunk in the Red Sea.
{15:5} The deeps cover them: They went down into the depths like a stone. {15:6}
Your right hand, O Yahweh, is glorious in power, Your right hand, O Yahweh,
dashes in pieces the enemy. {15:7} And in the greatness of your Excellency you
overthrows them that rise up against you: you sends forth your wrath, it
consumes them as stubble. {15:8} And
with the blast of your nostrils the waters were piled up, The floods stood
upright as a heap; The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea. {15:9} The
enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; My desire
shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
{15:10} you did blow with your wind, the sea covered them: They sank as lead in
the mighty waters. {15:11} Who is like unto you, O Yahweh, among the gods? Who
is like you, glorious in holiness, Fearful in praises, doing wonders? {15:12} you stretched out your right hand,
The earth swallowed them. {15:13} you in your loving kindness have led the
people that you have redeemed: you have guided them in your strength to your
holy habitation. {15:14} The peoples have heard, they tremble: Pangs have taken
hold on the inhabitants of Philistia.
{15:15} Then were the chiefs of Edom dismayed; The mighty men of Moab,
trembling takes hold upon them: All the inhabitants of Canaan are melted away.
{15:16} Terror and dread falls upon them; By the greatness of your arm they are
as still as a stone; Till your people pass over, O Yahweh, Till the people pass
over that you have purchased. {15:17} you will bring them in, and plant them in
the mountain of your inheritance, The place, O Yahweh, which you have made for
you to dwell in, The sanctuary, O Lord, which your hands have established.
{15:18} Yahweh shall reign for ever and ever.
{15:19} For the horses of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his
horsemen into the sea, and Yahweh brought back the waters of the sea upon them;
but the children of Israel walked on dry land in the midst of the sea. {15:20}
And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and
all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. {15:21} And
Miriam answered them, Sing you to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously; The
horse and his rider has he thrown into the sea. {15:22} And Moses led Israel onward from
the Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three
days in the wilderness, and found no water. {15:23} And when they came to
Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah. {15:24}
And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink? {15:25} An
he cried unto Yahweh; And Yahweh showed him a tree, and he cast it into the
waters, and the waters were made sweet. There he made for them a statute and an
ordinance, and there he proved them; {15:26} and he said, If you will
diligently hear to the voice of Yahweh your God, and will do that which is
right in his eyes, and will give ear to his
commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases
upon you, which I have put upon the Egyptians: for I am Yahweh that heals you.
{15:27} And they came to Elim, where were twelve springs of water, and
threescore and ten palm-trees: and they encamped there by the waters.
{O2)16} Exodus Chapter Sixteen. {16:1} And they took their journey from Elim,
and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of
Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second moon
after their departing out of the land of Egypt. {16:2} And the whole
congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron
in the wilderness: {16:3} and the children of Israel said unto them, Would that
we had died by the hand of Yahweh in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the
flesh-pots, when we did eat bread to the full; for you have brought us forth
into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger. {16:4} Then said Yahweh unto Moses, Behold,
I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a
day's portion every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my
law, or not. {16:5} And it shall come to pass on the sixth day, that they shall
prepare that which they bring in, and it shall be twice as much as they gather
daily. {16:6} And Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of Israel, At
even, then you shall know that Yahweh has brought you out from the land of
Egypt; {16:7} and in the morning, then you shall see the glory of Yahweh; for
that he hears your murmurings against Yahweh: and what are we, that you murmur
against us? {16:8} And Moses said, [This shall be], when Yahweh shall give you
in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full; for that Yahweh
hears your murmurings which you murmur against him: and what are we? your
murmurings are not against us, but against Yahweh. {16:9} And Moses said unto
Aaron, Say unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, Come near
before Yahweh; for he has heard your murmurings. {16:10} And it came to pass,
as Aaron spoke unto the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they
looked toward the wilderness, and, behold, the glory of Yahweh appeared in the
cloud. {16:11} And Yahweh spoke unto Moses, saying, {16:12} I have heard the
murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto them, saying, At even you
shall eat flesh, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread: and you
shall know that I am Yahweh your God.
{16:13} And it came to pass at even, that the quails came up, and
covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the camp. {16:14}
And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness
a small round thing, small as the hoar-frost on the ground. {16:15} And when
the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, What is it? For they
knew not what it was. And Moses said unto them, It is the bread which Yahweh
has given you to eat. {16:16} This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded,
Gather you of it every man according to his eating; an omer a head, according
to the number of your persons, shall you take it, every man for them that are
in his tent. {16:17} And the children of Israel did so, and gathered some more,
some less. {16:18} And when they measured it with an omer, he that gathered
much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered
every man according to his eating. {16:19} And Moses said unto them, Let no man
leave of it till the morning. {16:20} Notwithstanding they heard not unto
Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and
became foul: and Moses was wroth with them. {16:21} And they gathered it
morning by morning, every man according to his eating: and when the sun waxed
hot, it melted. {16:22} And it came to pass, that on the sixth day they gathered
twice as much bread, two omers for each one: and all the rulers of the
congregation came and told Moses. {16:23} And he said unto them, This is that
which Yahweh has spoken, Tomorrow is a solemn rest, a holy Sabbath unto Yahweh:
bake that which you will bake, and boil that which you will boil; and all that
remains over lay up for you to be kept until the morning. {16:24} And they laid
it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and it did not become foul, neither was
there any worm therein. {16:25} And Moses said, Eat that to-day; for to-day is
a Sabbath unto Yahweh: to-day you shall not find it in the field. {16:26} Six
days you shall gather it; but on the seventh day is the Sabbath, in it there
shall be none. {16:27} And it came to pass on the seventh day, that there went
out some of the people to gather, and they found none. {16:28} And Yahweh said
unto Moses, How long refuse you to keep my commandments and my laws? {16:29}
See, for that Yahweh has given you the Sabbath, therefore he gives you on the
sixth day the bread of two days; abide you every man in his place, let no man
go out of his place on the seventh day. {16:30} So the people rested on the
seventh day. {16:31} And the house of
Israel called the name of it Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and
the taste of it was like wafers [made] with honey. {16:32} And Moses said, This
is the thing which Yahweh has commanded, Let an omer full of it be kept
throughout your generations, that they may see the bread wherewith I fed you in
the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt. {16:33} And
Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, and
lay it up before Yahweh, to be kept throughout your generations. {16:34} As Yahweh
commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept. {16:35}
And the children of Israel did eat the manna forty years, until they came to a
land inhabited; they did eat the manna, until they came unto the borders of the
land of Canaan. {16:36} Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.
{O2)17}
Exodus Chapter Seventeen. {17:1}
And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the
wilderness of Sin, by their journeys, according to the commandment of Yahweh,
and encamped in Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to drink.
{17:2} Therefore the people strove with Moses, and said, Give us water that we
may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why strive you with me? Therefore do you
tempt Yahweh? {17:3} And the people thirsted there for water; and the people
murmured against Moses, and said, Therefore have you brought us up out of
Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst? {17:4} And Moses
cried unto Yahweh, saying, What shall I do unto this people? They are almost
ready to stone me. {17:5} And Yahweh said unto Moses, Pass on before the
people, and take with you of the elders of Israel; and your rod, where there
you smote the river, take in your hand, and go. {17:6} Behold, I will stand
before you there upon the rock in Horeb; and you shall smite the rock, and
there shall come water out of it that the people may drink. And Moses did so in
the sight of the elders of Israel. {17:7} And he called the name of the place
Massah, and Meribah, because of the striving of the children of Israel, and
because they tempted Yahweh, saying, Is Yahweh among us, or not? {17:8} Then came Amalek, and fought
[against]Israel in Rephidim. {17:9} And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out
men, and go out, fight with Amalek: to-morrow I will stand on the top of the
hill with the rod of God in my hand. {17:10} So Joshua did as Moses had said to
him, and fought [against] Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top
of the hill. {17:11} And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that
Israel prevailed; and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. {17:12} But
Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he
sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side,
and the other on the other side; And his hands were steady until the going down
of the sun. {17:13} And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge
of the sword. {17:14} And Yahweh said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in
a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the
remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. {17:15} And Moses built an altar, and
called the name of it Yahweh-nissi; {17:16} And he said, Yahweh has sworn: Yahweh
will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.
{O2)18} Exodus Chapter Eighteen. {18:1} Now Jethro, the priest of Midian,
Moses' father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel
his people, how that Yahweh had brought Israel out of Egypt. {18:2} And Jethro,
Moses' father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her away,
{18:3} and her two sons; of whom the name of the one was Gershom; for he said,
I have been a alien in a foreign land: {18:4} and the name of the other was
Eliezer; for [he said], The God of my father was my help, and delivered me from
the sword of Pharaoh. {18:5} And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his
sons and his wife unto Moses into the wilderness where he was encamped, at the
mount of God: {18:6} and he said unto Moses, I, your father-in-law Jethro, am
come unto you, and your wife, and her two sons with her. {18:7} And Moses went
out to meet his father-in-law, and did obeisance, and kissed him: and they
asked each other of their welfare; and they came into the tent. {18:8} And
Moses told his father-in-law all that Yahweh had done unto Pharaoh and to the
Egyptians for Israel's sake, all the travail that had come upon them by the
way, and how Yahweh delivered them. {18:9} And Jethro rejoiced for all the
goodness which Yahweh had done to Israel, in that he had delivered them out of
the hand of the Egyptians. {18:10} And Jethro said, Blessed be Yahweh, who has
delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh;
who has delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians. {18:11} Now
I know that Yahweh is greater than all gods; behold, in the thing wherein they
dealt proudly against them. {18:12} And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took a
burnt-offering and sacrifices for God: and Aaron came, and all the elders of
Israel, to eat bread with Moses' father-in-law before God. {18:13} And it came to pass on the morrow,
that Moses sat to judge the people: and the people stood about Moses from the
morning unto the evening. {18:14} And when Moses' father-in-law saw all that he
did to the people, he said, What is this thing that you do to the people? Why
sits you yourself alone, and all the people stand about you from morning unto
even? {18:15} And Moses said unto his father-in-law, Because the people come
unto me to inquire of God: {18:16} when they have a matter, they come unto me;
and I judge between a man and his neighbor, and I make them know the statutes
of God, and his laws. {18:17} And Moses' father-in-law said unto him, The thing
that you do is not good. {18:18} you will surely wear away, both you, and this
people that is with you: for the thing is too heavy for you; you are not able
to perform it yourself alone. {18:19} Hear now unto my voice, I will give you
counsel, and God be with you: be you for the people to God-ward, and bring you
the causes unto God: {18:20} and you shall teach them the statutes and the
laws, and shall show them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that
they must do. {18:21} Also you shall provide out of all the people able men,
such as fear God, men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them,
to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of
tens: {18:22} and let them judge the people at all seasons: and it shall be,
that every great matter they shall bring unto you, but every small matter they
shall judge themselves: so shall it be easier for yourself, and they shall bear
[the burden] with you. {18:23} If you shall do this thing, and God command you
so, then you shall be able to endure, and all this people also shall go to
their place in peace. {18:24} So Moses heard the voice of his father-in-law,
and did all that he had said. {18:25} And Moses chose able men out of all
Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds,
rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. {18:26} And they judged the people at
all seasons: the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter
they judged themselves. {18:27} And Moses let his father-in-law depart; and he
went his way into his own land.
{O2)19} Exodus Chapter Nineteen. {19:1} In the third moon after the children
of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into
the wilderness of Sinai. {19:2} And when they were departed from Rephidim, and were
come to the wilderness of Sinai, they encamped in the wilderness; and there
{o2)20} Exodus Chapter Twenty. {20:1} And God spoke all these words, saying,
{20:2} I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the
{O2)21} Exodus Chapter Twenty
One. {21:1} Now these are the ordinances
which you shall set before them. {21:2} If you buy a Hebrew servant, six years
he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. {21:3} If
he come in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he be married, then his
wife shall go out with him. {21:4} If his master give him a wife and she bear
him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he
shall go out by himself. {21:5} But if the servant shall plainly say, I agape
love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free: {21:6} then
his master shall bring him unto God, and shall bring him to the door, or unto
the door-post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he
shall serve him for ever. {21:7} And
if a man sell his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not go out as the men-servants
do. {21:8} If she please not her master, who has espoused her to himself, then
shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a foreign people he shall have
no power, seeing he has dealt deceitfully with her. {21:9} And if he espouse
her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters. {21:10}
If he take him another [wife]; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage,
shall he not diminish. {21:11} And if he do not these three things unto her,
then shall she go out for nothing, outside money. {21:12} He that smites a man, so that he
dies, shall surely be put to death. {21:13} And if a man lie not in wait, but
God deliver [him] into his hand; then I will appoint you a place where he shall
flee. {21:14} And if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbor, to slay him
with guile; you shall take him from mine altar, that he may die. {21:15} And he that smites his father, or
his mother, shall be surely put to death {21:16} And he that steals [a] man,
and sells him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to
death. {21:17} And he that curses his
father or his mother, shall surely be put to death. {21:18} And if men contend,
and one smite the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but
keep his bed; {21:19} if he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then
shall he that smote him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of his time,
and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.
{21:20} And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he
die under his hand; he shall surely be punished. {21:21} Notwithstanding, if he
continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money. {21:22} And if men strive together, and
hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart, and yet no harm follow; he
shall be surely fined, according as the woman's husband shall lay upon him; and
he shall pay as the judges determine. {21:23} But if any harm follow, then you
shall give life for life, {21:24} eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand,
foot for foot, {21:25} burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for
stripe. {21:26} And if a man smite the
eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, and destroy it; he shall let him go
free for his eye's sake. {21:27} And if
he smite out his man-servant's tooth, or his maid-servant's tooth, he shall let
him go free for his tooth's sake.
{21:28} And if an ox gore a man or a woman to death, the ox shall be
surely stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall
be quit. {21:29} But if the ox was wont to gore in time past, and it has been
testified to its owner, and he has not kept it in, but it has killed a man or a
woman, the ox shall be stoned, and its owner also shall be put to death.
{21:30} If there be laid on him a ransom, then he shall give for the redemption
of his life what ever is laid upon him. {21:31} Whether it have gored a son, or
have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto him.
{21:32} If the ox gore a man-servant or a maid-servant, there shall be given
unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned. {21:33} And if a man shall open a pit, or
if a man shall dig a pit and not cover it, and an ox or an donkey fall therein,
{21:34} the owner of the pit shall make it good; he shall give money unto the
owner there, and the dead [beast] shall be his. {21:35} And if one man's ox hurt another's,
so that it dies, then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the price of it:
and the dead also they shall divide. {21:36} Or if it be known that the ox was
wont to gore in time past, and its owner has not kept it in, he shall surely
pay ox for ox, and the dead [beast] shall be his own.
{O2)22} Exodus Chapter Twentytwo. {22:1} If a man shall steal an ox, or a
sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four
sheep for a sheep. {22:2} If the thief be found breaking in, and be smitten so
that he dies, there shall be no blood guiltiness for him. {22:3} If the sun be
risen upon him, there shall be blood guiltiness for him; he shall make
restitution: if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft. {22:4} If the theft be found in his hand
alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep, he shall pay double. {22:5} If a man shall cause a field or
vineyard to be eaten, and shall let his beast loose, and it feed in another
man's field; of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard,
shall he make restitution. {22:6} If
fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the shocks of grain, or the
standing grain, or the field are consumed; he that kindled the fire shall
surely make restitution. {22:7} If a
man shall deliver unto his neighbor money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen
out of the man's house; if the thief be found, he shall pay double. {22:8} If
the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall come near unto God,
[to see] whether he have not put his hand unto his neighbor's goods. {22:9} For
every matter of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for
raiment, [or] for any manner of lost thing, where one said, This is it, the
cause of both parties shall come before God; he whom God shall condemn shall
pay double unto his neighbor. {22:10}
If a man deliver unto his neighbor an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast,
to keep; and it die, or be hurt, or driven away, no man seeing it: {22:11} the
oath of Yahweh shall be between them both, whether he has not put his hand unto
his neighbor's goods; and the owner of it shall accept it, and he shall not
make restitution. {22:12} But if it be stolen from him, he shall make
restitution unto the owner there. {22:13} If it be torn in pieces, let him
bring it for witness: he shall not make good that which was torn. {22:14} And if a man borrow anything of his
neighbor, and it be hurt, or die, the owner of it not being with it, he shall
surely make restitution. {22:15} If the owner of it be with it, he shall not
make it good: if it be a hired thing, it came for its hire. {22:16} And if a man entice a virgin that
is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be
his wife. {22:17} If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall
pay money according to the dowry of virgins.
{22:18} you shall not suffer a sorceress to live. {22:19} Anyone who lies with a beast shall surely be put to
death. {22:20} He that sacrifices unto
any god, save unto Yahweh only, shall be utterly destroyed. {22:21} And a alien
shall you not wrong, neither shall you oppress him: for you were aliens in the
{O2)23} Exodus Chapter Twenty
Three. {23:1} you shall not take up a
false report: put not your hand with the wicked to be an worker against law a
working witness. {23:2} you shall not follow a multitude to do evil; neither
shall you speak in a cause to turn aside after a multitude to withhold
[justice]: {23:3} neither shall you favor a poor man in his cause. {23:4} If you meet your enemy's ox or his
donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again. {23:5} If you
see the donkey of him that hates you lying under his burden, you shall forbear
to leave him, you shall surely release [it] with him. {23:6} you shall not withhold the justice
[due] to your poor in his cause. {23:7} Keep you far from a false matter; and
the innocent and the lawful worker slay you not: for I will not make sinless
the wicked. {23:8} And you shall take no bribe: for a bribe blinds them that
have sight, and perverts the words of the lawful worker. {23:9} And a alien
shall you not oppress: for you know the heart of a alien, seeing you were
aliens in the
{O2)24} Exodus Chapter Twentyfour. {24:1} And he said unto Moses, Come up unto Yahweh,
you, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and
worship you afar off: {24:2} and Moses alone shall come near unto Yahweh; but
they shall not come near; neither shall the people go up with him. {24:3} And
Moses came and told the people all the words of Yahweh, and all the ordinances:
and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which Yahweh
has spoken will we do. {24:4} And Moses wrote all the words of Yahweh, and rose
up early in the morning, and built an altar under the mount, and twelve
pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel. {24:5} And he sent young men
of the children of Israel, who offered burnt-offerings, and sacrificed
peace-offerings of oxen unto Yahweh. {24:6} And Moses took half of the blood,
and put it in basins; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. {24:7}
And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people:
and they said, All that Yahweh has spoken will we do, and be obedient. {24:8}
And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the
blood of the covenant, which Yahweh has made with you concerning all these words. {24:9} Then went up Moses, and Aaron,
Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel. {24:10} And they saw the
God of Israel; and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of sapphire
stone, and as it were the very heaven for clearness. {24:11} And upon the
nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: and they beheld God, and
did eat and drink. {24:12} And Yahweh
said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give
you the tables of stone, and the law and the commandment, which I have written,
that you may teach them. {24:13} And Moses rose up, and Joshua his minister:
and Moses went up into the mount of God. {24:14} And he said unto the elders,
Tarry you here for us, until we come again unto you: and, behold, Aaron and Hur
are with you: anyone who has a cause, let him come near unto them. {24:15} And
Moses went up into the mount, and the cloud covered the mount. {24:16} And the
glory of Yahweh abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days: and
the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud. {24:17} And
the appearance of the glory of Yahweh was like devouring fire on the top of the
mount in the eyes of the children of Israel. {24:18} And Moses entered into the
midst of the cloud, and went up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount
forty days and forty nights.
{O2)25} Exodus Chapter Twentyfive.
{25:1} And Yahweh spoke unto Moses, saying, {25:2} Speak unto the children of
Israel, that they take for me an offering: of every man whose heart makes him
willing you shall take my offering. {25:3} And this is the offering which you
shall take of them: gold, and silver, and brass, {25:4} and blue, and purple,
and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' [hair], {25:5} and rams' skins dyed
red, and sealskins, and acacia wood, {25:6} oil for the light, spices for the
anointing oil, and for the sweet incense, {25:7} onyx stones, and stones to be
set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate. {25:8} And let them make me a
sanctuary, that I may dwell among them. {25:9} According to all that I show
you, the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the furniture there,
even so shall you make it. {25:10} And
they shall make an ark of acacia wood: two cubits and a half shall be the length
there, and a cubit and a half the breadth there, and a cubit and a half the
height there. {25:11} And you shall overlay it with pure gold, within and
outside shall you overlay it, and shall make upon it a crown of gold round
about. {25:12} And you shall cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in
the four feet there; and two rings shall be on the one side of it, and two
rings on the other side of it. {25:13} And you shall make staves of acacia
wood, and overlay them with gold. {25:14} And you shall put the staves into the
rings on the sides of the ark, wherewith to bear the ark. {25:15} The staves
shall be in the rings of the ark: they shall not be taken from it. {25:16} And
you shall put into the ark the testimony which I shall give you. {25:17} And
you shall make a mercy-seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half [shall be] the
length there, and a cubit and a half the breadth there. {25:18} And you shall
make two cherubim of gold; of beaten work shall you make them, at the two ends
of the mercy-seat. {25:19} And make one cherub at the one end, and one cherub
at the other end: of one piece with the mercy-seat shall you make the cherubim
on the two ends there. {25:20} And the cherubim shall spread out their wings on
high, covering the mercy-seat with their wings, with their faces one to
another; toward the mercy-seat shall the faces of the cherubim be. {25:21} And
you shall put the mercy-seat above upon the ark; and in the ark you shall put
the testimony that I shall give you. {25:22} And there I will meet with you,
and I will commune with you from above the mercy-seat, from between the two
cherubim which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will
give you in commandment unto the children of Israel. {25:23} And you shall make a table of
acacia wood: two cubits [shall be] the length there, and a cubit the breadth
there, and a cubit and a half the height there. {25:24} And you shall overlay
it with pure gold, and make thereto a crown of gold round about. {25:25} And
you shall make unto it a border of a handbreadth round about; and you shall
make a golden crown to the border of it round about. {25:26} And you shall make
for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the four corners that are on
the four feet there. {25:27} Close by the border shall the rings be, for places
for the staves to bear the table. {25:28} And you shall make the staves of
acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be borne with them.
{25:29} And you shall make the dishes there, and the spoons there, and the
flagons there, and the bowls there, wherewith to pour out: of pure gold shall
you make them. {25:30} And you shall set upon the table showbread before me
always. {25:31} And you shall make a
candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work shall the candlestick be made, even
its base, and its shaft; its cups, its knops, and its flowers, shall be of one
piece with it. {25:32} And there shall be six branches going out of the sides
there; three branches of the candlestick out of the one side there, and three
branches of the candlestick out of the other side there: {25:33} three cups
made like almond-blossoms in one branch, a knop and a flower; and three cups
made like almond-blossoms in the other branch, a knop and a flower: so for the
six branches going out of the candlestick: {25:34} and in the candlestick four
cups made like almond-blossoms, the knops there, and the flowers there; {25:35}
and a knop under two branches of one piece with it, and a knop under two
branches of one piece with it, and a knop under two branches of one piece with
it, for the six branches going out of the candlestick. {25:36} Their knops and
their branches shall be of one piece with it; the whole of it one beaten work
of pure gold. {25:37} And you shall make the lamps there, seven: and they shall
light the lamps there, to give light over against it. {25:38} And the snuffers
there, and the snuff dishes there, shall be of pure gold. {25:39} Of a talent
of pure gold shall it be made, with all these vessels. {25:40} And see that you
make them after their pattern, which has been showed you in the mount.
{O2)26}
Exodus Chapter Twentysix. {26:1}
Also you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains; of fine twined linen, and
blue, and purple, and scarlet, with cherubim the work of the skilful workman
shall you make them. {26:2} The length of each curtain shall be eight and
twenty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits: all the curtains
shall have one measure. {26:3} Five curtains shall be coupled together one to
another; and [the other] five curtains shall be coupled one to another. {26:4}
And you shall make loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain from the
selvedge in the coupling; and likewise shall you make in the edge of the
curtain that is outmost in the second coupling. {26:5} Fifty loops shall you
make in the one curtain, and fifty loops shall you make in the edge of the
curtain that is in the coupling; the loops shall be opposite one to another.
{26:6} And you shall make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains one to
another with the clasps: and the tabernacle shall be one [whole]. {26:7} And you shall make curtains of goats'
[hair] for a tent over the tabernacle: eleven curtains shall you make them.
{26:8} The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of
each curtain four cubits: the eleven curtains shall have one measure. {26:9}
And you shall couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by
themselves, and shall double over the sixth curtain in the forefront of the
tent. {26:10} And you shall make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain
that is outmost in the coupling, and fifty loops upon the edge of the curtain
which is [outmost in] the second coupling. {26:11} And you shall make fifty
clasps of brass, and put the clasps into the loops, and couple the tent
together, that it may be one. {26:12} And the overhanging part that remains of
the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remains, shall hang over the
back of the tabernacle. {26:13} And the cubit on the one side, and the cubit on
the other side, of that which remains in the length of the curtains of the
tent, shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and on that
side, to cover it. {26:14} And you shall make a covering for the tent of rams'
skins dyed red, and a covering of sealskins above. {26:15} And you shall make the boards for
the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing up. {26:16} Ten cubits shall be the
length of a board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each board. {26:17}
Two tenons shall there be in each board, joined one to another: thus shall you
make for all the boards of the tabernacle. {26:18} And you shall make the
boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards for the south side southward. {26:19}
And you shall make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets
under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its
two tenons. {26:20} And for the second side of the tabernacle, on the north
side, twenty boards, {26:21} and their forty sockets of silver; two sockets
under one board, and two sockets under another board. {26:22} And for the
hinder part of the tabernacle westward you shall make six boards. {26:23} And
two boards shall you make for the corners of the tabernacle in the hinder part.
{26:24} And they shall be double beneath, and in like manner they shall be
entire unto the top of it unto one ring: thus shall it be for them both; they
shall be for the two corners. {26:25} And there shall be eight boards, and
their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two
sockets under another board. {26:26}
And you shall make bars of acacia wood: five for the boards of the one side of
the tabernacle, {26:27} and five bars for the boards of the other side of the
tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle, for the
hinder part westward. {26:28} And the middle bar in the midst of the boards
shall pass through from end to end. {26:29} And you shall overlay the boards
with gold, and make their rings of gold for places for the bars: and you shall
overlay the bars with gold. {26:30} And you shall rear up the tabernacle
according to the fashion of it which has been showed you in the mount. {26:31} And you shall make a veil of blue,
and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubim the work of the
skilful workman shall it be made. {26:32} And you shall hang it upon four
pillars of acacia overlaid with gold; their hooks [shall be] of gold, upon four
sockets of silver. {26:33} And you shall hang up the veil under the clasps, and
shall bring in there within the veil the ark of the testimony: and the veil
shall separate unto you between the holy place and the most holy. {26:34} And
you shall put the mercy-seat upon the ark of the testimony in the most holy
place. {26:35} And you shall set the table outside the veil, and the
candlestick over against the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the
south: and you shall put the table on the north side. {26:36} And you shall make a screen for
the door of the Tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen,
the work of the embroiderer. {26:37} And you shall make for the screen five
pillars of acacia, and overlay them with gold: their hooks shall be of gold:
and you shall cast five sockets of brass for them.
{O2)27} Exodus Chapter Twentyseven. {27:1} And you shall make the altar of
acacia wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be
foursquare: and the height of it shall be three cubits. {27:2} And you shall
make the horns of it upon the four corners there; the horns of it shall be of
one piece with it: and you shall overlay it with brass. {27:3} And you shall
make its pots to take away its ashes, and its shovels, and its basins, and its
flesh-hooks, and its fire pans: all the vessels of it you shall make of brass.
{27:4} And you shall make for it a grating of network of brass: and upon the
net shall you make four brazen rings in the four corners there. {27:5} And you
shall put it under the ledge round the altar beneath, that the net may reach
halfway up the altar. {27:6} And you shall make staves for the altar, staves of
acacia wood, and overlay them with brass. {27:7} And the staves of it shall be
put into the rings, and the staves shall be upon the two sides of the altar, in
bearing it. {27:8} Hollow with planks shall you make it: as it has been showed
you in the mount, so shall they make it.
{27:9} And you shall make the court of the tabernacle: for the south
side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen a
hundred cubits long for one side: {27:10} and the pillars of it shall be
twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their
fillets [shall be] of silver. {27:11} And likewise for the north side in length
there shall be hangings a hundred cubits long, and the pillars of it twenty,
and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars, and their
fillets, of silver. {27:12} And for the breadth of the court on the west side
shall be hangings of fifty cubits; their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.
{27:13} And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty
cubits. {27:14} The hangings for the one side [of the gate] shall be fifteen
cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three. {27:15} And for the other
side shall be hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their
sockets three. {27:16} And for the gate of the court shall be a screen of
twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the
work of the embroiderer; their pillars four, and their sockets four. {27:17}
All the pillars of the court round about shall be filleted with silver; their
hooks of silver, and their sockets of brass. {27:18} The length of the court
shall be a hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty every where, and the height
five cubits, of fine twined linen, and their sockets of brass. {27:19} All the
instruments of the tabernacle in all the service there, and all the pins there,
and all the pins of the court, shall be of brass. {27:20} And you shall command the children
of Israel, that they bring unto you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to
cause a lamp to burn continually. {27:21} In the tent of meeting, outside the
veil which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall keep it in order
from evening to morning before Yahweh: it shall be a statue for ever throughout
their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.
{O2)28} Exodus Chapter TwentyEight. {28:1} And bring you near unto you Aaron your
brother, and his sons with him, from among the children of Israel, that he may
minister unto me in the priest's office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar
and Ithamar, Aaron's sons. {28:2} And you shall make holy garments for Aaron
your brother, for glory and for beauty. {28:3} And you shall speak unto all
that are wise-hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they
make Aaron's garments to sanctify him, that he may minister unto me in the
priest's office. {28:4} And these are the garments which they shall make: a
breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a coat of checker work, a mitre, and
a girdle: and they shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, and his
sons, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office. {28:5} And they
shall take the gold, and the blue, and the purple, and the scarlet, and the
fine linen. {28:6} And they shall make
the ephod of gold, of blue, and purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, the
work of the skilful workman. {28:7} It shall have two shoulder-pieces joined to
the two ends there, that it may be joined together. {28:8} And the skillfully
woven band, which is upon it, wherewith to gird it on, shall be like the work
there [and] of the same piece; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and
fine twined linen. {28:9} And you shall take two onyx stones, and grave on them
the names of the children of Israel: {28:10} six of their names on the one
stone, and the names of the six that remain on the other stone, according to
their birth. {28:11} With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings
of a signet, shall you engrave the two stones, according to the names of the
children of Israel: you shall make them to be enclosed in settings of gold.
{28:12} And you shall put the two stones upon the shoulder-pieces of the ephod,
to be stones of memorial for the children of Israel: and Aaron shall bear their
names before Yahweh upon his two shoulders for a memorial. {28:13} And you
shall make settings of gold, {28:14} and two chains of pure gold; like cords
shall you make them, of wreathen work: and you shall put the wreathen chains on
the settings. {28:15} And you shall
make a breastplate of judgment, the work of the skilful workman; like the work
of the ephod you shall make it; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and
fine twined linen, shall you make it. {28:16} Foursquare it shall be [and]
double; a span shall be the length there, and a span the breadth there. {28:17}
And you shall set in it settings of stones, four rows of stones: a row of
sardius, topaz, and carbuncle shall be the first row; {28:18} and the second
row an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond; {28:19} and the third row a jacinth,
an agate, and an amethyst; {28:20} and the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and
a jasper: they shall be enclosed in gold in their settings. {28:21} And the
stones shall be according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve,
according to their names; like the engravings of a signet, every one according
to his name, they shall be for the twelve tribes. {28:22} And you shall make
upon the breastplate chains like cords, of wreathen work of pure gold. {28:23}
And you shall make upon the breastplate two rings of gold, and shall put the
two rings on the two ends of the breastplate. {28:24} And you shall put the two
wreathen chains of gold in the two rings at the ends of the breastplate.
{28:25} And the [other] two ends of the two wreathen chains you shall put on
the two settings, and put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod in the
forepart there. {28:26} And you shall make two rings of gold, and you shall put
them upon the two ends of the breastplate, upon the edge there, which is toward
the side of the ephod inward. {28:27} And you shall make two rings of gold, and
shall put them on the two shoulder-pieces of the ephod underneath, in the
forepart there, close by the coupling there, above the skillfully woven band of
the ephod. {28:28} And they shall bind the breastplate by the rings of it unto
the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be upon the skillfully
woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate be not loosed from the ephod.
{28:29} And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the
breastplate of judgment upon his heart, when he goes in unto the holy place,
for a memorial before Yahweh continually. {28:30} And you shall put in the
breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be upon
Aaron's heart, when he goes in before Yahweh: and Aaron shall bear the judgment
of the children of Israel upon his heart before Yahweh continually. {28:31} And you shall make the robe of the
ephod all of blue. {28:32} And it shall have a hole for the head in the midst
there: it shall have a binding of woven work round about the hole of it, as it
were the hole of a coat of mail, that it be not rent. {28:33} And upon the
skirts of it you shall make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of
scarlet, round about the skirts there; and bells of gold between them round
about: {28:34} a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate,
upon the skirts of the robe round about. {28:35} And it shall be upon Aaron to
minister: and the sound there shall be heard when he goes in unto the holy
place before Yahweh, and when he comes out, that he die not. {28:36} And you shall make a plate of pure
gold, and grave upon it, like the engravings of a signet, HOLY TO YAHWEH.
{28:37} And you shall put it on a lace of blue, and it shall be upon the mitre;
upon the forefront of the mitre it shall be. {28:38} And it shall be upon
Aaron's forehead, and Aaron shall bear the works against law of the holy
things, which the children of Israel shall hallow in all their holy gifts; and
it shall be always upon his forehead, that they may be accepted before Yahweh.
{28:39} And you shall weave the coat in checker work of fine linen, and you
shall make a mitre of fine linen, and you shall make a girdle, the work of the
embroiderer. {28:40} And for Aaron's
sons you shall make coats, and you shall make for them girdles, and head-tires
shall you make for them, for glory and for beauty. {28:41} And you shall put
them upon Aaron your brother, and upon his sons with him, and shall anoint
them, and consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may minister unto me in
the priest's office. {28:42} And you shall make them linen breeches to cover
the flesh of their nakedness; from the loins even unto the thighs they shall
reach: {28:43} And they shall be upon Aaron, and upon his sons, when they go in
unto the tent of meeting, or when they come near unto the altar to minister in
the holy place; that they bear not works against law, and die: it shall be a
statute for ever unto him and unto his seed after him.
{O2)29} Exodus Chapter TwentyNine. {29:1} And this is the thing that you shall
do unto them to hallow them, to minister unto me in the priest's office: take
one young bullock and two rams outside blemish, {29:2} and unleavened bread,
and cakes unleavened mingled with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil:
of fine wheaten flour shall you make them. {29:3} And you shall put them into
one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bullock and the two rams.
{29:4} And Aaron and his sons you shall bring unto the door of the tent of
meeting, and shall wash them with water. {29:5} And you shall take the garments,
and put upon Aaron the coat, and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the
breastplate, and gird him with the skillfully woven band of the ephod; {29:6}
and you shall set the mitre upon his head, and put the holy crown upon the
mitre. {29:7} Then shall you take the anointing oil, and pour it upon his head,
and anoint him. {29:8} And you shall bring his sons, and put coats upon them.
{29:9} And you shall gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and bind
head-tires on them: and they shall have the priesthood by a perpetual statute:
and you shall consecrate Aaron and his sons.
{29:10} And you shall bring the bullock before the tent of meeting: and
Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands upon the head of the bullock. {29:11}
And you shall kill the bullock before Yahweh, at the door of the tent of
meeting. {29:12} And you shall take of the blood of the bullock, and put it
upon the horns of the altar with your finger; and you shall pour out all the
blood at the base of the altar. {29:13} And you shall take all the fat that
covers the inwards, and the caul upon the liver, and the two kidneys, and the
fat that is upon them, and burn them upon the altar. {29:14} But the flesh of
the bullock, and its skin, and it dung, shall you burn with fire outside the
camp: it is a sin-offering. {29:15}
you shall also take the one ram; and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands
upon the head of the ram. {29:16} And you shall slay the ram, and you shall
take its blood, and sprinkle it round about upon the altar. {29:17} And you
shall cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its inwards, and its legs, and put
them with its pieces, and with its head. {29:18} And you shall burn the whole
ram upon the altar: it is a burnt-offering unto Yahweh; it is a sweet savor, an
offering made by fire unto Yahweh.
{29:19} And you shall take the other ram; and Aaron and his sons shall
lay their hands upon the head of the ram. {29:20} Then shall you kill the ram,
and take of its blood, and put it upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and
upon the tip of the right ear of his sons, and upon the thumb of their right
hand, and upon the great toe of their right foot, and sprinkle the blood upon
the altar round about. {29:21} And you shall take of the blood that is upon the
altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it upon Aaron, and upon his
garments, and upon his sons, and upon the garments of his sons with him: and he
shall be hallowed, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments with
him. {29:22} Also you shall take of the ram the fat, and the fat tail, and the
fat that covers the inwards, and the caul of the liver, and the two kidneys,
and the fat that is upon them, and the right thigh (for it is a ram of
consecration), {29:23} and one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and
one wafer, out of the basket of unleavened bread that is before Yahweh. {29:24}
And you shall put the whole upon the hands of Aaron, and upon the hands of his
sons, and shall wave them for a wave-offering before Yahweh. {29:25} And you
shall take them from their hands, and burn them on the altar upon the
burnt-offering, for a sweet savor before Yahweh: it is an offering made by fire
unto Yahweh. {29:26} And you shall
take the breast of Aaron's ram of consecration, and wave it for a wave-offering
before Yahweh: and it shall be your portion. {29:27} And you shall sanctify the
breast of the wave-offering, and the thigh of the heave-offering, which is
waved, and which is heaved up, of the ram of consecration, even of that which
is for Aaron, and of that which is for his sons: {29:28} and it shall be for
Aaron and his sons as [their] portion for ever from the children of Israel; for
it is a heave-offering: and it shall be a heave-offering from the children of
Israel of the sacrifices of their peace-offerings, even their heave-offering
unto Yahweh. {29:29} And the holy
garments of Aaron shall be for his sons after him, to be anointed in them, and
to be consecrated in them. {29:30} Seven days shall the son that is priest in
his stead put them on, when he comes into the tent of meeting to minister in
the holy place. {29:31} And you shall
take the ram of consecration, and boil its flesh in a holy place. {29:32} And
Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that is in the
basket, at the door of the tent of meeting. {29:33} And they shall eat those
things wherewith atonement was made, to consecrate [and] to sanctify them: but
a stranger shall not eat there, because they are holy. {29:34} And if anything
of the flesh of the consecration, or of the bread, remain unto the morning,
then you shall burn the remainder with fire: it shall not be eaten [in the
light, because it is holy. {29:35} And
thus shall you do unto Aaron, and to his sons, according to all that I have
commanded you: seven days shall you consecrate them. {29:36} And every day
shall you offer the bullock of sin-offering for atonement: and you shall
cleanse the altar, when you make atonement for it; and you shall anoint it, to
sanctify it. {29:37} Seven days you shall make atonement for the altar, and
sanctify it: and the altar shall be most holy; what ever touches the altar
shall be holy. {29:38} Now this is
that which you shall offer upon the altar: two lambs a year old day by day
continually. {29:39} The one lamb you shall offer in the morning; and the other
lamb you shall offer at even: {29:40} and with the one lamb a tenth part [of an
ephah] of fine flour mingled with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil, and
the fourth part of a hin of wine for a drink-offering. {29:41} And the other
lamb you shall offer at even, and shall do thereto according to the
meal-offering of the morning, and according to the drink-offering there, for a
sweet savor, an offering made by fire unto Yahweh. {29:42} It shall be a
continual burnt-offering throughout your generations at the door of the tent of
meeting before Yahweh, where I will meet with you, to speak there unto you.
{29:43} And there I will meet with the children of Israel; and [the Tent] shall
be sanctified by my glory. {29:44} And I will sanctify the tent of meeting, and
the altar: Aaron also and his sons will I sanctify, to minister to me in the
priest's office. {29:45} And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and
will be their God. {29:46} And they shall know that I am Yahweh their God, that
brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I might dwell among them: I
am Yahweh their God. {O2)30} Exodus Chapter
Three0. {30:1} And you shall make an
altar to burn incense upon: of acacia wood shall you make it. {30:2} A cubit
shall be the length there, and a cubit the breadth there; foursquare shall it
be; and two cubits shall be the height there: the horns of it shall be of one
piece with it. {30:3} And you shall overlay it with pure gold, the top there,
and the sides of it round about, and the horns there; and you shall make unto
it a crown of gold round about. {30:4} And two golden rings shall you make for
it under the crown there; upon the two ribs there, upon the two sides of it
shall you make them; and they shall be for places for staves wherewith to bear
it. {30:5} And you shall make the staves of acacia wood, and overlay them with
gold. {30:6} And you shall put it before the veil that is by the ark of the
testimony, before the mercy-seat that is over the testimony, where I will meet
with you. {30:7} And Aaron shall burn thereon incense of sweet spices: every
morning, when he dresses the lamps, he shall burn it. {30:8} And when Aaron
lights the lamps at even, he shall burn it, a perpetual incense before Yahweh
throughout your generations. {30:9} you shall offer no strange incense thereon,
nor burnt-offering, nor meal-offering; and you shall pour no drink-offering
thereon. {30:10} And Aaron shall make atonement upon the horns of it once in
the year; with the blood of the sin-offering of atonement once in the year
shall he make atonement for it throughout your generations: it is most holy
unto Yahweh. {30:11} And Yahweh spoke
unto Moses, saying, {30:12} When you take the sum of the children of Israel,
according to those that are numbered of them, then shall they give every man a
ransom for his soul unto Yahweh, when you number them; that there be no plague
among them, when you number them. {30:13} This they shall give, every one that
pass over unto them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the
sanctuary; (the shekel is twenty gerahs;) half a shekel for an offering to Yahweh.
{30:14} Every one that passes over unto them that are numbered, from twenty
years old and upward, shall give the offering of Yahweh. {30:15} The rich shall
not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when
they give the offering of Yahweh, to make atonement for your souls. {30:16} And
you shall take the atonement money from the children of Israel, and shall
appoint it for the service of the tent of meeting; that it may be a memorial
for the children of Israel before Yahweh, to make atonement for your
souls. {30:17} And Yahweh spoke unto
Moses, saying, {30:18} you shall also make a laver of brass, and the base of it
of brass, a place to wash. And you shall put it between the tent of meeting and
the altar, and you shall put water therein. {30:19} And Aaron and his sons
shall wash their hands and their feet thereat: {30:20} when they go into the
tent of meeting, they shall wash with water, that they die not; or when they
come near to the altar to minister, to burn an offering made by fire unto Yahweh.
{30:21} So they shall wash their hands and their feet that they die not: and it
shall be a statute for ever to them, even to him and to his seed throughout
their generations. {30:22} Again Yahweh
spoke unto Moses, saying, {30:23} Take you also unto you the chief spices: of
flowing myrrh five hundred [shekels], and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even
two hundred and fifty, and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty, {30:24} and
of cassia five hundred, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of olive oil a
hin. {30:25} And you shall make it a holy anointing oil, a perfume compounded
after the are of the perfumer: it shall be a holy anointing oil. {30:26} And
you shall anoint with the tent of meeting, and the ark of the testimony,
{30:27} and the table and all the vessels there, and the candlestick and the
vessels there, and the altar of incense, {30:28} and the altar of
burnt-offering with all the vessels there, and the laver and the base there.
{30:29} And you shall sanctify them, that they may be most holy: what ever
touches them shall be holy. {30:30} And you shall anoint Aaron and his sons,
and sanctify them, that they may minister unto me in the priest's office.
{30:31} And you shall speak unto the
Children of Israel, saying, This shall be a holy anointing oil unto me
throughout your generations. {30:32} Upon the flesh of man shall it not be
poured, neither shall you make any like it, according to the composition there:
it is holy, [and] it shall be holy unto you. {30:33} Anyone that compounds any
like it, or anyone who puts any of it upon a stranger, he shall be cut off from
his people. {30:34} And Yahweh said
unto Moses, Take unto you sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; sweet
spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be a like weight; {30:35}
and you shall make of it incense, a perfume after the are of the perfumer,
seasoned with salt, pure [and] holy: {30:36} and you shall beat some of it very
small, and put of it before the testimony in the tent of meeting, where I will
meet with you: it shall be unto you most holy. {30:37} And the incense which
you shall make, according to the composition of it you shall not make for
yourselves: it shall be unto you holy for Yahweh. {30:38} Anyone who ever shall make like unto that [a
different incense], to smell there, he
shall be cut off from his people.
{O2)31} Exodus Chapter Thirty
One. {31:1} And Yahweh spoke unto Moses,
saying, {31:2} See, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of
Hur, of the tribe of Judah: {31:3} and I have filled him with the Spirit of
God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of
workmanship, {31:4} to devise skilful works, to work in gold, and in silver,
and in brass, {31:5} and in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of
wood, to work in all manner of workmanship. {31:6} And I, behold, I have
appointed with him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in
the heart of all that are wise-hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make
all that I have commanded you: {31:7} the tent of meeting, and the ark of the
testimony, and the mercy-seat that is thereupon, and all the furniture of the
Tent, {31:8} and the table and its vessels, and the pure candlestick with all
its vessels, and the altar of incense, {31:9} and the altar of burnt-offering
with all its vessels, and the laver and its base, {31:10} and the finely
wrought garments, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments
of his sons, to minister in the priest's office, {31:11} and the anointing oil,
and the incense of sweet spices for the holy place: according to all that I
have commanded you shall they do.
{31:12} And Yahweh spoke unto Moses, saying, {31:13} Speak you also unto
the children of Israel, saying, Verily you shall keep my Sabbaths: for it is a
sign between me and you throughout your generations; that you may know that I
am Yahweh who sanctifies you. {31:14} you shall keep the Sabbath therefore; for
it is holy unto you: every one that profanes it shall surely be put to death;
for anyone who does any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his
people. {31:15} Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a
Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to Yahweh: anyone who does any work on the Sabbath
day, he shall surely be put to death. {31:16} Therefore the children of Israel
shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations,
for a perpetual covenant. {31:17} It is a sign between me and the children of
Israel for ever: for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, and on the
seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.
{31:18} And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing
with him upon mount Sinai, the two tables of the testimony, tables of stone,
written with the finger of God.
{O2)32} Exodus Chapter ThirtyTwo. {32:1} And when the people saw that Moses
delayed to come down from the mount, the people gathered themselves together
unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for
as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we know
not what is become of him. {32:2} And Aaron said unto them, Break off the
golden rings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your
daughters, and bring them unto me. {32:3} And all the people brake off the
golden rings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron. {32:4} And
he received it at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, and made it
a molten calf: and they said, These are your gods, O Israel, which brought you
up out of the land of Egypt. {32:5} And when Aaron saw [this], he built an
altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To-morrow shall be a
feast to Yahweh. {32:6} And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered
burnt-offerings, and brought peace-offerings; and the people sat down to eat
and to drink, and rose up to play.
{32:7} And Yahweh spoke unto Moses, Go, get you down; for your people,
that you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves: {32:8}
they have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have
made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed unto it,
and said, These are your gods, O Israel, which brought you up out of the land
of Egypt. {32:9} And Yahweh said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and,
behold, it is a stiff-necked people: {32:10} now therefore let me alone, that
my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make
of you a great nation. {32:11} And Moses beg Yahweh his God, and said, Yahweh,
why does your wrath wax hot against your people, that you have brought forth out
of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? {32:12} Therefore
should the Egyptians speak, saying, For evil did he bring them forth, to slay
them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn
from your fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against your people. {32:13}
Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swears by your
own self, and said unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven,
and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they
shall inherit it for ever. {32:14} And Yahweh repented of the evil which he
said he would do unto his people.
{32:15} And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, with the two
tables of the testimony in his hand; tables that were written on both their
sides; on the one side and on the other were they written. {32:16} And the
tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven
upon the tables. {32:17} And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they
shouted, he said unto Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp. {32:18} And
he said, It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the
voice of them that cry for being overcome; but the noise of them that sing do I
hear. {32:19} And it came to pass, as soon as he came near unto the camp, that
he saw the calf and the dancing: and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the
tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount. {32:20} And he took
the calf which they had made, and burnt it with fire, and ground it to powder,
and strewed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of
it. {32:21} And Moses said unto Aaron,
What did this people unto you, that you have brought a great sin upon them?
{32:22} And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord wax hot: you know the
people, that they are [set] on evil. {32:23} For they said unto me, make us
gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us
up out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him. {32:24} And I
said unto them, Anyone who has any gold, let them break it off: so they gave it
me; and I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf. {32:25} And when Moses saw that the
people were broken loose, (for Aaron had let them loose for a derision among
their enemies,) {32:26} then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who
so is on Yahweh's side, [let him come] unto me. And all the sons of Levi
gathered themselves together unto him. {32:27} And he said unto them, Thus said
Yahweh, the God of Israel, Put you every man his sword upon his thigh, and go
to and fro from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his
brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor. {32:28} And
the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the
people that day about three thousand men.
{32:29} And Moses said, Consecrate yourselves to-day to Yahweh, behold,
every man against his son, and against his brother; that he may bestow upon you
a blessing this day. {32:30} And it
came to pass on the morrow, that Moses said unto the people, you have sinned a
great sin: and now I will go up unto Yahweh; perhaps I shall make atonement for
your sin. {32:31} And Moses returned unto Yahweh, and said, Oh, this people
have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold. {32:32} yet now, if
you will forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray you, out of your book
which you have written. {32:33} And Yahweh said unto Moses, anyone who has
sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book. {32:34} And now go, lead the
people unto [the place] of which I have spoken unto you: behold, mine messenger
shall go before you; nevertheless in the day when I visit, I will visit their
sin upon them. {32:35} And Yahweh smote the people, because they made the calf,
which Aaron made.
{O2)33} Exodus Chapter Thirty
Three. {33:1} And Yahweh spoke unto
Moses, Depart, go up from here, you and the people that you have brought up out
of the land of Egypt, unto the land of which I swear unto Abraham, to Isaac,
and to Jacob, saying, Unto your seed will I give it: {33:2} and I will send an
messenger before you; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the
Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite: {33:3} unto a land
flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of you, for you
are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume you in the way. {33:4} And when the
people heard these evil tidings, they grieved: and no man did put on him his
ornaments. {33:5} And Yahweh said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel,
you are a stiff-necked people; if I go up into the midst of you for one moment,
I shall consume you: therefore now put off your ornaments from you, that I may
know what to do unto you. {33:6} And the children of Israel stripped themselves
of their ornaments from mount Horeb onward.
{33:7} Now Moses used to take the tent and to pitch it outside the camp,
afar off from the camp; and he called it, The tent of meeting. And it came to
pass, that every one that sought Yahweh went out unto the tent of meeting,
which was outside the camp. {33:8} And it came to pass, when Moses went out
unto the Tent, that all the people rose up, and stood, every man at his tent
door, and looked after Moses, until he was gone into the Tent. {33:9} And it
came to pass, when Moses entered into the Tent, the pillar of cloud descended,
and stood at the door of the Tent: and [Yahweh] spoke with Moses. {33:10} And
all the people saw the pillar of cloud stand at the door of the Tent: and all
the people rose up and worshipped, every man at his tent door. {33:11} And Yahweh
spoke unto Moses face to face, as a man speaks unto his friend. And he turned
again into the camp: but his minister Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man,
departed not out of the Tent. {33:12}
And Moses said unto Yahweh, See, you say unto me, Bring up this people: and you
have not let me know whom you will send with me. yet you have said, I know you
by name, and you have also found favor in my sight. {33:13} Now therefore, I
pray you, if I have found favor in your sight, show me now your ways, that I
may know you, to the end that I may find favor in your sight: and consider that
this nation is your people. {33:14} And he said, My presence shall go [with
you], and I will give you rest. {33:15} And he said unto him, If your presence
go not [with me], carry us not up from here. {33:16} For wherein now shall it
be known that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? is it not in
that you go with us, so that we are separated, I and your people, from all the
people that are upon the face of the earth?
{33:17} And Yahweh said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that you
have spoken; for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name.
{33:18} And he said, Show me, I pray you, your glory. {33:19} And he said, I
will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim the name of Yahweh
before you; and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show
mercy on whom I will show mercy. {33:20} And he said, you Can not see my face;
for man shall not see me and live. {33:21} and Yahweh said, Behold, there is a
place by me, and you shall stand upon the rock: {33:22} and it shall come to
pass, while my glory passes by, that I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and
will cover you with my hand until I have passed by: {33:23} and I will take
away my hand, and you shall see my back; but my face shall not be seen.
{o2)34} Exodus Chapter Thirty Four. {34:1} And Yahweh said unto Moses, Hew you
two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon the tables the
words that were on the first tables, which you broke. {34:2} And be ready by
the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present yourself
there to me on the top of the mount. {34:3} And no man shall come up with you;
neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks
nor herds feed before that mount. {34:4} And he hewed two tables of stone like
unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount
Sinai, as Yahweh had commanded him, and took in his hand two tables of stone.
{34:5} And Yahweh descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and
proclaimed the name of Yahweh. {34:6} And Yahweh passed by before him, and
proclaimed, Yahweh, Yahweh, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and
abundant in loving kindness and truth, {34:7} keeping loving kindness for
thousands, forgiving works [made] against law and transgression of the law and
sin; and that will by no means clear [the guilty], visiting the works against
law of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, upon
the third and upon the fourth generation. {34:8} And Moses made haste, and
bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped. {34:9} And he said, If now I
have found favor in your sight, O Lord, let the Lord, I pray you, go in the
midst of us; for it is a stiff-necked
people; and pardon our works against law and our sin, and take us for
your inheritance. {34:10} And he said,
Behold, I make a covenant: before all your people I will do marvels, such as
have not been wrought in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people
among which you are shall see the work of Yahweh; for it is a terrible thing
that I do with you. {34:11} Observe you that which I command you this day:
behold, I drive out before you the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite,
and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite. {34:12} Take heed to
yourself, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you
go, lest it be for a snare in the midst of you: {34:13} but you shall break
down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and you shall cut down
their groves; {34:14} for you shall worship no other god: for Yahweh, whose
name is Jealous, is a jealous God: {34:15} lest you make a covenant with the
inhabitants of the land, and they play the prostitute after their gods, and
sacrifices unto their gods, and one call you and you eat of his sacrifice;
{34:16} and you take of their daughters unto your sons, and their daughters
play the prostitute after their gods, and make your sons play the prostitute
after their gods. {34:17} you shall make you no molten gods. {34:18} The feast of unleavened bread
shall you keep. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you,
at the time appointed in the moon Abib; for in the moon Abib you came out from
Egypt. {34:19} All that opens the womb is mine; and all your cattle that is
male, the firstlings of cow and sheep. {34:20} And the firstling of an donkey you
shall redeem with a lamb: and if you will not redeem it, then you shall break
its neck. All the first-born of your sons you shall redeem. And none shall
appear before me empty. {34:21} Six
days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest: in plowing time and
in harvest you shall rest. {34:22} And you shall observe the feast of the Solar
Sevens [Shebuah or the Sabbaton], [even] of the first-fruits of wheat harvest,
and the feast of ingathering at the year's end. {34:23} Three times in the year
shall all your males appear before the Lord Yahweh, the God of Israel. {34:24}
For I will cast out nations before you, and enlarge your borders: neither shall
any man desire your land, when you go up to appear before Yahweh your God three
times in the year. {34:25} you shall
not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the
sacrifice of the feast of the Passover be left unto the morning. {34:26} The
first of the first-fruits of your ground you shall bring unto the house of Yahweh
your God. you shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk. {34:27} And Yahweh
said unto Moses, Write you these words: for after the tenor of these words I
have made a covenant with you and with Israel. {34:28} And he was there with Yahweh
forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he
wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments. {34:29} And it came to pass, when Moses
came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of the testimony in Moses' hand,
when he came down from the mount, that Moses knew not that the skin of his face
shone by reason of his speaking with him. {34:30} And when Aaron and all the
children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were
afraid to come near him. {34:31} And Moses called unto them; and Aaron and all
the rulers of the congregation returned unto him: and Moses spoke to them.
{34:32} And afterward all the children of Israel came near: and he gave them in
commandment all that Yahweh had spoken with him in mount Sinai. {34:33} And
when Moses had done speaking with them, he put a veil on his face. {34:34} But
when Moses went in before Yahweh to speak with him, he took the veil off, until
he came out; and he came out, and spoke unto the children of Israel that which
he was commanded. {34:35} And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses that
the skin of Moses' face shone: and Moses put the veil upon his face again,
until he went in to speak with him.
{o2)35} Exodus Chapter Thirty Five. {35:1} And Moses assembled all the
congregation of the children of Israel, and said unto them, These are the words
which Yahweh has commanded, that you should do them. {35:2} Six days shall work
be done; but on the seventh day there shall be to you a holy day, a Sabbath of
solemn rest to Yahweh: anyone who does any work therein shall be put to death.
{35:3} you shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the Sabbath
day. {35:4} And Moses spoke unto all
the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which Yahweh
commanded, saying, {35:5} Take you from among you an offering unto Yahweh;
anyone who is of a willing heart, let him bring it, Yahweh's offering: gold, and
silver, and brass, {35:6} and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen,
and goats' [hair], {35:7} and rams' skins dyed red, and sealskins, and acacia
wood, {35:8} and oil for the light, and spices for the anointing oil, and for
the sweet incense, {35:9} and onyx stones, and stones to be set, for the ephod,
and for the breastplate. {35:10} And
let every wise-hearted man among you come, and make all that Yahweh has
commanded: {35:11} the tabernacle, its tent, and its covering, its clasps, and
its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its sockets; {35:12} the ark, and the
staves there, the mercy-seat, and the veil of the screen; {35:13} the table,
and its staves, and all its vessels, and the
Showbread; {35:14} the candlestick also for the light, and its vessels,
and its lamps, and the oil for the light; {35:15} and the altar of incense, and
its staves, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the screen for
the door, at the door of the tabernacle; {35:16} the altar of burnt-offering,
with its grating of brass, it staves, and all its vessels, the laver and its
base; {35:17} the hangings of the court, the pillars there, and their sockets,
and the screen for the gate of the court; {35:18} the pins of the tabernacle,
and the pins of the court, and their cords; {35:19} the finely wrought
garments, for ministering in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron the
priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's office. {35:20} And all the congregation of the
children of Israel departed from the presence of Moses. {35:21} And they came,
every one whose heart stirred him up, and every one whom his spirit made
willing, [and] brought Yahweh's offering, for the work of the tent of meeting,
and for all the service there, and for the holy garments. {35:22} And they
came, both men and women, as many as were willing-hearted, [and] brought
brooches, and ear-rings, and signet-rings, and armlets, all jewels of gold;
even every man that offered an offering of gold unto Yahweh. {35:23} And every man,
with whom was found blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats'
[hair], and rams' skins dyed red, and sealskins, brought them. {35:24} Every
one that did offer an offering of silver and brass brought Yahweh's offering;
and every man, with whom was found acacia wood for any work of the service,
brought it. {35:25} And all the women that were wise-hearted did spin with
their hands, and brought that which they had spun, the blue, and the purple,
the scarlet, and the fine linen. {35:26} And all the women whose heart stirred
them up in wisdom spun the goats' [hair]. {35:27} And the rulers brought the
onyx stones, and the stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate;
{35:28} and the spice, and the oil; for the light, and for the anointing oil,
and for the sweet incense. {35:29} The children of Israel brought a
freewill-offering unto Yahweh; every man and woman, whose heart made them
willing to bring for all the work, which Yahweh had commanded to be made by
Moses. {35:30} And Moses said unto the
children of Israel, See, Yahweh has called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the
son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah. {35:31} And he has filled him with the
Spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner
of workmanship; {35:32} and to devise skilful works, to work in gold, and in
silver, and in brass, {35:33} and in cutting of stones for setting, and in
carving of wood, to work in all manner of skilful workmanship. {35:34} And he
has put in his heart that he may teach, both he, and Oholiab, the son of
Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan. {35:35} Them has he filled with wisdom of
heart, to work all manner of workmanship, of the engraver, and of the skilful
workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in
fine linen, and of the weaver, even of them that do any workmanship, and of
those that devise skilful works.
{O2)36} Exodus Chapter Thirty Six. {36:1} And Bezalel and
Oholiab shall work, and every wise-hearted man, in whom Yahweh has put wisdom
and understanding to know how to work all the work for the service of the
sanctuary, according to all that Yahweh has commanded. {36:2} And Moses called Bezalel and
Oholiab, and every wise-hearted man, in whose heart Yahweh had put wisdom, even
every one whose heart stirred him up to come unto the work to do it: {36:3} and
they received of Moses all the offering which the children of Israel had
brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, wherewith to make it. And
they brought yet unto him freewill-offerings every morning. {36:4} And all the
wise men, that wrought all the work of the sanctuary, came every man from his
work which they wrought. {36:5} And they spoke unto Moses, saying, The people
bring much more than enough for the service of the work which Yahweh commanded
to make. {36:6} And Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed
throughout the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman make any more work for
the offering of the sanctuary. So the people were restrained from bringing.
{36:7} For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it, and
too much. {36:8} And all the
wise-hearted men among them that wrought the work made the tabernacle with ten
curtains; of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, with
cherubim, the work of the skilful workman, [Bezalel] made them. {36:9} The
length of each curtain was eight and twenty cubits, and the breadth of each
curtain four cubits: all the curtains had one measure. {36:10} And he coupled
five curtains one to another: and [the other] five curtains he coupled one to
another. {36:11} And he made loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain
from the selvedge in the coupling: likewise he made in the edge of the curtain
that was outmost in the second coupling. {36:12} Fifty loops made he in the one
curtain, and fifty loops made he in the edge of the curtain that was in the
second coupling: the loops were opposite one to another. {36:13} And he made
fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains one to another with the clasps:
so the tabernacle was one. {36:14} And
he made curtains of goats' [hair] for a tent over the tabernacle: eleven
curtains he made them. {36:15} The length of each curtain was thirty cubits,
and four cubits the breadth of each curtain: the eleven curtains had one
measure. {36:16} And he coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains
by themselves. {36:17} And he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that
was outmost in the coupling, and fifty loops made he upon the edge of the
curtain which was [outmost in] the second coupling. {36:18} And he made fifty
clasps of brass to couple the tent together, that it might be one. {36:19} And
he made a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of
sealskins above. {36:20} And he made
the boards for the tabernacle, of acacia wood, standing up. {36:21} Ten cubits
was the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each board.
{36:22} Each board had two tenons, joined one to another: thus did he make for
all the boards of the tabernacle. {36:23} And he made the boards for the
tabernacle: twenty boards for the south side southward. {36:24} And he made
forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board
for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.
{36:25} And for the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, he made
twenty boards, {36:26} and their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one
board, and two sockets under another board. {36:27} And for the hinder part of
the tabernacle westward he made six boards. {36:28} And two boards made he for
the corners of the tabernacle in the hinder part. {36:29} And they were double
beneath; and in like manner they were entire unto the top of it unto one ring:
thus he did to both of them in the two corners. {36:30} And there were eight
boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; under every board two
sockets. {36:31} And he made bars of
acacia wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle, {36:32} and
five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for
the boards of the tabernacle for the hinder part westward. {36:33} And he made
the middle bar to pass through in the midst of the boards from the one end to
the other. {36:34} And he overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings
of gold for places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold. {36:35} And he made the veil of blue, and
purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubim, the work of the
skilful workman, made he it. {36:36} And he made thereunto four pillars of
acacia, and overlaid them with gold: their hooks were of gold; And he cast for
them four sockets of silver. {36:37} And he made a screen for the door of the
Tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the
embroiderer; {36:38} and the five pillars of it with their hooks: and he
overlaid their capitals and their fillets with gold; and their five sockets
were of brass.
{O2)37} Exodus Chapter Thirty
Seven. {37:1} And Bezalel made the ark
of acacia wood: two cubits and a half was the length of it, and a cubit and a
half the breadth of it, and a cubit and a half the height of it: {37:2} and he
overlaid it with pure gold within and outside, and made a crown of gold to it
round about. {37:3} And he cast for it four rings of gold, in the four feet
there; even two rings on the one side of it, and two rings on the other side of
it. {37:4} And he made staves of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold. {37:5}
And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the ark, to bear the ark.
{37:6} And he made a mercy-seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half [was] the
length there, and a cubit and a half the breadth there. {37:7} And he made two
cherubim of gold; of beaten work made he them, at the two ends of the
mercy-seat; {37:8} one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other end:
of one piece with the mercy-seat made he the cherubim at the two ends there.
{37:9} And the cherubim spread out their wings on high, covering the mercy-seat
with their wings, with their faces one to another; toward the mercy-seat were
the faces of the cherubim. {37:10} And
he made the table of acacia wood: two cubits [was] the length there, and a
cubit the breadth there, and a cubit and a half the height there: {37:11} and
he overlaid it with pure gold, and made thereto a crown of gold round about.
{37:12} And he made unto it a border of a handbreadth round about, and made a
golden crown to the border of it round about. {37:13} And he cast for it four
rings of gold, and put the rings in the four corners that were on the four feet
there. {37:14} Close by the border were the rings, the places for the staves to
bear the table. {37:15} And he made the staves of acacia wood, and overlaid
them with gold, to bear the table. {37:16} And he made the vessels which were
upon the table, the dishes there, and the spoons there, and the bowls there,
and the flagons there, wherewith to pour out, of pure gold. {37:17} And he made the candlestick of pure
gold: of beaten work made he the candlestick, even its base, and its shaft; its
cups, it knops, and its flowers, were of one piece with it: {37:18} and there
were six branches going out of the sides there; three branches of the candlestick
out of the one side there, and three branches of the candlestick out of the
other side there: {37:19} three cups made like almond-blossoms in one branch, a
knop and a flower, and three cups made like almond-blossoms in the other
branch, a knop and a flower: so for the six branches going out of the
candlestick. {37:20} And in the candlestick were four cups made like
almond-blossoms, the knops there, and the flowers there; {37:21} and a knop
under two branches of one piece with it, and a knop under two branches of one
piece with it, and a knop under two branches of one piece with it, for the six
branches going out of it. {37:22} Their knops and their branches were of one
piece with it: the whole of it was one beaten work of pure gold. {37:23} And he
made the lamps there, seven, and the snuffers there, and the snuff dishes
there, of pure gold. {37:24} Of a talent of pure gold made he it, and all the
vessels there. {37:25} And he made the
altar of incense of acacia wood: a cubit was the length there, and a cubit the
breadth there, foursquare; and two cubits was the height there; the horns of it
were of one piece with it. {37:26} And he overlaid it with pure gold, the top
there, and the sides of it round about, and the horns of it: and he made unto
it a crown of gold round about. {37:27} And he made for it two golden rings
under the crown there, upon the two ribs there, upon the two sides of it, for
places for staves wherewith to bear it. {37:28} And he made the staves of
acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold. {37:29} And he made the holy
anointing oil, and the pure incense of sweet spices, after the are of the
perfumer.
{O2)38} Exodus Chapter Thirty
Eight. {38:1} And he made the altar of burnt-offering of acacia wood: five
cubits was the length there, and five cubits the breadth there, foursquare; and
three cubits the height there. {38:2} And he made the horns of it upon the four
corners of it; the horns of it were of one piece with it: and he overlaid it
with brass. {38:3} And he made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, and the
shovels, and the basins, the flesh-hooks, and the fire pans: all the vessels of
it made he of brass. {38:4} And he made for the altar a grating of network of
brass, under the ledge round it beneath, reaching halfway up. {38:5} And he
cast four rings for the four ends of the grating of brass, to be places for the
staves. {38:6} And he made the staves of acacia wood, and overlaid them with
brass. {38:7} And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar,
wherewith to bear it; he made it hollow with planks. {38:8} And he made the laver of brass, and
the base of it of brass, of the mirrors of the ministering women that
ministered at the door of the tent of meeting. {38:9} And he made the court: for the south
side southward the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, a hundred
cubits; {38:10} their pillars were twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass;
the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver. {38:11} And for the
north side a hundred cubits, their pillars twenty, and their sockets twenty, of
brass; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver. {38:12} And for
the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their
sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver. {38:13}
And for the east side eastward fifty cubits. {38:14} The hangings for the one
side [of the gate] were fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets
three; {38:15} and so for the other side: on this hand and that hand by the gate
of the court were hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their
sockets three. {38:16} All the hangings of the court round about were of fine
twined linen. {38:17} And the sockets for the pillars were of brass; the hooks
of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver; and the overlaying of their
capitals, of silver; and all the pillars of the court were filleted with
silver. {38:18} And the screen for the gate of the court was the work of the
embroiderer, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: and
twenty cubits was the length, and the height in the breadth was five cubits,
answerable to the hangings of the court. {38:19} And their pillars were four,
and their sockets four, of brass; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of
their capitals, and their fillets, of silver. {38:20} And all the pins of the
tabernacle, and of the court round about, were of brass. {38:21} This is the sum of [the things for]
the tabernacle, even the tabernacle of the testimony, as they were counted,
according to the commandment of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the
hand of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest. {38:22} And Bezalel the son of
Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that Yahweh commanded
Moses. {38:23} And with him was Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of
Dan, an engraver, and a skilful workman, and an embroiderer in blue, and in
purple, and in scarlet, and in fine linen.
{38:24} All the gold that was used for the work in all the work of the
sanctuary, even the gold of the offering, was twenty and nine talents, and
seven hundred and thirty shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary. {38:25}
And the silver of them that were numbered of the congregation was a hundred
talents, and a thousand seven hundred and threescore and fifteen shekels, after
the shekel of the sanctuary: {38:26} a beak a head, [that is], half a shekel,
after the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that passed over to them that
were numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred thousand and
three thousand and five hundred and fifty men. {38:27} And the hundred talents
of silver were for casting the sockets of the sanctuary, and the sockets of the
veil; a hundred sockets for the hundred talents, a talent for a socket. {38:28}
And of the thousand seven hundred seventy and five [shekels] he made hooks for
the pillars, and overlaid their capitals, and made fillets for them. {38:29}
And the brass of the offering was seventy talents, and two thousand and four
hundred shekels. {38:30} And with he made the sockets to the door of the tent
of meeting, and the brazen altar, and the brazen grating for it, and all the
vessels of the altar, {38:31} and the sockets of the court round about, and the
sockets of the gate of the court, and all the pins of the tabernacle, and all
the pins of the court round about.
{O2)39} Exodus Chapter Thirty
Nine. {39:1} And of the blue, and purple, and scarlet, they made finely wrought
garments, for ministering in the holy place, and made the holy garments for
Aaron; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
{39:2} And he made the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and
fine twined linen. {39:3} And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut
it into wires, to work it in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet,
and in the fine linen, the work of the skilful workman. {39:4} They made
shoulder-pieces for it, joined together; at the two ends was it joined
together. {39:5} And the skillfully woven band, that was upon it, wherewith to
gird it on, was of the same piece [and] like the work there; of gold, of blue,
and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen; as Yahweh commanded Moses. {39:6} And they wrought the onyx stones,
enclosed in settings of gold, graven with the engravings of a signet, according
to the names of the children of Israel. {39:7} And he put them on the
shoulder-pieces of the ephod, to be stones of memorial for the children of
Israel; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
{39:8} And he made the breastplate, the work of the skilful workman,
like the work of the ephod; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine
twined linen. {39:9} It was foursquare; they made the breastplate double: a
span was the length there, and a span the breadth there, being double. {39:10}
And they set in it four rows of stones. A row of sardius, topaz, and carbuncle
was the first row; {39:11} and the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a
diamond; {39:12} and the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;
{39:13} and the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper: they were enclosed
in inclosing of gold in their settings. {39:14} And the stones were according
to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names; like
the engravings of a signet, every one according to his name, for the twelve
tribes. {39:15} And they made upon the breastplate chains like cords, of
wreathen work of pure gold. {39:16} And they made two settings of gold, and two
gold rings, and put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate. {39:17}
And they put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings at the ends of
the breastplate. {39:18} And the [other] two ends of the two wreathen chains
they put on the two settings, and put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod,
in the forepart there. {39:19} And they made two rings of gold, and put them
upon the two ends of the breastplate, upon the edge there, which was toward the
side of the ephod inward. {39:20} And they made two rings of gold, and put them
on the two shoulder-pieces of the ephod underneath, in the front part there,
close by the coupling there, above the skillfully woven band of the ephod.
{39:21} And they did bind the breastplate by the rings of it unto the rings of
the ephod with a lace of blue, that it might be upon the skillfully woven band
of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not be loosed from the ephod; as Yahweh
commanded Moses. {39:22} And he made
the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue. {39:23} And the hole of the
robe in the midst there, as the hole of a coat of mail, with a binding round
about the hole of it, that it should not be rent. {39:24} And they made upon
the skirts of the robe pomegranates of blue, and purple, and scarlet, [and]
twined [linen]. {39:25} And they made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between
the pomegranates upon the skirts of the robe round about, between the
pomegranates; {39:26} a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, upon
the skirts of the robe round about, to minister in; as Yahweh commanded
Moses. {39:27} And they made the coats
of fine linen of woven work for Aaron, and for his sons, {39:28} and the mitre
of fine linen, and the goodly head-tires of fine linen, and the linen breeches
of fine twined linen, {39:29} and the girdle of fine twined linen, and blue,
and purple, and scarlet, the work of the embroiderer; as Yahweh commanded
Moses. {39:30} And they made the plate
of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote upon it a writing, like the
engravings of a signet, HOLY TO YAHWEH. {39:31} And they tied unto it a lace of
blue, to fasten it upon the mitre above; as Yahweh commanded Moses. {39:32} Thus was finished all the work of
the tabernacle of the tent of meeting: and the children of Israel did according
to all that Yahweh commanded Moses; so did they. {39:33} And they brought the
tabernacle unto Moses, the Tent, and all its furniture, its clasps, its boards,
it bars, and its pillars, and it sockets; {39:34} and the covering of rams'
skins dyed red, and the covering of sealskins, and the veil of the screen;
{39:35} the ark of the testimony, and the staves there, and the mercy-seat;
{39:36} the table, all the vessels there, and the showbread; {39:37} the pure
candlestick, the lamps there, even the lamps to be set in order, and all the
vessels there, and the oil for the light; {39:38} and the golden altar, and the
anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the screen for the door of the Tent;
{39:39} the brazen altar, and its grating of brass, its staves, and all its
Vessels, the laver and its base; {39:40} the hangings of the court, its
pillars, and its sockets, and the screen for the gate of the court, the cords
there, and the pins there, and all the instruments of the service of the
tabernacle, for the tent of meeting; {39:41} the finely wrought garments for
ministering in the holy place, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and
the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's office. {39:42} According
to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did all the work.
{39:43} And Moses saw all the work, and, behold, they had done it; as Yahweh
had commanded, even so had they done it: and Moses blessed them.
{O2)40} Exodus Chapter Forty. {40:1} And Yahweh spoke unto Moses, saying,
{40:2} On the first [All dark night of the solar] day of the first moon [Abib] shall you rear up the tabernacle of
the tent of meeting. {40:3} And you shall put therein the ark of the testimony,
and you shall screen the ark with the veil. {40:4} And you shall bring in the
table, and set in order the things that are upon it; and you shall bring in the
candlestick, and light the lamps there. {40:5} And you shall set the golden
altar for incense before the ark of the testimony, and put the screen of the
door to the tabernacle. {40:6} And you shall set the altar of burnt-offering
before the door of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting. {40:7} And you shall
set the laver between the tent of meeting and the altar, and shall put water
therein. {40:8} And you shall set up the court round about, and hang up the
screen of the gate of the court. {40:9} And you shall take the anointing oil,
and anoint the tabernacle, and all that is therein, and shall hallow it, and
all the furniture there: and it shall be holy. {40:10} And you shall anoint the
altar of burnt-offering, and all its vessels, and sanctify the altar: and the
altar shall be most holy. {40:11} And you shall anoint the laver and its base,
and sanctify it. {40:12} And you shall bring Aaron and his sons unto the door
of the tent of meeting, and shall wash them with water. {40:13} And you shall
put upon Aaron the holy garments; and you shall anoint him, and sanctify him,
that he may minister unto me in the priest's office. {40:14} And you shall
bring his sons, and put coats upon them; {40:15} and you shall anoint them, as
you did anoint their father, that they may minister unto me in the priest's
office: and their anointing shall be to them for an everlasting priesthood
throughout their generations. {40:16} Thus did Moses: according to all that Yahweh
commanded him, so did he. {40:17} And
it came to pass in the a [of resurrection named, Abib} in the second year, on
the first [all dark night of the first solar] day of the moon, that the
tabernacle was reared up. {40:18} And Moses reared up the tabernacle, and laid
its sockets, and set up the boards there, and put in the bars there, and reared
up its pillars. {40:19} And he spread the tent over the tabernacle, and put the
covering of the tent above upon it; as Yahweh commanded Moses. {40:20} And he
took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the staves on the ark, and put
the mercy-seat above upon the ark: {40:21} and he brought the ark into the
tabernacle, and set up the veil of the screen, and screened the ark of the
testimony; as Yahweh commanded Moses. {40:22} And he put the table in the tent
of meeting, upon the side of the tabernacle northward, outside the veil.
{40:23} And he set the bread in order upon it before Yahweh; as Yahweh
commanded Moses. {40:24} And he put the candlestick in the tent of meeting,
over against the table, on the side of the tabernacle southward. {40:25} And he
lighted the lamps before Yahweh; as Yahweh commanded Moses. {40:26} And he put
the golden altar in the tent of meeting before the veil: {40:27} and he burnt
thereon incense of sweet spices; as Yahweh commanded Moses. {40:28} And he put
the screen of the door to the tabernacle. {40:29} And he set the altar of
burnt-offering at the door of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, and
offered upon it the burnt-offering and the meal-offering; as Yahweh commanded
Moses. {40:30} And he set the laver
between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water therein, wherewith to
wash. {40:31} And Moses and Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their
feet thereat; {40:32} when they went into the tent of meeting, and when they
came near unto the altar, they washed; as Yahweh commanded Moses. {40:33} And
he reared up the court round about the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the
screen of the gate of the court. So Moses finished the work. {40:34} Then the cloud covered the tent of
meeting, and the glory of Yahweh filled the tabernacle. {40:35} And Moses was
not able to enter into the tent of meeting, because the cloud abode thereon,
and the glory of Yahweh filled the tabernacle. {40:36} And when the cloud was
taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward,
throughout all their journeys: {40:37} but if the cloud was not taken up, then
they journeyed not till the day that it was taken up. {40:38} For the cloud of Yahweh
was upon the tabernacle by day, and there was fire therein by night, in the
sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.
{O3)1} Leviticus Chapter One. {1:1} And Yahweh called unto Moses, and
spoke unto him out of the tent of meeting, saying, {1:2} Speak unto the
children of Israel, and say unto them, When any man of you offers an oblation
unto Yahweh, you shall offer your oblation of the cattle, [even] of the herd
and of the flock. {1:3} If his
oblation be a burnt-offering of the herd, he shall offer it a male outside
blemish: he shall offer it at the door of the tent of meeting, that he may be
accepted before Yahweh. {1:4} And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the
burnt-offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.
{1:5} And he shall kill the bullock before Yahweh: and Aaron's sons, the
priests, shall present the blood, and sprinkle the blood round about upon the
altar that is at the door of the tent of meeting. {1:6} And he shall flay the
burnt-offering, and cut it into its pieces. {1:7} And the sons of Aaron the
priest shall put fire upon the altar, and lay wood in order upon the fire;
{1:8} and Aaron's sons, the priests, shall lay the pieces, the head, and the
fat, in order upon the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar: {1:9}
but its inwards and its legs shall he wash with water: and the priest shall
burn the whole on the altar, for a burnt-offering, an offering made by fire, of
a sweet savor unto Yahweh. {1:10} And
if his oblation be of the flock, of the sheep, or of the goats, for a
burnt-offering; he shall offer it a male outside blemish. {1:11} And he shall
kill it on the side of the altar northward before Yahweh: and Aaron's sons, the
priests, shall sprinkle its blood upon the altar round about. {1:12} And he
shall cut it into its pieces, with its head and its fat; and the priest shall
lay them in order on the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar:
{1:13} but the inwards and the legs shall he wash with water; and the priest
shall offer the whole, and burn it upon the altar: it is a burnt-offering, an
offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto Yahweh. {1:14} And if his oblation to Yahweh be a
burnt-offering of birds, then he shall offer his oblation of turtle-doves, or
of young pigeons. {1:15} And the priest shall bring it unto the altar, and
wring off its head, and burn it on the altar; and the blood of it shall be
drained out on the side of the altar; {1:16} and he shall take away its crop
with the filth there, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, in the
place of the ashes: {1:17} and he shall rend it by the wings there, [but] shall
not divide it asunder; and the priest shall burn it upon the altar, upon the
wood that is upon the fire: it is a burnt-offering, an offering made by fire,
of a sweet savor unto Yahweh.
{O3)2} Leviticus Chapter two. {2:1} And when any one offers an oblation of
a meal-offering unto Yahweh, his oblation shall be of fine flour; and he shall
pour oil upon it, and put frankincense thereon: {2:2} and he shall bring it to
Aaron's sons the priests; and he shall take out his handful of the fine flour
there, and of the oil there, with all the frankincense there; and the priest
shall burn [it as] the memorial of it upon the altar, an offering made by fire,
of a sweet savor unto Yahweh: {2:3} and that which is left of the meal-offering
shall be Aaron's and his sons': it is a thing most holy of the offerings of Yahweh
made by fire. {2:4} And when you offer
an oblation of a meal-offering baked in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes
of fine flour mingled with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil. {2:5}
And if your oblation be a meal-offering of the baking-pan, it shall be of fine
flour unleavened, mingled with oil. {2:6} you shall part it in pieces, and pour
oil thereon: it is a meal-offering. {2:7} And if your oblation be a
meal-offering of the frying-pan, it shall be made of fine flour with oil. {2:8}
And you shall bring the meal-offering that is made of these things unto Yahweh:
and it shall be presented unto the priest, and he shall bring it unto the
altar. {2:9} And the priest shall take up from the meal-offering the memorial
there, and shall burn it upon the altar, an offering made by fire, of a sweet
savor unto Yahweh. {2:10} And that which is left of the meal-offering shall be
Aaron's and his sons': it is a thing most holy of the offerings of Yahweh made
by fire. {2:11} No meal-offering,
which you shall offer unto Yahweh, shall be made with leaven; for you shall
burn no leaven, nor any honey, as an offering made by fire unto Yahweh. {2:12}
As an oblation of first-[fruits] you shall offer them unto Yahweh: but they
shall not come up for a sweet savor on the altar. {2:13} And every oblation of
your meal-offering shall you season with salt; neither shall you suffer the
salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your meal-offering: with
all your oblations you shall offer salt.
{2:14} And if you offer a meal-offering of first-fruits unto Yahweh, you
shall offer for the meal-offering of your first-fruits grain in the ear parched
with fire, bruised grain of the fresh ear. {2:15} And you shall put oil upon
it, and lay frankincense thereon: it is a meal-offering. {2:16} And the priest
shall burn the memorial of it, part of the crushed grain there, and part of the
oil there, with all the frankincense there: it is an offering made by fire unto
Yahweh.
{O3)3} Leviticus Chapter
Three. {3:1} And if his oblation be a
sacrifice of peace-offerings; if he offer of the herd, whether male or female,
he shall offer it outside blemish before Yahweh. {3:2} And he shall lay his
hand upon the head of his oblation, and kill it at the door of the tent of
meeting: and Aaron's sons the priests shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar
round about. {3:3} And he shall offer of the sacrifice of peace-offerings an
offering made by fire unto Yahweh; the fat that covers the inwards, and all the
fat that is upon the inwards, {3:4} and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on
them, which is by the loins, and the caul upon the liver, with the kidneys,
shall he take away. {3:5} And Aaron's sons shall burn it on the altar upon the
burnt-offering, which is upon the wood that is on the fire: it is an offering
made by fire, of a sweet savor unto Yahweh.
{3:6} And if his oblation for a sacrifice of peace-offerings unto Yahweh
be of the flock; male or female, he shall offer it outside blemish. {3:7} If he
offer a lamb for his oblation, then shall he offer it before Yahweh; {3:8} and
he shall lay his hand upon the head of his oblation, and kill it before the
tent of meeting: and Aaron's sons shall sprinkle the blood of it upon the altar
round about. {3:9} And he shall offer of the sacrifice of peace-offerings an
offering made by fire unto Yahweh; the fat there, the fat tail entire, he shall
take away hard by the backbone; and the fat that covers the inwards, and all
the fat that is upon the inwards, {3:10} and the two kidneys, and the fat that
is upon them, which is by the loins, and the caul upon the liver, with the
kidneys, shall he take away. {3:11} And the priest shall burn it upon the
altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire unto Yahweh. {3:12} And if his oblation be a goat, then
he shall offer it before Yahweh: {3:13} and he shall lay his hand upon the head
of it, and kill it before the tent of meeting; and the sons of Aaron shall
sprinkle the blood of it upon the altar round about. {3:14} And he shall offer
of it his oblation, [even] an offering made by fire unto Yahweh; the fat that
covers the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards, {3:15} and the
two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is by the loins, and the caul
upon the liver, with the kidneys, shall he take away. {3:16} And the priest
shall burn them upon the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire,
for a sweet savor; all the fat is Yahweh's. {3:17} It shall be a perpetual
statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that you shall eat
neither fat nor blood.
{O3)4} Leviticus Chapter Four. {4:1} And Yahweh spoke unto Moses, saying,
{4:2} Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any one shall sin
unwittingly, in any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done,
and shall do any one of them: {4:3} if the anointed priest shall sin so as to
bring guilt on the people, then let him offer for his sin, which he has sinned,
a young bullock outside blemish unto Yahweh for a sin-offering. {4:4} And he
shall bring the bullock unto the door of the tent of meeting before Yahweh; and
he shall lay his hand upon the head of the bullock, and kill the bullock before
Yahweh. {4:5} And the anointed priest shall take of the blood of the bullock,
and bring it to the tent of meeting: {4:6} and the priest shall dip his finger
in the blood, and sprinkle of the blood seven times before Yahweh, before the
veil of the sanctuary. {4:7} And the priest shall put of the blood upon the
horns of the altar of sweet incense before Yahweh, which is in the tent of
meeting; and all the blood of the bullock shall he pour out at the base of the
altar of burnt-offering, which is at the door of the tent of meeting. {4:8} And
all the fat of the bullock of the sin-offering he shall take off from it; the
fat that covers the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards, {4:9}
and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is by the loins, and
the caul upon the liver, with the kidneys, shall he take away, {4:10} as it is
taken off from the ox of the sacrifice of peace-offerings: and the priest shall
burn them upon the altar of burnt-offering. {4:11} And the skin of the bullock,
and all its flesh, with its head, and with its legs, and its inwards, and its
dung, {4:12} even the whole bullock shall he carry forth outside the camp unto
a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn it on wood with fire:
where the ashes are poured out shall it be burnt. {4:13} And if the whole congregation of
Israel err, and the thing be hid from the eyes of the assembly, and they have
done any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done, and are
guilty; {4:14} when the sin wherein they have sinned is known, then the
assembly shall offer a young bullock for a sin-offering, and bring it before
the tent of meeting. {4:15} And the elders of the congregation shall lay their
hands upon the head of the bullock before Yahweh; and the bullock shall be
killed before Yahweh. {4:16} And the anointed priest shall bring of the blood
of the bullock to the tent of meeting: {4:17} and the priest shall dip his
finger in the blood, and sprinkle it seven times before Yahweh, before the
veil. {4:18} And he shall put of the blood upon the horns of the altar which is
before Yahweh, that is in the tent of meeting; and all the blood shall he pour
out at the base of the altar of burnt-offering, which is at the door of the
tent of meeting. {4:19} And all the fat of it shall he take off from it, and
burn it upon the altar. {4:20} Thus shall he do with the bullock; as he did
with the bullock of the sin-offering, so shall he do with this; and the priest
shall make atonement for them, and they shall be forgiven. {4:21} And he shall
carry forth the bullock outside the camp, and burn it as he burned the first
bullock: it is the sin-offering for the assembly. {4:22} When a ruler sins, and does
unwittingly any one of all the things which Yahweh his God has commanded not to
be done, and is guilty; {4:23} if his sin, wherein he has sinned, be made known
to him, he shall bring for his oblation a goat, a male outside blemish. {4:24}
And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the goat, and kill it in the place
where they kill the burnt-offering before Yahweh: it is a sin-offering. {4:25}
And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin-offering with his finger, and
put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt-offering; and the blood of it shall
he pour out at the base of the altar of burnt-offering. {4:26} And all the fat
of it shall he burn upon the altar, as the fat of the sacrifice of
peace-offerings; and the priest shall make atonement for him as concerning his
sin, and he shall be forgiven. {4:27}
And if any one of the common people sin unwittingly, in doing any of the things
which Yahweh has commanded not to be done, and be guilty; {4:28} if his sin,
which he has sinned, be made known to him, then he shall bring for his oblation
a goat, a female outside blemish, for his sin which he has sinned. {4:29} And
he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin-offering, and kill the
sin-offering in the place of burnt-offering. {4:30} And the priest shall take
of the blood there with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of
burnt-offering; and all the blood of it shall he pour out at the base of the
altar. {4:31} And all the fat of it shall he take away, as the fat is taken
away from off the sacrifice of peace-offerings; and the priest shall burn it
upon the altar for a sweet savor unto Yahweh; and the priest shall make
atonement for him, and he shall be forgiven.
{4:32} And if he bring a lamb as his oblation for a sin-offering, he
shall bring it a female outside blemish. {4:33} And he shall lay his hand upon
the head of the sin-offering, and kill it for a sin-offering in the place where
they kill the burnt-offering. {4:34} And the priest shall take of the blood of
the sin-offering with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of
burnt-offering; and all the blood of it shall he pour out at the base of the
altar: {4:35} and all the fat of it shall he take away, as the fat of the lamb
is taken away from the sacrifice of peace-offerings; and the priest shall burn
them on the altar, upon the offerings of Yahweh made by fire; and the priest
shall make atonement for him as touching his sin that he has sinned, and he
shall be forgiven.
{O3)5} Leviticus Chapter Five. {5:1} And if any one sin, in that he hears
the voice of adjuration, he being a witness, whether he has seen or known, if
he do not utter [it], then he shall bear his works against law. {5:2} Or if any
one touch any unclean thing, whether it be the carcass of an unclean beast, or
the carcass of unclean cattle, or the carcass of unclean creeping things, and
it be hidden from him, and he be unclean, then he shall be guilty. {5:3} Or if
he touch the uncleanness of man, what ever his uncleanness be wherewith he is
unclean, and it be hid from him; when he knows of it, then he shall be guilty.
{5:4} Or if any one swear rashly with his lips to do evil, or to do good, what
ever it be that a man shall utter rashly with an oath, and it be hid from him;
when he knows of it, then he shall be guilty in one of these [things]. {5:5}
And it shall be, when he shall be guilty in one of these [things], that he
shall confess that wherein he has sinned: {5:6} and he shall bring his
trespass-offering unto Yahweh for his sin which he has sinned, a female from
the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin-offering; and the priest shall make
atonement for him as concerning his sin.
{5:7} And if he is too poor, for the price of a lamb, then he shall
bring his trespass-offering for that wherein he has sinned, two turtle-doves,
or two young pigeons, unto Yahweh; one for a sin-offering, and the other for a
burnt-offering. {5:8} And he shall bring them unto the priest, who shall offer
that which is for the sin-offering first, and wring off its head from its neck,
but shall not divide it asunder: {5:9} and he shall sprinkle of the blood of
the sin-offering upon the side of the altar; and the rest of the blood shall be
drained out at the base of the altar: it is a sin-offering. {5:10} And he shall
offer the second for a burnt-offering, according to the ordinance; and the
priest shall make atonement for him as concerning his sin which he has sinned,
and he shall be forgiven. {5:11} But
if he is to poor for the price of two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, then
he shall bring his oblation for that wherein he has sinned, the tenth part of
an ephah of fine flour for a sin-offering: he shall put no oil upon it, neither
shall he put any frankincense thereon; for it is a sin-offering. {5:12} And he
shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it as
the memorial there, and burn it on the altar, upon the offerings of Yahweh made
by fire: it is a sin-offering. {5:13} And the priest shall make atonement for
him as touching his sin that he has sinned in any of these things, and he shall
be forgiven: and [the remnant] shall be the priest's, as the
meal-offering. {5:14} And Yahweh spoke
unto Moses, saying, {5:15} If any one commit a trespass, and sin unwittingly,
in the holy things of Yahweh; then he shall bring his trespass-offering unto Yahweh,
a ram outside blemish out of the flock, according to your estimation in silver
by shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass-offering: {5:16}
and he shall make restitution for that which he has done amiss in the holy thing,
and shall add the fifth part thereto, and give it unto the priest; and the
priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass-offering, and
he shall be forgiven. {5:17} And if
any one sin, and do any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be
done; though he knew it not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his works against
law. {5:18} And he shall bring a ram outside blemish out of the flock,
according to your estimation, for a trespass-offering, unto the priest; and the
priest shall make atonement for him concerning the thing wherein he erred
unwittingly and knew it not, and he shall be forgiven. {5:19} It is a
trespass-offering: he is certainly guilty before Yahweh.
{O3)6} Leviticus Chapter Six. {6:1} And Yahweh spoke unto Moses, saying,
{6:2} If any one sin, and commit a trespass against Yahweh, and deal falsely
with his neighbor in a matter of deposit, or of bargain, or of robbery, or have
oppressed his neighbor, {6:3} or have found that which was lost, and deal
falsely therein, and swear to a lie; in any of all these things that a man
does, sinning therein; {6:4} then it shall be, if he has sinned, and is guilty,
that he shall restore that which he took by robbery, or the thing which he has
gotten by oppression, or the deposit which was committed to him, or the lost
thing which he found, {6:5} or any thing about which he has sworn falsely; he
shall even restore it in full, and shall add the fifth part more thereto: unto
him to whom it appertains shall he give it, in the day of his being found
guilty. {6:6} And he shall bring his trespass-offering unto Yahweh, a ram
outside blemish out of the flock, according to your estimation, for a
trespass-offering, unto the priest: {6:7} and the priest shall make atonement
for him before Yahweh; and he shall be forgiven concerning what ever he does so
as to be guilty thereby. {6:8} And Yahweh
spoke unto Moses, saying, {6:9} Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the
law of the burnt-offering: the burnt-offering shall be on the hearth upon the
altar all night unto the morning; and the fire of the altar shall be kept
burning thereon. {6:10} And the priest shall put on his linen garment, and his
linen breeches shall he put upon his flesh; and he shall take up the ashes
whereto the fire has consumed the burnt-offering on the altar, and he shall put
them beside the altar. {6:11} And he shall put off his garments, and put on
other garments, and carry forth the ashes outside the camp unto a clean place.
{6:12} And the fire upon the altar shall be kept burning thereon, it shall not
go out; and the priest shall burn wood on it every morning: and he shall lay
the burnt-offering in order upon it, and shall burn thereon the fat of the
peace-offerings. {6:13} Fire shall be kept burning upon the altar continually;
it shall not go out. {6:14} And this
is the law of the meal-offering: the sons of Aaron shall offer it before Yahweh,
before the altar. {6:15} And he shall take up there from his handful, of the
fine flour of the meal-offering, and of the oil there, and all the frankincense
which is upon the meal-offering, and shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet
savor, as the memorial there, unto Yahweh. {6:16} And that which is left of it
shall Aaron and his sons eat: it shall be eaten outside leaven in a holy place;
in the court of the tent of meeting they shall eat it. {6:17} It shall not be
baked with leaven. I have given it as their portion of my offerings made by
fire; it is most holy, as the sin-offering, and as the trespass-offering.
{6:18} Every male among the children of Aaron shall eat of it, as [his] portion
for ever throughout your generations, from the offerings of Yahweh made by
fire: anyone who touches them shall be holy.
{6:19} And Yahweh spoke unto Moses, saying, {6:20} This is the oblation
of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall offer unto Yahweh in the day when he
is anointed: the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meal-offering
perpetually, half of it in the morning, and half of it in the evening. {6:21}
On a baking-pan it shall be made with oil; when it is soaked, you shall bring
it in: in baked pieces shall you offer the meal-offering for a sweet savor unto
Yahweh. {6:22} And the anointed priest that shall be in his stead from among
his sons shall offer it: by a statute for ever it shall be wholly burnt unto Yahweh.
{6:23} And every meal-offering of the priest shall be wholly burnt: it shall
not be eaten. {6:24} And Yahweh spoke
unto Moses, saying, {6:25} Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, saying, This is
the law of the sin-offering: in the place where the burnt-offering is killed
shall the sin-offering be killed before Yahweh: it is most holy. {6:26} The
priest that offers it for sin shall eat it: in a holy place shall it be eaten,
in the court of the tent of meeting. {6:27} What ever shall touch the flesh of
it shall be holy; and when there is sprinkled of the blood there upon any
garment, you shall wash that whereon it was sprinkled in a holy place. {6:28}
But the earthen vessel wherein it is boiled shall be broken; and if it be
boiled in a brazen vessel, it shall be scoured, and rinsed in water. {6:29}
Every male among the priests shall eat there: it is most holy. {6:30} And no
sin-offering, where any of the blood is brought into the tent of meeting to
make atonement in the holy place, shall be eaten: it shall be burnt with fire.
{O3)7} Leviticus Chapter
Seven. {7:1} And this is the law of the
trespass-offering: it is most holy. {7:2} In the place where they kill the
burnt-offering shall they kill the trespass-offering; and the blood of it shall
he sprinkle upon the altar round about. {7:3} And he shall offer of it all the
fat there: the fat tail, and the fat that covers the inwards, {7:4} and the two
kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the caul upon
the liver, with the kidneys, shall he take away; {7:5} and the priest shall
burn them upon the altar for an offering made by fire unto Yahweh: it is a
trespass-offering. {7:6} Every male among the priests shall eat there: it shall
be eaten in a holy place: it is most holy. {7:7} As is the sin-offering, so is
the trespass-offering; there is one law for them: the priest that makes
atonement with, he shall have it. {7:8} And the priest that offers any man's
burnt-offering, even the priest shall have to himself the skin of the
burnt-offering which he has offered. {7:9} And every meal-offering that is
baked in the oven, and all that is dressed in the frying-pan, and on the
baking-pan, shall be the priest's that offers it. {7:10} And every meal-offering,
mingled with oil, or dry, shall all the sons of Aaron have, one as well as
another. {7:11} And this is the law of
the sacrifice of peace-offerings, which one shall offer unto Yahweh. {7:12} If
he offer it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of
thanksgiving unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed
with oil, and cakes mingled with oil, of fine flour soaked. {7:13} With cakes
of leavened bread he shall offer his oblation with the sacrifice of his peace-offerings
for thanksgiving. {7:14} And of it he shall offer one out of each oblation for
a heave-offering unto Yahweh; it shall be the priest's that sprinkles the blood
of the peace-offerings. {7:15} And
the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace-offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten on the day of his
oblation; he shall not leave any of it until the morning. {7:16} But if the
sacrifice of his oblation be a vow, or a freewill-offering, it shall be eaten
on the day that he offers his sacrifice; and on the morrow that which remains
of it shall be eaten: {7:17} but that which remains of the flesh of the
sacrifice on the third day shall be burnt with fire. {7:18} And if any of the
flesh of the sacrifice of his peace-offerings be eaten on the third day, it shall
not be accepted, neither shall it be imputed unto him that offers it: it shall
be an abomination, and the soul that eats of it shall bear his works against
law. {7:19} And the flesh that touches
any unclean thing shall not be eaten; it shall be burnt with fire. And as for
the flesh, every one that is clean shall eat there: {7:20} but the soul that
eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace-offerings, that pertain unto Yahweh,
having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from his people.
{7:21} And when any one shall touch any unclean thing, the uncleanness of man,
or an unclean beast, or any unclean abomination, and eat of the flesh of the
sacrifice of peace-offerings, which pertain unto Yahweh, that soul shall be cut
off from his people. {7:22} And Yahweh
spoke unto Moses, saying, {7:23} Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, you
shall eat no fat, of ox, or sheep, or
goat. {7:24} And the fat of that which dies of itself, and the fat of
that which is torn of beasts, may be used for any other service; but you shall
in no wise eat of it. {7:25} For anyone who eats the fat of the beast, of which
men offer an offering made by fire unto Yahweh, even the soul that eats it
shall be cut off from his people. {7:26} And you shall eat no manner of blood,
whether it be of bird or of beast, in any of your dwellings. {7:27} Anyone who
it be that eats any blood, that soul shall be cut off from his people. {7:28} And Yahweh spoke unto Moses, saying,
{7:29} Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, He that offers the sacrifice
of his peace-offerings unto Yahweh shall bring his oblation unto Yahweh out of
the sacrifice of his peace-offerings: {7:30} his own hands shall bring the
offerings of Yahweh made by fire; the fat with the breast shall he bring, that
the breast may be waved for a wave-offering before Yahweh. {7:31} And the
priest shall burn the fat upon the altar; but the breast shall be Aaron's and
his sons'. {7:32} And the right thigh shall you give unto the priest for a
heave-offering out of the sacrifices of your peace-offerings. {7:33} He among
the sons of Aaron that offers the blood of the peace-offerings, and the fat,
shall have the right thigh for a portion. {7:34} For the wave-breast and the
heave-thigh have I taken of the children of Israel out of the sacrifices of
their peace-offerings, and have given them unto Aaron the priest and unto his
sons as [their] portion for ever from the children of Israel. {7:35} This is the anointing-portion of Aaron,
and the anointing-portion of his sons, out of the offerings of Yahweh made by
fire, in the day when he presented them to minister unto Yahweh in the priest's
office; {7:36} which Yahweh commanded to be given them of the children of
Israel, in the day that he anointed them. It is [their] portion for ever
throughout their generations. {7:37}
This is the law of the burnt-offering, of the meal-offering, and of the
sin-offering, and of the trespass-offering, and of the consecration, and of the
sacrifice of peace-offerings; {7:38} which Yahweh commanded Moses in mount
Sinai, in the day that he commanded the children of Israel to offer their
oblations unto Yahweh, in the wilderness of Sinai.
{O3)8} Leviticus Chapter
Eight. {8:1} And Yahweh spoke unto
Moses, saying, {8:2} Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, and
the anointing oil, and the bullock of the sin-offering, and the two rams, and
the basket of unleavened bread; {8:3} and assemble you all the congregation at
the door of the tent of meeting. {8:4} And Moses did as Yahweh commanded him;
and the congregation was assembled at the door of the tent of meeting. {8:5}
And Moses said unto the congregation, This is the thing which Yahweh has
commanded to be done. {8:6} And Moses
brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them with water. {8:7} And he put upon
him the coat, and girded him with the girdle, and clothed him with the robe,
and put the ephod upon him, and he girded him with the skillfully woven band of
the ephod, and bound it unto him with. {8:8} And he placed the breastplate upon
him: and in the breastplate he put the Urim and the Thummim. {8:9} And he set
the mitre upon his head; and upon the mitre, in front, did he set the golden
plate, the holy crown; as Yahweh commanded Moses. {8:10} And Moses took the anointing oil,
and anointed the tabernacle and all that was therein, and sanctified them.
{8:11} And he sprinkled of it upon the altar seven times, and anointed the
altar and all its vessels, and the laver and its base, to sanctify them. {8:12}
And he poured of the anointing oil upon Aaron's head, and anointed him, to
sanctify him. {8:13} And Moses brought Aaron's sons, and clothed them with
coats, and girded them with girdles, and bound head-tires upon them; as Yahweh
commanded Moses. {8:14} And he brought
the bullock of the sin-offering: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon
the head of the bullock of the sin-offering. {8:15} And he slew it; and Moses
took the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about with his
finger, and purified the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the
altar, and sanctified it, to make atonement for it. {8:16} And he took all the
fat that was upon the inwards, and the caul of the liver, and the two kidneys,
and their fat; and Moses burned it upon the altar. {8:17} But the bullock, and
its skin, and its flesh, and its dung, he burnt with fire outside the camp; as Yahweh
commanded Moses. {8:18} And he
presented the ram of the burnt-offering: and Aaron and his sons laid their
hands upon the head of the ram. {8:19} And he killed it; and Moses sprinkled
the blood upon the altar round about. {8:20} And he cut the ram into its
pieces; and Moses burnt the head, and the pieces, and the fat. {8:21} And he
washed the inwards and the legs with water; and Moses burnt the whole ram upon
the altar: it was a burnt-offering for a sweet savor: it was an offering made
by fire unto Yahweh; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
{8:22} And he presented the other ram, the ram of consecration: and
Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram. {8:23} And he
slew it; and Moses took of the blood there, and put it upon the tip of Aaron's
right ear, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his
right foot. {8:24} And he brought Aaron's sons; and Moses put of the blood upon
the tip of their right ear, and upon the thumb of their right hand, and upon
the great toe of their right foot: and Moses sprinkled the blood upon the altar
round about. {8:25} And he took the fat, and the fat tail, and all the fat that
was upon the inwards, and the caul of the liver, and the two kidneys, and their
fat, and the right thigh: {8:26} and out of the basket of unleavened bread,
that was before Yahweh, he took one unleavened cake, and one cake of oiled
bread, and one wafer, and placed them on the fat, and upon the right thigh:
{8:27} and he put the whole upon the hands of Aaron, and upon the hands of his
sons, and waved them for a wave-offering before Yahweh. {8:28} And Moses took
them from off their hands, and burnt them on the altar upon the burnt-offering:
they were a consecration for a sweet savor: it was an offering made by fire
unto Yahweh. {8:29} And Moses took the breast, and waved it for a wave-offering
before Yahweh: it was Moses' portion of the ram of consecration; as Yahweh commanded
Moses. {8:30} And Moses took of the
anointing oil, and of the blood which was upon the altar, and sprinkled it upon
Aaron, upon his garments, and upon his sons, and upon his sons' garments with
him, and sanctified Aaron, his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments
with him. {8:31} And Moses said unto
Aaron and to his sons, Boil the flesh at the door of the tent of meeting: and
there eat it and the bread that is in the basket of consecration, as I commanded,
saying, Aaron and his sons shall eat it. {8:32} And that which remains of the
flesh and of the bread shall you burn with fire. {8:33} And you shall not go
out from the door of the tent of meeting seven days, until the days of your
consecration be fulfilled: for he shall consecrate you seven days. {8:34} As
has been done this day, so Yahweh has commanded to do, to make atonement for
you. {8:35} And at the door of the tent of meeting shall you abide day and
night seven days, and keep the charge of Yahweh, that you die not: for so I am
commanded. {8:36} And Aaron and his sons did all the things which Yahweh
commanded by Moses.
{O3)9} Leviticus Chapter Nine. {9:1} And it came to pass on the eighth
day, that Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel; {9:2} and
he said unto Aaron, Take you a calf of the herd for a sin-offering, and a ram
for a burnt-offering, outside blemish, and offer them before Yahweh. {9:3} And
unto the children of Israel you shall speak, saying, Take you a he-goat for a sin-offering; and a calf and a lamb,
both a year old, outside blemish, for a burnt-offering; {9:4} and an ox and a
ram for peace-offerings, to sacrifice before Yahweh; and a meal-offering
mingled with oil: for to-day Yahweh appears unto you. {9:5} And they brought
that which Moses commanded before the tent of meeting: and all the congregation
drew near and stood before Yahweh. {9:6} And Moses said, This is the thing
which Yahweh commanded that you should do: and the glory of Yahweh shall appear
unto you. {9:7} And Moses said unto Aaron, Draw near unto the altar, and offer
your sin-offering, and your
burnt-offering, and make atonement for yourself, and for the people; and
offer the oblation of the people, and make atonement for them; as Yahweh
commanded. {9:8} So Aaron drew near
unto the altar, and slew the calf of the sin-offering, which was for himself.
{9:9} And the sons of Aaron presented the blood unto him; and he dipped his
finger in the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar, and poured out the
blood at the base of the altar: {9:10} but the fat, and the kidneys, and the
caul from the liver of the sin-offering, he burnt upon the altar; as Yahweh
commanded Moses. {9:11} And the flesh and the skin he burnt with fire outside
the camp. {9:12} And he slew the
burnt-offering; and Aaron's sons delivered unto him the blood, and he sprinkled
it upon the altar round about. {9:13} And they delivered the burnt-offering
unto him, piece by piece, and the head: and he burnt them upon the altar.
{9:14} And he washed the inwards and the legs, and burnt them upon the
burnt-offering on the alter {9:15} And
he presented the people's oblation, and took the goat of the sin-offering which
was for the people, and slew it, and offered it for sin, as the first. {9:16}
And he presented the burnt-offering, and offered it according to the ordinance.
{9:17} And he presented the meal-offering, and filled his hand there from, and
burnt it upon the altar, besides the burnt-offering of the morning. {9:18} He slew also the ox and the ram,
the sacrifice of peace-offerings, which was for the people: and Aaron's sons
delivered unto him the blood, which he sprinkled upon the altar round about,
{9:19} and the fat of the ox and of the ram, the fat tail, and that which
covers[the inwards], and the kidneys, and the caul of the liver: {9:20} and
they put the fat upon the breasts, and he burnt the fat upon the altar: {9:21}
and the breasts and the right thigh Aaron waved for a wave-offering before Yahweh;
as Moses commanded. {9:22} And Aaron
lifted up his hands toward the people, and blessed them; and he came down from
offering the sin-offering, and the burnt-offering, and the peace-offerings.
{9:23} And Moses and Aaron went into the tent of meeting, and came out, and
blessed the people: and the glory of Yahweh appeared unto all the people.
{9:24} And there came forth fire from before Yahweh, and consumed upon the
altar the burnt-offering and the fat: and when all the people saw it, they
shouted, and fell on their faces.
{O3)10} Leviticus Chapter Ten. {10:1} And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of
Aaron, took each of them his censer, and put fire therein, and laid incense
thereon, and offered strange fire before Yahweh, which he had not commanded
them. {10:2} And there came forth fire from before Yahweh, and devoured them,
and they died before Yahweh. {10:3} Then Moses said unto Aaron, This is it that
Yahweh spoke, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come near me, and
before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace. {10:4} And
Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and
said unto them, Draw near, carry your brethren from before the sanctuary out of
the camp. {10:5} So they drew near, and carried them in their coats out of the
camp, as Moses had said. {10:6} And Moses said unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and
unto Ithamar, his sons, Let not the hair of your heads go loose, neither rend
your clothes; that you die not, and that he be not wroth with all the
congregation: but let your brethren, the whole house of Israel, bewail the
burning which Yahweh has kindled. {10:7} And you shall not go out from the door
of the tent of meeting, lest you die; for the anointing oil of Yahweh is upon
you. And they did according to the word of Moses. {10:8} And Yahweh spoke unto Aaron, saying,
{10:9} Drink no wine nor strong drink, you, nor your sons with you, when you go
into the tent of meeting, that you die not: it shall be a statute for ever
throughout your generations: {10:10} and that you may make a distinction
between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean; {10:11}
and that you may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which Yahweh has
spoken unto them by Moses. {10:12} And
Moses spoke unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons that were
left, Take the meal-offering that remains of the offerings of Yahweh made by
fire, and eat it outside leaven beside the altar; for it is most holy; {10:13}
and you shall eat it in a holy place, because it is your portion, and your
sons' portion, of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire: for so I am commanded.
{10:14} And the wave-breast and the heave-thigh shall you eat in a clean place,
you, and your sons, and your daughters with you: for they are given as your
portion, and your sons' portion, out of the sacrifices of the peace-offerings
of the children of Israel. {10:15} The heave-thigh and the wave-breast shall
they bring with the offerings made by fire of the fat, to wave it for a
wave-offering before Yahweh: and it shall be your, and your sons' with you, as
a portion for ever; as Yahweh has commanded.
{10:16} And Moses diligently sought the goat of the sin-offering, and,
behold, it was burnt: and he was angry with Eleazar and with Ithamar, the sons
of Aaron that were left, saying, {10:17} Therefore have you not eaten the
sin-offering in the place of the
sanctuary, seeing it is most holy, and he has given it you to bear the
works against law of the congregation, to make atonement for them before Yahweh?
{10:18} Behold, the blood of it was not brought into the sanctuary within: you
should certainly have eaten it in the sanctuary, as I commanded. {10:19} And
Aaron spoke unto Moses, Behold, this day have they offered their sin-offering
and their burnt-offering before Yahweh; and there have befallen me such things
as these: and if I had eaten the sin-offering to-day, would it have been
well-pleasing in the sight of Yahweh? {10:20} And when Moses heard [that], it
was well-pleasing in his sight.
{o3)11} Leviticus Chapter
Eleven. {11:1} And Yahweh spoke unto
Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them, {11:2} Speak unto the children of Israel,
saying, These are the living things which you may eat among all the beasts that
are on the earth. {11:3} What ever parts the hoof, and is cloven footed, [and]
Chews the cud, among the beasts, that you may eat. {11:4} Nevertheless these
you shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that part the hoof: the
camel, because he Chews the cud but parts not the hoof, he is unclean unto you.
{11:5} And the Coney, because he Chews the cud but parts not the hoof, he is
unclean unto you. {11:6} And the hare, because she Chews the cud but parts not
the hoof, she is unclean unto you. {11:7} And the swine, because he parts the
hoof, and is cloven footed, but Chews not the cud, he is unclean unto you.
{11:8} Of their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not
touch; they are unclean unto you.
{11:9} These may you eat of all that are in the waters: what ever has
fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, that may you
eat. {11:10} And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the
rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of all the living creatures that
are in the waters, they are an abomination unto you, {11:11} and they shall be
an abomination unto you; you shall not eat of their flesh, and their carcasses
you shall have in abomination. {11:12} What ever has no fins nor scales in the
waters, that is an abomination unto you.
{11:13} And these you shall have in abomination among the birds; they
shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the gier-eagle, and
the ospray, {11:14} and the kite, and the falcon after its kind, {11:15} every
raven after its kind, {11:16} and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the seamew,
and the hawk after its kind, {11:17} and the little owl, and the cormorant, and
the great owl, {11:18} and the horned owl, and the pelican, and the vulture,
{11:19} and the stork, the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat. {11:20} All winged creeping things that go
upon all fours are an abomination unto you. {11:21} yet these may you eat of
all winged creeping things that go upon all fours, which have legs above their
feet, wherewith to leap upon the earth. {11:22} Even these of them you may eat:
the locust after its kind, and the bald locust after its kind, and the cricket after its kind, and the
grasshopper after its kind. {11:23} But all winged creeping things, which have
four feet, are an abomination unto you.
{11:24} And by these you shall become unclean: anyone who touches the
carcass of them shall be unclean until the even; {11:25} And anyone who bears
[anything] of the carcass of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until
the even. {11:26} Every beast which parts the hoof, and is not cloven-footed,
nor Chews the cud, is unclean unto you: every one that touches them shall be
unclean. {11:27} And what ever goes upon its paws, among all beasts that go on
all fours, they are unclean unto you: who so touches their carcass shall be
unclean until the even. {11:28} And he that bears the carcass of them shall
wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: they are unclean unto
you. {11:29} And these are they which
are unclean unto you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth: the
weasel, and the mouse, and the great lizard after its kind, {11:30} and the
gecko, and the land-crocodile, and the lizard, and the sand-lizard, and the
chameleon. {11:31} These are they which are unclean to you among all that
creep: anyone who does touch them, when they are dead, shall be unclean until
the even. {11:32} And upon what ever any of them, when they are dead, does
fall, it shall be unclean; whether it be any vessel of wood, or raiment, or
skin, or sack, what ever vessel it be, wherewith any work is done, it must be
put into water, and it shall be unclean until the even; then shall it be clean.
{11:33} And every earthen vessel, where into any of them fall, what ever is in
it shall be unclean, and it you shall break. {11:34} All food [therein] which
may be eaten, that on which water comes, shall be unclean; and all drink that
may be drunk in every [such] vessel shall be unclean. {11:35} And every thing
whereupon [any part] of their carcass falls shall be unclean; whether oven, or
range for pots, it shall be broken in pieces: they are unclean, and shall be
unclean unto you. {11:36} Nevertheless a fountain or a pit wherein is a
gathering of water shall be clean: but that which touches their carcass shall
be unclean. {11:37} And if [anything] of their carcass fall upon any sowing
seed which is to be sown, it is clean. {11:38} But if water be put upon the
seed, and [anything] of their carcass fall thereon, it is unclean unto
you. {11:39} And if any beast, of
which you may eat, die; he that touches the carcass of it shall be unclean
until the even. {11:40} And he that eats of the carcass of it shall wash his
clothes, and be unclean until the even: he also that bears the carcass of it
shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even. {11:41} And every creeping thing that
creeps upon the earth is an abomination; it shall not be eaten. {11:42} What
ever goes upon the belly, and what ever goes upon all fours, or what ever has
many feet, even all creeping things that creep upon the earth, them you shall
not eat; for they are an abomination. {11:43} you shall not make yourselves
abominable with any creeping thing that creeps, neither shall you make
yourselves unclean with them, that you should be defiled thereby. {11:44} For I
am Yahweh your God: sanctify yourselves therefore, and be you holy; for I am
holy: neither shall you defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing
that moves upon the earth. {11:45} For I am Yahweh that brought you up out of
the land of Egypt, to be your God: you shall therefore be holy, for I am
holy. {11:46} This is the law of the
beast, and of the bird, and of every living creature that moves in the waters,
and of every creature that creeps upon the earth; {11:47} to make a distinction
between the unclean and the clean, and between the living thing that may be
eaten and the living thing that may not be eaten.
{O3)12} Leviticus Chapter
Twelve. {12:1} And Yahweh spoke unto
Moses, saying, {12:2} Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman
conceive seed, and bear a man-child, then she shall be unclean seven days; as
in the days of the impurity of her sickness shall she be unclean. {12:3} And in
the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised. {12:4} And she
shall continue in the blood of [her] purifying three and thirty days; she shall
touch no hallowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her
purifying be fulfilled. {12:5} But if she bear a maid-child, then she shall be
unclean two solar sevens [Sabbaton], as in her impurity; and she shall continue
in the blood of [her] purifying threescore and six days. {12:6} And when the days of her purifying
are fulfilled, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall bring a lamb a year old for
a burnt-offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtle-dove, for a sin-offering,
unto the door of the tent of meeting, unto the priest: {12:7} and he shall
offer it before Yahweh, and make atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed
from the fountain of her blood. This is the law for her that bears, whether a
male or a female. {12:8} And if her means suffice not for a lamb, then she
shall take two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons; the one for a
burnt-offering, and the other for a sin-offering: and the priest shall make
atonement for her, and she shall be clean.
{O3)13} Leviticus Chapter
Thirteen. 1 And Yahweh spoke unto Moses
and unto Aaron, saying, {13:2} When a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a
rising, or a scab, or a bright spot, and it become in the skin of his flesh the
plague of leprosy, then he shall be brought unto Aaron the priest, or unto one
of his sons the priests: {13:3} and the priest shall look on the plague in the
skin of the flesh: and if the hair in the plague be turned white, and the
appearance of the plague be deeper than the skin of his flesh, it is the plague
of leprosy; and the priest shall look on him, and pronounce him unclean. {13:4}
And if the bright spot be white in the skin of his flesh, and the appearance of
it be not deeper than the skin, and the hair of it be not turned white, then
the priest shall shut up [him that has] the plague seven days: {13:5} and the
priest shall look on him the seventh day: and, behold, if in his eyes the
plague be at a stay, and the plague be not spread in the skin, then the priest
shall shut him up seven days more: {13:6} and the priest shall look on him
again the seventh day; and, behold, if the plague be dim, and the plague be not
spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean: it is a scab:
and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean. {13:7} But if the scab spread
abroad in the skin, after that he has showed himself to the priest for his
cleansing, he shall show himself to the priest again: {13:8} and the priest
shall look; and, behold, if the scab be spread in the skin, then the priest
shall pronounce him unclean: it is leprosy.
{13:9} When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he shall be brought
unto the priest; {13:10} and the priest shall look; and, behold, if there be a
white rising in the skin, and it have turned the hair white, and there be quick
raw flesh in the rising, {13:11} it is an old leprosy in the skin of his flesh,
and the priest shall pronounce him unclean: he shall not shut him up, for he is
unclean. {13:12} And if the leprosy break out abroad in the skin, and the
leprosy cover all the skin of [him that has] the plague from his head even to
his feet, as far as appears to the priest; {13:13} then the priest shall look;
and, behold, if the leprosy have covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce
[him] clean [that has] the plague: it is all turned white: he is clean. {13:14}
But when so ever raw flesh appears in him, he shall be unclean. {13:15} And the
priest shall look on the raw flesh, and pronounce him unclean: the raw flesh is
unclean: it is leprosy. {13:16} Or if the raw flesh turn again, and be changed
unto white, then he shall come unto the priest; {13:17} and the priest shall
look on him; and, behold, if the plague be turned into white, then the priest
shall pronounce [him] clean [that has] the plague: he is clean. {13:18} And when the flesh has in the skin
of it a boil, and it is healed, {13:19}
and in the place of the boil there is a white rising, or a bright spot,
reddish-white, then is shall be showed to the priest; {13:20} and the priest
shall look; and, behold, if the appearance of it be lower than the skin, and
the hair of it be turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it
is the plague of leprosy, it has broken out in the boil. {13:21} But if the
priest look on it, and, behold, there be no white hairs therein, and it be not
lower than the skin, but be dim; then the priest shall shut him up seven days:
{13:22} And if it spread abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce
him unclean: it is a plague. {13:23} But if the bright spot stay in its place,
and be not spread, it is the scar of the boil; and the priest shall pronounce
him clean. {13:24} Or when the flesh
has in the skin of it burning by fire, and the quick [flesh] of the burning
become a bright spot, reddish-white, or white; {13:25} then the priest shall
look upon it; and, behold, if the hair in the bright spot be turned white, and
the appearance of it be deeper than the skin; it is leprosy, it has broken out in the burning: and the priest
shall pronounce him unclean: it is the plague of leprosy. {13:26} But if the
priest look on it, and, behold, there be no white hair in the bright spot, and
it be no lower than the skin, but be dim; then the priest shall shut him up
seven days: {13:27} and the priest shall look upon him the seventh day: if it
spread abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is
the plague of leprosy. {13:28} And if the bright spot stay in its place, and be
not spread in the skin, but be dim; it is the rising of the burning, and the
priest shall pronounce him clean: for it is the scar of the burning. {13:29} And when a man or woman has a
plague upon the head or upon the beard, {13:30} then the priest shall look on
the plague; and, behold, if the appearance of it be deeper than the skin, and
there be in it yellow thin hair, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean:
it is a scale, it is leprosy of the head or of the beard. {13:31} And if the
priest look on the plague of the scale, and, behold, the appearance of it be
not deeper than the skin, and there be no black hair in it, then the priest
shall shut up [him that has] the plague of the scale seven days: {13:32} And in
the seventh day the priest shall look on the plague; and, behold, if the scale
be not spread, and there be in it no yellow hair, and the appearance of the
scale be not deeper than the skin, {13:33} then he shall be shaven, but the
scale shall he not shave; and the priest shall shut up [him that has] the scale
seven days more: {13:34} and in the seventh day the priest shall look on the
scale; and, behold, if the scale be not spread in the skin, and the appearance
of it be not deeper than the skin; then the priest shall pronounce him clean:
and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean. {13:35} But if the scale spread
abroad in the skin after his cleansing, {13:36} then the priest shall look on
him; and, behold, if the scale be spread in the skin, the priest shall not seek
for the yellow hair; he is unclean. {13:37} But if in his eyes the scale be at
a stay, and black hair be grown up therein; the scale is healed, he is clean:
and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
{13:38} And when a man or a woman has in the skin of the flesh bright
spots, even white bright spots; {13:39} then the priest shall look; and,
behold, if the bright spots in the skin of their flesh be of a dull white, it
is a freckled spot, it has broken out in the skin; he is clean. {13:40} And if a man's hair be fallen off
his head, he is bald; [yet] is he clean. {13:41} And if his hair be fallen off
from the front part of his head, he is forehead bald; [yet] is he clean.
{13:42} But if there be in the bald head, or the bald forehead, a reddish-white
plague; it is leprosy breaking out in his bald head, or his bald forehead. {13:43}
Then the priest shall look upon him; and, behold, if the rising of the plague
be reddish-white in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, as the appearance
of leprosy in the skin of the flesh; {13:44} he is a leprous man, he is
unclean: the priest shall surely pronounce him unclean; his plague is in his
head. {13:45} And the leper in whom
the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and the hair of his head shall go
loose, and he shall cover his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean.
{13:46} All the days wherein the plague is in him he shall be unclean; he is
unclean: he shall dwell alone; outside the camp shall his dwelling be. {13:47} The garment also that the plague
of leprosy is in, whether it be a wool garment, or a linen garment; {13:48} whether
it be in warp, or woof; of linen, or of wool; whether in a skin, or in anything
made of skin; {13:49} if the plague be greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the skin, or in
the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin; it is the plague of leprosy,
and shall be showed unto the priest. {13:50} And the priest shall look upon the
plague, and shut up [that which has] the plague seven days: {13:51} and he
shall look on the plague on the seventh day: if the plague be spread in the
garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in the skin, whatever service
skin is used for; the plague is a fretting leprosy; it is unclean. {13:52} And
he shall burn the garment, whether the warp or the woof, in wool or in linen,
or anything of skin, wherein the plague is: for it is a fretting leprosy; it
shall be burnt in the fire. {13:53}
And if the priest shall look, and, behold, the plague be not spread in the
garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin; {13:54}
then the priest shall command that they wash the thing wherein the plague is,
and he shall shut it up seven days more: {13:55} and the priest shall look,
after that the plague is washed; and, behold, if the plague have not changed
its color, and the plague be not spread, it is
unclean; you shall burn it in the fire: it is a fret, whether the
bareness be within or outside. {13:56}
And if the priest look, and, behold, the plague be dim after the washing there,
then he shall rend it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the
warp, or out of the woof: {13:57} and if it appear still in the garment, either
in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin, it is breaking out: you
shall burn that wherein the plague is with fire. {13:58} And the garment,
either the warp, or the woof, or what ever thing of skin it be, which you shall
wash, if the plague be departed from them, then it shall be washed the second
time, and shall be clean. {13:59}
This is the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of wool or linen, either in
the warp, or the woof, or anything of skin, to pronounce it clean, or to
pronounce it unclean.
{O3)14} Leviticus Chapter
Fourteen. {14:1} And Yahweh spoke unto
Moses, saying, {14:2} This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his
cleansing: he shall be brought unto the priest: {14:3} and the priest shall go
forth out of the camp; and the priest shall look; and, behold, if the plague of
leprosy be healed in the leper, {14:4} then shall the priest command to take
for him that is to be cleansed two living clean birds, and cedar wood, and
scarlet, and hyssop: {14:5} And the priest shall command to kill one of the
birds in an earthen vessel over running water. {14:6} As for the living bird,
he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and
shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed
over the running water: {14:7} And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be
cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall
let go the living bird into the open field. {14:8} And he that is to be
cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and bathe himself
in water; and he shall be clean: and after that he shall come into the camp,
but shall dwell outside his tent seven days. {14:9} And it shall be on the
seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and
his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off: and he shall wash his
clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and he shall be clean. {14:10} And on the eighth day he shall take
two he-lambs outside blemish, and one ewe-lamb a year old outside blemish, and
three tenth parts [of an ephah] of fine flour for a meal-offering, mingled with
oil, and one log of oil. {14:11} And the priest that cleans him shall set the
man that is to be cleansed, and those things, before Yahweh, at the door of the
tent of meeting. {14:12} And the priest shall take one of the he-lambs, and
offer him for a trespass-offering, and the log of oil, and wave them for a
wave-offering before Yahweh: {14:13} and he shall kill the he-lamb in the place
where they kill the sin-offering and the burnt-offering, in the place of the
sanctuary: for as the sin-offering is the priest's, so is the
trespass-offering: it is most holy: {14:14} and the priest shall take of the
blood of the trespass-offering, and the priest shall put it upon the tip of the
right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand,
and upon the great toe of his right foot. {14:15} And the priest shall take of
the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of his own left hand; {14:16} and the
priest shall dip his right finger in the
oil that is in his left hand, and shall sprinkle of the oil with his
finger seven times before Yahweh: {14:17} and of the rest of the oil that is in
his hand shall the priest put upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to
be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of
his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass-offering: {14:18} and the rest
of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall put upon the head of him that
is to be cleansed: and the priest shall make atonement for him before Yahweh.
{14:19} And the priest shall offer the sin-offering, and make atonement for him
that is to be cleansed because of his uncleanness: and afterward he shall kill
the burnt-offering; {14:20} and the priest shall offer the burnt-offering and
the meal-offering upon the altar: and the priest shall make atonement for him,
and he shall be clean. {14:21} And if
he be poor, and cannot get so much, then he shall take one he-lamb for a trespass-offering to
be waved, to make atonement for him, and one tenth part [of an ephah] of fine
flour mingled with oil for a meal-offering, and a log of oil; {14:22} and two
turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, such as he is able to get; and the one
shall be a sin-offering, and the other a burnt-offering. {14:23} And on the
eighth day he shall bring them for his cleansing unto the priest, unto the door
of the tent of meeting, before Yahweh: {14:24} and the priest shall take the
lamb of the trespass-offering, and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave
them for a wave-offering before Yahweh. {14:25} And he shall kill the lamb of
the trespass-offering; and the priest shall take of the blood of the
trespass-offering, and put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to
be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of
his right foot. {14:26} And the priest shall pour of the oil into the palm of
his own left hand; {14:27} and the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger
some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before Yahweh: {14:28} and
the priest shall put of the oil that is in his hand upon the tip of the right
ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and
upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the place of the blood of the
trespass-offering: {14:29} and the rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand
he shall put upon the head of him that is to be cleansed, to make atonement for
him before Yahweh. {14:30} And he shall offer one of the turtle-doves, or of
the young pigeons, such as he is able to get, {14:31} even such as he is able
to get, the one for a sin-offering, and the other for a burnt-offering, with
the meal-offering: and the priest shall make atonement for him that is to be
cleansed before Yahweh. {14:32} This is the law of him in whom is the plague of
leprosy, who is not able to get [that which pertains] to his cleansing. {14:33} And Yahweh spoke unto Moses and
unto Aaron, saying, {14:34} When you are come into the land of Canaan, which I
give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the
land of your possession; {14:35} then he that owns the house shall come and
tell the priest, saying, There seems to me to be as it were a plague in the
house. {14:36} And the priest shall command that they empty the house, before
the priest goes in to see the plague, that all that is in the house be not made
unclean: and afterward the priest shall go in to see the house: {14:37} and he
shall look on the plague; and, behold, if the plague be in the walls of the
house with hollow streaks, greenish or reddish, and the appearance of it be
lower than the wall; {14:38} then the priest shall go out of the house to the
door of the house, and shut up the house seven days. {14:39} And the priest
shall come again the seventh day, and shall look; and, behold, if the plague be
spread in the walls of the house; {14:40} then the priest shall command that
they take out the stones in which the plague is, and cast them into an unclean
place outside the city: {14:41} and he shall cause the house to be scraped
within round about, and they shall pour out the mortar, that they scrape off,
outside the city into an unclean place: {14:42} and they shall take other
stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other
mortar, and shall plaster the house.
{14:43} And if the plague come again, and break out in the house, after
that he has taken out the stones, and after he has scraped the house, and after
it is plastered; {14:44} then the priest shall come in and look; and, behold,
if the plague be spread in the house, it is a fretting leprosy in the house: it
is unclean. {14:45} And he shall break down the house, the stones of it, and
the timber there, and all the mortar of the house; and he shall carry them
forth out of the city into an unclean place. {14:46} Also he that goes into the
house all the while that it is shut up shall be unclean until the even. {14:47}
And he that lies in the house shall wash his clothes; and he that eats in the
house shall wash his clothes. {14:48}
And if the priest shall come in, and look, and, behold, the plague has not
spread in the house, after the house was plastered; then the priest shall
pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed. {14:49} And he shall
take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:
{14:50} and he shall kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running
water: {14:51} and he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the
scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and
in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times: {14:52} and he shall
cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, and
with the living bird, and with the cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and with
the scarlet: {14:53} but he shall let go the living bird out of the city into
the open field: so shall he make atonement for the house; and it shall be
clean. {14:54} This is the law for all
manner of plague of leprosy, and for a scale, {14:55} and for the leprosy of a
garment, and for a house, {14:56} and for a rising, and for a scab, and for a
bright spot; {14:57} to teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean: this is
the law of leprosy.
{O3)15} Leviticus Chapter
Fifteen. {15:1} And Yahweh spoke unto Moses and to Aaron, saying, {15:2} Speak
unto the children of
{O3)16} Leviticus Chapter
Sixteen. {16:1} And Yahweh spoke unto Moses, after the death of the two sons of
Aaron, when they drew near before Yahweh, and died; {16:2} and Yahweh said unto
Moses, Speak unto Aaron your brother, that he come not at all times into the
holy place within the veil, before the mercy-seat which is upon the ark; that
he die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy-seat. {16:3} Herewith
shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young bullock for a sin-offering,
and a ram for a burnt-offering. {16:4} He shall put on the holy linen coat, and
he shall have the linen breeches upon his flesh, and shall be girded with the
linen girdle, and with the linen mitre shall he be attired: they are the holy
garments; and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and put them on. {16:5} And he
shall take of the congregation of the children of Israel two he-goats for a
sin-offering, and one ram for a burnt-offering.
{16:6} And Aaron shall present
the bullock of the sin-offering, which is for himself, and make atonement for
himself, and for his house. {16:7} And he shall take the two goats, and set
them before Yahweh at the door of the tent of meeting. {16:8} And Aaron shall
cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for Yahweh, and the other lot for Azazel.
{16:9} And Aaron shall present the goat upon which the lot fell for Yahweh, and
offer him for a sin-offering. {16:10} But the goat, on which the lot fell for
Azazel, shall be set alive before Yahweh, to make atonement for him, to send
him away for Azazel into the wilderness.
{16:11} And Aaron shall present the bullock of the sin-offering, which
is for himself, and shall make atonement for himself, and for his house, and
shall kill the bullock of the sin-offering which is for himself: {16:12} and he
shall take a censer full of coals of fire from off the altar before Yahweh, and
his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the veil:
{16:13} and he shall put the incense upon the fire before Yahweh, that the cloud of the incense may
cover the mercy-seat that is upon the testimony, that he die not: {16:14} and
he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it with his finger upon
the mercy-seat on the east; and before the mercy-seat shall he sprinkle of the
blood with his finger seven times.
{16:15} Then shall he kill the goat of the sin-offering, that is for the
people, and bring his blood within the veil, and do with his blood as he did with
the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy-seat, and before the
mercy-seat: {16:16} and he shall make atonement for the holy place, because of
the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgression
of the law, even all their sins: and so shall he do for the tent of meeting,
that dwells with them in the midst of their uncleanness. {16:17} And there
shall be no man in the tent of meeting when he goes in to make atonement in the
holy place, until he come out, and have made atonement for himself, and for his
household, and for all the assembly of Israel. {16:18} And he shall go out unto
the altar that is before Yahweh, and make atonement for it, and shall take of
the blood of the bullock, and of the blood of the goat, and put it upon the
horns of the altar round about. {16:19} And he shall sprinkle of the blood upon
it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and hallow it from the
uncleanness of the children of Israel.
{16:20} And when he has made an end of atoning for the holy place, and
the tent of meeting, and the altar, he shall present the live goat: {16:21} and
Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over
him all the works against law of the children of Israel, and all their transgression
of the law, even all their sins; and he shall put them upon the head of the
goat, and shall send him away by the hand
of a man that is in readiness into the wilderness: {16:22} and the goat
shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a solitary land: and he shall let
go the goat in the wilderness. {16:23}
And Aaron shall come into the tent of meeting, and shall put off the linen
garments, which he put on when he went into the holy place, and shall leave
them there: {16:24} and he shall bathe his flesh in water in a holy place, and
put on his garments, and come forth, and offer his burnt-offering and the
burnt-offering of the people, and make atonement for himself and for the
people. {16:25} And the fat of the sin-offering shall he burn upon the altar.
{16:26} And he that lets go the goat for Azazel shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and
afterward he shall come into the camp. {16:27} And the bullock of the
sin-offering, and the goat of the sin-offering, whose blood was brought in to
make atonement in the holy place, shall be carried forth outside the camp; and
they shall burn in the fire their skins, and their flesh, and their dung.
{16:28} And he that burns them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in
water, and afterward he shall come into the camp. {16:29} And it shall be a statute for ever
unto you: in the seventh moon, on the tenth day of the moon, you shall afflict
your souls, and shall do no manner of work, the home-born, or the stranger that
sojourns among you: {16:30} for on this day shall atonement be made for you, to
cleanse you; from all your sins shall you be clean before Yahweh. {16:31} It is
a Sabbath of solemn rest unto you, and you shall afflict your souls; it is a
statute for ever. {16:32} And the priest, who shall be anointed and who shall
be consecrated to be priest in his father's stead, shall make the atonement,
and shall put on the linen garments, even the holy garments: {16:33} and he
shall make atonement for the holy sanctuary; and he shall make atonement for
the tent of meeting and for the altar; and he shall make atonement for the
priests and for all the people of the assembly. {16:34} And this shall be an
everlasting statute unto you, to make atonement for the children of
{O3)17} Leviticus Chapter Seventeen. {17:1} And Yahweh spoke unto Moses, saying,
{17:2} Speak unto Aaron, and unto his sons, and unto all the children of
Israel, and say unto them: This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded,
saying, {17:3} What man so ever there be of the house of Israel, that kills an
ox, or lamb, or goat, in the camp, or that kills it outside the camp, {17:4}
and has not brought it unto the door of the tent of meeting, to offer it as an
oblation unto Yahweh before the tabernacle of Yahweh: blood shall be imputed
unto that man; he has shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his
people: {17:5} To the end that the children of Israel may bring their sacrifices,
which they sacrifice in the open field, even that they may bring them unto Yahweh,
unto the door of the tent of meeting, unto the priest, and sacrifice them for
sacrifices of peace-offerings unto Yahweh. {17:6} And the priest shall sprinkle
the blood upon the altar of Yahweh at the door of the tent of meeting, and burn
the fat for a sweet savor unto Yahweh. {17:7} And they shall no more sacrifice
their sacrifices unto the he-goats, after which they play the prostitute. This
shall be a statute forever unto them throughout their generations. {17:8} And you shall say unto them, What
ever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn
among them, that offers a burnt-offering or sacrifice, {17:9} and brings it not
unto the door of the tent of meeting, to sacrifice it unto Yahweh; that man
shall be cut off from his people.
{17:10} And what ever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the
strangers that sojourn among them, that eats any manner of blood, I will set my
face against that soul that eats blood, and will cut him off from among his
people. {17:11} For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it
to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls: for it is the blood
that makes atonement by reason of the life. {17:12} Therefore I said unto the
children of
{O3)18} Leviticus Chapter Eighteen (18:1} And Yahweh
spoke unto Moses, saying, {18:2} Speak unto the children of
{o3)19} Leviticus Chapter Nineteen.
{19:1} And Yahweh spoke unto Moses, saying, {19:2} Speak unto all the
congregation of the children of
{19:33} And if a stranger sojourn with you
in your land, you shall not do him wrong. {19:34} The stranger that sojourns
with you shall be unto you as the home-born among you, and you shall agape love
him as [you agape] yourself; for you were aliens in the
{19:35} you shall do no unlawful works in
judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity. {19:36} Just
balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall you have: I am Yahweh
your God, who brought you out of the
{o3)20} Leviticus Chapter
Twenty One. {20:1} And Yahweh spoke
unto Moses, saying, {20:2} also, you shall say to the children of Israel,
Anyone who he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in
Israel, that gives of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death:
the people of the land shall stone him with stones. {20:3} I also will set my
face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he
has given of his seed unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my
holy name. {20:4} And if the people at the land do at all hide their eyes from
that man, when he gives of his seed unto Molech, and put him not to death;
{20:5} then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and
will cut him off, and all that play the prostitute after him, to play the prostitute
with Molech, from among their people.
{20:6} And the soul that
turns unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto the wizards, to play the prostitute
after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off
from among his people. {20:7} Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be you holy;
for I am Yahweh your God. {20:8} And you shall keep my statutes, and do them: I
am Yahweh who sanctifies you. {20:9} For every one that curses his father or
his mother shall surely be put to death: he has cursed his father or his
mother; his blood shall be upon him.
{20:10} And the man that commits adultery with another man's wife, even
he that commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the
adulteress shall surely be put to death. {20:11} And the man that lies with his
father's wife has uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely
be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. {20:12} And if a man lie with
his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have
wrought confusion; their blood shall be upon them. {20:13} And if a man lie
with mankind, as with womankind, both of them have committed abomination: they
shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. {20:14} And if a
man take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt with
fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you. {20:15} And if a
man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death: and you shall slay the
beast. {20:16} And if a woman approach unto any beast, and lie down thereto,
you shall kill the woman, and the beast: they shall surely be put to death;
their blood shall be upon them.
{20:17} And if a man shall take his sister,
his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter, and see her nakedness, and she
see his nakedness; it is a shameful thing; and they shall be cut off in the
sight of the children of their people: he has uncovered his sister's nakedness;
he shall bear his works against law. {20:18} And if a man shall lie with a
woman having her sickness, and shall uncover her nakedness; he has made naked
her fountain, and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them
shall be cut off from among their people. {20:19} And you shall not uncover the
nakedness of your mother's sister, nor of your father's sister; for he has made
naked his near kin: they shall bear their works against law. {20:20} And if a
man shall lie with his uncle's wife, he has uncovered his uncle's nakedness:
they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless. {20:21} And if a man shall
take his brother's wife, it is impurity: he has uncovered his brother's
nakedness; they shall be childless.
{20:22} you shall therefore keep all my
statutes, and all mine ordinances, and do them; that the land, where I bring
you to dwell therein, vomit you not out. {20:23} And you shall not walk in the
customs of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they did all these
things, and therefore I abhorred them. {20:24} But I have said unto you, you
shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land
flowing with milk and honey: I am Yahweh your God, who has separated you from
the peoples. {20:25} you shall therefore make a distinction between the clean
beast and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean: and you
shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by bird, or by anything that
moves on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean. {20:26} And
you shall be holy unto me: for I, Yahweh, am holy, and have set you apart from
the peoples, that you should be mine.
{20:27} A man also or a woman that has a familiar spirit, or that is a
[know it al] wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with
stones; their blood shall be upon them.
{O3)21} Leviticus Chapter Twenty One. {21:1} And Yahweh said unto Moses, Speak
unto the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say unto them, There shall none defile
himself for the dead among his people; {21:2} except for his kin, that is near
unto him, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his
daughter, and for his brother, {21:3} and for his sister a virgin, that is near
unto him, that has had no husband; for her may he defile himself. {21:4} He
shall not defile himself, [being] a chief man among his people, to profane
himself. {21:5} They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall
they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
{21:6} They shall be holy unto their God, and not profane the name of their
God; for the offerings of Yahweh made by fire, the bread of their God, they do
offer: therefore they shall be holy. {21:7} They shall not take a woman that is
a prostitute, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her
husband: for he is holy unto his God. {21:8} you shall sanctify him therefore;
for he offers the bread of your God: he shall be holy unto you: for I Yahweh,
who sanctify you, am holy. {21:9} And the daughter of any priest, if she
profane herself by playing the prostitute, she profanes her father: she shall
be burnt with fire. {21:10} And he
that is the high priest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil
is poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not let the
hair of his head go loose, nor rend his clothes; {21:11} neither shall he go in
to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother; {21:12}
neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God;
for the crown of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am Yahweh. {21:13}
And he shall take a wife in her virginity. {21:14} A widow, or one divorced, or
a profane woman, a prostitute, these shall he not take: but a virgin of his own
people shall he take to wife. {21:15} And he shall not profane his seed among
his people: for I am Yahweh who sanctifies him. {21:16} And Yahweh spoke unto Moses,
saying, {21:17} Speak unto Aaron, saying, Anyone who he be of your seed
throughout their generations that has a blemish, let him not approach to offer
the bread of his God. {21:18} For what ever man he be that has a blemish, he
shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that has a flat nose, or
anything superfluous, {21:19} or a man that is broken-footed, or broken-handed,
{21:20} or crook-backed, or a dwarf, or that has a blemish in his eye, or is
scurvy, or scabbed, or has his stones broken; {21:21} no man of the seed of
Aaron the priest, that has a blemish, shall come near to offer the offerings of
Yahweh made by fire: he has a blemish; he shall not come near to offer the
bread of his God. {21:22} He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most
holy, and of the holy: {21:23} only he shall not go in unto the veil, nor come
near unto the altar, because he has a blemish; that he profane not my
sanctuaries: for I am Yahweh who sanctifies them. {21:24} So Moses spoke unto
Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of
{O3)22} Leviticus Chapter two. {22:1} And Yahweh spoke unto Moses, saying,
{22:2} Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, that they separate themselves from the
holy things of the children of Israel, which they hallow unto me, and that they
profane not my holy name: I am Yahweh.
{22:3} Say unto them, Anyone who he be of all your seed throughout your
generations, that approaches unto the holy things, which the children of Israel
hallow unto Yahweh, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off
from before me: I am Yahweh. {22:4} What man so ever of the seed of Aaron is a
leper, or has an issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean.
And who so touches anything that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose seed
goes from him; {22:5} or anyone who touches any creeping thing, whereby he may
be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, what ever
uncleanness he has; {22:6} the soul that touches any such shall be unclean
until the even, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he bathe his flesh
in water. {22:7} And when the sun is down, he shall be clean; and afterward he
shall eat of the holy things, because it is his bread. {22:8} That which dies
of itself, or is torn of beasts, he shall not eat, to defile himself with: I am
Yahweh. {22:9} They shall therefore keep my charge, lest they bear sin for it,
and die therein, if they profane it: I am Yahweh who sanctifies them. {22:10} There shall no stranger eat of the
holy thing: a alien of the priest's, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the
holy thing. {22:11} But if a priest buy any soul, the purchase of his money, he
shall eat of it; and such as are born in his house, they shall eat of his
bread. {22:12} And if a priest's daughter be married unto a stranger, she shall
not eat of the heave-offering of the holy things. {22:13} But if a priest's
daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and be returned unto her
father's house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father's bread: but there
shall no stranger eat there. {22:14} And if a man eat of the holy thing
unwittingly, then he shall put the fifth part of it unto it, and shall give
unto the priest the holy thing. {22:15} And they shall not profane the holy
things of the children of Israel, which they offer unto Yahweh, {22:16} and
[so] cause them to bear the works against law that brings guilt, when they eat
their holy things: for I am Yahweh who sanctifies them. {22:17} And Yahweh spoke unto Moses,
saying, {22:18} Speak unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of
Israel, and say unto them, Anyone who he be of the house of Israel, or of the
aliens in Israel, that offers his oblation, whether it be any of their vows, or
any of their freewill-offerings, which they offer unto Yahweh for a
burnt-offering; {22:19} that you may be accepted, [you shall offer] a male
outside blemish, of the bullocks, of the sheep, or of the goats. {22:20} But
what ever has a blemish, that shall you not offer: for it shall not be
acceptable for you. {22:21} And anyone who offers a sacrifice of
peace-offerings unto Yahweh to accomplish a vow, or for a freewill-offering, of
the herd or of the flock, it shall be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no
blemish therein. {22:22} Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a running sore,
or scurvy, or scabbed, you shall not offer these unto Yahweh, nor make an
offering by fire of them upon the altar unto Yahweh. {22:23} Either a bullock
or a lamb that has anything superfluous or lacking in his parts, that may you
offer for a freewill-offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted. {22:24}
That which has its stones bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut, you shall not
offer unto Yahweh; neither shall you do [thus] in your land. {22:25} Neither
from the hand of a foreigner shall you offer the bread of your God of any of
these; because their corruption is in them, there is a blemish in them: they
shall not be accepted for you. {22:26}
And Yahweh spoke unto Moses, saying, {22:27} When a bullock, or a sheep, or a
goat, is brought forth, then it shall be seven days under the dam; and from the
eighth day and there on it shall be accepted for the oblation of an offering
made by fire unto Yahweh. {22:28} And whether it be cow or ewe, you shall not
kill it and its young both in one day. {22:29} And when you sacrifice a
sacrifice of thanksgiving unto Yahweh, you shall sacrifice it that you may be
accepted. {22:30} On the same day it shall be eaten; you shall leave none of it
until the morning: I am Yahweh. {22:31} Therefore shall you keep my
commandments, and do them: I am Yahweh. {22:32} And you shall not profane my
holy name; but I will be hallowed among the children of Israel: I am Yahweh who
hallows you, {22:33} who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God:
I am Yahweh.
{O3)23} Leviticus Chapter Twenty Three. {23:1} And Yahweh spoke unto Moses, saying,
{23:2} Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, The set feasts of Yahweh,
which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my set feasts.
{23:3} Six days shall work be done: but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of
solemn rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no manner of work: it is a
Sabbath unto Yahweh in all your dwellings.
{23:4} These are the set feasts of Yahweh, even holy convocations, which
you shall proclaim in their appointed season. {23:5} In the first moon [Abib],
on the fourteenth day of the moon at even, is Yahweh's Passover. {23:6} And on
the fifteenth day of the same moon is the feast of unleavened bread unto Yahweh:
seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. {23:7} In the first day you shall
have a holy convocation: you shall do no servile work. {23:8} But you shall
offer an offering made by fire unto Yahweh seven days: in the seventh day is a
holy convocation; you shall do no servile work. {23:9} And Yahweh spoke unto Moses, saying,
{23:10} Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When you are come
into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest there, then you
shall bring the sheaf of the first-fruits of your harvest unto the priest:
{23:11} and he shall wave the sheaf before Yahweh, to be accepted for you: on
the morrow after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it. {23:12} And in the day
when you wave the sheaf, you shall offer a he-lamb outside blemish a year old
for a burnt-offering unto Yahweh. {23:13} And the meal-offering of it shall be
two tenth parts [of an ephah] of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made
by fire unto Yahweh for a sweet savor; and the drink-offering of it shall be of
wine, the fourth part of a hin. {23:14} And you shall eat neither bread, nor
parched grain, nor fresh ears, until this selfsame day, until you have brought
the oblation of your God: it is a statute for ever throughout your generations
in all your dwellings. {23:15} And you
shall count unto you from the morrow after the Sabbath, from the day that you
brought the sheaf of the wave-offering; seven Sabbaths shall there be complete:
{23:16} even unto the morrow after the seventh Sabbath shall you number fifty
days; and you shall offer a new meal-offering unto Yahweh. {23:17} you shall
bring out of your habitations two wave-loaves of two tenth parts [of an ephah]:
they shall be of fine flour, they shall be baked with leaven, for first-fruits
unto Yahweh. {23:18} And you shall present with the bread seven lambs outside
blemish a year old, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be a
burnt-offering unto Yahweh, with their meal-offering, and their
drink-offerings, even an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto Yahweh.
{23:19} And you shall offer one he-goat for a sin-offering, and two he-lambs a
year old for a sacrifice of peace-offerings. {23:20} And the priest shall wave
them with the bread of the first-fruits for a wave-offering before Yahweh, with
the two lambs: they shall be holy to Yahweh for the priest. {23:21} And you
shall make proclamation on the selfsame day; there shall be a holy convocation
unto you; you shall do no servile work: it is a statute for ever in all your
dwellings throughout your generations.
{23:22} And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly
reap the corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleaning of your
harvest: you shall leave them for the poor, and for the alien: I am Yahweh your
God. {23:23} And Yahweh spoke unto
Moses, saying, {23:24} Speak unto the children of
{O3)24} Leviticus Chapter Four. {24:1} And Yahweh spoke unto Moses, saying,
{24:2} Command the children of
{O3)25} Leviticus Chapter
Five. {25:1} And Yahweh spoke unto
Moses in mount Sinai, saying, {25:2} Speak unto the children of
{O3)26} Leviticus Chapter Six. {26:1} you shall make you no idols, neither
shall you rear you up a graven image, or a pillar, neither shall you place any
figured stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am Yahweh your God.
{26:2} you shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am Yahweh. {26:3} If you walk in my statutes, and keep
my commandments, and do them; {26:4} then I will give your rains in their
season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall
yield their fruit. {26:5} And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and
the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time; and you shall eat your bread to
the full, and dwell in your land safely. {26:6} And I will give peace in the
land, and you shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will cause
evil beasts to cease out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your
land. {26:7} And you shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you
by the sword. {26:8} And five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of
you shall chase ten thousand; and your enemies shall fall before you by the
sword. {26:9} And I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and
multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you. {26:10} And you shall
eat old store long kept, and you shall bring forth the old because of the new.
{26:11} And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor
you. {26:12} And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you shall be my
people. {26:13} I am Yahweh your God, who brought you forth out of the land of
Egypt, that you should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bars of your
yoke, and made you go upright. {26:14}
But if you will not hear unto me, and will not do all these commandments;
{26:15} and if you shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhor mine
ordinances, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant;
{26:16} I also will do this unto you: I will appoint terror over you, even
consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine
away; and you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
{26:17} And I will set my face against you, and you shall be smitten before
your enemies: they that hate you shall rule over you; and you shall flee when
none pursues you. {26:18} And if you will not yet for these things hear unto
me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins. {26:19} And I will
break the pride of your power: and I will make your heaven as iron, and your
earth as brass; {26:20} and your strength shall be spent in vain; for your land
shall not yield its increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their
fruit. {26:21} And if you walk contrary
unto me, and will not hear unto me, I will bring seven times more plagues upon
you according to your sins. {26:22} And I will send the beast of the field
among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and
make you few in number; and your ways shall become desolate. {26:23} And if by
these things you will not be reformed unto me, but will walk contrary unto me;
{26:24} then will I also walk contrary unto you; and I will smite you, even I,
seven times for your sins. {26:25} And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall
execute the vengeance of the covenant;
and you shall be gathered together within your cities: and I will send the
pestilence among you; and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
{26:26} When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in
one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight: and you shall eat,
and not be satisfied. {26:27} And if
you will not for all this hear unto me, but walk contrary unto me; 26:28} then
I will walk contrary unto you in wrath; and I also will chastise you seven
times for your sins. {26:29} And you shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the
flesh of your daughters shall you eat. {26:30} And I will destroy your high
places, and cut down your sun-images, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies
of your idols; and my soul shall abhor you. {26:31} And I will make your cities
a waste, and will bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell
the savor of your sweet odors. {26:32} And I will bring the land into
desolation; and your enemies that dwell therein shall be astonished at it.
{26:33} And you will I scatter among the nations, and I will draw out the sword
after you: and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a
waste. {26:34} Then shall the land enjoy
its Sabbaths, as long as it lies desolate, and you are in your enemies' land;
even then shall the land rest, and enjoy its Sabbaths. {26:35} As long as it
lies desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it had not in your
Sabbaths, when you dwelt upon it. {26:36} And as for them that are left of you,
I will send a faintness into their heart in the lands of their enemies: and the
sound of a driven leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as one flees from
the sword; and they shall fall when none pursues. {26:37} And they shall
stumble one upon another, as it were before the sword, when none pursues: and
you shall have no power to stand before your enemies. {26:38} And you shall
perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.
{26:39} And they that are left of you shall pine away in their works against
law in your enemies' lands; and also in the works against law of their fathers
shall they pine away with them.
{26:40} And they shall confess their works against law, and the works against
law of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me, and
also that, because they walked contrary unto me, {26:41} I also walked contrary
unto them, and brought them into the land of their enemies: if then their
uncircumcised heart be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their
works against law; {26:42} then will I remember my covenant with Jacob; and
also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember;
and I will remember the land. {26:43} The land also shall be left by them, and
shall enjoy its Sabbaths, while it lies desolate outside them: and they shall
accept of the punishment of their works against law; because, even because they
rejected mine ordinances, and their soul abhorred my statutes. {26:44} And yet
for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject
them, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my
covenant with them; for I am Yahweh their God; {26:45} but I will for their
sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the
land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am Yahweh. {26:46} These are the statutes and
ordinances and laws, which Yahweh made between him and the children of
{O3)27} Leviticus Chapter Twenty
Seven. {27:1} And Yahweh spoke unto
Moses, saying, {27:2} Speak unto the children of
{O4)1} Numbers Chapter One. {1:1} And Yahweh spoke unto Moses in the
wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first day of the second
Moon, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
{1:2} Take you the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by
their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names,
every male, by their polls; {1:3} from twenty years old and upward, all that
are able to go forth to war in Israel, you and Aaron shall number them by their
hosts. {1:4} And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head
of his fathers' house. {1:5} And these are the names of the men that shall
stand with you. Of Reuben: Elizur the son of Shedeur. {1:6} Of Simeon:
Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai. {1:7} Of
{O4)2} Numbers Chapter Two. {2:1} And Yahweh spoke unto Moses and unto
Aaron, saying, {2:2} The children of
{O4)3} Numbers Chapter Three. {3:1} Now these are the generations of
Aaron and Moses in the day that Yahweh spoke with Moses in mount Sinai. {3:2}
And these are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the first-born, and Abihu,
Eleazar, and Ithamar. {3:3} These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the
priests that were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest's
office. {3:4} And Nadab and Abihu died before Yahweh, when they offered strange
fire before Yahweh, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children; and
Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest's office in the presence of Aaron
their father. {3:5} And Yahweh spoke
unto Moses, saying, {3:6} Bring the tribe of Levi near, and set them before
Aaron the priest, that they may minister unto him. {3:7} And they shall keep
his charge, and the charge of the whole congregation before the tent of
meeting, to do the service of the tabernacle. {3:8} And they shall keep all the
furniture of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the children of
{O4)4} Numbers Chapter Four. {4:1} And Yahweh spoke unto Moses and unto
Aaron, saying, {4:2} Take the sum of the sons of Kohas from among the sons of
Levi, by their families, by their fathers' houses, {4:3} from thirty years old
and upward even until fifty years old, all that enter upon the service, to do
the work in the tent of meeting. {4:4} This is the service of the sons of Kohas
in the tent of meeting, [about] the most holy things: {4:5} when the camp sets
forward, Aaron shall go in, and his sons, and they shall take down the veil of
the screen, and cover the ark of the testimony with it, {4:6} and shall put
thereon a covering of sealskin, and shall spread over it a cloth all of blue,
and shall put in the staves there. {4:7} And upon the table of showbread they
shall spread a cloth of blue, and put thereon the dishes, and the spoons, and
the bowls and the cups wherewith to pour out; and the continual bread shall be
thereon: {4:8} and they shall spread upon them a cloth of scarlet, and cover
the same with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in the staves there. {4:9}
And they shall take a cloth of blue, and cover the candlestick of the light,
and its lamps, and its snuffers, and its snuff dishes, and all the oil vessels
there, wherewith they minister unto it: {4:10} and they shall put it and all
the vessels of it within a covering of sealskin, and shall put it upon the
frame. {4:11} And upon the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue, and
cover it with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in the staves there: {4:12}
and they shall take all the vessels of ministry, wherewith they minister in the
sanctuary, and put them in a cloth of blue, and cover them with a covering of
sealskin, and shall put them on the frame. {4:13} And they shall take away the
ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth thereon: {4:14} and they shall
put upon it all the vessels there, wherewith they minister about it, the fire
pans, the flesh-hooks, and the shovels, and the basins, all the vessels of the
altar; and they shall spread upon it a covering of sealskin, and put in the
staves there. {4:15} And when Aaron and his sons have made an end of covering
the sanctuary, and all the furniture of the sanctuary, as the camp is set
forward; after that, the sons of Kohas shall come to bear it: but they shall
not touch the sanctuary, lest they die. These things are the burden of the sons
of Kohas in the tent of meeting. {4:16} And the charge of Eleazar the son of
Aaron the priest shall be the oil for the light, and the sweet incense, and the
continual meal-offering, and the anointing oil, the charge of all the
tabernacle, and of all that therein is, the sanctuary, and the furniture
there. {4:17} And Yahweh spoke unto
Moses and unto Aaron, saying, {4:18} Cut you not off the tribe of the families
of the Kohasites from among the Levites; {4:19} but thus do unto them, that
they may live, and not die, when they approach unto the most holy things: Aaron
and his sons shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service and to his
burden; {4:20} but they shall not go in to see the sanctuary even for a moment,
lest they die. {4:21} And Yahweh
spoke unto Moses, saying, {4:22} Take the sum of the sons of Gershon also, by
their fathers' houses, by their families; {4:23} from thirty years old and
upward until fifty years old shall you number them; all that enter in to wait
upon the service, to do the work in the tent of meeting. {4:24} This is the
service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving and in bearing burdens:
{4:25} they shall bear the curtains of the tabernacle, and the tent of meeting,
its covering, and the covering of sealskin that is above upon it, and the
screen for the door of the tent of meeting, {4:26} and the hangings of the court,
and the screen for the door of the gate of the court, which is by the
tabernacle and by the altar round about, and their cords, and all the
instruments of their service, and what ever shall be done with them: therein
shall they serve. {4:27} At the commandment of Aaron and his sons shall be all
the service of the sons of the Gershonites, in all their burden, and in all
their service; and you shall appoint unto them in charge all their burden.
{4:28} This is the service of the families of the sons of the Gershonites in
the tent of meeting: and their charge shall be under the hand of Ithamar the
son of Aaron the priest. {4:29} As
for the sons of Merari, you shall number them by their families, by their
fathers' houses; {4:30} from thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years
old shall you number them, every one that enters upon the service, to do the
work of the tent of meeting. {4:31} And this is the charge of their burden,
according to all their service in the tent of meeting: the boards of the tabernacle,
and the bars there, and the pillars there, and the sockets there, {4:32} and
the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and
their cords, with all their instruments, and with all their service: and by
name you shall appoint the instruments of the charge of their burden. {4:33}
This is the service of the families of the sons of Merari, according to all
their service, in the tent of meeting, under the hand of Ithamar the son of
Aaron the priest. {4:34} And Moses
and Aaron and the princes of the congregation numbered the sons of the
Kohasites by their families, and by their fathers' houses, {4:35} from thirty
years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that entered upon the
service, for work in the tent of meeting: {4:36} and those that were numbered
of them by their families were two thousand seven hundred and fifty. {4:37}
These are they that were numbered of the families of the Kohasites, all that
did serve in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to
the commandment of Yahweh by Moses. {4:38} And those that were numbered of the
sons of Gershon, their families, and by their fathers' houses, {4:39} from
thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that entered
upon the service, for work in the tent of meeting, {4:40} even those that were
numbered of them, by their families, by their fathers' houses, were two
thousand and six hundred and thirty. {4:41} These are they that were numbered
of the families of the sons of Gershon, all that did serve in the tent of
meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of Yahweh. {4:42} And those that were numbered of the
families of the sons of Merari, by their families, by their fathers' houses,
{4:43} from thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one
that entered upon the service, for work in the tent of meeting, {4:44} even
those that were numbered of them by their families, were three thousand and two
hundred. {4:45} These are they that were numbered of the families of the sons
of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of Yahweh
by Moses. {4:46} All those that were
numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the princes of Israel
numbered, by their families, and by their fathers' houses, {4:47} from thirty
years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that entered in to do
the work of service, and the work of bearing burdens in the tent of meeting,
{4:48} even those that were numbered of them, were eight thousand and five
hundred and fourscore. {4:49} According to the commandment of Yahweh they were
numbered by Moses, every one according to his service, and according to his
burden: thus were they numbered of him, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
{O4)5} Numbers Chapter Five. {5:1} And Yahweh spoke unto Moses, saying,
{5:2} Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every
leper, and every one that has an issue, and anyone who is unclean by the dead:
{5:3} both male and female shall you put out, outside the camp shall you put
them; that they defile not their camp, in the midst where I dwell. {5:4} And
the children of Israel did so, and put them out outside the camp; as Yahweh
spoke unto Moses, so did the children of Israel. {5:5} And Yahweh spoke unto Moses, saying,
{5:6} Speak unto the children of Israel, When a man or woman shall commit any
sin that men commit, so as to trespass against Yahweh, and that soul shall be
guilty; {5:7} then he shall confess his sin which he has done: and he shall
make restitution for his guilt in full, and add unto it the fifth part there,
and give it unto him in respect of whom he has been guilty. {5:8} But if the
man have no kinsman to whom restitution may be made for the guilt, the restitution
for guilt which is made unto Yahweh shall be the priest's; besides the ram of
the atonement, whereby atonement shall be made for him. {5:9} And every
heave-offering of all the holy things of the children of
{O4)6} Numbers Chapter Six. {6:1} And Yahweh spoke unto Moses, saying,
{6:2} Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When either man or
woman shall make a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself unto
Yahweh, {6:3} he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink; he shall
drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink
any juice of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or dried. {6:4} All the days of his
separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the grape-vine, from the
kernels even to the husk. {6:5} All
the days of his vow of separation there shall no razor come upon his head:
until the days be fulfilled, in which he separates himself unto Yahweh, he
shall be holy; he shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow long. {6:6} All the days that he separates
himself unto Yahweh he shall not come near to a dead body. {6:7} He shall not
make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for
his sister, when they die; because his separation unto God is upon his head.
{6:8} All the days of his separation he is holy unto Yahweh. {6:9} And if any man die very suddenly
beside him, and he defile the head of his separation; then he shall shave his
head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it. {6:10}
And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, to
the priest, to the door of the tent of meeting: {6:11} and the priest shall
offer one for a sin-offering, and the other for a burnt-offering, and make
atonement for him, for that he sinned by reason of the dead, and shall hallow
his head that same day. {6:12} And he shall separate unto Yahweh the days of
his separation, and shall bring a he-lamb a year old for a trespass-offering;
but the former days shall be void, because his separation was defiled. {6:13} And this is the law of the
Nazirite, when the days of his separation are fulfilled: he shall be brought
unto the door of the tent of meeting: {6:14} and he shall offer his oblation
unto Yahweh, one he-lamb a year old outside blemish for a burnt-offering, and
one ewe-lamb a year old outside blemish for a sin-offering, and one ram outside
blemish for peace-offerings, {6:15} and a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of
fine flour mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and their
meal-offering, and their drink-offerings. {6:16} And the priest shall present
them before Yahweh, and shall offer his sin-offering, and his burnt-offering:
{6:17} and he shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace-offerings unto Yahweh,
with the basket of unleavened bread: the priest shall offer also the
meal-offering there, and the drink-offering there. {6:18} And the Nazirite
shall shave the head of his separation at the door of the tent of meeting, and
shall take the hair of the head of his separation, and put it on the fire which
is under the sacrifice of peace-offerings. {6:19} And the priest shall take the
boiled shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one
unleavened wafer, and shall put them upon the hands of the Nazirite, after he
has shaven [the head of] his separation; {6:20} and the priest shall wave them
for a wave-offering before Yahweh; this is holy for the priest, together with
the wave-breast and heave-thigh: and after that the Nazirite may drink
wine. {6:21} This is the law of the
Nazirite who vows, [and of] his oblation unto Yahweh for his separation,
besides that which he is able to get: according to his vow which he vowed, so
he must do after the law of his separation.
{6:22} And Yahweh spoke unto Moses, saying, {6:23} Speak unto Aaron and
unto his sons, saying, On this wise you shall bless the children of Israel: you
shall say unto them, {6:24} Yahweh
bless you, and keep you: {6:25} Yahweh
make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious unto you: {6:26} Yahweh lift up his countenance upon
you, and give you peace. {6:27} So
shall they put my name upon the children of
{O4)7} Numbers Chapter Seven. {7:1} And it came to pass on the day that
Moses had made an end of setting up the tabernacle, and had anointed it and
sanctified it, and all the furniture there, and the altar and all the vessels
there, and had anointed them and sanctified them; {7:2} that the princes of
Israel, the heads of their fathers' houses, offered. These were the princes of
the tribes, these are they that were over them that were numbered: {7:3} and
they brought their oblation before Yahweh, six covered wagons, and twelve oxen;
a wagon for every two of the princes, and for each one an ox: and they
presented them before the tabernacle. {7:4} And Yahweh spoke unto Moses,
saying, {7:5} Take it of them, that they may be [used] in doing the service of
the tent of meeting; and you shall give them unto the Levites, to every man
according to his service. {7:6} And Moses took the wagons and the oxen, and
gave them unto the Levites. {7:7} Two wagons and four oxen he gave unto the
sons of Gershon, according to their service: {7:8} and four wagons and eight
oxen he gave unto the sons of Merari, according unto their service, under the
hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. {7:9} But unto the sons of Kohas
he gave none, because the service of the sanctuary belonged unto them; they
bare it upon their shoulders. {7:10} And the princes offered for the dedication
of the altar in the day that it was anointed, even the princes offered their
oblation before the altar. {7:11} And Yahweh said unto Moses, They shall offer
their oblation, each prince on his day, for the dedication of the altar. {7:12} And he that offered his oblation
the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah: {7:13}
and his oblation was one silver platter, the weight where was a hundred and
thirty [shekels], one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the
sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a
meal-offering; {7:14} one golden spoon of ten [shekels], full of incense;
{7:15} one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb a year old, for a
burnt-offering; {7:16} one male of the goats for a sin-offering; {7:17} and for
the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five
he-lambs a year old: this was the oblation of Nahshon the son of
Amminadab. {7:18} On the second day
Nethanel the son of Zuar, prince of Issachar, did offer: {7:19} he offered for
his oblation one silver platter, the weight where was a hundred and thirty
[shekels], one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the
sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal-offering;
{7:20} one golden spoon of ten [shekels], full of incense; {7:21} one young
bullock, one ram, one he-lamb a year old, for a burnt-offering; {7:22} one male
of the goats for a sin-offering; {7:23} and for the sacrifice of
peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five he-lambs a year old:
this was the oblation of Nethanel the son of Zuar. {7:24} On the third day Eliab the son of
Helon, prince of the children of Zebulun.: {7:25} his oblation was one silver
platter, the weight where was a hundred and thirty [shekels], one silver bowl
of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of
fine flour mingled with oil for a meal-offering; {7:26} one golden spoon of ten
[shekels], full of incense; {7:27} one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb a
year old, for a burnt-offering; {7:28} one male of the goats for a
sin-offering; {7:29} and for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five
rams, five he-goats, five he-lambs a year old: this was the oblation of Eliab the
son of Helon. {7:30} On the fourth
day Elizur the son of Shedeur, prince of the children of Reuben: {7:31} his
oblation was one silver platter, the weight where was a hundred and thirty
[shekels], one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the
sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a
meal-offering; {7:32} one golden spoon of ten [shekels], full of incense;
{7:33} one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb a year old, for a
burnt-offering; {7:34} one male of the goats for a sin-offering; {7:35} and for
the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five
he-lambs a year old: this was the oblation of Elizur the son of Shedeur. {7:36} On the fifth day Shelumiel the son
of Zurishaddai, prince of the children of Simeon: {7:37} his oblation was one
silver platter, the weight where was a hundred and thirty [shekels], one silver
bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full
of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal-offering; {7:38} one golden spoon of
ten [shekels], full of incense; {7:39} one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb
a year old, for a burnt-offering; {7:40} one male of the goats for a
sin-offering; {7:41} and for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five
rams, five he-goats, five he-lambs a year old: this was the oblation of
Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
{7:42} On the sixth day Eliasaph the son of Deuel, prince of the
children of Gad: {7:43} his oblation was one silver platter, the weight where was
a hundred and thirty [shekels], one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the
shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a
meal-offering; {7:44} one golden spoon of ten [shekels], full of incense;
{7:45} one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb a year old, for a
burnt-offering; {7:46} one male of the goats for a sin-offering; {7:47} and for
the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five
he-lambs a year old: this was the oblation of Eliasaph the son of Deuel. {7:48} On the seventh day Elishama the son
of Ammihud, prince of the children of Ephraim: {7:49} his oblation was one
silver platter, the weight where was a hundred and thirty [shekels], one silver
bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full
of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal-offering; {7:50} one golden spoon of
ten [shekels], full of incense; {7:51} one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb
a year old, for a burnt-offering; {7:52} one male of the goats for a
sin-offering; {7:53} and for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five
rams, five he-goats, five he-lambs a year old: this was the oblation of
Elishama the son of Ammihud. {7:54}
On the eighth day Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur, prince of the children of
Manasseh: {7:55} his oblation was one silver platter, the weight where was a
hundred and thirty [shekels], one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the
shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a
meal-offering; {7:56} one golden spoon of ten [shekels], full of incense;
{7:57} one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb a year old, for a
burnt-offering; {7:58} one male of the goats for a sin-offering; {7:59} and for
the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five
he-lambs a year old: this was the oblation of Gamaliel the son of
Pedahzur. {7:60} On the ninth day
Abidan the son of Gideoni, prince of the children of Benjamin: {7:61} his oblation
was one silver platter, the weight where was a hundred and thirty [shekels],
one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of
them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal-offering; {7:62} one golden
spoon of ten [shekels], full of incense; {7:63} one young bullock, one ram, one
he-lamb a year old, for a burnt-offering; {7:64} one male of the goats for a
sin-offering; {7:65} and for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five
rams, five he-goats, five he-lambs a year old: this was the oblation of Abidan
the son of Gideoni. {7:66} On the
tenth day Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai, prince of the children of Dan: {7:67}
his oblation was one silver platter, the weight where was a hundred and thirty
[shekels], one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the
sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a
meal-offering; {7:68} one golden spoon of ten [shekels], full of incense;
{7:69} one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb a year old, for a
burnt-offering; {7:70} one male of the goats for a sin-offering; {7:71} and for
the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five
he-lambs a year old: this was the oblation of Ahiezer the son of
Ammishaddai. {7:72} On the eleventh
day Pagiel the son of Ochran, prince of the children of Asher: {7:73} his
oblation was one silver platter, the weight where was a hundred and thirty
[shekels], one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the
sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal-offering;
{7:74} one golden spoon of ten [shekels], full of incense; {7:75} one young
bullock, one ram, one he-lamb a year old, for a burnt-offering; {7:76} one male
of the goats for a sin-offering; {7:77} and for the sacrifice of
peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five he-lambs a year old:
this was the oblation of Pagiel the son of Ochran. {7:78} On the twelfth day Ahira the son of
Enan, prince of the children of Naphtali: {7:79} his oblation was one silver
platter, the weight where was a hundred a thirty [shekels], one silver bowl of
seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine
flour mingled with oil for a meal-offering; {7:80} one golden spoon of ten
[shekels], full of incense; {7:81} one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb a
year old, for a burnt-offering; {7:82} one male of the goats for a
sin-offering; {7:83} and for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five
rams, five he-goats, five he-lambs a year old: this was the oblation of Ahira
the son of Enan. {7:84} This was the
dedication of the altar, in the day when it was anointed, by the princes of
Israel: twelve silver platters, twelve silver bowls, twelve golden spoons;
{7:85} each silver platter [weighing] a hundred and thirty [shekels], and each
bowl seventy; all the silver of the vessels two thousand and four hundred
[shekels], after the shekel of the sanctuary; {7:86} the twelve golden spoons,
full of incense, [weighing] ten [shekels] apiece, after the shekel of the
sanctuary; all the gold of the spoons a hundred and twenty [shekels]; {7:87}
all the oxen for the burnt-offering twelve bullocks, the rams twelve, the
he-lambs a year old twelve, and their meal-offering; and the males of the goats
for a sin-offering twelve; {7:88} and all the oxen for the sacrifice of
peace-offerings twenty and four bullocks, the rams sixty, the he-goats sixty,
the he-lambs a year old sixty. This was the dedication of the altar, after that
it was anointed. {7:89} And when
Moses went into the tent of meeting to speak with him, then he heard the Voice
speaking unto him from above the mercy-seat that was upon the ark of the
testimony, from between the two cherubim: and he spoke unto him.
{o4)8} Numbers Chapter Eight. {8:1} And Yahweh spoke unto Moses, saying,
{8:2} Speak unto Aaron, and say unto him, When you lightest the lamps, the
seven lamps shall give light in front of the candlestick. {8:3} And Aaron did
so; he lighted the lamps of it[so as to give light] in front of the
candlestick, as Yahweh commanded Moses. {8:4} And this was the work of the
candlestick, beaten work of gold; unto the base there, [and] unto the flowers
there, it was beaten work: according unto the pattern which Yahweh had showed
Moses, so he made the candlestick.
{8:5} And Yahweh spoke unto Moses, saying, {8:6} Take the Levites from
among the children of
{O4)9} Numbers Chapter Nine. {9:1} And Yahweh spoke unto Moses in the
wilderness of Sinai, in the first Moon [Abib] of the second year after they
were come out of the
{O4)10} Numbers Chapter Ten. {10:1} And Yahweh spoke unto Moses, saying,
{10:2} Make you two trumpets of silver; of beaten work shall you make them: and
you shall use them for the calling of the congregation, and for the journeying
of the camps. {10:3} And when they shall blow them, all the congregation shall
gather themselves unto you at the door of the tent of meeting. {10:4} And if
they blow but one, then the princes, the heads of the thousands of
{O4)11} Numbers Chapter Eleven. {11:1} And the people were as complainers,
[speaking] evil in the ears of Yahweh: and when Yahweh heard it, his anger was
kindled; and the fire of Yahweh burnt among them, and devoured in the uttermost
part of the camp. {11:2} And the people cried unto Moses; and Moses prayed unto
Yahweh, and the fire abated. {11:3} And the name of that place was called
Taberah, because the fire of Yahweh burnt among them. {11:4} And the mixed multitude that was among
them lusted exceedingly: and the children of
{O4)12} Numbers Chapter Twelve. {12:1} And Miriam and Aaron spoke against
Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married; for he had married a
Cushite woman. {12:2} And they said, Has Yahweh indeed spoken only with Moses?
has he not spoken also with us? And Yahweh heard it. {12:3} Now the man Moses
was very meek, above all the men that were upon the face of the earth. {12:4} And Yahweh spoke suddenly unto
Moses, and unto Aaron, and unto Miriam, Come out you three unto the tent of
meeting. And they three came out. {12:5} And Yahweh came down in a pillar of
cloud, and stood at the door of the Tent, and called Aaron and Miriam; and they
both came forth. {12:6} And he said, Hear now my words: if there be a prophet
among you, I Yahweh will make myself known unto him in a vision, I will speak
with him in a dream. {12:7} My servant Moses is not so; he is faithful in all
my house: {12:8} with him will I speak mouth to mouth, even manifestly, and not
in dark speeches; and the form of Yahweh shall he behold: Therefore then were
you not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses? {12:9} And the anger of Yahweh was kindled
against them; and he departed. {12:10} And the cloud removed from over the
Tent; and, behold, Miriam was leprous, as [white as] snow: and Aaron looked
upon Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous. {12:11} And Aaron said unto Moses,
Oh, my lord, lay not, I pray you, sin upon us, for that we have done foolishly,
and for that we have sinned. {12:12} Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of
whom the flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother's womb. {12:13}
And Moses cried unto Yahweh, saying, Heal her, O God, I ask you. {12:14} And Yahweh
said unto Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be
ashamed seven days? let her be shut up outside the camp seven days, and after
that she shall be brought in again. {12:15} And Miriam was shut up outside the
camp seven days: and the people journeyed not till Miriam was brought in
again. {12:16} And afterward the
people journeyed from Hazeroth, and encamped in the wilderness of Paran.
{O4)13} Numbers Chapter Thirteen. {13:1} And Yahweh spoke unto Moses, saying,
{13:2} Send you men that they may spy out the
{O4)14} Numbers Chapter Fourteen. {14:1} And all the congregation lifted up
their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night. {14:2} And all the
children of
{O4)15} Numbers Chapter Fifteen. {15:1} And Yahweh spoke unto Moses, saying,
{15:2} Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When you are come
into the land of your habitations, which I give unto you, {15:3} and will make
an offering by fire unto Yahweh, a burnt-offering, or a sacrifice, to accomplish
a vow, or as a freewill-offering, or in your set feasts, to make a sweet savor
unto Yahweh, of the herd, or of the flock; {15:4} then shall he that offers his
oblation offer unto Yahweh a meal-offering of a tenth part [of an ephah] of
fine flour mingled with the fourth part of a hin of oil: {15:5} and wine for
the drink-offering, the fourth part of a hin, shall you prepare with the
burnt-offering, or for the sacrifice, for each lamb. {15:6} Or for a ram, you
shall prepare for a meal-offering two tenth parts [of an ephah] of fine flour
mingled with the third part of a hin of oil: {15:7} and for the drink-offering
you shall offer the third part of a hin of wine, of a sweet savor unto Yahweh.
{15:8} And when you prepare a bullock for a burnt-offering, or for a sacrifice,
to accomplish a vow, or for peace-offerings unto Yahweh; {15:9} then shall he
offer with the bullock a meal-offering of three tenth parts [of an ephah] of
fine flour mingled with half a hin of oil: {15:10} and you shall offer for the
drink-offering half a hin of wine, for an offering made by fire, of a sweet
savor unto Yahweh. {15:11} Thus shall
it be done for each bullock, or for each ram, or for each of the he-lambs, or
of the kids. {15:12} According to the number that you shall prepare, so shall
you do to every one according to their number. {15:13} All that are home-born
shall do these things after this manner, in offering an offering made by fire,
of a sweet savor unto Yahweh. {15:14} And if a stranger sojourn with you, or
anyone who may be among you throughout your generations, and will offer an
offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto Yahweh; as you do, so he shall do.
{15:15} For the assembly, there shall be one statute for you, and for the
stranger that sojourns [with you], a statute for ever throughout your
generations: as you are, so shall the alien be before Yahweh. {15:16} One law
and one ordinance shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourns with
you. {15:17} And Yahweh spoke unto
Moses, saying, {15:18} Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them,
When you come into the land where I bring you, {15:19} then it shall be, that,
when you eat of the bread of the land, you shall offer up a heave-offering unto
Yahweh. {15:20} Of the first of your dough you shall offer up a cake for a
heave-offering: as the heave-offering of the threshing-floor, so shall you
heave it. {15:21} Of the first of your dough you shall give unto Yahweh a
heave-offering throughout your generations.
{15:22} And when you shall err, and not observe all these commandments,
which Yahweh has spoken unto Moses, {15:23} even all that Yahweh has commanded
you by Moses, from the day that Yahweh gave commandment, and onward throughout
your generations; {15:24} then it shall be, if it be done unwittingly, outside
the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one
young bullock for a burnt-offering, for a sweet savor unto Yahweh, with the
meal-offering there, and the drink-offering there, according to the ordinance, and
one he-goat for a sin-offering. {15:25} And the priest shall make atonement for
all the congregation of the children of Israel, and they shall be forgiven; for
it was an error, and they have brought their oblation, an offering made by fire
unto Yahweh, and their sin-offering before Yahweh, for their error: {15:26} and
all the congregation of the children of Israel shall be forgiven, and the
stranger that sojourns among them; for in respect of all the people it was done
unwittingly. {15:27} And if one
person sin unwittingly, then he shall offer a she-goat a year old for a
sin-offering. {15:28} And the priest shall make atonement for the soul that
sins, when he sins unwittingly, before Yahweh, to make atonement for him; and
he shall be forgiven. {15:29} you shall have one law for him that does anything
unwittingly, for him that is home-born among the children of
{O4)16} Numbers Chapter Sixteen. {16:1} Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son
of Kohas, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On,
the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took [men]: {16:2} and they rose up before
Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of
the congregation, called to the assembly, men of renown; {16:3} and they
assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto
them, you take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every
one of them, and Yahweh is among them: Therefore then lift you up yourselves
above the assembly of Yahweh? {16:4}
And when Moses heard it, he fell upon his face: {16:5} and he spoke unto Korah
and unto all his company, saying, In the morning Yahweh will show who are his,
and who is holy, and will cause him to come near unto him: even him whom he
shall choose will he cause to come near unto him. {16:6} This do: take you
censers, Korah, and all his company; {16:7} and put fire in them, and put
incense upon them before Yahweh to-morrow: and it shall be that the man whom Yahweh
does choose, he [shall be] holy: you take too much upon you, you sons of Levi.
{16:8} And Moses said unto Korah, Hear now, you sons of Levi: {16:9} [seems it
but] a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel has separated you from the
congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself, to do the service of the
tabernacle of Yahweh, and to stand before the congregation to minister unto them;
{16:10} and that he has brought you near, and all your brethren the sons of
Levi with you? and seek you the priesthood also? {16:11} Therefore you and all
your company are gathered together against Yahweh: and Aaron, what is he that
you murmur against him? {16:12} And
Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab; and they said, We will
not come up: {16:13} is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a
land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but you must needs
make yourself also a prince over us? {16:14} Also, you have not brought us into
a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and
vineyards: will you put out the eyes of these men? we will not come up. {16:15} And Moses was very wroth, and said
unto Yahweh, Respect not you their offering: I have not taken one donkey from
them, neither have I hurt one of them. {16:16} And Moses said unto Korah, Be
you and all your company before Yahweh, you, and they, and Aaron, to-morrow: {16:17}
and take you every man his censer, and put incense upon them, and bring you
before Yahweh every man his censer, two hundred and fifty censers; you also,
and Aaron, each his censer. {16:18} And they took every man his censer, and put
fire in them, and laid incense thereon, and stood at the door of the tent of
meeting with Moses and Aaron. {16:19} And Korah assembled all the congregation
against them unto the door of the tent of meeting: and the glory of Yahweh
appeared unto all the congregation. {16:20}
And Yahweh spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, {16:21} Separate yourselves
from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment. {16:22} And
they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all
flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be wroth with all the congregation?
{16:23} And Yahweh spoke unto Moses, saying, {16:24} Speak unto the
congregation, saying, Get you up from about the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan,
and Abiram. {16:25} And Moses rose up
and went unto Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of
{O4)17} Numbers Chapter Seventeen. {17:1} And Yahweh spoke unto Moses, saying,
{17:2} Speak unto the children of Israel, and take of them rods, one for each
fathers' house, of all their princes according to their fathers' houses, twelve
rods: write you every man's name upon his rod. {17:3} And you shall write
Aaron's name upon the rod of Levi; for there shall be one rod for each head of
their fathers' houses. {17:4} And you shall lay them up in the tent of meeting
before the testimony, where I meet with you. {17:5} And it shall come to pass,
that the rod of the man whom I shall choose shall bud: and I will make to cease
from me the murmurings of the children of
{O4)18} Numbers Chapter Eighteen. {18:1} And Yahweh said unto Aaron, you and
your sons and your fathers' house with you shall bear the works against law of
the sanctuary; and you and your sons with you shall bear the works against law
of your priesthood. {18:2} And your brethren also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe
of your father, bring you near with you, that they may be joined unto you, and
minister unto you: but you and your sons with you shall be before the tent of
the testimony. {18:3} And they shall keep your charge, and the charge of all
the Tent: only they shall not come near unto the vessels of the sanctuary and
unto the altar that they die not, neither they, nor you. {18:4} And they shall
be joined unto you, and keep the charge of the tent of meeting, for all the
service of the Tent: and a stranger shall not come near unto you. {18:5} And
you shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar; that
there be wrath no more upon the children of
{O4)19} Numbers Chapter Nineteen. {19:1} And Yahweh spoke unto Moses and unto
Aaron, saying, {19:2} This is the statute of the law which Yahweh has
commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring you a red
heifer outside spot, wherein is no blemish, [and] upon which never came yoke.
{19:3} And you shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring her
forth outside the camp, and one shall slay her before his face: {19:4} and
Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle her
blood toward the front of the tent of meeting seven times. {19:5} And one shall
burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her
dung, shall he burn: {19:6} and the priest shall take cedar-wood, and hyssop,
and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer. {19:7}
Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water,
and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean
until the even. {19:8} And he that burns her shall wash his clothes in water,
and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even. {19:9} And a
man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up
outside the camp in a clean place; and it shall be kept for the congregation of
the children of
{O4)20} Numbers Chapter
Twenty. {20:1} And the children of
{O4)21} Numbers Chapter
Twenty One. {21:1} And the Canaanite,
the king of Arad, who dwelt in the South, heard tell that Israel came by the
way of Atharim; and he fought against Israel, and took some of them captive.
{21:2} And Israel vowed a vow unto Yahweh, and said, If you will indeed deliver
this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities. {21:3} And Yahweh
heard the voice of
{O4)22} Numbers Chapter Twentytwo. {22:1} And the children of
{O4)23} Numbers Chapter
Twenty Three. {23:1} And Balaam said
unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and
seven rams. {23:2} And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam
offered on every altar a bullock and a ram. {23:3} And Balaam said unto Balak,
Stand by your burnt-offering, and I will go: perhaps Yahweh will come to meet
me; and what ever he shows me I will tell you. And he went to a bare height.
{23:4} And God met Balaam: and he said unto him, I have prepared the seven
altars, and I have offered up a bullock and a ram on every altar. {23:5} And Yahweh
put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus you shall
speak. {23:6} And he returned unto him, and, lo, he was standing by his
burnt-offering, he, and all the princes of
{O4)24} Numbers Chapter Twentyfour. {24:1} And when Balaam saw that it pleased Yahweh
to bless
{O4)25} Numbers Chapter Twentyfive. {25:1} And Israel abode in Shittim; and the
people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of
{O4)26} Numbers Chapter Twentysix. {26:1} And it came to pass after the
plague, that Yahweh spoke unto Moses and unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the
priest, saying, {26:2} Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of
Israel, from twenty years old and upward, by their fathers' houses, all that
are able to go forth to war in Israel. {26:3} And Moses and Eleazar the priest
spoke with them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying, {26:4}
[Take the sum of the people], from twenty years old and upward; as Yahweh
commanded Moses and the children of Israel, that came forth out of the land of
Egypt. {26:5} Reuben, the first-born
of
{O4)27} Numbers Chapter Twentyseven. {27:1} Then drew near the daughters of
Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of
{O4)28} Numbers Chapter TwentyEight. {28:1} And Yahweh spoke unto Moses, saying,
{28:2} Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, My oblation, my food
for my offerings made by fire, of a sweet savor unto me, shall you observe to
offer unto me in their due season. {28:3} And you shall say unto them, This is
the offering made by fire which you shall offer unto Yahweh: he-lambs a year
old outside blemish, two day by day, for a continual burnt-offering. {28:4} The
one lamb shall you offer in the morning, and the other lamb shall you offer at
even; {28:5} and the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meal-offering,
mingled with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil. {28:6} It is a continual
burnt-offering, which was ordained in mount Sinai for a sweet savor, an
offering made by fire unto Yahweh. {28:7} And the drink-offering of it shall be
the fourth part of a hin for the one lamb: in the holy place shall you pour out
a drink-offering of strong drink unto Yahweh. {28:8} And the other lamb shall
you offer at even: as the meal-offering of the morning, and as the
drink-offering there, you shall offer it, an offering made by fire, of a sweet
savor unto Yahweh. {28:9} And on the
Sabbath day two he-lambs a year old outside blemish, and two tenth parts [of an
ephah] of fine flour for a meal-offering, mingled with oil, and the
drink-offering there: {28:10} this is the burnt-offering of every Sabbath,
besides the continual burnt-offering, and the drink-offering there. {28:11} And in the beginnings of your
Moons you shall offer a burnt-offering unto Yahweh: two young bullocks, and one
ram, seven he-lambs a year old outside blemish; {28:12} and three tenth parts
[of an ephah] of fine flour for a meal-offering, mingled with oil, for each
bullock; and two tenth parts of fine flour for a meal-offering, mingled with
oil, for the one ram; {28:13} and a tenth part of fine flour mingled with oil
for a meal-offering unto every lamb; for a burnt-offering of a sweet savor, an
offering made by fire unto Yahweh. {28:14} And their drink-offerings shall be
half a hin of wine for a bullock, and the third part of a hin for the ram, and
the fourth part of a hin for a lamb: this is the burnt-offering of every Moon
throughout the Moons of the year. {28:15} And one he-goat for a sin-offering
unto Yahweh; it shall be offered besides the continual burnt-offering, and the
drink-offering there. {28:16} And in
the first Moon [Abib], on the fourteenth day of the Moon, is Yahweh's Passover.
{28:17} And on the fifteenth day of this Moon shall be a feast: seven days
shall unleavened bread be eaten. {28:18} In the first day shall be a holy
convocation: you shall do no servile work; {28:19} but you shall offer an
offering made by fire, a burnt-offering unto Yahweh: two young bullocks, and
one ram, and seven he-lambs a year old; they shall be unto you outside blemish;
{28:20} and their meal-offering, fine flour mingled with oil: three tenth parts
shall you offer for a bullock, and two tenth parts for the ram; {28:21} a tenth
part shall you offer for every lamb of the seven lambs; {28:22} and one he-goat
for a sin-offering, to make atonement for you. {28:23} you shall offer these
besides the burnt-offering of the morning, which is for a continual
burnt-offering. {28:24} After this manner you shall offer daily, for seven
days, the food of the offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto Yahweh: it
shall be offered besides the continual burnt-offering, and the drink-offering
there. {28:25} And on the seventh day you shall have a holy convocation: you
shall do no servile work. {28:26}
Also in the day of the first-fruits, when you offer a new meal-offering unto Yahweh
in your [feast of] The Solar Sevens [of Sabbaton], you shall have a holy
convocation; you shall do no servile work; {28:27} but you shall offer a
burnt-offering for a sweet savor unto Yahweh: two young bullocks, one ram,
seven he-lambs a year old; {28:28} and their meal-offering, fine flour mingled
with oil, three tenth parts for each bullock, two tenth parts for the one ram,
{28:29} a tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs; {28:30} one he-goat, to
make atonement for you. {28:31} Besides the continual burnt-offering, and the
meal-offering there, you shall offer them (they shall be unto you outside
blemish), and their drink-offerings.
{o4)29} Numbers Chapter TwentyNine. {29:1} And in the seventh Moon, on the first
day of the Moon, you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no servile
work: it is a day of blowing of trumpets unto you. {29:2} And you shall offer a
burnt-offering for a sweet savor unto Yahweh: one young bullock, one ram, seven
he-lambs a year old outside blemish; {29:3} and their meal-offering, fine flour
mingled with oil, three tenth parts for the bullock, two tenth parts for the
ram, {29:4} and one tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs; {29:5} and
one he-goat for a sin-offering, to make atonement for you; {29:6} besides the
burnt-offering of the new moon, and the meal-offering there, and the continual
burnt-offering and the meal-offering there, and their drink-offerings,
according unto their ordinance, for a sweet savor, an offering made by fire
unto Yahweh. {29:7} And on the tenth
day of this seventh Moon you shall have a holy convocation; and you shall
afflict your souls: you shall do no manner of work; {29:8} but you shall offer
a burnt-offering unto Yahweh for a sweet savor: one young bullock, one ram,
seven he-lambs a year old; they shall be unto you outside blemish; {29:9} and
their meal-offering, fine flour mingled with oil, three tenth parts for the
bullock, two tenth parts for the one ram, {29:10} a tenth part for every lamb
of the seven lambs: {29:11} one he-goat for a sin-offering; besides the
sin-offering of atonement, and the continual burnt-offering, and the
meal-offering there, and their drink-offerings. {29:12} And on the fifteenth day of the
seventh Moon you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no servile work,
and you shall keep a feast unto Yahweh seven days: {29:13} and you shall offer
a burnt-offering, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto Yahweh;
thirteen young bullocks, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old; they shall be
outside blemish; {29:14} and their meal-offering, fine flour mingled with oil,
three tenth parts for every bullock of the thirteen bullocks, two tenth parts
for each ram of the two rams, {29:15} and a tenth part for every lamb of the
fourteen lambs; {29:16} and one he-goat for a sin-offering, besides the
continual burnt-offering, the meal-offering there, and the drink-offering
there. {29:17} And on the second day
[you shall offer] twelve young bullocks, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old
outside blemish; {29:18} and their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for
the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after
the ordinance; {29:19} and one he-goat for a sin-offering; besides the
continual burnt-offering, and the meal-offering there, and their
drink-offerings. {29:20} And on the
third day eleven bullocks, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old outside
blemish; {29:21} and their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the
bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the
ordinance; {29:22} and one he-goat for a sin-offering; besides the continual
burnt-offering, and the meal-offering there, and the drink-offering there. {29:23} And on the fourth day ten
bullocks, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old outside blemish; {29:24} their
meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for
the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance; {29:25} and one
he-goat for a sin-offering; besides the continual burnt-offering, the
meal-offering there, and the drink-offering there. {29:26} And on the fifth day nine
bullocks, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old outside blemish; {29:27} and
their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the bullocks, for the rams,
and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance; {29:28} and
one he-goat for a sin-offering, besides the continual burnt-offering, and the
meal-offering there, and the drink-offering there. {29:29} And on the sixth day eight bullocks,
two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old outside blemish; {29:30} and their
meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for
the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance; {29:31} and one
he-goat for a sin-offering; besides the continual burnt-offering, the
meal-offering there, and the drink-offerings there. {29:32} And on the seventh day seven
bullocks, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old outside blemish; {29:33} and
their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the bullocks, for the rams,
and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance; {29:34} and
one he-goat for a sin-offering; besides the continual burnt-offering, the
meal-offering there, and the drink-offering there. {29:35} On the eighth day you shall have a
solemn assembly: you shall do no servile work; {29:36} but you shall offer a
burnt-offering, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto Yahweh: one
bullock, one ram, seven he-lambs a year old outside blemish; {29:37} their
meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the bullock, for the ram, and for
the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the ordinance: {29:38} and
one he-goat for a sin-offering, besides the continual burnt-offering, and the
meal-offering there, and the drink-offering there. {29:39} These you shall offer unto Yahweh
in your set feasts, besides your vows, and your freewill-offerings, for your
burnt-offerings, and for your meal-offerings, and for your drink-offerings, and
for your peace-offerings. {29:40} And Moses told the children of
{o4)30} Numbers Chapter
Thirty. {30:1} And Moses spoke unto the heads of the tribes of the children of
{o4)31} Numbers Chapter
Thirty One. {31:1} And Yahweh spoke
unto Moses, saying, {31:2} Avenge the children of
{o4)32} Numbers Chapter ThirtyTwo. {32:1} Now the children of Reuben and the
children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the
land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that, behold, the place was a place for
cattle; {32:2} the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke
unto Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and unto the princes of the
congregation, saying, {32:3} Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and
Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Sebam, and Nebo, and Beon, {32:4} the land which Yahweh
smote before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle; and your
servants have cattle. {32:5} And they said, If we have found favor in your
sight, let this land be given unto your servants for a possession; bring us not
over the
{o4)33} Numbers Chapter Thirty Three. {33:1} These are the journeys of the
children of
{o4)34} Numbers Chapter ThirtyFour. {34:1} And Yahweh spoke unto Moses, saying,
{34:2} Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, When you come into
the land of Canaan (this is the land that shall fall unto you for an
inheritance, even the land of Canaan according to the borders there), {34:3}
then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the side
of Edom, and your south border shall be from the end of the Salt Sea eastward;
{34:4} and your border shall turn about southward of the ascent of Akrabbim, and
pass along to Zin; and the goings out there shall be southward of
Kadesh-barnea; and it shall go forth to Hazar-addar, and pass along to Azmon;
{34:5} and the border shall turn about from Azmon unto the brook of Egypt, and
the goings out there shall be at the sea.
{34:6} And for the wEsthern border, you shall have the great sea and the
border [there]: this shall be your west border. {34:7} And this shall be your north
border: from the great sea you shall mark out for you mount Hor; {34:8} from mount
Hor you shall mark out unto the entrance of Hamath; and the goings out of the
border shall be at Zedad; {34:9} and the border shall go forth to Ziphron, and
the goings out of it shall be at Hazar-enan: this shall be your north border. {34:10} And you shall mark out your east
border from Hazar-enan to Shepham; {34:11} and the border shall go down from
Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain; and the border shall go down, and
shall reach unto the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward; {34:12} and the
border shall go down to the Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the
Salt Sea. This shall be your land according to the borders there round
about. {34:13} And Moses commanded
the children of Israel, saying, This is the land which you shall inherit by
lot, which Yahweh has commanded to give unto the nine tribes, and to the
half-tribe; {34:14} for the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their
fathers' houses, and the tribe of the children of Gad according to their
fathers' houses, have received, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received,
their inheritance: {34:15} the two tribes and the half-tribe have received
their inheritance beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, toward the sun
rising. {34:16} And Yahweh spoke unto
Moses, saying, {34:17} These are the names of the men that shall divide the
land unto you for inheritance: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun.
{34:18} And you shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land for
inheritance. {34:19} And these are the names of the men: Of the tribe of Judah,
Caleb the son of Jephunneh. {34:20} And of the tribe of the children of Simeon,
Shemuel the son of Ammihud. {34:21} Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of
Chislon. {34:22} And of the tribe of the children of Dan a prince, Bukki the
son of Jogli. {34:23} Of the children of Joseph: of the tribe of the children
of Manasseh a prince, Hanniel the son of Ephod. {34:24} And of the tribe of the
children of Ephraim a prince, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan. {34:25} And of the
tribe of the children of Zebulun a prince, Elizaphan the son of Parnach.
{34:26} And of the tribe of the children of Issachar a prince, Paltiel the son
of Azzan. {34:27} And of the tribe of the children of Asher a prince, Ahihud
the son of Shelomi. {34:28} And of the tribe of the children of Naphtali a
prince, Pedahel the son of Ammihud. {34:29} These are they whom Yahweh
commanded to divide the inheritance unto the children of
{o4)35} Numbers Chapter
Thirty Five. {35:1} And Yahweh spoke
unto Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying, {35:2}
Command the children of Israel, that they give unto the Levites of the
inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and suburbs for the cities
round about them shall you give unto the Levites. {35:3} And the cities shall
they have to dwell in; and their suburbs shall be for their cattle, and for
their substance, and for all their beasts. {35:4} And the suburbs of the
cities, which you shall give unto the Levites, shall be from the wall of the
city and outward a thousand cubits round about. {35:5} And you shall measure
outside the city for the east side two thousand cubits, and for the south side
two thousand cubits, and for the west side two thousand cubits, and for the
north side two thousand cubits, the city being in the midst. This shall be to
them the suburbs of the cities. {35:6} And the cities which you shall give unto
the Levites, they shall be the six cities of refuge, which you shall give for
the man slayer to flee unto: and besides them you shall give forty and two
cities. {35:7} All the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be
forty and eight cities; them [shall you give] with their suburbs. {35:8} And
concerning the cities which you shall give of the possession of the children of
Israel, from the many you shall take many; and from the few you shall take few:
every one according to his inheritance which he inherits shall give of his
cities unto the Levites. {35:9} And Yahweh spoke unto Moses, saying, {35:10}
Speak unto the children of
{o4)36} Numbers Chapter
Thirty Six. {36:1} And the heads of
the fathers' [houses] of the family of the children of Gilead, the son of
Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near,
and spoke before Moses, and before the princes, the heads of the fathers'
[houses] of the children of Israel: {36:2} and they said, Yahweh commanded my
lord to give the land for inheritance by lot to the children of Israel: and my
lord was commanded by Yahweh to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother
unto his daughters. {36:3} And if they be married to any of the sons of the
[other] tribes of the children of Israel, then will their inheritance be taken
away from the inheritance of our fathers, and will be added to the inheritance
of the tribe whereunto they shall belong: so will it be taken away from the lot
of our inheritance. {36:4} And when the jubilee of the children of
{O5)1} Deuteronomy Chapter Five. {1:1} These are the words which Moses spoke
unto all
{O5)2} Deuteronomy Chapter Two. {2:1} Then we turned, and took our journey
into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea, as Yahweh spoke unto me; and we
compassed mount Seir many days. {2:2} And Yahweh spoke unto me, saying, {2:3}
you have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward. {2:4} And
command you the people, saying, you are to pass through the border of your
brethren the children of Esau, that dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of
you: take you good heed unto yourselves therefore; {2:5} contend not with them;
for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the
foot to tread on; because I have given mount Seir unto Esau for a possession.
{2:6} you shall purchase food of them for money, that you may eat; and you
shall also buy water of them for money, that you may drink. {2:7} For Yahweh
your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand; he has known your
walking through this great wilderness: these forty years Yahweh your God has
been with you; you have lacked nothing. {2:8} So we passed by from our brethren
the children of Esau, that dwell in Seir, from the way of the Arabah from Elath
and from Ezion-geber. And we turned
and passed by the way of the wilderness of
{O5)3} Deuteronomy Chapter
Three. {3:1} Then we turned, and went
up the way to Bashan: and Og the king of
{O5)4} Deuteronomy Chapter
Four. {4:1} And now, O Israel, hear unto
the statutes and unto the ordinances, which I teach you, to do them; that you
may live, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers,
gives you. {4:2} you shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither
shall you diminish from it, that you may keep the commandments of Yahweh your
God which I command you. {4:3} Your eyes have seen what Yahweh did because of
Baal-peor; for all the men that followed Baal-peor, Yahweh your God has
destroyed them from the midst of you. {4:4} But you that did cleave unto Yahweh
your God are alive every one of you this day. {4:5} Behold, I have taught you
statutes and ordinances, even as Yahweh my God commanded me, that you should do
so in the midst of the land wherever you go in to possess it. {4:6} Keep
therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the
sight of the peoples, that shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this
great nation is a wise and understanding people. {4:7} For what great nation is
there, that has a god so near unto them, as Yahweh our God is when so ever we
call upon him? {4:8} And what great nation is there, that has statutes and
ordinances so lawful works as all this law, which I set before you this
day? {4:9} Only take heed to
yourself, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your
eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but
make them known unto your children and your children's children; {4:10} the day
that you stood before Yahweh your God in Horeb, when Yahweh said unto me,
Ekklesia me the people, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn
to fear me all the days that they live upon the earth, and that they may teach
their children. {4:11} And you came near and stood under the mountain; and the
mountain burned with fire unto the heart of heaven, with darkness, cloud, and
thick darkness. {4:12} And Yahweh spoke unto you out of the midst of the fire:
you heard the voice of words, but you saw no form; only [you heard] a voice.
{4:13} And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to
perform, even the ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.
{4:14} And Yahweh commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and
ordinances, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess
it. {4:15} Take you therefore good
heed unto yourselves; for you saw no manner of form on the day that Yahweh
spoke unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire. {4:16} Lest you corrupt
yourselves, and make you a graven image in the form of any figure, the likeness
of male or female, {4:17} the likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the
likeness of any winged bird that flies in the heavens, {4:18} the likeness of
anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the
water under the earth; {4:19} and lest you lift up your eyes unto heaven, and
when you sees the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the host of heaven,
you be drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Yahweh your God has
allotted unto all the peoples under the whole heaven. {4:20} But Yahweh has
taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be
unto him a people of inheritance, as at this day. {4:21} Furthermore Yahweh was
angry with me for your sakes, and swore that I should not go over the Jordan,
and that I should not go in unto that good land, which Yahweh your God gives
you for an inheritance: {4:22} but I must die in this land, I must not go over
the Jordan; but you shall go over, and possess that good land. {4:23} Take heed
unto yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he made
with you, and make you a graven image in the form of anything which Yahweh your
God has forbidden you. {4:24} For Yahweh your God is a devouring fire, a
jealous God. {4:25} When you shall
beget children, and children's children, and you shall have been long in the
land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image in the form of anything,
and shall do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh your God, to provoke him
to anger; {4:26} I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that
you shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto you go over the
Jordan to possess it; you shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall
utterly be destroyed. {4:27} And Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples, and
you shall be left few in number among the nations, where Yahweh shall lead you
away. {4:28} And there you shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and
stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell. {4:29} But from there
you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall find him, when you search after
him with all your heart and with all your soul. {4:30} When you are in
tribulation, and all these things are come upon you, in the latter days you
shall return to Yahweh your God, and hear unto his voice: {4:31} for Yahweh
your God is a merciful God; he will not fail you, neither destroy you, nor
forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore unto them. {4:32} For ask now of the days that are
past, which were before you, since the day that God created man upon the earth,
and from the one end of heaven unto the other, whether there has been [any such
thing] as this great thing is, or has been heard like it? {4:33} Did ever a
people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have
heard, and live? {4:34} Or has any God tired to go and take him a nation from
the midst of [another] nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war,
and by a mighty hand, and by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors,
according to all that Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
{4:35} Unto you it was showed, that you might know that Yahweh he is God; there
is none else besides him. {4:36} Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice,
that he might instruct you: and upon earth he made you to see his great fire;
and you heard his words out of the midst of the fire. {4:37} And because he agape
loved your fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought you
out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt; {4:38} to drive out
nations from before you greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give
you their land for an inheritance, as at this day. {4:39} Know therefore this
day, and lay it to your heart, that Yahweh he is God in heaven above and upon
the earth beneath; there is none else. {4:40} And you shall keep his statutes,
and his commandments, which I command you this day, that it may go well with
you, and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in
the land, which Yahweh your God gives you, for ever. {4:41} Then Moses set apart three cities
beyond the Jordan toward the sun rising; {4:42} that the man slayer might flee
there, that slays his neighbor unawares, and hated him not in time past; and
that fleeing unto one of these cities he might live: {4:43} [namely], Bezer in
the wilderness, in the plain country, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead,
for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, for the Manassites. {4:44} And this is the law which Moses set
before the children of Israel: {4:45} these are the testimonies, and the
statutes, and the ordinances, which Moses spoke unto the children of Israel,
when they came forth out of Egypt, {4:46} beyond the Jordan, in the valley over
against Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at
Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote, when they came forth out
of Egypt. {4:47} And they took his land in possession, and the land of Og king
of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan toward the
sun rising; {4:48} from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon,
even unto mount Sion (the same is Hermon), {4:49} and all the Arabah beyond the
Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.
{o5)5} Deuteronomy Chapter
Five. {5:1} And Moses called unto all
Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the ordinances
which I speak in your ears this day, that you may learn them, and observe to do
them. {5:2} Yahweh our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. {5:3} Yahweh made
not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us
here alive this day. {5:4} Yahweh spoke with you face to face in the mount out
of the midst of the fire, {5:5} (I stood between Yahweh and you at that time,
to show you the word of Yahweh: for you were afraid because of the fire, and
went not up into the mount;) saying,
{5:6} I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt,
out of the house of bondage. {5:7}
you shall have no other gods before me.
{5:8} you shall not make unto you a graven image, [nor] any likeness [of
anything] that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is
in the water under the earth: {5:9} you shall not bow down yourself unto them,
nor serve them; for I, Yahweh, your God, am a jealous God, visiting the works against
law of the fathers upon the children, and upon the third and upon the fourth
generation of them that hate me; {5:10} and showing agape loving kindness unto
thousands of them that agape love me and keep my commandments. {5:11} you shall not take the name of Yahweh
your God in vain: for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless that takes his name in
vain.
{5:12} Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it
holy, as Yahweh your God commanded you. {5:13} Six days shall you labor, and do
all your work; {5:14} but the seventh day is a Sabbath unto Yahweh your God:
[in it] you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor
your man-servant, nor your maid-servant, nor your ox, nor your ass, nor any of
your cattle, nor your stranger that is within your gates; that your man-servant
and your maid-servant may rest as well as you. {5:15} And you shall remember
that you was a servant in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God brought you
out there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm: therefore Yahweh your
God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.
{5:16} Honor your father and your mother,
as Yahweh your God commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may
go well with you, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you. {5:17} you shall not kill. {5:18} Neither shall you commit
adultery. {5:19} Neither shall you
steal. {5:20} Neither shall you bear
false witness against your neighbor.
{5:21} Neither shall you covet your neighbor's wife; neither shall you
desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his man-servant, or his
maid-servant, his ox, or his ass, or anything that is your neighbor's. {5:22} These words Yahweh spoke unto all
your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of
the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them
upon two tables of stone, and gave them unto me. {5:23} And it came to pass,
when you heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, while the mountain
was burning with fire, that you came near unto me, even all the heads of your
tribes, and your elders; {5:24} and you said, Behold, Yahweh our God has showed
us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of
the fire: we have seen this day that God does speak with man, and he lives.
{5:25} Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume us: if
we hear the voice of Yahweh our God any more, then we shall die. {5:26} For who
is there of all flesh, that has heard the voice of the living God speaking out
of the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived? {5:27} Go you near, and hear
all that Yahweh our God shall say: and speak you unto us all that Yahweh our
God shall speak unto you; and we will hear it, and do it. {5:28} And Yahweh heard the voice of your
words, when you spoke unto me; and Yahweh said unto me, I have heard the voice
of the words of this people, which they have spoken unto you: they have well
said all that they have spoken. {5:29} Oh that there were such a heart in them,
that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be
well with them, and with their children for ever! {5:30} Go say to them, Return
you to your tents. {5:31} But as for you, stand you here by me, and I will
speak unto you all the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which
you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to
possess it. {5:32} you shall observe to do therefore as Yahweh your God has
commanded you: you shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
{5:33} you shall walk in all the way which Yahweh your God has commanded you,
that you may live, and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong
your days in the land which you shall possess.
{o5)6} Deuteronomy Chapter
Six. {6:1} Now this is the commandment,
the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh your God commanded to teach you,
that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it; {6:2} that
you might fear Yahweh your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments,
which I command you, you, and your son, and your son's son, all the days of
your life; and that your days may be prolonged. {6:3} Hear therefore, O Israel,
and observe to do it; that it may be well with you, and that you may increase
mightily, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised unto you, in a land
flowing with milk and honey. {6:4} Hear, O Israel: Yahweh our God is one Yahweh:
{6:5} and you shall agape love Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with
all your soul, and with all your might. {6:6} And these words, which I command
you this day, shall be upon your heart; {6:7} and you shall teach them
diligently unto your children, and shall talk of them when you sits in your
house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise
up. {6:8} And you shall bind them for a sign upon your hand, and they shall be
for frontlets between your eyes. {6:9} And you shall write them upon the
door-posts of your house, and upon your gates. {6:10} And it shall be, when Yahweh your God
shall bring you into the land which he swore unto your fathers, to Abraham, to
Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, great and goodly cities, which you build not,
{6:11} and houses full of all good things, which you filled not, and cisterns
hewn out, which you hewed not, vineyards and olive-trees, which you planted
not, and you shall eat and be full; {6:12} then beware lest you forget Yahweh,
who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
{6:13} you shall fear Yahweh your God; and him shall you serve, and shall swear
by his name. {6:14} you shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the
peoples that are round about you; {6:15} for Yahweh your God in the midst of
you is a jealous God; lest the anger of Yahweh your God be kindled against you,
and he destroy you from off the face of the earth. {6:16} you shall not tempt Yahweh your
God, as you tempted him in Massah. {6:17} you shall diligently keep the
commandments of Yahweh your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which
he has commanded you. {6:18} And you shall do that which is right and good in
the sight of Yahweh; that it may be well with you, and that you may go in and
possess the good land which Yahweh swore unto your fathers, {6:19} to thrust
out all your enemies from before you, as Yahweh has spoken. {6:20} When your son asks you in time to
come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances,
which Yahweh our God has commanded you? {6:21} then you shall say unto your
son, We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt: and Yahweh brought us out of Egypt
with a mighty hand; {6:22} and Yahweh showed signs and wonders, great and sore,
upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his house, before our eyes; {6:23} and
he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in, to give us the land
which he swore unto our fathers. {6:24} And Yahweh commanded us to do all these
statutes, to fear Yahweh our God, for our good always, that he might preserve
us alive, as at this day. {6:25} And it shall be good works of the law unto us,
if we observe to do all this commandment before Yahweh our God, as he has
commanded us.
{O5)7} Deuteronomy Chapter
Seven. {7:1} When Yahweh your God
shall bring you into the land where you go to possess it, and shall cast out
many nations before you, the Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and
the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven
nations greater and mightier than you; {7:2} and when Yahweh your God shall
deliver them up before you, and you shall smite them; then you shall utterly
destroy them: you shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy unto them;
{7:3} neither shall you make marriages with them; your daughter you shall not
give unto his son, nor his daughter shall you take unto your son. {7:4} For he
will turn away your son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so
will the anger of Yahweh be kindled against you, and he will destroy you
quickly. {7:5} But thus shall you deal with them: you shall break down their
altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and hew down their Asherah, and burn
their graven images with fire. {7:6}
For you are a holy people unto Yahweh your God: Yahweh your God has chosen you
to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples that are upon the face
of the earth. {7:7} Yahweh did not set his love upon you, nor choose you,
because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all
peoples: {7:8} but because Yahweh agape loves you, and because he would keep
the oath which he swore unto your fathers, has Yahweh brought you out with a
mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of
Pharaoh king of Egypt. {7:9} Know therefore that Yahweh your God, he is God,
the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them that agape
loves him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations, {7:10} and
repays them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack
to him that hates him, he will repay him to his face. {7:11} you shall
therefore keep the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I
command you this day, to do them.
{7:12} And it shall come to pass, because
you hear to these ordinances, and keep and do them, that Yahweh your God will keep
with you the covenant and the loving kindness which he swore unto your fathers:
{7:13} and he will agape love you, and bless you, and multiply you; he will
also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and
your new wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the young of your
flock, in the land which he swore unto your fathers to give you. {7:14} you
shall be blessed above all peoples: there shall not be male or female barren
among you, or among your cattle. {7:15} And Yahweh will take away from you all
sickness; and none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you know, will he put
upon you, but will lay them upon all them that hate you. {7:16} And you shall
consume all the peoples that Yahweh your God shall deliver unto you; your eye
shall not pity them: neither shall you serve their gods; for that will be a
snare unto you. {7:17} If you shall
say in your heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?
{7:18} you shall not be afraid of them: you shall well remember what Yahweh
your God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt; {7:19} the great trials which
your eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the
outstretched arm, whereby Yahweh your God brought you out: so shall Yahweh your
God do unto all the peoples of whom you are afraid. {7:20} Furthermore Yahweh
your God will also send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and
hide themselves, perish from before you. {7:21} you shall not be affrighted at
them; for Yahweh your God is in the midst of you, a great God and a terrible.
{7:22} And Yahweh your God will cast out those nations before you by little and
little: you may not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase
upon you. {7:23} But Yahweh your God will deliver them up before you, and will
discomfit them with a great discomfiture, until they be destroyed. {7:24} And
he will deliver their kings into your hand, and you shall make their name to
perish from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before you, until
you have destroyed them. {7:25} The graven images of their gods shall you burn
with fire: you shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take
it unto you, lest you be snared therein; for it is an abomination to Yahweh
your God. {7:26} And you shall not bring an abomination into your house, and
become a devoted thing like unto it: you shall utterly detest it, and you shall
utterly abhor it; for it is a devoted thing.
{O5)8} Deuteronomy Chapter
Eight. {8:1} All the commandment which
I command you this day shall you observe to do, that you may live, and
multiply, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore unto your fathers.
{8:2} And you shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you
these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to prove you, to
know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.
{8:3} And he humbled you, and suffered you to hunger, and fed you with manna,
which you knew not, neither did your fathers know; that he might make you know
that man does not live by bread only, but by everything that proceeds out of
the mouth of Yahweh does man live. {8:4} Your raiment waxed not old upon you,
neither did your foot swell, these forty years. {8:5} And you shall consider in
your heart, that, as a man chastens his son, so Yahweh your God chastens you. {8:6} And you shall keep the
commandments of Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. {8:7}
For Yahweh your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of
fountains and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills; {8:8} a land of
wheat and barley, and vines and fig-trees and pomegranates; a land of
olive-trees and honey; {8:9} a land wherein you shall eat bread outside scarceness,
you shall not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of
whose hills you may dig copper. {8:10} And you shall eat and be full, and you
shall bless Yahweh your God for the good land which he has given you. {8:11} Beware lest you forget Yahweh your
God, in not keeping his commandments, and his ordinances, and his statutes,
which I command you this day: {8:12} lest, when you have eaten and are full,
and have built goodly houses, and dwelt therein; {8:13} and when your herds and
your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied, and all that
you have is multiplied; {8:14} then your heart be lifted up, and you forget Yahweh
your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of
bondage; {8:15} who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, [wherein
were] fiery serpents and scorpions, and thirsty ground where was no water; who
brought you forth water out of the rock of flint; {8:16} who fed you in the
wilderness with manna, which your fathers knew not; that he might humble you,
and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end: {8:17} and
[lest] you say in your heart, My power and the might of my hand has gotten me
this wealth. {8:18} But you shall remember Yahweh your God, for it is he that
gives you power to get wealth; that he may establish his covenant which he
swore unto your fathers, as at this day. {8:19} And it shall be, if you shall
forget Yahweh your God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship
them, I testify against you this day that you shall surely perish. {8:20} As
the nations that Yahweh makes perish before you, so shall you perish; because
you would not hear unto the voice of Yahweh your God.
{O5)9} Deuteronomy Chapter
Nine. {9:1} Hear, O Israel: you are to
pass over the Jordan this day, to go in to dispossess nations greater and
mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to heaven, {9:2} a people
great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you have
heard say, Who can stand before the sons of Anak? {9:3} Know therefore this
day, that Yahweh your God is he who goes over before you as a devouring fire;
he will destroy them, and he will bring them down before you: so shall you
drive them out, and make them to perish quickly, as Yahweh has spoken unto you.
{9:4} Speak not you in your heart, after that Yahweh your God has thrust them
out from before you, saying, For my lawful works Yahweh has brought me in to
possess this land; whereas for the wickedness of these nations Yahweh does
drive them out from before you. {9:5} Not for your righteous works, or for the
uprightness of your heart, do you go in to possess their land; but for the
wickedness of these nations Yahweh your God does drive them out from before
you, and that he may establish the word which Yahweh swore unto your fathers,
to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
{9:6} Know therefore, that Yahweh your God gives you not this good land
to possess it for your lawful works; for you are a stiff-necked people. {9:7}
Remember, forget you not, how you provoked Yahweh your God to wrath in the
wilderness: from the day that you went forth out of the
{O5)10} Deuteronomy Chapter One. {10:1} At that time Yahweh said unto me,
Hew you two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the
mount, and make you an ark of wood. {10:2} And I will write on the tables the
words that were on the first tables which you brake, and you shall put them in
the ark. {10:3} So I made an ark of acacia wood, and hewed two tables of stone
like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in my
hand. {10:4} And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the
ten commandments, which Yahweh spoke unto you in the mount out of the midst of
the fire in the day of the Ekklesia: and Yahweh gave them unto me. {10:5} And I
turned and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had
made; and there they are as Yahweh commanded me. {10:6} (And the children of
{O5)11} Deuteronomy Chapter Eleven. {11:1} Therefore you shall agape love Yahweh
your God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his ordinances, and his
commandments, always. {11:2} And know you this day: for [I speak] not with your
children that have not known, and that have not seen the chastisement of Yahweh
your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his outstretched arm, {11:3} and
his signs, and his works, which he did in the midst of Egypt unto Pharaoh the
king of Egypt, and unto all his land; {11:4} and what he did unto the army of
Egypt, unto their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the
Red Sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how Yahweh has
destroyed them unto this day; {11:5} and what he did unto you in the
wilderness, until you came unto this place; {11:6} and what he did unto Dathan
and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben; how the earth opened its
mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and every
living thing that followed them, in the midst of all Israel: {11:7} but your
eyes have seen all the great work of Yahweh which he did. {11:8} Therefore shall you keep all the
commandment which I command you this day, that you may be strong, and go in and
possess the land, where you go over to possess it; {11:9} and that you may
prolong your days in the land, which Yahweh swore unto your fathers to give
unto them and to their seed, a land flowing with milk and honey. {11:10} For
the land, where you go in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from
where you came out, where you sowed your seed, and watered it with your foot,
as a garden of herbs; {11:11} but the land, where you go over to possess it, is
a land of hills and valleys, [and] drinks water of the rain of heaven, {11:12}
a land which Yahweh your God cares for: the eyes of Yahweh your God are always
upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year. {11:13} And it shall come to pass, if you
shall hear diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to agape
love Yahweh your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your
soul, {11:14} that I will give the rain of your land in its season, the former
rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, and your new wine,
and your oil. {11:15} And I will give grass in your fields for your cattle, and
you shall eat and be full. {11:16} Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be
deceived, and you turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them; {11:17}
and the anger of Yahweh be kindled against you, and he shut up the heavens, so
that there shall be no rain, and the land shall not yield its fruit; and you
perish quickly from off the good land which Yahweh gives you.
{11:18} Therefore shall you lay up these
my words in your heart and in your soul; and you shall bind them for a sign
upon your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes. {11:19} And
you shall teach them your children, talking of them, when you sits in your
house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise
up. {11:20} And you shall write them upon the door-posts of your house, and
upon your gates; {11:21} that your days may be multiplied, and the days of your
children, in the land which Yahweh swore unto your fathers to give them, as the
days of the heavens above the earth. {11:22} For if you shall diligently keep
all this commandment which I command you, to do it, to agape love Yahweh your
God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him; {11:23} then will Yahweh
drive out all these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess nations
greater and mightier than yourselves. {11:24} Every place whereon the sole of
your foot shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness, and
{O5)12} Deuteronomy Chapter
Twelve. {12:1} These are the statutes and the ordinances which you shall
observe to do in the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has given you
to possess it, all the days that you live upon the earth. {12:2} you shall
surely destroy all the places wherein the nations that you shall dispossess
served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every
green tree: {12:3} and you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces
their pillars, and burn their Asherim with fire; and you shall hew down the
graven images of their gods; and you shall destroy their name out of that
place. {12:4} you shall not do so unto Yahweh your God. {12:5} But unto the
place which Yahweh your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his
name there, even unto his habitation shall you seek, and there you shall come;
{12:6} and there you shall bring your burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, and
your tithes, and the heave-offering of your hand, and your vows, and your
freewill-offerings, and the firstlings of your herd and of your flock: {12:7}
and there you shall eat before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice in all
that you put your hand unto, you and your households, wherein Yahweh your God
has blessed you. {12:8} you shall not do after all the things that we do here
this day, every man what ever is right in his own eyes; {12:9} for you are not
as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which Yahweh your God gives
you. {12:10} But when you go over the Jordan, and dwell in the land which Yahweh
your God causes you to inherit, and he gives you rest from all your enemies
round about, so that you dwell in safety; {12:11} then it shall come to pass
that to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to
dwell there, there shall you bring all that I command you: your
burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave-offering of
your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow unto Yahweh. {12:12} And you
shall rejoice before Yahweh your God, you, and your sons, and your daughters,
and your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and the Levite that is within
your gates, forasmuch as he has no portion nor inheritance with you. {12:13}
Take heed to yourself that you offer not your burnt-offerings in every place
that you sees; {12:14} but in the place which Yahweh shall choose in one of
your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt-offerings, and there you shall do
all that I command you. {12:15}
Notwithstanding, you may kill and eat flesh within all your gates, after all
the desire of your soul, according to the blessing of Yahweh your God which he
has given you: the unclean and the clean may eat there, as of the gazelle, and
as of the hare. {12:16} Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out
upon the earth as water. {12:17} you may not eat within your gates the tithe of
your grain, or of your new wine, or of your oil, or the firstlings of your herd
or of your flock, nor any of your vows which you vowed, nor your
freewill-offerings, nor the heave-offering of your hand; {12:18} but you shall
eat them before Yahweh your God in the place which Yahweh your God shall
choose, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your man-servant, and your
maid-servant, and the Levite that is within your gates: and you shall rejoice
before Yahweh your God in all that you put your hand unto. {12:19} Take heed to
yourself that you forsake not the Levite as long as you live in your land. {12:20} When Yahweh your God shall enlarge
your border, as he has promised you, and you shall say, I will eat flesh,
because your soul desires to eat flesh; you may eat flesh, after all the desire
of your soul. {12:21} If the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to put
his name there, be too far from you, then you shall kill of your herd and of
your flock, which Yahweh has given you, as I have commanded you; and you may
eat within your gates, after all the desire of your soul. {12:22} Even as the
gazelle and as the hare is eaten, so you shall eat there: the unclean and the
clean may eat of it alike. {12:23} Only be sure that you eat not the blood: for
the blood is the life; and you shall not eat the life with the flesh. {12:24}
you shall not eat it; you shall pour it out upon the earth as water. {12:25}
you shall not eat it; that it may go well with you, and with your children
after you, when you shall do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh. {12:26}
Only your holy things which you have, and your vows, you shall take, and go
unto the place which Yahweh shall choose: {12:27} and you shall offer your
burnt-offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of Yahweh your God;
and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of Yahweh
your God; and you shall eat the flesh. {12:28} Observe and hear all these words
which I command you, that it may go well with you, and with your children after
you for ever, when you do that which is good and right in the eyes of Yahweh
your God. {12:29} When Yahweh your
God shall cut off the nations from before you, where you go in to dispossess
them, and you dispossesses them, and dwells in their land; {12:30} take heed to
yourself that you be not ensnared to follow them, after that they are destroyed
from before you; and that you inquire not after their gods, saying, How do
these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise. {12:31} you shall
not do so unto Yahweh your God: for every abomination to Yahweh, which he
hates, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters
do they burn in the fire to their gods.
{12:32} What thing so ever I command you, that shall you observe to do:
you shall not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
{O5)13} Deuteronomy Chapter Thirteen. {13:1} If there arise in the midst of you a
prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and he give you a sign or a wonder, {13:2} and
the sign or the wonder come to pass, where he spoke unto you, saying, Let us go
after other gods, which you have not known, and let us serve them; {13:3} you
shall not hear unto the words of that prophet, or unto that dreamer of dreams:
for Yahweh your God proves you, to know whether you agape love Yahweh your God
with all your heart and with all your soul. {13:4} you shall walk after Yahweh
your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and you
shall serve him, and cleave unto him. {13:5} And that prophet, or that dreamer
of dreams, shall be put to death, because he has spoken rebellion against Yahweh
your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the
house of bondage, to draw you aside out of the way which Yahweh your God
commanded you to walk in. So shall you put away the evil from the midst of
you. {13:6} If your brother, the son
of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or
your friend, that is as your own soul, entice you secretly, saying, Let us go
and serve other gods, which you have not known, you, nor your fathers; {13:7}
of the gods of the peoples that are round about you, near unto you, or far off
from you, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth;
{13:8} you shall not consent unto him, nor hear unto him; neither shall your
eye pity him, neither shall you spare, neither shall you conceal him: {13:9}
but you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first upon him to put him to
death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. {13:10} And you shall stone
him to death with stones, because he has sought to draw you away from Yahweh
your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of
bondage. {13:11} And all
{O5)14} Deuteronomy Chapter Fourteen. {14:1} you are the children of Yahweh your
God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for
the dead. {14:2} For you are a holy people unto Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has
chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples that are
upon the face of the earth. {14:3}
you shall not eat any abominable thing. {14:4} These are the beasts which you
may eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat, {14:5} the hare, and the gazelle, and
the roebuck, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the antelope, and the
chamois. {14:6} And every beast that parts the hoof, and has the hoof cloven in
two, [and] Chews the cud, among the beasts, that may you eat. {14:7}
Nevertheless these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that
have the hoof cloven: the camel, and the hare, and the coney; because they chew
the cud but part not the hoof, they are unclean unto you. {14:8} And the swine,
because he parts the hoof but Chews not the cud, he is unclean unto you: of
their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch. {14:9} These you may eat of all that are
in the waters: what ever has fins and scales may you eat; {14:10} and what ever
has not fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean unto you. {14:11} Of all clean birds you may eat.
{14:12} But these are they of which you shall not eat: the eagle, and the
gier-eagle, and the ospray, {14:13} and the glede, and the falcon, and the kite
after its kind, {14:14} and every raven after its kind, {14:15} and the
ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea-mew, and the hawk after its kind,
{14:16} the little owl, and the great owl, and the horned owl, {14:17} and the
pelican, and the vulture, and the cormorant, {14:18} and the stork, and the
heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat. {14:19} And all winged
creeping things are unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten. {14:20} Of all
clean birds you may eat. {14:21} you
shall not eat of anything that dies of itself: you may give it unto the alien
that is within your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it unto a foreigner:
for you are a holy people unto Yahweh your God. you shall not boil a kid in its
mother's milk. {14:22} you shall
surely tithe all the increase of your seed, that which comes forth from the
field year by year. {14:23} And you shall eat before Yahweh your God, in the
place which he shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, the tithe of
your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the firstlings of your herd
and of your flock; that you may learn to fear Yahweh your God always. {14:24}
And if the way be too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it,
because the place is too far from you, which Yahweh your God shall choose, to
set his name there, when Yahweh your God shall bless you; {14:25} then shall
you turn it into money, and bind up the money in your hand, and shall go unto
the place which Yahweh your God shall choose: {14:26} and you shall bestow the
money for what ever your soul desires, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or
for strong drink, or for what ever your soul asks of you; and you shall eat
there before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.
{14:27} And the Levite that is within your gates, you shall not forsake him;
for he has no portion nor inheritance with you. {14:28} At the end of every three years
you shall bring forth all the tithe of your increase in the same year, and
shall lay it up within your gates: {14:29} and the Levite, because he has no
portion nor inheritance with you, and the alien, and the fatherless, and the
widow, that are within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied;
that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.
{o5)15} Deuteronomy Chapter Fifteen. {15:1} At the end of every seven years you
shall make a release. {15:2} And this is the manner of the release: every
creditor shall release that which he has lent unto his neighbor; he shall not
exact it of his neighbor and his brother; because Yahweh's release has been
proclaimed. {15:3} Of a foreigner you may exact it: but what ever of your is
with your brother your hand shall release. {15:4} Howbeit there shall be no
poor with you; (for Yahweh will surely bless you in the land which Yahweh your
God gives you for an inheritance to possess it;) {15:5} if only you diligently
hear unto the voice of Yahweh your God, to observe to do all this commandment
which I command you this day. {15:6} For Yahweh your God will bless you, as he
promised you: and you shall lend unto many nations, but you shall not borrow;
and you shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you. {15:7} If there be with you a poor man,
one of your brethren, within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your
God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor
brother; {15:8} but you shall surely open your hand unto him, and shall surely
lend him sufficient for his need [in that] which he wants. {15:9} Beware that
there be not a base thought in your heart, saying, The seventh year, the year
of release, is at hand; and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you
give him nothing; and he cry unto Yahweh against you, and it be sin unto you.
{15:10} you shall surely give him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you
give unto him; because that for this thing Yahweh your God will bless you in
all your work, and in all that you put your hand unto. {15:11} For the poor
will never cease out of the land: therefore I command you, saying, you shall
surely open your hand unto your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in
your land. {15:12} If your brother, a
Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, be sold unto you, and serve you six years; then
in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you. {15:13} And when you let
him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty: {15:14} you shall furnish
him liberally out of your flock, and out of your threshing-floor, and out of
your winepress; as Yahweh your God has blessed you that you shall give unto
him. {15:15} And you shall remember that you was a bondman in the
{O5)16} Deuteronomy Chapter Sixteen. {16:1} Observe the moon of Abib, and keep
the Passover unto Yahweh your God; for in the moon of Abib Yahweh your God
brought you forth out of
{16:9} The [celebration of] Seven
solar sevens shall you number unto you: from the time you begin to put the
sickle to the standing grain [of wheat sown in the spring] shall you begin to
number seven of the solar sevens [of Sabbaton]. {16:10} And you shall celebrate
the feast of solar sevens unto Yahweh your God with a tribute of a
freewill-offering of your hand, which you shall give, according as Yahweh your
God blesses you: {16:11} and you shall rejoice [at beginning of night] before Yahweh
your God, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your man-servant, and your
maid-servant, and the Levite that is within your gates, and the alien, and the
fatherless, and the widow, that are in the midst of you, in the place which Yahweh
your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there. {16:12} And you shall
remember that you was a bondman in
{16:13} you shall keep the
feast of tabernacles seven days, after that you have gathered in from your
threshing-floor and from your winepress: {16:14} and you shall rejoice in your
feast, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your man-servant, and your
maid-servant, and the Levite, and the alien, and the fatherless, and the widow,
that are within your gates. {16:15} Seven days shall you keep a feast unto Yahweh
your God in the place which Yahweh shall choose; because Yahweh your God will
bless you in all your increase, and in all the work of your hands, and you
shall be altogether joyful. {16:16} Three times in a year shall all your males
appear before Yahweh your God in the place which he shall choose: in the feast
of unleavened bread, and in the feast of solar sevens, and in the feast of
tabernacles; and they shall not appear before Yahweh empty: {16:17} every man
shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of Yahweh your God which he
has given you. {16:18} Judges and
officers shall you make you in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you,
according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with [legal] works of
lawful judgment. {16:19} you shall not withhold justice: you shall not respect
persons; neither shall you take a bribe; for a bribe does blind the eyes of the
wise, and pervert the words of the lawful worker. {16:20} That which is altogether
just shall you follow, that you may live, and inherit the land which Yahweh
your God gives you. {16:21} you shall
not plant you an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of Yahweh your
God, which you shall make you. {16:22} Neither shall you set you up a pillar;
which Yahweh your God hates.
{O5)17} Deuteronomy Chapter Seventeen. {17:1} you shall not sacrifice unto Yahweh
your God an ox, or a sheep, wherein is a blemish, [or] anything evil; for that
is an abomination unto Yahweh your God.
{17:2} If there be found in the midst of you, within any of your gates
which Yahweh your God gives you, man or woman, that does that which is evil in
the sight of Yahweh your God, in transgressing his covenant, {17:3} and has
gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, or the sun, or the moon, or
any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded; {17:4} and it be told
you, and you have heard of it, then shall you inquire diligently; and, behold,
if it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in
Israel, {17:5} then shall you bring forth that man or that woman, who has done
this evil thing, unto your gates, even the man or the woman; and you shall
stone them to death with stones. {17:6} At the mouth of two witnesses, or three
witnesses, shall he that is to die be put to death; at the mouth of one witness
he shall not be put to death. {17:7} The hand of the witnesses shall be first
upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So you
shall put away the evil from the midst of you. {17:8} If there arise a matter too hard
for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and
between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates; then
shall you arise, and get you up unto the place which Yahweh your God shall
choose; {17:9} and you shall come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the
judge that shall be in those days: and you shall inquire; and they shall show
you the sentence of judgment. {17:10} And you shall do according to the tenor
of the sentence which they shall show you from that place which Yahweh shall
choose; and you shall observe to do according to all that they shall teach you:
{17:11} according to the tenor of the law which they shall teach you, and
according to the judgment which they shall tell you, you shall do; you shall
not turn aside from the sentence which they shall show you, to the right hand,
nor to the left. {17:12} And the man that does presumptuously, in not hearing
unto the priest that stands to minister there before Yahweh your God, or unto
the judge, even that man shall die: and you shall put away the evil from
Israel. {17:13} And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more
presumptuously. {17:14} When you are
come unto the land which Yahweh your God gives you, and shall possess it, and
shall dwell therein, and shall say, I will set a king over me, like all the
nations that are round about me; {17:15} you shall surely set him king over
you, whom Yahweh your God shall choose: one from among your brethren shall you
set king over you; you may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your
brother. {17:16} Only he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the
people to return to Egypt, to the end that he may multiply horses; forasmuch as
Yahweh has said unto you, you shall from here on return no more that way.
{17:17} Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not
away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold. {17:18} And it shall be, when he sits upon
the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a
book, out of [that which is] before the priests the Levites: {17:19} and it
shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life; that he may
learn to fear Yahweh his God, to keep all the words of this law and these
statutes, to do them; {17:20} that his heart be not lifted up above his
brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand,
or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and
his children, in the midst of Israel.
{O5)18} Deuteronomy Chapter Eighteen. {18:1} The priests the Levites, [even] all
the tribe of Levi, shall have no portion nor inheritance with
{O5)19} Deuteronomy Chapter Nineteen. {19:1} When Yahweh your God shall cut off
the nations, whose land Yahweh your God gives you, and you succeed them, and
dwell in their cities, and in their houses; {19:2} you shall set apart three
cities for you in the midst of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you to
possess it. {19:3} you shall prepare you the way, and divide the borders of
your land, which Yahweh your God causes you to inherit, into three parts, that
every man slayer may flee there.
{19:4} And this is the case of the man slayer, that shall flee there and
live: who so kills his neighbor unawares, and hated him not in time past;
{19:5} as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to hew wood, and
his hand takes a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips
from off the handle, and lands upon his neighbor, so that he dies; he shall
flee unto one of these cities and live: {19:6} lest the avenger of blood pursue
the man slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is
long, and smite him mortally; because he was not worthy of death, in as much as
he hated him not in time past. {19:7} Therefore I command you, saying, you
shall set apart three cities for you. {19:8} And if Yahweh your God enlarge
your border, as he has sworn unto your fathers, and give you all the land which
he promised to give unto your fathers; {19:9} if you shall keep all this
commandment to do it, which I command you this day, to Agape love Yahweh your
God, and to walk ever in his ways; then shall you add three cities more for
you, besides these three: {19:10} that innocent blood be not shed in the midst
of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, and so blood
be upon you.
{19:11} But if any man hate his neighbor,
and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally so
that he dies, and he flee into one of these cities; {19:12} then the elders of
his city shall send and fetch him there, and deliver him into the hand of the
avenger of blood, that he may die. {19:13} your eye shall not pity him, but you
shall put away the innocent blood from
{19:14} you shall not remove your
neighbor's landmark, which they of old time have set, in your inheritance which
you shall inherit, in the land that Yahweh your God gives you to possess
it. {19:15} One witness shall not
rise up against a man for any works against law, or for any sin, in any sin that
he sins: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses,
shall a matter be established. {19:16} If an unlawful working witness rise up
against any man to testify against him of wrong-doing, {19:17} then both the
men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before Yahweh, before the
priests and the judges that shall be in those days; {19:18} and the judges
shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false
witness, and have testified falsely against his brother; {19:19} then shall you
do unto him, as he had thought to do unto his brother: so shall you put away
the evil from the midst of you. {19:20} And those that remain shall hear, and
fear, and shall from here on commit no more any such evil in the midst of you.
{19:21} And your eyes shall not pity; life [shall go] for life, eye for eye,
tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
{O5)20} Deuteronomy Chapter
Twenty. {20:1} When you go forth to
battle against your enemies, and sees horses, and chariots, [and] a people more
than you, you shall not be afraid of them; for Yahweh your God is with you, who
brought you up out of the land of Egypt. {20:2} And it shall be, when you draw
near unto the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak unto the people,
{20:3} and shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, you draw near this day unto
battle against your enemies: let not your heart faint; fear not, nor tremble,
neither be you afraid of them; {20:4} for Yahweh your God is he that goes with
you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you. {20:5} And the
officers shall speak unto the people, saying, What man is there that has built
a new house, and has not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest
he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it. {20:6} And what man is there
that has planted a vineyard, and has not used the fruit there? let him go and
return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man use the fruit
there. {20:7} And what man is there that has betrothed a wife, and has not
taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and
another man take her. {20:8} And the officers shall speak further unto the
people, and they shall say, What man is there that is fearful and
faint-hearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren's heart
melt as his heart. {20:9} And it shall be, when the officers have made an end
of speaking unto the people, that they shall appoint captains of hosts at the
head of the people. {20:10} When you
draw near unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it. {20:11}
And it shall be, if it make you answer of peace, and open unto you, then it
shall be, that all the people that are found therein shall become tributary
unto you, and shall serve you. {20:12} And if it will make no peace with you,
but will make war against you, then you shall besiege it: {20:13} and when Yahweh
your God delivers it into your hand, you shall smite every male of it with the
edge of the sword: {20:14} but the women, and the little ones, and the cattle,
and all that is in the city, even all the spoil there, shall you take for a
prey unto yourself; and you shall eat the spoil of your enemies, which Yahweh
your God has given you. {20:15} Thus shall you do unto all the cities which are
very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations. {20:16}
But of the cities of these peoples, that Yahweh your God gives you for an
inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes; {20:17} but you shall
utterly destroy them: the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, and the
Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; as Yahweh your God has commanded you;
{20:18} that they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they
have done unto their gods; so would you sin against Yahweh your God. {20:19} When you shall besiege a city a
long time, in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy the trees
of it by wielding an axe against them; for you may eat of them, and you shall
not cut them down; for is the tree of the field man, that it should be besieged
of you? {20:20} Only the trees of which you know that they are not trees for
food, you shall destroy and cut them down; and you shall build bulwarks against
the city that makes war with you, until it fall.
{O5)21} Deuteronomy Chapter
Twenty One. {21:1} If one be found
slain in the land which Yahweh your God gives you to possess it, lying in the
field, and it be not known who has smitten him; {21:2} then your elders and
your judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are
round about him that is slain: {21:3} and it shall be, that the city which is
nearest unto the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take a heifer of
the herd, which has not been wrought with, and which has not drawn in the yoke;
{21:4} and the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a valley
with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the
heifer's neck there in the valley. {21:5} And the priests the sons of Levi
shall come near; for them Yahweh your God has chosen to minister unto him, and
to bless in the name of Yahweh; and according to their word shall every
controversy and every stroke be. {21:6} And all the elders of that city, who
are nearest unto the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer whose
neck was broken in the valley; {21:7} and they shall answer and say, Our hands
have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it. {21:8} Forgive, O Yahweh,
your people
{O5)22} Deuteronomy Chapter Twentytwo. {22:1} you shall not see your brother's ox
or his sheep go astray, and hide yourself from them: you shall surely bring
them again unto your brother. {22:2} And if your brother be not near unto you,
or if you know him not, then you shall bring it home to your house, and it
shall be with you until your brother seek after it, and you shall restore it to
him. {22:3} And so shall you do with his ass; and so shall you do with his
garment; and so shall you do with every lost thing of your brother's, which he
has lost, and you have found: you may not hide yourself. {22:4} you shall not
see your brother's donkey or his ox fallen down by the way, and hide yourself
from them: you shall surely help him to lift them up again. {22:5} A woman shall not wear that which
pertains unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment; for anyone
who do these things is an abomination unto Yahweh your God. {22:6} If a bird's nest chance to be
before you in the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs,
and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, you shall not take the
dam with the young: {22:7} you shall surely let the dam go, but the young you
may take unto yourself; that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong
your days. {22:8} When you build a
new house, then you shall make a battlement for your roof, that you bring not
blood upon your house, if any man fall from there. {22:9} you shall not sow your vineyard
with two kinds of seed, lest the whole fruit be forfeited, the seed which you
have sown, and the increase of the vineyard. {22:10} you shall not plow with an
ox and an donkey together. {22:11} you shall not wear a mingled stuff, wool and
linen together. {22:12} you shall
make you fringes upon the four borders of your vesture, wherewith you cover
yourself. {22:13} If any man take a
wife, and go in unto her, and hate her, {22:14} and lay shameful things to her
charge, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and
when I came near to her, I found not in her the tokens of virginity; {22:15}
then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the
tokens of the damsel's virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate;
{22:16} and the damsel's father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter
unto this man to wife, and he hates her; {22:17} and, lo, he has laid shameful
things [to her charge], saying, I found not in your daughter the tokens of
virginity; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they
shall spread the garment before the elders of the city. {22:18} And the elders
of that city shall take the man and chasten him; {22:19} and they shall fine
him a hundred [shekels] of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel,
because he has brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall
be his wife; he may not put her away all his days. {22:20} But if this thing be
true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the damsel; {22:21} then
they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men
of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has wrought folly
in Israel, to play the prostitute in her father's house: so shall you put away
the evil from the midst of you.
{22:22} If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then
they shall both of them die, the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so
shall you put away the evil from Israel.
{22:23} If there be a damsel that is a virgin betrothed unto a husband,
and a man find her in the city, and lie with her; {22:24} then you shall bring
them both out unto the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death
with stones; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man,
because he has humbled his neighbor's wife: so you shall put away the evil from
the midst of you. {22:25} But if the
man find the damsel that is betrothed in the field, and the man force her, and
lie with her; then the man only that lay with her shall die: {22:26} but unto
the damsel you shall do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death:
for as when a man rises against his neighbor, and slays him, even so is this
matter; {22:27} for he found her in the field, the betrothed damsel cried, and
there was none to save her. {22:28}
If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, that is not betrothed, and lay hold on
her, and lie with her, and they be found; {22:29} then the man that lay with
her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty [shekels] of silver, and she
shall be his wife, because he has humbled her; he may not put her away all his
days. {22:30} A man shall not take
his father's wife, and shall not uncover his father's skirt.
{O5)23} Deuteronomy Chapter Twenty Three. {23:1} He that is wounded in the stones, or
has his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the Ekklesia of Yahweh. {23:2} A unlawful conceived Child shall
not enter into the Ekklesia of Yahweh; even to the tenth generation shall none
of his enter into the Ekklesia of Yahweh.
{23:3} An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into the Ekklesia of Yahweh;
even to the tenth generation shall none belonging to them enter into the
Ekklesia of Yahweh for ever: {23:4} because they met you not with bread and
with water in the way, when you came forth out of Egypt, and because they hired
against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.
{23:5} Nevertheless Yahweh your God would not hear unto Balaam; but Yahweh your
God turned the curse into a blessing unto you, because Yahweh your God agape
loved you. {23:6} you shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your
days for ever. {23:7} you shall not
abhor an Edomite; for he is your brother: you shall not abhor an Egyptian,
because you was a alien in his land. {23:8} The children of the third
generation that are born unto them shall enter into the Ekklesia of Yahweh. {23:9} When you go forth in camp against
your enemies, then you shall keep you from every evil thing. {23:10} If there
be among you any man, that is not clean by reason of that which by chance him
at night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the
camp: {23:11} but it shall be, when evening comes on, he shall bathe himself in
water; and when the sun is down, he shall come within the camp. {23:12} you
shall have a place also outside the camp, where you shall go forth abroad:
{23:13} and you shall have a paddle among your weapons; and it shall be, when
you sits down abroad, you shall dig with, and shall turn back and cover that
which comes from you: {23:14} for Yahweh your God walks in the midst of your
camp, to deliver you, and to give up your enemies before you; therefore shall
your camp be holy, that he may not see an unclean thing in you, and turn away
from you. {23:15} You shall not
deliver unto his master a servant that is escaped from his master unto you:
{23:16} he shall dwell with you, in the midst of you, in the place which he
shall choose within one of your gates, where it pleases him best: you shall not
oppress him. {23:17} There shall be
no prostitute of the daughters of
{O5)24} Deuteronomy Chapter Twentyfour. {24:1} When a man takes a wife, and marries
her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he has found
some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorcement, and
give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. {24:2} And when she is
departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's [wife]. {24:3} And
if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and give
it in her hand, and send her out of his house; or if the latter husband die,
who took her to be his wife; {24:4} her former husband, who sent her away, may
not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination
before Yahweh: and you shall not cause the land to sin, which Yahweh your God
gives you for an inheritance. {24:5}
When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the host, neither shall he
be charged with any business: he shall be free at home one year, and shall
cheer his wife whom he has taken.
{24:6} No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for
he takes [a man's] life to pledge. {24:7}
If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of
{O5)25} Deuteronomy Chapter Twentyfive. {25:1} If there be a controversy between
men, and they come unto judgment, and [the judges] judge them; then they shall
justify the lawful works, and condemn the wicked; {25:2} and it shall be, if
the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie
down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his wickedness, by number.
{25:3} Forty stripes he may give him, he shall not exceed; lest, if he should
exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then your brother should
seem vile unto you. {25:4} you shall
not muzzle the ox when he treads out [the grain]. {25:5} If brethren dwell together, and one
of them die, and have no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside
unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to
him to wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother unto her. {25:6} And
it shall be, that the first-born that she bears shall succeed in the name of
his brother that is dead, that his name be not blotted out of Israel. {25:7}
And if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife
shall go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuses
to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of
a husband's brother unto me. {25:8} Then the elders of his city shall call him,
and speak unto him: and if he stand, and say, I like not to take her; {25:9}
then shall his brother's wife come unto him in the presence of the elders, and
loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face; and she shall answer
and say, So shall it be done unto the man that does not build up his brother's
house. {25:10} And his name shall be called in
{O5)26} Deuteronomy Chapter Twentysix. {26:1} And it shall be, when you are come
in unto the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, and posses
it, and dwell therein, {26:2} that you shall take of the first of all the fruit
of the ground, which you shall bring in from your land that Yahweh your God
gives you; and you shall put it in a basket, and shall go unto the place which Yahweh
your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there. {26:3} And you shall
come unto the priest that shall be in those days, and say unto him, I profess
this day unto Yahweh your God, that I am come unto the land which Yahweh swore
unto our fathers to give us. {26:4} And the priest shall take the basket out of
your hand, and set it down before the altar of Yahweh your God. {26:5} And you
shall answer and say before Yahweh your God, A Syrian ready to perish was my
father; and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there, few in number; and he
became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous. {26:6} And the Egyptians
dealt ill with us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage: {26:7} and
we cried unto Yahweh, the God of our fathers, and Yahweh heard our voice, and
saw our affliction, and our toil, and our oppression; {26:8} and Yahweh brought
us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and
with great terribleness, and with signs, and with wonders; {26:9} and he has
brought us into this place, and has given us this land, a land flowing with
milk and honey. {26:10} And now, behold, I have brought the first of the fruit
of the ground, which you, O Yahweh, have given me. And you shall set it down
before Yahweh your God, and worship before Yahweh your God: {26:11} and you shall
rejoice in all the good which Yahweh your God has given unto you, and unto your
house, you, and the Levite, and the alien that is in the midst of you. {26:12} When you have made an end of
tithing all the tithe of your increase in the third year, which is the year of
tithing, then you shall give it unto the Levite, to the alien, to the
fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within your gates, and be
filled. {26:13} And you shall say before Yahweh your God, I have put away the
hallowed things out of my house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and
unto the alien, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all your
commandment which you have commanded me: I have not transgressed any of your
commandments, neither have I forgotten them: {26:14} I have not eaten of it in
my grievings, neither have I put away there, being unclean, nor given of it for
the dead: I have heard the voice of Yahweh my God; I have done according to all
that you have commanded me. {26:15} Look down from your holy habitation, from
heaven, and bless your people
{O5)27} Deuteronomy Chapter Twentyseven. {27:1} And Moses and the elders of
{O5)28} Deuteronomy Chapter TwentyEight. {28:1} And it shall come to pass, if you
shall hear diligently unto the voice of Yahweh your God, to observe to do all
his commandments which I command you this day, that Yahweh your God will set
you on high above all the nations of the earth: {28:2} and all these blessings
shall come upon you, and overtake you, if you shall hear unto the voice of Yahweh
your God. {28:3} Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in
the field. {28:4} Blessed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of
your ground, and the fruit of your beasts, the increase of your cattle, and the
young of your flock. {28:5} Blessed shall be your basket and your
kneading-trough. {28:6} Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed
shall you be when you go out. {28:7} Yahweh
will cause your enemies that rise up against you to be smitten before you: they
shall come out against you one way, and shall flee before you seven ways.
{28:8} Yahweh will command the blessing upon you in your barns, and in all that
you put your hand unto; and he will bless you in the land which Yahweh your God
gives you. {28:9} Yahweh will establish you for a holy people unto himself, as
he has sworn unto you; if you shall keep the commandments of Yahweh your God,
and walk in his ways. {28:10} And all the peoples of the earth shall see that
you are called by the name of Yahweh; and they shall be afraid of you. {28:11}
And Yahweh will make you plenteous for good, in the fruit of your body, and in
the fruit of your cattle, and in the fruit of your ground, in the land which Yahweh
swore unto your fathers to give you. {28:12} Yahweh will open unto you his good
treasure the heavens, to give the rain of your land in its season, and to bless
all the work of your hand: and you shall lend unto many nations, and you shall
not borrow. {28:13} And Yahweh will make you the head, and not the tail; and
you shall be above only, and you shall not be beneath; if you shall hear unto
the commandments of Yahweh your God, which I command you this day, to observe
and to do [them], {28:14} and shall not turn aside from any of the words which
I command you this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other
gods to serve them. {28:15} But it
shall come to pass, if you will not hear unto the voice of Yahweh your God, to
observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you this
day, that all these curses shall come upon you, and overtake you. {28:16} A
cursed shall you be in the city, and A cursed shall you be in the field.
{28:17} A cursed shall be your basket and your kneading-trough. {28:18} A
cursed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground, the
increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock. {28:19} A cursed shall
you be when you come in, and A cursed shall you be when you go out. {28:20} Yahweh will send upon you cursing,
discomfiture, and rebuke, in all that you put your hand unto to do, until you
be destroyed, and until you perish quickly; because of the evil of your doings,
whereby you have forsaken me. {28:21} Yahweh will make the pestilence cleave
unto you, until he have consumed you from off the land, where you go in to
possess it. {28:22} Yahweh will smite you with consumption, and with fever, and
with inflammation, and with fiery heat, and with the sword, and with blasting,
and with mildew; and they shall pursue you until you perish. {28:23} And your
heaven that is over your head shall be brass, and the earth that is under you
shall be iron. {28:24} Yahweh will make the rain of your land powder and dust:
from heaven shall it come down upon you, until you be destroyed. {28:25} Yahweh will cause you to be
smitten before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them, and shall
flee seven ways before them: and you shall be tossed to and from among all the
kingdoms of the earth. {28:26} And your dead body shall be food unto all birds
of the heavens, and unto the beasts of the earth; and there shall be none to
frighten them away. {28:27} Yahweh will smite you with the boil of
{O5)29} Deuteronomy Chapter TwentyNine. {29:1} These are the words of the covenant
which Yahweh commanded Moses to make with the children of
{O5)30} Deuteronomy Chapter
Thirty {30:1} And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon
you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall
call them to mind among all the nations, where Yahweh your God has driven you,
{30:2} and shall return unto Yahweh your God, and shall obey his voice
according to all that I command you this day, you and your children, with all
your heart, and with all your soul; {30:3} that then Yahweh your God will turn
your captivity, and have compassion upon you, and will return and gather you
from all the peoples, where Yahweh your God has scattered you. {30:4} If [any
of] your outcasts be in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there will Yahweh
your God gather you, and from there will he fetch you: {30:5} and Yahweh your
God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall
possess it; and he will do you good, and multiply you above your fathers. {30:6}
And Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your seed, to
agape love Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, that
you may live. {30:7} And Yahweh your God will put all these curses upon your
enemies, and on them that hate you, that persecuted you. {30:8} And you shall
return and obey the voice of Yahweh, and do all his commandments which I
command you this day. {30:9} And Yahweh your God will make you plenteous in all
the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your
cattle, and in the fruit of your ground, for good: for Yahweh will again
rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers; {30:10} if you
shall obey the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes
which are written in this book of the law; if you turn unto Yahweh your God
with all your heart, and with all your soul.
{30:11} For this commandment which I command you this day, it is not too
hard for you, neither is it far off. {30:12} It is not in heaven, that you
should say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, and make us
to hear it, that we may do it? {30:13} Neither is it beyond the sea, that you
should say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, and make us
to hear it, that we may do it? {30:14} But the word is very near unto you, in
your mouth, and in your heart, that you may do it. {30:15} See, I have set before you this
day life and good, and death and evil; {30:16} in that I command you this day to
agape love Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments
and his statutes and his ordinances, that you may live and multiply, and that Yahweh
your God may bless you in the land where you go in to possess it. {30:17} But
if your heart turn away, and you will not hear, but shall be drawn away, and
worship other gods, and serve them; {30:18} I denounce unto you this day, that
you shall surely perish; you shall not prolong your days in the land, where you
pass over the Jordan to go in to possess it. {30:19} I call heaven and earth to
witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, the
blessing and the curse: therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your
seed; {30:20} to agape love Yahweh your God, to obey his voice, and to cleave
unto him; for he is your life, and the length of your days; that you may dwell
in the land which Yahweh swore unto your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to
Jacob, to give them.
{O5)31} Deuteronomy Chapter
Thirty One. {31:1} And Moses went and
spoke these words unto all
{O5)32}
Deuteronomy Chapter ThirtyTwo. {32:1} Give ear, you heavens, and I will speak;
And let the earth hear the words of my mouth. {32:2} My instructions shall drop
as the rain; My speech shall distil as the dew, As the small rain upon the
tender grass, And as the showers upon the herb. {32:3} For I will proclaim the
name of Yahweh: Ascribe you greatness unto our God. {32:4} The Rock, his work
is perfect; For all his ways are justice: A God of faithfulness and outside
works against law, Just and right is he. {32:5} They have dealt corruptly with
him, [they are] not his children,
[it is] their blemish; [They are] a perverse and crooked generation.
{32:6} Do you thus requite Yahweh, O foolish people and unwise? Is not he your
father that has bought you? He has made you, and established you. {32:7}
Remember the days of old, Consider the years of many generations: Ask your
father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you. {32:8} When
the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, When he separated the
children of men, He set the bounds of the peoples According to the number of
the children of
{O5)33} Deuteronomy 33. {33:1} And this is the blessing, wherewith
Moses the man of God blessed the children of
{O5)34} Deuteronomy Chapter ThirtyFour. {34:1} And Moses went up from the plains of
{34:9} And Joshua the son of Nun was full
of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands upon him: and the
children of
{O6)1} Joshua
Chapter One. {1:1} Now it came
to pass after the death of Moses the servant of Yahweh, that Yahweh spoke unto
Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' minister, saying, {1:2} Moses my servant is dead;
now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, you, and all this people, unto the
land which I do give to them, even to the children of Israel. {1:3} Every place
that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, to you have I given it, as I spoke
unto Moses. {1:4} From the wilderness, and this Lebanon, even unto the great
river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great
sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your border. {1:5} There shall
not any man be able to stand before you all the days of your life. as I was
with Moses, so I will be with you; I will not fail you, nor forsake you. {1:6}
Be strong and of good courage; for you shall cause this people to inherit the
land which I swore unto their fathers to give them. {1:7} Only be strong and
very courageous, to observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my
servant commanded you: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that
you may have good success where ever you go. {1:8} This book of the law shall
not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate thereon day and night,
that you may observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then
you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success. {1:9}
Have not I commanded you? Be strong and of good courage; be not affrighted,
neither be you dismayed: for Yahweh your God is with you where ever you
go. {1:10} Then Joshua commanded the
officers of the people, saying, {1:11} Pass through the midst of the camp, and
command the people, saying, Prepare you victuals; for within three days you are
to pass over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land, which Yahweh your God
gives you to possess it. {1:12} And
to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, spoke
Joshua, saying, {1:13} Remember the word which Moses the servant of Yahweh
commanded you, saying, Yahweh your God gives you rest, and will give you this
land. {1:14} Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle, shall abide in the
land which Moses gave you beyond the Jordan; but you shall pass over before
your brethren armed, all the mighty men of valor, and shall help them; {1:15}
until Yahweh have given your brethren rest, as [he has given] you, and they
also have possessed the land which Yahweh your God gives them: then you shall
return unto the land of your possession, and possess it, which Moses the
servant of Yahweh gave you beyond the Jordan toward the sun rising. {1:16} And
they answered Joshua, saying, All that you have commanded us we will do, and
where ever you send us we will go. {1:17} According as we heard unto Moses in
all things, so will we hear unto you: only Yahweh your God be with you, as he
was with Moses. {1:18} Anyone who he be that shall rebel against your
commandment, and shall not hear unto your words in all that you command him, he
shall be put to death: only be strong and of good courage.
{O6)2} Joshua Chapter two. {2:1} And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of
Shittim two men as spies secretly, saying, Go, view the land, and
{O6)3} Joshua Chapter Three. {3:1} And Joshua rose up early in the
morning; and they removed from Shittim, and came to the Jordan, he and all the
children of
{O6)4} Joshua Chapter Four. {4:1} And it came to pass, when all the
nation were clean passed over the Jordan, that Yahweh spoke unto Joshua,
saying, {4:2} Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man,
{4:3} and command you them, saying, Take you from here out of the midst of the
Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood firm, twelve stones, and
carry them over with you, and lay them down in the lodging-place, where you
shall lodge this night. {4:4} Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had
prepared of the children of Israel, out of every tribe a man: {4:5} and Joshua
said unto them, Pass over before the ark of Yahweh your God into the midst of
the Jordan, and take you up every man of you a stone upon his shoulder,
according unto the number of the tribes of the children of Israel; {4:6} that
this may be a sign among you, that, when your children ask in time to come,
saying, What mean you by these stones? {4:7} then you shall say unto them,
Because the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of
Yahweh; when it passed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off:
and these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of Israel for
ever. {4:8} And the children of
Israel did so as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the midst
of the Jordan, as Yahweh spoke unto Joshua, according to the number of the
tribes of the children of Israel; and they carried them over with them unto the
place where they lodged, and laid them down there. {4:9} And Joshua set up
twelve stones in the midst of the
{O6)5} Joshua Chapter Five. {5:1} And it came to pass, when all the
kings of the Amorites, that were beyond the Jordan westward, and all the kings
of the Canaanites, that were by the sea, heard how that Yahweh had dried up the
waters of the Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we were passed
over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more,
because of the children of Israel.
{5:2} At that time Yahweh said unto Joshua, Make you knives of flint,
and circumcise again the children of
{O6)6} Joshua Chapter Six. {6:1} Now Jericho was strictly shut up
because of the children of Israel: none went out, and none came in. {6:2} And Yahweh
said unto Joshua, See, I have given into your hand Jericho, and the king there,
and the mighty men of valor. {6:3} And you shall compass the city, all the men
of war, going about the city once. Thus shall you do six days. {6:4} And seven
priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark: and the
seventh day you shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow
the trumpets. {6:5} And it shall be, that, when they make a long blast with the
ram's horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall
shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and
the people shall go up every man straight before him. {6:6} And Joshua the son
of Nun called the priests, and said unto them, Take up the ark of the covenant,
and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of Yahweh.
{6:7} And they said unto the people, Pass on, and compass the city, and let the
armed men pass on before the ark of Yahweh.
{6:8} And it was so, that, when Joshua had spoken unto the people, the
seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns before Yahweh passed
on, and blew the trumpets: and the ark of the covenant of Yahweh followed them.
{6:9} And the armed men went before the priests that blew the trumpets, and the
rearward went after the ark, [the priests] blowing the trumpets as they went.
{6:10} And Joshua commanded the people, saying, you shall not shout, nor let
your voice be heard, neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth, until
the day I bid you shout; then shall you shout. {6:11} So he caused the ark of Yahweh
to compass the city, going about it once: and they came into the camp, and
lodged in the camp. {6:12} And Joshua
rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of Yahweh. {6:13}
And the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark
of Yahweh went on continually, and blew the trumpets: and the armed men went
before them; and the rearward came after the ark of Yahweh, [the priests]
blowing the trumpets as they went. {6:14} And the second day they compassed the
city once, and returned into the camp: so they did six days. {6:15} And it came to pass on the seventh
day, that they rose early at the dawning of the day, and compassed the city
after the same manner seven times: only on the day they compassed the city
seven times. {6:16} And it came to pass at the seventh time, when the priests
blew the trumpets, Joshua said unto the people, Shout; for Yahweh has given you
the city. {6:17} And the city shall be devoted, even it and all that is
therein, to Yahweh: only Rahab the prostitute shall live, she and all that are
with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent. {6:18} But
as for you, only keep yourselves from the devoted thing, lest when you have
devoted it, you take of the devoted thing; so would you make the camp of
{O6)7} Joshua Chapter Seven. {7:1} But the children of Israel committed
a trespass in the devoted thing; for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi,
the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the devoted thing: and the
anger of Yahweh was kindled against the children of Israel. {7:2} And Joshua sent men from
{O6)8} Joshua Chapter Eight. {8:1} And Yahweh said unto Joshua, Fear
not, neither be you dismayed: take all the people of war with you, and arise,
go up to Ai; see, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, and his people,
and his city, and his land; {8:2} And you shall do to Ai and her king as you
did unto Jericho and her king: only the spoil there, and the cattle there,
shall you take for a prey unto yourselves: set you an ambush for the city
behind it. {8:3} So Joshua arose, and
all the people of war, to go up to Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty thousand
men, the mighty men of valor, and sent them forth by night. {8:4} And he
commanded them, saying, Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city,
behind the city; go not very far from the city, but be you all ready: {8:5} and
I, and all the people that are with me, will approach unto the city. And it
shall come to pass, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we
will flee before them; {8:6} and they will come out after us, till we have
drawn them away from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at
the first: so we will flee before them; {8:7} and you shall rise up from the
ambush, and take possession of the city: for Yahweh your God will deliver it
into your hand. {8:8} And it shall be, when you have seized upon the city, that
you shall set the city on fire; according to the word of Yahweh shall you do:
see, I have commanded you. {8:9} And Joshua sent them forth; and they went to
lie in ambush, and abode between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but
Joshua lodged that night among the people.
{8:10} And Joshua arose up early in the morning, and mustered the
people, and went up, he and the elders of
{O6)9} Joshua Chapter Nine. {9:1} And it came to pass, when all the
kings that were beyond the Jordan, in the hill-country, and in the lowland, and
on all the shore of the great sea in front of Lebanon, the Hittite, and the
Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard
there; {9:2} that they gathered themselves together, to fight with Joshua and with
Israel, with one accord. {9:3} But
when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho and to
Ai, {9:4} they also did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been
ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine-skins, old and rent
and bound up, {9:5} and old and patched shoes upon their feet, and old garments
upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and was become moldy.
{9:6} And they went to Joshua unto the camp at Gilgal, and said unto him, and to
the men of
{O6)10} Joshua Chapter Ten. {10:1} Now it came to pass, when Adoni-zedek
king of Jerusalem heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it;
as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king; and
how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among them;
{10:2} that they feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, as one of the
royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all the men of it were
mighty. {10:3} Therefore Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem sent unto Hoham king of
Hebron, and unto Piram king of Jarmuth, and unto Japhia king of Lachish, and
unto Debir king of Eglon, saying, {10:4} Come up unto me, and help me, and let
us smite Gibeon; for it has made peace with Joshua and with the children of
Israel. {10:5} Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem,
the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of
Eglon, gathered themselves together, and went up, they and all their hosts, and
encamped against Gibeon, and made war against it. {10:6} And the men of Gibeon sent unto
Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying, Slack not your hand from your servants;
come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us: for all the kings of the
Amorites that dwell in the hill-country are gathered together against us.
{10:7} So Joshua went up from Gilgal, he, and all the people of war with him,
and all the mighty men of valor. {10:8} And Yahweh said unto Joshua, Fear them
not: for I have delivered them into your hands; there shall not a man of them
stand before you. {10:9} Joshua therefore came upon them suddenly; [for] he
went up from Gilgal all the night. {10:10} And Yahweh discomfited them before
Israel, and he slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them by
the way of the ascent of Beth-horon, and smote them to Azekah, and unto
Makkedah. {10:11} And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, while
they were at the descent of Beth-horon, that Yahweh cast down great stones from
heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more who died with the
hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword. {10:12} Then spoke Joshua to Yahweh in the
day when Yahweh delivered up the Amorites before the children of
{O6)11} Joshua Chapter Eleven. {11:1} And it came to pass, when Jabin king
of Hazor heard there, that he sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of
Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph, {11:2} and to the kings that were on the
north, in the hill-country, and in the Arabah south of Chinneroth, and in the
lowland, and in the heights of Dor on the west, {11:3} to the Canaanite on the
east and on the west, and the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and
the Jebusite in the hill-country, and the Hivite under Hermon in the land of
Mizpah. {11:4} And they went out, they and all their hosts with them, much
people, even as the sand that is upon the sea-shore in multitude, with horses
and chariots very many. {11:5} And all these kings met together; and they came
and encamped together at the waters of Merom, to fight with
{O6)12} Joshua Chapter Twelve. {12:1} Now these are the kings of the land,
whom the children of Israel smote, and possessed their land beyond the Jordan
toward the sun rising, from the valley of the Arnon unto mount Hermon, and all
the Arabah eastward: {12:2} Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon,
and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and [the
city that is in] the middle of the valley, and half Gilead, even unto the river
Jabbok, the border of the children of Ammon; {12:3} and the Arabah unto the sea
of Chinneroth, eastward, and unto the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea,
eastward, the way to Beth-jeshimoth; and on the south, under the slopes of
Pisgah: {12:4} and the border of Og king of Bashan, of the remnant of the
Rephaim, who dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei, {12:5} and ruled in mount Hermon,
and in Salecah, and in all Bashan, unto the border of the Geshurites and the
Maacathites, and half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon. {12:6} Moses
the servant of Yahweh and the children of
{O6)13} Joshua Chapter Thirteen. {13:1} Now Joshua was old and well stricken
in years; and Yahweh said unto him, you are old and well stricken in years, and
there remains yet very much land to be possessed. {13:2} This is the land that
yet remains: all the regions of the Philistines, and all the Geshurites; {13:3}
from the Shihor, which is before Egypt, even unto the border of Ekron
northward, [which] is reckoned to the Canaanites; the five lords of the
Philistines; the Gazites, and the Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites, the Gittites,
and the Ekronites; also the Avvim, {13:4} on the south; all the land of the
Canaanites, and Mearah that belongs to the Sidonians, unto Aphek, to the border
of the Amorites; {13:5} and the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, toward
the sun rising, from Baal-gad under mount Hermon unto the entrance of Hamath;
{13:6} all the inhabitants of the hill-country from Lebanon unto
Misrephoth-maim, even all the Sidonians; them will I drive out from before the
children of Israel: only allot you it unto Israel for an inheritance, as I have
commanded you. {13:7} Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance unto
the nine tribes, and the half-tribe of Manasseh. {13:8} With him the Reubenites and the
Gadites received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond the Jordan
eastward, even as Moses the servant of Yahweh gave them: {13:9} from Aroer,
that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the
middle of the valley, and all the plain of Medeba unto Dibon; {13:10} and all
the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, unto the
border of the children of Ammon; {13:11} and Gilead, and the border of the
Geshurites and Maacathites, and all mount Hermon, and all Bashan unto Salecah;
{13:12} all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei
(the same was left of the remnant of the Rephaim); for these did Moses smite,
and drove them out. {13:13} Nevertheless the children of
{O6)14} Joshua Chapter Fourteen. {14:1} And these are the inheritances which
the children of Israel took in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest,
and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the tribes
of the children of Israel, distributed unto them, {14:2} by the lot of their
inheritance, as Yahweh commanded by Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the
half-tribe. {14:3} For Moses had given the inheritance of the two tribes and
the half-tribe beyond the
{O6)15} Joshua Chapter Fifteen. {15:1} And the lot for the tribe of the
children of
{O6)16} Joshua Chapter
Sixteen. {16:1} And the lot came out
for the children of Joseph from the Jordan at Jericho, at the waters of Jericho
on the east, even the wilderness, going up from Jericho through the
hill-country to Beth-el; {16:2} and it went out from Beth-el to Luz, and passed
along unto the border of the Archites to Ataroth; {16:3} and it went down
westward to the border of the Japhletites, unto the border of Beth-horon the
nether, even unto Gezer; and the goings out of it were at the sea. {16:4} And
the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance. {16:5} And the border of the children of
Ephraim according to their families was [thus]: the border of their inheritance
eastward was Ataroth-addar, unto Beth-horon the upper; {16:6} and the border
went out westward at Michmethas on the north; and the border turned about
eastward unto Taanath-shiloh, and passed along it on the east of Janoah; {16:7}
and it went down from Janoah to Ataroth, and to Naarah, and reached unto
Jericho, and went out at the Jordan. {16:8} From Tappuah the border went along
westward to the brook of Kanah; and the goings out of it were at the sea. This
is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim according to their
families; {16:9} together with the cities which were set apart for the children
of Ephraim in the midst of the inheritance of the children of Manasseh, all the
cities with their villages. {16:10} And they drove not out the Canaanites that
dwelt in
{O6)17} Joshua Chapter
Seventeen. {17:1} And [this] was the
lot for the tribe of Manasseh; for he was the first-born of Joseph. As for
Machir the first-born of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, because he was a man
of war, therefore he had Gilead and
{O6)18} Joshua Chapter Eighteen. {18:1} And the whole congregation of the
children of
{O6)19} Joshua Chapter
Nimeteen. {19:1} And the second lot
came out for Simeon, even for the tribe of the children of Simeon according to
their families: and their inheritance was in the midst of the inheritance of
the children of
{O6)20} Joshua Chapter
Twenty. {20:1} And Yahweh spoke unto
Joshua, saying, {20:2} Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Assign you the
cities of refuge, where I spoke unto you by Moses, {20:3} that the man slayer
that kills any person unwittingly [and] unawares may flee there: and they shall
be unto you for a refuge from the avenger of blood. {20:4} And he shall flee
unto one of those cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the
city, and declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city; and they
shall take him into the city unto them, and give him a place, that he may dwell
among them. {20:5} And if the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they
shall not deliver up the man slayer into his hand; because he smote his
neighbor unawares, and hated him not beforetime. {20:6} And he shall dwell in
that city, until he stand before the congregation for judgment, until the death
of the high priest that shall be in those days: then shall the man slayer
return, and come unto his own city, and unto his own house, unto the city from
where he fled. {20:7} And they set
apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill-country of Naphtali, and Shechem in the
hill-country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (the same is
{O6)21} Joshua Chapter Twenty
One. {21:1} Then came near the heads
of fathers' [houses] of the Levites unto Eleazar the priest, and unto Joshua
the son of Nun, and unto the heads of fathers' [houses] of the tribes of the
children of Israel; {21:2} and they spoke unto them at Shiloh in the land of
Canaan, saying, Yahweh commanded Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with the
suburbs of it for our cattle. {21:3} And the children of
{O6)22} Joshua Chapter TwentyTwo. {22:1} Then Joshua called the Reubenites,
and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, {22:2} and said unto them, you
have kept all that Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you, and have heard
unto my voice in all that I commanded you: {22:3} you have not left your
brethren these many days unto this day, but have kept the charge of the
commandment of Yahweh your God. {22:4} And now Yahweh your God has given rest
unto your brethren, as he spoke unto them: therefore now turn you, and get you
unto your tents, unto the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of Yahweh
gave you beyond the Jordan. {22:5} Only take diligent heed to do the
commandment and the law which Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you, to
love Yahweh your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his
commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and
with all your soul. {22:6} So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away; and they
went unto their tents. {22:7} Now to
the one half-tribe of Manasseh Moses had given [inheritance] in Bashan; but
unto the other half gave Joshua among their brethren beyond the Jordan
westward; also when Joshua sent them away unto their tents, he blessed them,
{22:8} and spoke unto them, saying, Return with much wealth unto your tents,
and with very much cattle, with silver, and with gold, and with brass, and with
iron, and with very much raiment: divide the spoil of your enemies with your
brethren. {22:9} And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the
half-tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed from the children of Israel out
of Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go unto the land of Gilead, to
the land of their possession, where they were possessed, according to the
commandment of Yahweh by Moses.
{22:10} And when they came unto the region
about the Jordan, that is in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the
children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by the
Jordan, a great altar to look upon. {22:11} And the children of Israel heard
say, Behold, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe
of Manasseh have built an altar in the forefront of the land of Canaan, in the
region about the Jordan, on the side that pertains to the children of Israel.
{22:12} And when the children of Israel heard of it, the whole congregation of
the children of Israel gathered themselves together at Shiloh, to go up against
them to war. {22:13} And the children
of Israel sent unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to
the half-tribe of Manasseh, into the land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of
Eleazar the priest, {22:14} and with him ten princes, one prince of a fathers' house
for each of the tribes of Israel; and they were every one of them head of their
fathers' houses among the thousands of Israel. {22:15} And they came unto the
children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half-tribe of
Manasseh, unto the land of Gilead, and they spoke with them, saying, {22:16}
Thus said the whole congregation of Yahweh, What trespass is this that you have
committed against the God of Israel, to turn away this day from following Yahweh,
in that you have built you an altar, to rebel this day against Yahweh? {22:17}
Is the works against law of Peor too little for us, from which we have not
cleansed ourselves unto this day, although there came a plague upon the
congregation of Yahweh, {22:18} that you must turn away this day from following
Yahweh? and it will be, seeing you rebel to-day against Yahweh, that to-morrow
he will be wroth with the whole congregation of
{o6)23} Joshua Chapter Twenty
Three. {23:1} And it came to pass after many days, when Yahweh
had given rest unto Israel from all their enemies round about, and Joshua was
old and well stricken in years; {23:2} that Joshua called for all Israel, for
their elders and for their heads, and for their judges and for their officers,
and said unto them, I am old and well stricken in years: {23:3} and you have
seen all that Yahweh your God has done unto all these nations because of you;
for Yahweh your God, he it is that has fought for you. {23:4} Behold, I have
allotted unto you these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your
tribes, from the
{O6)24} Joshua Chapter
TwentyFour. {24:1} And Joshua gathered
all the tribes of
{o7)1} Judges Chapter One. {1:1} And it came to pass after the death
of Joshua, that the children of
{O7)2} Judges Chapter two. {2:1} And the messenger of Yahweh came up
from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have
brought you unto the land which I swore unto your fathers; and I said, I will
never break my covenant with you: {2:2} and you shall make no covenant with the
inhabitants of this land; you shall break down their altars. But you have not
heard unto my voice: why have you done this? {2:3} Therefore I also said, I
will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be [as thorns] in your
sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you. {2:4} And it came to pass,
when the messenger of Yahweh spoke these words unto all the children of
{o7)3} Judges Chapter Three. {3:1} Now these are the nations which Yahweh
left, to prove Israel by them, even as many [of Israel] as had not known all
the wars of Canaan; {3:2} only that the generations of the children of Israel
might know, to teach them war, at the least such as beforetime knew nothing
there: {3:3} [namely], the five lords of the Philistines, and all the
Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon,
from mount Baal-hermon unto the entrance of Hamath. {3:4} And they were [left],
to prove
{O7)4} Judges Chapter Four. {4:1} And the children of
{o7)5} Judges Chapter Five. {5:1} Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of
Abinoam on that day, saying, {5:2} For that the leaders took the lead in
{o7)6} Judges Chapter Six. {6:1} And the children of
{6:19} And Gideon went in, and made ready
a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of meal: the flesh he put in a basket,
and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out unto him under the oak, and
presented it. {6:20} And the messenger of God said unto him, Take the flesh and
the unleavened cakes, and lay them upon this rock, and pour out the broth. And
he did so. {6:21} Then the messenger of Yahweh put forth the end of the staff
that was in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and there
went up fire out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes;
and the messenger of Yahweh departed out of his sight. {6:22} And Gideon saw
that he was the messenger of Yahweh; and Gideon said, Alas, O Lord Yahweh!
forasmuch as I have seen the messenger of Yahweh face to face. {6:23} And Yahweh
said unto him, Peace be unto you; fear not: you shall not die. {6:24} Then
Gideon built an altar there unto Yahweh, and called it Yahweh-shalom: unto this
day it is yet in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
{6:25} And it came to pass the same night, that Yahweh said unto him,
Take your father's bullock, even the second bullock seven years old, and throw
down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the Asherah that is
by it; {6:26} and build an altar unto Yahweh your God upon the top of this
stronghold, in the orderly manner, and take the second bullock, and offer a
burnt-offering with the wood of the Asherah which you shall cut down. {6:27}
Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as Yahweh had spoken unto
him: and it came to pass, because he feared his father's household and the men
of the city, so that he could not do it by day, that he did it by night. {6:28} And when the men of the city arose
early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was broken down, and the
Asherah was cut down that was by it, and the second bullock was offered upon
the altar that was built. {6:29} And they said one to another, Who has done
this thing? And when they inquired and asked, they said, Gideon the son of Joash
has done this thing. {6:30} Then the men of the city said unto Joash, Bring out
your son, that he may die, because he has broken down the altar of Baal, and
because he has cut down the Asherah that was by it. {6:31} And Joash said unto
all that stood against him, Will you contend for Baal? Or will you save him? he
that will contend for him, let him be put to death whilst [it is yet] morning:
if he be a god, let him contend for himself, because one has broken down his
altar. {6:32} Therefore on that day he called him Jerubbaal, saying, Let Baal
contend against him, because he has broken down his altar. {6:33} Then all the Midianites and the
Amalekites and the children of the east assembled themselves together; and they
passed over, and encamped in the
{o7)7} Judges Chapter Seven. {7:1} Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and
all the people that were with him, rose up early, and encamped beside the
spring of Harod: and the camp of Midian was on the north side of them, by the
hill of Moreh, in the valley. {7:2}
And Yahweh said unto Gideon, The people that are with you are too many for me
to give the Midianites into their hand, lest
{O7)8} Judges Chapter Eight. {8:1} And the men of Ephraim said unto him,
Why have you served us thus, that you called us not, when you went to fight
with Midian? And they did chide with him sharply. {8:2} And he said unto them,
What have I now done in comparison with you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes
of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer? {8:3} God has delivered into
your hand the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb: and what was I able to do in
comparison with you? Then their anger was abated toward him, when he had said
that. {8:4} And Gideon came to the
{O7)9} Judges Chapter Nine. {9:1} And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal
went to Shechem unto his mother's brethren, and spoke with them, and with all
the family of the house of his mother's father, saying, {9:2} Speak, I pray
you, in the ears of all the men of Shechem, Whether is better for you, that all
the sons of Jerubbaal, who are threescore and ten persons, rule over you, or
that one rule over you? remember also that I am your bone and your flesh. {9:3}
And his mother's brethren spoke of him in the ears of all the men of Shechem
all these words: and their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech; for they said,
He is our brother. {9:4} And they gave him threescore and ten [pieces] of
silver out of the house of Baal-berith, wherewith Abimelech hired vain and
light fellows, who followed him. {9:5} And he went unto his father's house at
Ophrah, and slew his brethren the sons of Jerubbaal, being threescore and ten persons,
upon one stone: but Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left; for he hid
himself. {9:6} And all the men of Shechem assembled themselves together, and
all the house of Millo, and went and made Abimelech king, by the oak of the
pillar that was in Shechem. {9:7} And
when they told it to Jotham, he went and stood on the top of mount Gerizim, and
lifted up his voice, and cried, and said unto them, Hear unto me, you men of
Shechem, that God may hear unto you. {9:8} The trees went forth on a time to
anoint a king over them; and they said unto the olive-tree, Reign you over us.
{9:9} But the olive-tree said unto them, Should I leave my fatness, wherewith
by me they honor God and man, and go to wave to and fro over the trees? {9:10}
And the trees said to the fig-tree, Come you, and reign over us. {9:11} But the
fig-tree said unto them, Should I leave my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go
to wave to and fro over the trees? {9:12} And the trees said unto the vine,
Come you, and reign over us. {9:13} And the vine said unto them, Should I leave
my new wine, which cheers God and man, and go to wave to and fro over the
trees? {9:14} Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come you, and reign
over us. {9:15} And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth you anoint me
king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade; and if not, let fire come
out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon. {9:16} Now therefore, if
you have dealt truly and uprightly, in that you have made Abimelech king, and
if you have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have done unto him
according to the deserving of his hands {9:17} (for my father fought for you,
and adventured his life, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian: {9:18}
and you are risen up against my father's house this day, and have slain his
sons, threescore and ten persons, upon one stone, and have made Abimelech, the
son of his maid-servant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your
brother); {9:19} if you then have dealt truly and uprightly with Jerubbaal and
with his house this day, then rejoice you in Abimelech, and let him also
rejoice in you: {9:20} but if not, let fire come out from Abimelech, and devour
the men of Shechem, and the house of Millo; and let fire come out from the men
of Shechem, and from the house of Millo, and devour Abimelech. {9:21} And
Jotham ran away, and fled, and went to Beer, and dwelt there, for fear of
Abimelech his brother. {9:22} And
Abimelech was prince over
{O7)10} Judges Chapter Ten {10:1} And after Abimelech there arose to
save Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he
dwelt in Shamir in the hill-country of Ephraim. {10:2} And he judged
{O7)11} Judges Chapter Eleven
{11:1} Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor, and he was the son
of a prostitute: and
{O7)12} Judges Chapter Twelve. {12:1} And the men of Ephraim were gathered
together, and passed northward; and they said unto Jephthah, Therefore pass you
over to fight against the children of Ammon, and did not call us to go with
you? we will burn your house upon you with fire. {12:2} And Jephthah said unto
them, I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when
I called you, you saved me not out of their hand. {12:3} And when I saw that
you saved me not, I put my life in my hand, and passed over against the
children of Ammon, and Yahweh delivered them into my hand: Therefore then are
you come up unto me this day, to fight against me? {12:4} Then Jephthah
gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim; and the men
of
{O7)13} Judges Chapter
Thirteen. {13:1} And the children of
Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh; and Yahweh
delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years. {13:2} And there was a certain man of
Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was
barren, and bare not. {13:3} And the messenger of Yahweh appeared unto the
woman, and said unto her, Behold now, you are barren, and bears not; but you
shall conceive, and bear a son. {13:4} Now therefore beware, I pray you, and
drink no wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing: {13:5} for, lo,
you shall conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come upon his head; for
the child shall be a Nazirite unto God from the womb: and he shall begin to
save Israel out of the hand of the Philistines. {13:6} Then the woman came and
told her husband, saying, A man of God came unto me, and his countenance was
like the countenance of the messenger of God, very terrible; and I asked him
not where he was, neither told he me his name: {13:7} but he said unto me, Behold,
you shall conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, and
eat not any unclean thing; for the child shall be a Nazirite unto God from the
womb to the day of his death. {13:8}
Then Manoah entreated Yahweh, and said, Oh, Lord, I pray you, let the man of
God whom you did send come again unto us, and teach us what we shall do unto
the child that shall be born. {13:9} And God heard the voice of Manoah; and the
messenger of God came again unto the woman as she sat in the field: but Manoah
her husband was not with her. {13:10} And the woman made haste, and ran, and
told her husband, and said unto him, Behold, the man has appeared unto me, that
came unto me the [other] day. {13:11} And Manoah arose, and went after his
wife, and came to the man, and said unto him, are you the man that spoke unto
the woman? And he said, I am. {13:12} And Manoah said, Now let your words come
to pass: what shall be the ordering of the child, and [how] shall we do unto
him? {13:13} And the messenger of Yahweh said unto Manoah, Of all that I said
unto the woman let her beware. {13:14} She may not eat of anything that comes
of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean
thing; all that I commanded her let her observe. {13:15} And Manoah said unto the messenger
of Yahweh, I pray you, let us detain you, that we may make ready a kid for you.
{13:16} And the messenger of Yahweh said unto Manoah, though you detain me, I
will not eat of your bread; and if you will make ready a burnt-offering, you
must offer it unto Yahweh. For Manoah knew not that he was the messenger of Yahweh.
{13:17} And Manoah said unto the messenger of Yahweh, What is your name, that,
when your words come to pass, we may do you honor? {13:18} And the messenger of
Yahweh said unto him, Therefore ask you after my name, seeing it is wonderful?
{13:19} So Manoah took the kid with the meal-offering, and offered it upon the
rock unto Yahweh: and [the messenger] did wondrously, and Manoah and his wife
looked on. {13:20} For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven
from off the altar, that the messenger of Yahweh ascended in the flame of the
altar: and Manoah and his wife looked on; and they fell on their faces to the
ground. {13:21} But the messenger of Yahweh
did no more appear to Manoah or to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was the
messenger of Yahweh. {13:22} And Manoah said unto his wife, We shall surely
die, because we have seen God. {13:23} But his wife said unto him, If Yahweh
were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt-offering and a
meal-offering at our hand, neither would he have showed us all these things,
nor would at this time have told such things as these. {13:24} And the woman
bare a son, and called his name Samson: and the child grew, and Yahweh blessed
him. {13:25} And the Spirit of Yahweh began to move him in Mahaneh-dan, between
Zorah and Eshtaol.
{O7)14} Judges Chapter
Fourteen. {14:1} And Samson went down
to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines.
{14:2} And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have
seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get
her for me to wife. {14:3} Then his father and his mother said unto him, Is
there never a woman among the daughters of your brethren, or among all my
people, that you go to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson
said unto his father, Get her for me; for she pleases me well. {14:4} But his
father and his mother knew not that it was of Yahweh; for he sought an occasion
against the Philistines. Now at that time the Philistines had rule over
{O7)15} Judges Chapter
Fifteen. {15:1} But it came to pass
after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with
a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father
would not suffer him to go in. {15:2} And her father said, I verily thought
that you had utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to your companion: is not
her younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray you, instead of her.
{15:3} And Samson said unto them, This time shall I be blameless in regard of
the Philistines, when I do them a mischief. {15:4} And Samson went and caught
three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a
firebrand in the midst between every two tails. {15:5} And when he had set the
brands on fire, he let them go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and
burnt up both the shocks and the standing grain, and also the olive yards.
{15:6} Then the Philistines said, Who has done this? And they said, Samson, the
son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife, and given her to his
companion. And the Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.
{15:7} And Samson said unto them, If you do after this manner, surely I will be
avenged of you, and after that I will cease. {15:8} And he smote them hip and
thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the cleft of the
rock of Etam.
{15:9} Then the Philistines went up, and
encamped in
{O7)16} Judges Chapter
Sixteen. {16:1} And Samson went to
{16:23} And the lords of the Philistines
gathered them together to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to
rejoice; for they said, Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.
{16:24} And when the people saw him, they praised their god; for they said, Our
god has delivered into our hand our enemy, and the destroyer of our country,
who has slain many of us. {16:25} And it came to pass, when their hearts were
merry, that they said, Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. And they
called for Samson out of the prison-house; and he made sport before them. And
they set him between the pillars: {16:26} and Samson said unto the young man
that held him by the hand, Suffer me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the
house rest, that I may lean upon them. {16:27} Now the house was full of men
and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were upon
the roof about three thousand men and women, that beheld while Samson made
sport. {16:28} And Samson called unto
Yahweh, and said, O Lord Yahweh, remember me, I pray you, and strengthen me, I
pray you, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the
Philistines for my two eyes. {16:29} And Samson took hold of the two middle
pillars upon which the house rested, and leaned upon them, the one with his
right hand, and the other with his left. {16:30} And Samson said, Let me die
with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house
fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead
that he slew at his death were more than they that he slew in his life. {16:31}
Then his brethren and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and
brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the burying-place
of Manoah his father. And he judged
{O7)17} Judges Chapter Seventeen. {17:1} And there was a man of the
hill-country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah. {17:2} And he said unto his
mother, The eleven hundred [pieces] of silver that were taken from you, about
which you did utter a curse, and did also speak it in mine ears, behold, the
silver is with me; I took it. And his mother said, Blessed be my son of Yahweh.
{17:3} And he restored the eleven hundred [pieces] of silver to his mother; and
his mother said, I verily dedicate the silver unto Yahweh from my hand for my son,
to make a graven image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it unto
you. {17:4} And when he restored the money unto his mother, his mother took two
hundred [pieces] of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made of it a
graven image and a molten image: and it was in the house of Micah. {17:5} And
the man Micah had a house of gods, and he made an ephod, and teraphim, and
consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest. {17:6} In those days there
was no king in
{O7)18} Judges Chapter
Eighteen. {18:1} In those days there
was no king in
{O7)19} Judges Chapter
Nineteen. {19:1} And it came to pass
in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain
Levite sojourning on the far side of the hill-country of Ephraim, who took to
him a concubine out of Beth-lehem-judah. {19:2} And his concubine played the prostitute
against him, and went away from him unto her father's house to
Beth-lehem-judah, and was there the space of four moons. {19:3} And her husband
arose, and went after her, to speak kindly unto her, to bring her again, having
his servant with him, and a couple of asses: and she brought him into her
father's house; and when the father of the damsel saw him, he rejoiced to meet
him. {19:4} And his father-in-law, the damsel's father, retained him; and he
abode with him three days: so they did eat and drink, and lodged there. {19:5}
And it came to pass on the fourth day, that they arose early in the morning,
and he rose up to depart: and the damsel's father said unto his son-in-law,
Strengthen your heart with a morsel of bread, and afterward you shall go your
way. {19:6} So they sat down, and did eat and drink, both of them together: and
the damsel's father said unto the man, Be pleased, I pray you, to tarry all
night, and let your heart be merry. {19:7} And the man rose up to depart; but
his father-in-law urged him, and he lodged there again. {19:8} And he arose
early in the morning on the fifth day to depart; and the damsel's father said,
Strengthen your heart, I pray you, and tarry you until the day declines; and
they did eat, both of them. {19:9} And when the man rose up to depart, he, and
his concubine, and his servant, his father-in-law, the damsel's father, said
unto him, Behold, now the day draws toward evening, I pray you tarry all night:
behold, the day grows to an end, lodge here, that your heart may be merry; and
to-morrow get you early on your way, that you may go home. {19:10} But the man would not tarry that
night, but he rose up and departed, and came over against Jebus (the same is
Jerusalem): and there were with him a couple of asses saddled; his concubine
also was with him. {19:11} When they were by Jebus, the day was far spent; and
the servant said unto his master, Come, I pray you, and let us turn aside into
this city of the Jebusites, and lodge in it. {19:12} And his master said unto him,
We will not turn aside into the city of a foreigner, that is not of the
children of
{O7)20} Judges Chapter
Twenty. {20:1} Then all the children
of
{O7)21} Judges Chapter Twenty
One. {21:1} Now the men of
{o8)1} Ruth Chapter One. {1:1} And it came to pass in the days when
the judges judged, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of
Bethlehem-judah went to sojourn in the country of
{O8)2} Ruth Chapter two. {2:1} And Naomi had a kinsman of her
husband's, a mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech, and his name was
Boaz. {2:2} And Ruth the Moabitess said unto Naomi, Let me now go to the field,
and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose sight I shall find favor.
And she said unto her, Go, my daughter. {2:3} And she went, and came and
gleaned in the field after the reapers: and her hap was to light on the portion
of the field belonging unto Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech. {2:4}
And, behold, Boaz came from
{O8)3} Ruth Chapter Three. {3:1} And Naomi her mother-in-law said unto
her, My daughter, shall I not seek rest for you, that it may be well with you?
{3:2} And now is not Boaz our kinsman, with whose maidens you was? Behold, he
winnows barley to-night in the threshing-floor. {3:3} Wash yourself therefore,
and anoint you, and put your raiment upon you, and get you down to the
threshing-floor, but make not yourself known unto the man, until he shall have
done eating and drinking. {3:4} And it shall be, when he lies down, that you
shall mark the place where he shall lie, and you shall go in, and uncover his
feet, and lay you down; and he will tell you what you shall do. {3:5} And she
said unto her, All that you say I will do.
{3:6} And she went down unto the threshing-floor, and did according to
all that her mother-in-law bade her. {3:7} And when Boaz had eaten and drunk,
and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain:
and she came softly, and uncovered his feet, and laid her down. {3:8} And it came
to pass at midnight, that the man was afraid, and turned himself; and, behold,
a woman lay at his feet. {3:9} And he said, Who are you? And she answered, I am
Ruth your handmaid: spread therefore your skirt over your handmaid; for you are
a near kinsman. {3:10} And he said, Blessed be you of Yahweh, my daughter: you
have showed more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, inasmuch as
you follows not young men, whether poor or rich. {3:11} And now, my daughter,
fear not; I will do to you all that you say; for all the city of my people does
know that you are a worthy woman. {3:12} And now it is true that I am a near
kinsman; howbeit there is a kinsman nearer than I. {3:13} Tarry this night, and
it shall be in the morning, that if he will perform unto you the part of a
kinsman, well; let him do the kinsman's part: but if he will not do the part of
a kinsman to you, then will I do the part of a kinsman to you, as Yahweh lives:
lie down until the morning. {3:14}
And she lay at his feet until the morning. And she rose up before one could
discern another. For he said, Let it not be known that the woman came to the
threshing-floor. {3:15} And he said, Bring the mantle that is upon you, and
hold it; and she held it; and he measured six [measures] of barley, and laid it
on her: and he went into the city. {3:16} And when she came to her
mother-in-law, she said, Who are you, my daughter? And she told her all that
the man had done to her. {3:17} And she said, These six [measures] of barley
gave he me; for he said, Go not empty unto your mother-in-law. {3:18} Then said
she, Sit still, my daughter, until you know how the matter will fall; for the
man will not rest, until he have finished the thing this day.
{O8)4} Ruth Chapter Four. {4:1} Now Boaz went up to the gate, and sat
him down there: and, behold, the near kinsman of whom Boaz spoke came by; unto
whom he said, Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down here. And he turned aside,
and sat down. {4:2} And he took ten men of the elders of the city, and said,
Sit you down here. And they sat down. {4:3} And he said unto the near kinsman,
Naomi, that is come again out of the country of Moab, sells the parcel of land,
which was our brother Elimelech's: {4:4} And I thought to disclose it unto you,
saying, Buy it before them that sit here, and before the elders of my people.
If you will redeem it, redeem it: but if you will not redeem it, then tell me,
that I may know; for there is none to redeem it besides you; and I am after
you. And he said, I will redeem it. {4:5} Then said Boaz, What day you buys the
field of the hand of Naomi, you must buy it also of Ruth the Moabitess, the
wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance. {4:6}
And the near kinsman said, I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I mar mine own
inheritance: take you my right of redemption on you; for I cannot redeem
it. {4:7} Now this was [the custom]
in former time in
{4:18} Now these are the generations of
Perez: Perez begot Hezron, {4:19} and Hezron begot Ram, and Ram begot
Amminadab, {4:20} and Amminadab begot Nahshon, and Nahshon begot Salmon, {4:21}
and Salmon begot Boaz, and Boaz begot Obed, {4:22} and Obed begot Jesse, and
Jesse begot David.
{O9)1} First Samuel Chapter One {1:1} Now there was a certain man of
Ramathaim-zophim, of the hill-country of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the
son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an
Ephraimite: {1:2} and he had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the
name of other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.
{1:3} And this man went up out of his city from year to year to worship and to
sacrifice unto Yahweh of hosts in
{O9)2} First Samuel Chapter
two. {2:1} And Hannah prayed, and
said: My heart exults in Yahweh; My horn is exalted in Yahweh; My mouth is
enlarged over mine enemies; Because I rejoice in your salvation. {2:2} There is
none holy as Yahweh; For there is none besides you, Neither is there any rock
like our God. {2:3} Talk no more so exceeding proudly; Let not arrogance come
out of your mouth; For Yahweh is a God of knowledge, And by him actions are
weighed. {2:4} The bows of the mighty men are broken; And they that stumbled
are girded with strength. {2:5} They that were full have hired out themselves
for bread; And they that were hungry have ceased [to hunger]: behold, the
barren has borne seven; And she that has many children languish. {2:6} Yahweh
kills, and makes alive: He brings down to Sheol, and brings up. {2:7} Yahweh
makes poor, and makes rich: He brings low, he also lifts up. {2:8} He raises up
the poor out of the dust, He lifts up the needy from the dunghill, To make them
sit with princes, And inherit the throne of glory: For the pillars of the earth
are Yahweh's, And he has set the world upon them. {2:9} He will keep the feet
of his holy ones; But the wicked shall be put to silence in darkness; For by
strength shall no man prevail. {2:10} They that strive with Yahweh shall be
broken to pieces; Against them will he thunder in heaven: Yahweh will judge the
ends of the earth; And he will give strength unto his king, And exalt the horn
of his anointed. {2:11} And Elkanah
went to Ramah to his house. And the child did minister unto Yahweh before Eli
the priest. {2:12} Now the sons of
Eli were base men; they knew not Yahweh. {2:13} And the custom of the priests
with the people was, that, when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant
came, while the flesh was boiling, with a flesh-hook of three teeth in his
hand; {2:14} and he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all
that the flesh-hook brought up the priest took with. So they did in
{O9)3} First Samuel Chapter
Three. {3:1} And the child Samuel
ministered unto Yahweh before Eli. And the word of Yahweh was precious in those
days; there was no frequent vision. {3:2} And it came to pass at that time,
when Eli was laid down in his place (now his eyes had begun to wax dim, so that
he could not see), {3:3} and the lamp of God was not yet gone out, and Samuel
was laid down [to sleep], in the temple of Yahweh, where the ark of God was;
{3:4} that Yahweh called Samuel; and he said, Here am I. {3:5} And he ran unto
Eli, and said, Here am I; for you called me. And he said, I called not; lie
down again. And he went and lay down. {3:6} And Yahweh called yet again,
Samuel. And Samuel arose and went to Eli, and said, Here am I; for you called
me. And he answered, I called not, my son; lie down again. {3:7} Now Samuel did
not yet know Yahweh, neither was the word of Yahweh yet revealed unto him.
{3:8} And Yahweh called Samuel again the third time. And he arose and went to
Eli, and said, Here am I; for you called me. And Eli perceived that Yahweh had
called the child. {3:9} Therefore Eli said unto Samuel, Go, lie down: and it
shall be, if he call you, that you shall say, Speak, Yahweh; for your servant
hears. So Samuel went and lay down in his place. {3:10} And Yahweh came, and stood, and
called as at other times, Samuel, Samuel. Then Samuel said, Speak; for your
servant hears. {3:11} And Yahweh said to Samuel, Behold, I will do a thing in
{O9)4} First Samuel Chapter
Four. {4:1} And the word of Samuel
came to all
{o9)5} First Samuel Chapter
Five. {5:1} Now the Philistines had
taken the ark of God, and they brought it from Eben-ezer unto
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Six. {6:1} And the ark of Yahweh was
in the country of the Philistines seven moons. {6:2} And the Philistines called
for the priests and the diviners, saying, What shall we do with the ark of Yahweh?
show us wherewith we shall sent it to its place. {6:3} And they said, If you
send away the ark of the God of Israel, send it not empty; but by all means
return him a trespass-offering: then you shall be healed, and it shall be known
to you why his hand is not removed from you. {6:4} Then said they, What shall
be the trespass-offering which we shall return to him? And they said, Five
golden tumors, and five golden mice, [according to] the number of the lords of
the Philistines; for one plague was on you all, and on your lords. {6:5}
Therefore you shall make images of your tumors, and images of your mice that
mar the land; and you shall give glory unto the God of Israel: perhaps he will
lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.
{6:6} Therefore then do you harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh
hardened their hearts? When he had wrought wonderfully among them, did they not
let the people go, and they departed? {6:7} Now therefore take and prepare you
a new cart, and two milk cows, on which there has come no yoke; and tie the
cows to the cart, and bring their calves home from them; {6:8} and take the ark
of Yahweh, and lay it upon the cart; and put the jewels of gold, which you
return him for a trespass-offering, in a coffer by the side there; and send it
away, that it may go. {6:9} And see; if it goes up by the way of its own border
to Beth-shemesh, then he has done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall
know that it is not his hand that smote us; it was a chance that happened to
us. {6:10} And the men did so, and
took two milk cow, and tied them to the care, and shut up their calves at home;
{6:11} and they put the ark of Yahweh upon the care, and the coffer with the
mice of gold and the images of their tumors. {6:12} And the kine took the
straight way by the way to Beth-shemesh; they went along the highway, lowing as
they went, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left; and the lords
of the Philistines went after them unto the border of Beth-shemesh. {6:13} And
they of Beth-shemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley; and they
lifted up their eyes, and saw the ark, and rejoiced to see it. {6:14} And the
care came into the field of Joshua the Beth-shemite, and stood there, where
there was a great stone: and they clave the wood of the care, and offered up
the kine for a burnt-offering unto Yahweh. {6:15} And the Levites took down the
ark of Yahweh, and the coffer that was with it, wherein the jewels of gold
were, and put them on the great stone: and the men of Beth-shemesh offered
burnt-offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day unto Yahweh. {6:16} And
when the five lords of the Philistines had seen it, they returned to Ekron the
same day. {6:17} And these are the
golden tumors which the Philistines returned for a trespass-offering unto Yahweh:
for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Ashkelon one, for Goth one, for Ekron one;
{6:18} and the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the
Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fortified cities and of
country villages, even unto the great stone, whereon they set down the ark of Yahweh,
[which stone remains] unto this day in the field of Joshua the
Beth-shemite. {6:19} And he smote of
the men of Beth-shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of Yahweh, he
smote of the people seventy men, [and] fifty thousand men; and the people
grieved, because Yahweh had smitten the people with a great slaughter. {6:20}
And the men of Beth-shemesh said, Who is able to stand before Yahweh, this holy
God? and to whom shall he go up from us? {6:21} And they sent messengers to the
inhabitants of Kiriath-jearim, saying, The Philistines have brought back the
ark of Yahweh; come you down, and fetch it up to you.
{O9)7} First Samuel Chapter
Seven. {7:1} And the men of
Kiriath-jearim came, and fetched up the ark of Yahweh, and brought it into the
house of Abinadab in the hill, and sanctified Eleazar his son to keep the ark
of Yahweh. {7:2} And it came to pass, from the day that the ark abode in
Kiriath-jearim, that the time was long; for it was twenty years: and all the
house of Israel lamented after Yahweh. {7:3} And Samuel spoke unto all the
house of Israel, saying, If you do return unto Yahweh with all your heart, then
put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your
hearts unto Yahweh, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand
of the Philistines. {7:4} Then the children of
{O9)8} First Samuel Chapter
Eight. {8:1} And it came to pass, when
Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over
{O9)9} First Samuel Chapter
Nine. {9:1} Now there was a man of
Benjamin, whose name was Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of
Becorath, the son of Aphiah, the son of a Benjamite, a mighty man of valor.
{9:2} And he had a son, whose name was Saul, a handsome man and a goodly: and
there was not among the children of
{O9)10} First Samuel Chapter
Ten. {10:1} Then Samuel took the vial
of oil, and poured it upon his head, and kissed him, and said, Is it not that Yahweh
has anointed you to be prince over his inheritance? {10:2} When you are departed
from me to-day, then you shall find two men by Rachel's sepulcher, in the
border of Benjamin at Zilpah; and they will say unto you, The asses which you
went to seek are found; and, lo, your father has left off caring for the asses,
and is anxious for you, saying, What shall I do for my son? {10:3} Then shall
you go on forward from there, and you shall come to the oak of Tabor; and there
shall meet you there three men going up to God to Beth-el, one carrying three
kids, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle
of wine: {10:4} and they will salute you, and give you two loaves of bread,
which you shall receive of their hand. {10:5} After that you shall come to the
hill of God, where is the garrison of the Philistines: and it shall come to
pass, when you are come there to the city, that you shall meet a band of
prophets coming down from the high place with a psaltery, and a timbrel, and a
pipe, and a harp, before them; and they will be prophesying: {10:6} and the
Spirit of Yahweh will come mightily upon you, and you shall prophesy with them,
and shall be turned into another man. {10:7} And let it be, when these signs
are come unto you, that you do as occasion shall serve you; for God is with
you. {10:8} And you shall go down before me to Gilgal; and, behold, I will come
down unto you, to offer burnt-offerings, and to sacrifice sacrifices of
peace-offerings: seven days shall you tarry, till I come unto you, and show you
what you shall do. {10:9} And it was
so, that, when he had turned his back to go from Samuel, God gave him another
heart: and all those signs came to pass that day. {10:10} And when they came
there to the hill, behold, a band of prophets met him; and the Spirit of God
came mightily upon him, and he prophesied among them. {10:11} And it came to
pass, when all that knew him beforetime saw that, behold, he prophesied with
the prophets, then the people said one to another, What is this that is come
unto the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets? {10:12} And one of the
same place answered and said, And who is their father? Therefore it became a
proverb, Is Saul also among the prophets? {10:13} And when he had made an end
of prophesying, he came to the high place.
{10:14} And Saul's uncle said unto him and to his servant, Where went
you? And he said, To seek the asses; and when we saw that they were not found,
we came to Samuel. {10:15} And Saul's uncle said, Tell me, I pray you, what
Samuel said unto you. {10:16} And Saul said unto his uncle, He told us plainly
that the asses were found. But concerning the matter of the kingdom, where
Samuel spoke, he told him not.
{10:17} And Samuel called the people together unto Yahweh to Mizpah;
{10:18} and he said unto the children of Israel, Thus said Yahweh, the God of
Israel, I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and I delivered you out of the hand
of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all the kingdoms that oppressed you:
{10:19} but you have this day rejected your God, who himself saves you out of
all your calamities and your distresses; and you have said unto him, [No], but
set a king over us. Now therefore present yourselves before Yahweh by your
tribes, and by your thousands. {10:20} So Samuel brought all the tribes of
{O9)11} First Samuel Chapter
Eleven. {11:1} Then Nahas the Ammonite
came up, and encamped against Jabesh-gilead: and all the men of Jabs said unto
Nahas, Make a covenant with us, and we will serve you. {11:2} And Nahas the
Ammonite said unto them, On this condition will I make it with you, that all
your right eyes be put out; and I will lay it for a reproach upon all Israel.
{11:3} And the elders of Jabs said unto him, Give us seven days' respite, that
we may send messengers unto all the borders of Israel; and then, if there be
none to save us, we will come out to you. {11:4} Then came the messengers to
Gibeah of Saul, and spoke these words in the ears of the people: and all the
people lifted up their voice, and wept. {11:5} And, behold, Saul came following
the oxen out of the field; and Saul said, What ails the people that they weep?
And they told him the words of the men of Jabs. {11:6} And the Spirit of God came mightily
upon Saul when he heard those words, and his anger was kindled greatly. {11:7}
And he took a yoke of oxen, and cut them in pieces, and sent them throughout
all the borders of Israel by the hand of messengers, saying, Anyone who comes
not forth after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done unto his oxen. And
the dread of Yahweh fell on the people, and they came out as one man. {11:8}
And he numbered them in Bezek; and the children of
{O9)12} First Samuel Chapter
Twelve {12:1} And Samuel said unto all
Israel, Behold, I have heard unto your voice in all that you said unto me, and
have made a king over you. {12:2} And now, behold, the king walks before you;
and I am old and gray headed; and, behold, my sons are with you: and I have
walked before you from my youth unto this day. {12:3} Here I am: witness
against me before Yahweh, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or
whose donkey have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or
of whose hand have I taken a ransom to blind mine eyes with? and I will restore
it you. {12:4} And they said, you have not defrauded us, nor oppressed us,
neither have you taken anything of any man's hand. {12:5} And he said unto
them, Yahweh is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that
you have not found anything in my hand. And they said, He is witness. {12:6} And Samuel said unto the people, It
is Yahweh that appointed Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out
of the
{O9)13} First Samuel Chapter
Thirteen. {13:1} Saul was [forty]
years old when he began to reign; and when he had reigned two years over
Israel, {13:2} Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel, where two thousand
were with Saul in Michmash and in the mount of Beth-el, and a thousand were
with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent every
man to his tent. {13:3} And Jonathan smote the garrison of the Philistines that
was in Geba: and the Philistines heard of it. And Saul blew the trumpet
throughout all the land, saying, Let the Hebrews hear. {13:4} And all
{O9)14} First Samuel Chapter
Fourteen. {14:1} Now it fell upon a
day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said unto the young man that bare his armor,
Come, and let us go over to the Philistines' garrison, that is on yonder side.
But he told not his father. {14:2} And Saul abode in the uttermost part of
Gibeah under the pomegranate-tree which is in Migron: and the people that were
with him were about six hundred men; {14:3} and Ahijah, the son of Ahitub,
Ichabod's brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the priest of Yahweh in
Shiloh, wearing an ephod. And the people knew not that Jonathan was gone.
{14:4} And between the passes, by which Jonathan sought to go over unto the
Philistines' garrison, there was a rocky crag on the one side, and a rocky crag
on the other side: and the name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other
Seneh. {14:5} The one crag rose up on the north in front of Michmash, and the
other on the south in front of Geba.
{14:6} And Jonathan said to the young man that bare his armor, Come, and
let us go over unto the garrison of these uncircumcised: it may be that Yahweh
will work for us; for there is no restraint to Yahweh to save by many or by
few. {14:7} And his armor bearer said unto him, Do all that is in your heart:
turn you, behold, I am with you according to your heart. {14:8} Then said
Jonathan, Behold, we will pass over unto the men, and we will disclose
ourselves unto them. {14:9} If they say thus unto us, Tarry until we come to
you; then we will stand still in our place, and will not go up unto them.
{14:10} But if they say thus, Come up unto us; then we will go up; for Yahweh
has delivered them into our hand: and this shall be the sign unto us. {14:11}
And both of them disclosed themselves unto the garrison of the Philistines: and
the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews come forth out of the holes where
they had hid themselves. {14:12} And the men of the garrison answered Jonathan
and his armor bearer, and said, Come up to us, and we will show you a thing.
And Jonathan said unto his armor bearer, Come up after me; for Yahweh has
delivered them into the hand of
{O9)15} First Samuel Chapter
Fifteen. {15:1} And Samuel said unto
Saul, Yahweh sent me to anoint you to be king over his people, over
{O9)16} First Samuel Chapter
Sixteen. {16:1} And Yahweh said unto
Samuel, How long will you grieve for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from
being king over
{o9)17} First Samuel Chapter
Seventeen. {17:1} Now the Philistines
gathered together their armies to battle; and they were gathered together at
Socoh, which belongs to
{O9)18} First Samuel Chapter Eighteen. {18:1} And it came to pass, when he had made
an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul
of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. {18:2} And Saul took him that
day, and would let him go no more home to his father's house. {18:3} Then
Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.
{18:4} And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it
to David, and his apparel, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his
girdle. {18:5} And David went out where ever Saul sent him, [and] behaved
himself wisely: and Saul set him over the men of war, and it was good in the
sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul's servants. {18:6} And
it came to pass as they came, when David returned from the slaughter of the
Philistine, that the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and
dancing, to meet king Saul, with timbrels, with joy, and with instruments of
music. {18:7} And the women sang one to another as they played, and said, Saul
has slain his thousands, And David his ten thousands. {18:8} And Saul was very wroth, and this
saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed unto David ten
thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands: and what can he have
more but the kingdom? {18:9} And Saul eyed David from that day and
forward. {18:10} And it came to pass
on the morrow, that an evil spirit from God came mightily upon Saul, and he
prophesied in the midst of the house: and David played with his hand, as he did
day by day. And Saul had his spear in his hand; {18:11} and Saul cast the
spear; for he said, I will smite David even to the wall. And David avoided out
of his presence twice. {18:12} And Saul was afraid of David, because Yahweh was
with him, and was departed from Saul. {18:13} Therefore Saul removed him from
him, and made him his captain over a thousand; and he went out and came in
before the people. {18:14} And David behaved himself wisely in all his ways;
and Yahweh was with him. {18:15} And when Saul saw that he behaved himself very
wisely, he stood in awe of him. {18:16} But all
{18:17} And Saul said to David, Behold,
my elder daughter Merab, her will I give you to wife: only be you valiant for
me, and fight Yahweh's battles. For Saul said, Let not my hand be upon him, but
let the hand of the Philistines be upon him. {18:18} And David said unto Saul,
Who am I, and what is my life, [or] my father's family in
{O9)19} First Samuel Chapter
Nineteen. {19:1} And Saul spoke to
Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should slay David. But
Jonathan, Saul's son, delighted much in David. {19:2} And Jonathan told David,
saying, Saul my father seeks to slay
you: now therefore, I pray you, take heed to yourself in the morning, and abide
in a secret place, and hide yourself: {19:3} and I will go out and stand beside
my father in the field where you are, and I will commune with my father of you;
and if I see anything, I will tell you. {19:4} And Jonathan spoke good of David
unto Saul his father, and said unto him, Let not the king sin against his
servant, against David; because he has not sinned against you, and because his
works have been to you-ward very good: {19:5} for he put his life in his hand,
and smote the Philistine, and Yahweh wrought a great victory for all Israel:
you saw it, and did rejoice; Therefore then will you sin against innocent
blood, to slay David outside a cause? {19:6} And Saul heard unto the voice of
Jonathan: and Saul swore, As Yahweh lives, he shall not be put to death. {19:7}
And Jonathan called David, and Jonathan showed him all those things. And
Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence, as beforetime. {19:8} And there was war again: and David
went out, and fought with the Philistines, and slew them with a great
slaughter; and they fled before him. {19:9} And an evil spirit from Yahweh was
upon Saul, as he sat in his house with his spear in his hand; and David was
playing with his hand. {19:10} And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall
with the spear; but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he smote the
spear into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night. {19:11} And Saul
sent messengers unto David's house, to watch him, and to slay him in the
morning: and Michal, David's wife, told him, saying, If you save not your life
to-night, to-morrow you will be slain. {19:12} So Michal let David down through
the window: and he went, and fled, and escaped. {19:13} And Michal took the
teraphim, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats' [hair] at the head
there, and covered it with the clothes. {19:14} And when Saul sent messengers
to take David, she said, He is sick. {19:15} And Saul sent the messengers to
see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him. {19:16}
And when the messengers came in, behold, the teraphim was in the bed, with the
pillow of goats' [hair] at the head there. {19:17} And Saul said unto Michal,
Why have you deceived me thus, and let mine enemy go, so that he is escaped?
And Michal answered Saul, He said unto me, Let me go; why should I kill
you? {19:18} Now David fled, and
escaped, and came to Samuel to Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to
him. And he and Samuel went and dwelt in Naioth. {19:19} And it was told Saul,
saying, Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah. {19:20} And Saul sent messengers
to take David: and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and
Samuel standing as head over them, the Spirit of God came upon the messengers
of Saul, and they also prophesied. {19:21} And when it was told Saul, he sent
other messengers, and they also prophesied. And Saul sent messengers again the
third time, and they also prophesied. {19:22} Then went he also to Ramah, and
came to the great well that is in Secu: and he asked and said, Where are Samuel
and David? And one said, Behold, they are at Naioth in Ramah. {19:23} And he
went there to Naioth in Ramah: and the Spirit of God came upon him also, and he
went on, and prophesied, until he came to Naioth in Ramah. {19:24} And he also
stripped off his clothes, and he also prophesied before Samuel, and lay down
naked all that day and all that night. Therefore they say, Is Saul also among
the prophets?
{O9)20} First Samuel Chapter
Twenty. {20:1} And David fled from
Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, What have I done? what is
mine works against law? and what is my sin before your father, that he seeks my
life? {20:2} And he said unto him, Far from it; you shall not die: behold, my
father does nothing either great or small, but that he discloses it unto me;
and why should my father hide this thing from me? it is not so. {20:3} And
David swore, and said, Your father knows well that I have also found favor in
your eyes; and he said, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved: but
truly as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me
and death. {20:4} Then said Jonathan unto David, What ever your soul desires, I
will even do it for you. {20:5} And David said unto Jonathan, Behold, to-morrow
is the new moon, and I should not fail to sit with the king at meat: but let me
go, that I may hide myself in the field unto the [start of the] third day at
even. {20:6} If your father miss me at all, then say, David earnestly asked
leave of me that he might run to Beth-lehem his city; for it is the yearly
sacrifice there for all the family. {20:7} If he say thus, It is well; your
servant shall have peace: but if he be wroth, then know that evil is determined
by him. {20:8} Therefore deal kindly with your servant; for you have brought
your servant into a covenant of Yahweh with you: but if there be in me works against
law, slay me yourself; for why should you bring me to your father? {20:9} And
Jonathan said, Far be it from you; for if I should at all know that evil were
determined by my father to come upon you, then would not I tell it you? {20:10}
Then said David to Jonathan, Who shall tell me if perchance your father answer
you roughly? {20:11} And Jonathan said unto David, Come, and let us go out into
the field. And they went out both of them into the field.
{20:12} And Jonathan said unto David, Yahweh,
the God of Israel, [be witness]: when I have sounded my father about this time
to-morrow, [or] the third day, behold, if there be good toward David, shall I
not then send unto you, and disclose it unto you? {20:13} Yahweh do so to
Jonathan, and more also, should it please my father to do you evil, if I
disclose it not unto you, and send you away, that you may go in peace: and Yahweh
be with you, as he has been with my father. {20:14} And you shall not only
while yet I live show me the loving kindness of Yahweh, that I die not; {20:15}
but also you shall not cut off your kindness from my house for ever; no, not
when Yahweh has cut off the enemies of David every one from the face of the
earth. {20:16} So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, [saying],
And Yahweh will require it at the hand of David's enemies.
{20:17} And Jonathan caused David to swear
again, for the love that he had to him; for he loved him as he agape loved his
own soul. {20:18} Then Jonathan said unto him, To-morrow is the new moon: and
you will be missed, because your seat will be empty. {20:19} And when you have
stayed three days, you shall go down quickly, and come to the place where you
did hide yourself when the business was in hand, and shall remain by the stone
Ezel. {20:20} And I will shoot three arrows on the side there, as though I shot
at a mark. {20:21} And, behold, I will send the young man, [saying], Go, find
the arrows. If I say unto the young man, Behold, the arrows are on this side of
you; take them, and come; for there is peace to you and no hurt, as Yahweh
lives. {20:22} But if I say thus unto the boy, Behold, the arrows are beyond
you; go your way; for Yahweh has sent you away. {20:23} And as touching the
matter which you and I have spoken of, behold, Yahweh is between you and me for
ever. {20:24} So David hid himself in
the field: and when the new moon was come, the king sat him down to eat food.
{20:25} And the king sat upon his seat, as at other times, even upon the seat
by the wall; and Jonathan stood up, and Abner sat by Saul's side: but David's
place was empty. {20:26} Nevertheless Saul spoke not anything that day: for he
thought, Something has befallen him, he is not clean; surely he is not clean.
{20:27} And it came to pass on the morrow after the new moon, [which was] the
second [day], that David's place was empty: and Saul said unto Jonathan his
son, Therefore comes not the son of Jesse to meat, neither yEstherday, nor
to-day? {20:28} And Jonathan answered Saul, David earnestly asked leave of me
to go to Beth-lehem: {20:29} and he said, Let me go, I pray you; for our family
has a sacrifice in the city; and my brother, he has commanded me [to be there]:
and now, if I have found favor in your eyes, let me get away, I pray you, and
see my brethren. Therefore he is not come unto the king's table. {20:30} Then Saul's anger was kindled
against Jonathan, and he said unto him, you son of a perverse rebellious woman,
do not I know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame, and unto
the shame of your mother's nakedness? {20:31} For as long as the son of Jesse
lives upon the ground, you shall not be established, nor your kingdom.
Therefore now send and fetch him unto me, for he shall surely die. {20:32} And
Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said unto him, Therefore should he be
put to death? what has he done? {20:33} And Saul cast his spear at him to smite
him; whereby Jonathan knew that is was determined of his father to put David to
death. {20:34} So Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and did eat no
food the second day of the moon; for he was grieved for David, because his
father had done him shame. {20:35}
And it came to pass in the morning, that Jonathan went out into the field at
the time appointed with David, and a little young man with him. {20:36} And he
said unto his young man, Run, find now the arrows which I shoot. And as the
young man ran, he shot an arrow beyond him. {20:37} And when the young man was
come to the place of the arrow which Jonathan had shot, Jonathan cried after
the young man, and said, Is not the arrow beyond you? {20:38} And Jonathan
cried after the young man, Make speed, haste, stay not. And Jonathan's young
man gathered up the arrows, and came to his master. {20:39} But the young man
knew not anything: only Jonathan and David knew the matter. {20:40} And
Jonathan gave his weapons unto his young man, and said unto him, Go, carry them
to the city. {20:41} And as soon as the young man was gone, David arose out of
[a place] toward the South, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed
himself three times: and they kissed one another, and wept one with another,
until David exceeded. {20:42} And Jonathan said to David, Go in peace,
forasmuch as we have sworn both of us in the name of Yahweh, saying, Yahweh
shall be between me and you, and between my seed and your seed, for ever. And
he arose and departed: and Jonathan went into the city.
{O9)21} First Samuel Chapter
Twenty One. {21:1} Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the
priest: and Ahimelech came to meet David trembling, and said unto him, Why are
you alone, and no man with you? {21:2} And David said unto Ahimelech the
priest, The king has commanded me a business, and has said unto me, Let no man
know anything of the business about I send you, and what I have commanded you:
and I have appointed the young men to such and such a place. {21:3} Now
therefore what is under your hand? give me five loaves of bread in my hand, or
what ever there is present. {21:4} And the priest answered David, and said,
There is no common bread under my hand, but there is holy bread; if only the
young men have kept themselves from women. {21:5} And David answered the
priest, and said unto him, Of a truth women have been kept from us about these
three days; when I came out, the vessels of the young men were holy, though it
was but a common journey; how much more then to-day shall their vessels be
holy? {21:6} So the priest gave him holy [bread]; for there was no bread there
but the showbread, that was taken from before Yahweh, to put hot bread in the
day when it was taken away. {21:7}
Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before Yahweh;
and his name was Doeg the Edomite, the chief of the herdsmen that belonged to
Saul. {21:8} And David said unto Ahimelech, And is there not here under your
hand spear or sword? for I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with
me, because the king's business required haste. {21:9} And the priest said, The
sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you slew in the vale of Elah, behold, it
is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod: if you will take that, take it;
for there is no other save that here. And David said, There is none like that;
give it me. {21:10} And David arose,
and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Goth.
{21:11} And the servants of Achish said unto him, Is not this David the king of
the land? did they not sing one to another of him in dances, saying, Saul has
slain his thousands, And David his ten thousands? {21:12} And David laid up these words in
his heart, and was sore afraid of Achish the king of Goth. {21:13} And he
changed his behavior before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and
scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his
beard. {21:14} Then said Achish unto his servants, Lo, you see the man is mad;
Therefore then have you brought him to me? {21:15} Do I lack madmen, that you
have brought this fellow to play the madman in my presence? shall this fellow
come into my house?
{O9)22} First Samuel Chapter TwentyTwo. {22:1} David therefore departed there, and
escaped to the
{O9)23} First Samuel Chapter
Twenty Three. {23:1} And they told
David, saying, Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah, and are
robbing the threshing-floors. {23:2} Therefore David inquired of Yahweh,
saying, shall I go and smite these Philistines? And Yahweh said unto David, Go,
and smite the Philistines, and save Keilah. {23:3} And David's men said unto
him, Behold, we are afraid here in
{O9)24} First Samuel Chapter
TwentyFour. {24:1} And it came to
pass, when Saul was returned from following the Philistines, that it was told
him, saying, Behold, David is in the wilderness of En-gedi. {24:2} Then Saul
took three thousand chosen men out of all
{O9)25} First Samuel Chapter TwentyFive. {25:1} And Samuel died; and all
{O9)26} First Samuel Chapter
TwentySix. {26:1} And the Ziphites
came unto Saul to Gibeah, saying, Does not David hide himself in the hill of
Hachilah, which is before the desert? {26:2} Then Saul arose, and went down to
the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to
seek David in the wilderness of Ziph. {26:3} And Saul encamped in the hill of
Hachilah, which is before the desert, by the way. But David abode in the
wilderness, and he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness. {26:4}
David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul was to come of a
certainty. {26:5} And David arose, and came to the place where Saul had
encamped; and David beheld the place where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner,
the captain of his host: and Saul lay within the place of the wagons, and the
people were encamped round about him.
{26:6} Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to
Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, Who will go down with me to
Saul to the camp? And Abishai said, I will go down with you. {26:7} So David
and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within
the place of the wagons, with his spear stuck in the ground at his head; and
Abner and the people lay round about him. {26:8} Then said Abishai to David,
God has delivered up your enemy into your hand this day: now therefore let me
smite him, I pray you, with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will
not smite him the second time. {26:9} And David said to Abishai, Destroy him
not; for who can put forth his hand against Yahweh's anointed, and be
guiltless? {26:10} And David said, As Yahweh lives, Yahweh will smite him; or
his day shall come to die; or he shall go down into battle and perish. {26:11} Yahweh
forbid that I should put forth my hand against Yahweh's anointed: but now take,
I pray you, the spear that is at his head, and the cruse of water, and let us
go. {26:12} So David took the spear and the cruse of water from Saul's head;
and they got them away: and no man saw it, nor knew it, neither did any awake;
for they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from Yahweh was fallen upon
them. {26:13} Then David went over to
the other side, and stood on the top of the mountain afar off; a great space
being between them; {26:14} and David cried to the people, and to Abner the son
of Ner, saying, Answer you not, Abner? Then Abner answered and said, Who are
you that cry to the king? {26:15} And David said to Abner, are not you a
[valiant] man? and who is like to you in
{o)27} First Samuel Chapter
TwentySeven. {27:1} And David said in
his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing
better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistines; and
Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel: so
shall I escape out of his hand. {27:2} And David arose, and passed over, he and
the six hundred men that were with him, unto Achish the son of Maoch, king of
Goth. {27:3} And David dwelt with Achish at Goth, he and his men, every man
with his household, even David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess,
and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal's wife. {27:4} And it was told Saul that
David was fled to Goth: and he sought no more again for him. {27:5} And David said unto Achish, If now
I have found favor in your eyes, let them give me a place in one of the cities
in the country, that I may dwell there: for why should your servant dwell in
the royal city with you? {27:6} Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: Therefore
Ziklag pertains unto the kings of
{O9)28} First Samuel Chapter
TwentyEight. {28:1} And it came to
pass in those days, that the Philistines gathered their hosts together for
warfare, to fight with
{9)29} First Samuel Chapter
TwentyNine. {29:1} Now the Philistines
gathered together all their hosts to Aphek: and the Israelites encamped by the
fountain which is in Jezreel. {29:2} And the lords of the Philistines passed on
by hundreds, and by thousands; and David and his men passed on in the rearward
with Achish. {29:3} Then said the princes of the Philistines, What [do] these
Hebrews [here]? And Achish said unto the princes of the Philistines, Is not
this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, who has been with me these
days, or [rather] these years, and I have found no fault in him since he fell
away [unto me] unto this day? {29:4} But the princes of the Philistines were
wroth with him; and the princes of the Philistines said unto him, Make the man
return, that he may go back to his place where you have appointed him, and let
him not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he become an adversary to
us: for why should this [fellow] reconcile himself unto his lord? should it not
be with the heads of these men? {29:5} Is not this David, of whom they sang one
to another in dances, saying, Saul has slain his thousands, And David his ten
thousands? {29:6} Then Achish called
David, and said unto him, As Yahweh lives, you have been upright, and your
going out and your coming in with me in the host is good in my sight; for I
have not found evil in you since the day of your coming unto me unto this day:
nevertheless the lords favor you not. {29:7} Therefore now return, and go in
peace, that you displease not the lords of the Philistines. {29:8} And David
said unto Achish, But what have I done? and what have you found in your servant
so long as I have been before you unto this day, that I may not go and fight
against the enemies of my lord the king? {29:9} And Achish answered and said to
David, I know that you are good in my sight, as an messenger of God:
notwithstanding the princes of the Philistines have said, He shall not go up
with us to the battle. {29:10} Therefore now rise up early in the morning with
the servants of your lord that are come with you; and as soon as you are up
early in the morning, and have light, depart. {29:11} So David rose up early,
he and his men, to depart in the morning, to return into the land of the
Philistines. And the Philistines went up to Jezreel.
{O9)30} First Samuel Chapter
Thirty. {30:1} And it came to pass,
when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the
Amalekites had made a raid upon the South, and upon Ziklag, and had smitten
Ziklag, and burned it with fire, {30:2} and had taken captive the women [and
all] that were therein, both small and great: they slew not any, but carried
them off, and went their way. {30:3} And when David and his men came to the
city, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and
their daughters, were taken captive. {30:4} Then David and the people that were
with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.
{30:5} And David's two wives were taken captive, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and
Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite. {30:6} And David was greatly
distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all the
people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David
strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.
{30:7} And David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, I
pray you, bring me here the ephod. And Abiathar brought there the ephod to
David. {30:8} And David inquired of Yahweh, saying, If I pursue after this
troop, shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue; for you shall surely
overtake [them], and shall outside fail recover [all]. {30:9} So David went, he
and the six hundred men that were with him, and came to the brook Besor, where
those that were left behind stayed. {30:10} But David pursued, he and four
hundred men; for two hundred stayed behind, who were so faint that they could
not go over the brook Besor. {30:11}
And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him
bread, and he did eat; and they gave him water to drink. {30:12} And they gave
him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten,
his spirit came again to him; for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water,
three days and three nights. {30:13} And David said unto him, To whom belongs
you? and where are you? And he said, I am a young man of
{O9)31} First Samuel Chapter
Thirty One. {31:1} Now the Philistines
fought against
{31:7} And when the men of Israel that were
on the other side of the valley, and they that were beyond the Jordan, saw that
the men of Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook the
cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and dwelt in them. {31:8} And it
came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that
they found Saul and his three sons fallen in
{O10)1} Second Samuel Chapter One. {1:1} And it came to pass after the death of
Saul, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David
had abode two days in Ziklag; {1:2} it came to pass on the third day, that,
behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul, with his clothes rent, and earth
upon his head: and so it was, when he came to David, that he fell to the earth,
and did obeisance. {1:3} And David said unto him, From where do you come? And
he said unto him, Out of the camp of
{1:11} Then David took hold on his
clothes, and rent them; and likewise all the men that were with him: {1:12} and
they grieveed, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, and for Jonathan his
son, and for the people of Yahweh, and for the house of
{1:17} And David lamented with this
lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son {1:18} (and he bade them teach
the children of
{O10)2} Second Samuel Chapter
two. {2:1} And it came to pass after
this, that David inquired of Yahweh, saying, shall I go up into any of the
cities of
{O10)3} Second Samuel Chapter
Three. {3:1} Now there was long war
between the house of Saul and the house of David: and David waxed stronger and
stronger, but the house of Saul waxed weaker and weaker. {3:2} And unto David were sons born in
Hebron: and his first-born was Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; {3:3} and
his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third,
Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur; {3:4} and the
fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith; and the fifth, Shephatiah the son of
Abital; {3:5} and the sixth, Ithream, of Eglah, David's wife. These were born
to David in
{O10)4} Second Samuel Chapter
Four. {4:1} And when [Ish-bosheth],
Saul's son, heard that Abner was dead in
{O10)5} Second Samuel Chapter
Five. {5:1} Then came all the tribes
of
{O10)6} Second Samuel Chapter
Six. {6:1} And David again gathered
together all the chosen men of
{O10)7} Second Samuel Chapter
Seven. {7:1} And it came to pass, when
the king dwelt in his house, and Yahweh had given him rest from all his enemies
round about, {7:2} that the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell
in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells within curtains. {7:3} And
Nathan said to the king, Go, do all that is in your heart; for Yahweh is with
you. {7:4} And it came to pass the same night, that the word of Yahweh came
unto Nathan, saying, {7:5} Go and tell my servant David, Thus say Yahweh, shall
you build me a house for me to dwell in? {7:6} for I have not dwelt in a house
since the day that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to
this day, but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle. {7:7} In all places
wherein I have walked with all the children of Israel, spoke I a word with any
of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people Israel,
saying, Why have you not built me a house of cedar? {7:8} Now therefore thus
shall you say unto my servant David, Thus say Yahweh of hosts, I took you from
the sheepcote, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my
people, over Israel; {7:9} and I have been with you where ever you went, and
have cut off all your enemies from before you; and I will make you a great
name, like unto the name of the great ones that are in the earth. {7:10} And I
will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may
dwell in their own place, and be moved no more; neither shall the children of
wickedness afflict them any more, as at the first, {7:11} and [as] from the day
that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel; and I will cause you to
rest from all your enemies. Yahweh also tells you that Yahweh will make you a
house. {7:12} When your days are fulfilled, and you shall sleep with your
fathers, I will set up your seed after you, that shall proceed out of your bowels,
and I will establish his kingdom. {7:13} He shall build a house for my name,
and I will establish the throne of his kingdom for ever. {7:14} I will be his
father, and he shall be my son: if he commit works against law, I will chasten
him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men; {7:15}
but my loving kindness shall not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom
I put away before you. {7:16} And your house and your kingdom shall be made
sure for ever before you: your throne shall be established for ever. {7:17}
According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan
speak unto David.
{7:18} Then David the king went in, and
sat before Yahweh; and he said, Who am I, O Lord Yahweh, and what is my house,
that you have brought me thus far? {7:19} And this was yet a small thing in
your eyes, O Lord Yahweh; but you have spoken also of your servant's house for
a great while to come; and this [too] after the manner of men, O Lord Yahweh!
{7:20} And what can David say more unto you? for you know your servant, O Lord Yahweh.
{7:21} For your word's sake, and according to your own heart, have you wrought
all this greatness, to make your servant know it. {7:22} Therefore you are
great, O The God Yahweh: for there is none like you, neither is there any God
besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears. {7:23} And what
one nation in the earth is like your people, even like Israel, whom God went to
redeem unto himself for a people, and to make him a name, and to do great
things for you, and terrible things for your land, before your people, whom you
redeems to you out of Egypt, [from] the nations and their gods? {7:24} And you
did establish to yourself your people
{O10)8} Second Samuel Chapter Eight {8:1} And after this it came to pass, that
David smote the Philistines, and subdued them: and David took the bridle of the
mother city out of the hand of the Philistines. {8:2} And he smote Moab, and measured them
with the line, making them to lie down on the ground; and he measured two lines
to put to death, and one full line to keep alive. And the Moabites became
servants to David, and brought tribute.
{8:3} David smote also Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he
went to recover his dominion at the River. {8:4} And David took from him a
thousand and seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: and David
hocked all the chariot horses, but reserved of them for a hundred chariots.
{8:5} And when the Syrians of Damascus came to succor Hadadezer king of Zobah,
David smote of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men. {8:6} Then David put
garrisons in Syria of Damascus; and the Syrians became servants to David, and
brought tribute. And Yahweh gave victory to David where ever he went. {8:7} And
David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadadezer, and
brought them to
{O10)9} Second Samuel Chapter
Nine. {9:1} And David said, Is there
yet any that is left of the house of Saul, that I may show him kindness for
Jonathan's sake? {9:2} And there was of the house of Saul a servant whose name
was Ziba, and they called him unto David; and the king said unto him, are you
Ziba? And he said, Your servant is he. {9:3} And the king said, Is there not
yet any of the house of Saul, that I may show the kindness of God unto him? And
Ziba said unto the king, Jonathan has yet a son, who is lame of his feet. {9:4}
And the king said unto him, Where is he? And Ziba said unto the king, Behold,
he is in the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, in Lo-debar. {9:5} Then king
David sent, and fetched him out of the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, from
Lo-debar. {9:6} And Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came
unto David, and fell on his face, and did obeisance. And David said,
Mephibosheth. And he answered, Behold, your servant! {9:7} And David said unto
him, Fear not; for I will surely show you kindness for Jonathan your father's
sake, and will restore you all the land of Saul your father; and you shall eat
bread at my table continually. {9:8} And he did obeisance, and said, What is
your servant, that you should look upon such a dead dog as I am? {9:9} Then the king called to Ziba, Saul's
servant, and said unto him, All that pertained to Saul and to all his house
have I given unto your master's son. {9:10} And you shall till the land for
him, you, and your sons, and your servants; and you shall bring in [the
fruits], that your master's son may have bread to eat: but Mephiboshset's your
master's son shall eat bread always at my table. Now Ziba had fifteen sons and
twenty servants. {9:11} Then said Ziba unto the king, According to all that my
lord the king commands his servant, so shall your servant do. As for
Mephibosheth, [said the king], he shall eat at my table, as one of the king's
sons. {9:12} And Mephiboshsetshad a young son, whose name was Mica. And all
that dwelt in the house of Ziba were servants unto Mephibosheth. {9:13} So
Mephiboshsets dwelt in
{O10)10} Second Samuel Chapter
Ten. {10:1} And it came to pass after
this, that the king of the children of Ammon died, and Hanun his son reigned in
his stead. {10:2} And David said, I will show kindness unto Hanun the son of
Nahash, as his father showed kindness unto me. So David sent by his servants to
comfort him concerning his father. And David's servants came into the land of
the children of Ammon. {10:3} But the princes of the children of Ammon said
unto Hanun their lord, do you think that David will honor your father, in that
he has sent comforters unto you? has not David sent his servants unto you to
search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it? {10:4} So Hanun took
David's servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off
their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away. {10:5}
When they told it unto David, he sent to meet them; for the men were greatly
ashamed. And the king said, Tarry at
{O10)11} Second Samuel Chapter
Eleven. {11:1} And it came to pass, at
the return of the year, at the time when kings go out [to battle], that David
sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all
{O10)12} Second Samuel Chapter
Twelve. {12:1} And Yahweh sent Nathan
unto David. And he came unto him, and said unto him, There were two men in one
city; the one rich, and the other poor. {12:2} The rich man had exceeding many
flocks and herds; {12:3} but the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe
lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him,
and with his children; it did eat of his own morsel, and drank of his own cup,
and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter. {12:4} And there came a
traveler unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his
own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him, but took the
poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him. {12:5} And
David's anger was greatly kindled against the man; and he said to Nathan, As Yahweh
lives, the man that has done this is worthy to die: {12:6} and he shall restore
the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.
{12:7} And Nathan said to David, You are the man. Thus say Yahweh, the God of
Israel, I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of
Saul; {12:8} and I gave you your master's house, and your master's wives into
your bosom, and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that had been
too little, I would have added unto you such and such things. {12:9} Therefore
have you despised the word of Yahweh, to do that which is evil in his sight?
you have smitten Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to
be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
{12:10} Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house, because you
have despised me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.
{12:11} Thus say Yahweh, Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your
own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes, and give them unto your
neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun. {12:12}
For you did it secretly: but I will do this thing before all
{o10)13} Second Samuel Chapter
Thirteen. {13:1}And it came to pass
after this, that Absalom the son of David had a fair sister, whose name was
Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her. {13:2} And Amnon was so vexed that
he fell sick because of his sister Tamar; for she was a virgin; and it seemed
hard to Amnon to do anything unto her. {13:3} But Amnon had a friend, whose
name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David's brother; and Jonadab was a very
subtle man. {13:4} And he said unto him, Why, O son of the king, art you thus
lean from day to day? will you not tell me? And Amnon said unto him, I love
Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister. {13:5} And Jonadab said unto him, Lay you
down on your bed, and feign yourself sick: and when your father comes to see
you, say unto him, Let my sister Tamar come, I pray you, and give me bread to
eat, and dress the food in my sight, that I may see it, and eat it from her
hand. {13:6} So Amnon lay down, and feigned himself sick: and when the king was
come to see him, Amnon said unto the king, Let my sister Tamar come, I pray
you, and make me a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat from her hand. {13:7} Then David sent home to Tamar,
saying, Go now to your brother Amnon's house, and dress him food. {13:8} So
Tamar went to her brother Amnon's house; and he was laid down. And she took
dough, and kneaded it, and made cakes in his sight, and did bake the cakes.
{13:9} And she took the pan, and poured them out before him; but he refused to
eat. And Amnon said, Have out all men from me. And they went out every man from
him. {13:10} And Amnon said unto Tamar, Bring the food into the chamber, that I
may eat from your hand. And Tamar took the cakes which she had made, and
brought them into the chamber to Amnon her brother. {13:11} And when she had
brought them near unto him to eat, he took hold of her, and said unto her,
Come, lie with me, my sister. {13:12} And she answered him, No, my brother, do
not force me; for no such thing ought to be done in
{O10)14} Second Samuel Chapter
Fourteen. {14:1} Now Joab the son of
Zeruiah perceived that the king's heart was toward Absalom. {14:2} And Joab
sent to Tekoa, and fetched there a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray you,
feign yourself to be a grieveer, and put on grieving apparel, I pray you, and
anoint not yourself with oil, but be as a woman that has a long time grieveed
for the dead: {14:3} and go in to the king, and speak on this manner unto him.
So Joab put the words in her mouth.
{14:4} And when the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her
face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, Help, O king. {14:5} And the
king said unto her, What ails you? And she answered, Of a truth I am a widow,
and my husband is dead. {14:6} And your handmaid had two sons, and they two
strove together in the field, and there was none to part them, but the one
smote the other, and killed him. {14:7} And, behold, the whole family is risen
against your handmaid, and they say, Deliver him that smote his brother, that
we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he slew, and so destroy the
heir also. Thus will they quench my coal which is left, and will leave to my
husband neither name nor remainder upon the face of the earth. {14:8} And the king said unto the woman,
Go to your house, and I will give charge concerning you. {14:9} And the woman
of Tekoa said unto the king, My lord, O king, the works against law be on me,
and on my father's house; and the king and his throne be guiltless. {14:10} And
the king said, Anyone who say anything unto you, bring him to me, and he shall
not touch you any more. {14:11} Then said she, I pray you, let the king
remember Yahweh your God, that the avenger of blood destroy not any more, lest
they destroy my son. And he said, As Yahweh lives, there shall not one hair of
your son fall to the earth. {14:12}
Then the woman said, Let your handmaid, I pray you, speak a word unto my lord
the king. And he said, Say on. {14:13} And the woman said, Therefore then have
you devised such a thing against the people of God? for in speaking this word
the king is as one that is guilty, in that the king does not fetch home again
his banished one. {14:14} For we must needs die, and are as water split on the
ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but
devises means, that he that is banished be not an outcast from him. {14:15} Now
therefore seeing that I am come to speak this word unto my lord the king, it is
because the people have made me afraid: and your handmaid said, I will now
speak unto the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his
servant. {14:16} For the king will hear, to deliver his servant out of the hand
of the man that would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of
God. {14:17} Then your handmaid said, Let, I pray you, the word of my lord the
king be comfortable; for as an messenger of God, so is my lord the king to
discern good and bad: and Yahweh your God be with you. {14:18} Then the king answered and said
unto the woman, Hide not from me, I pray you, anything that I shall ask you.
And the woman said, Let my lord the king now speak. {14:19} And the king said,
Is the hand of Joab with you in all this? And the woman answered and said, As
your soul lives, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the
left from anything that my lord the king has spoken; for your servant Joab, he
bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth of your handmaid; {14:20} to
change the face of the matter has your servant Joab done this thing: and my
lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an messenger of God, to know all
things that are in the earth. {14:21}
And the king said unto Joab, Behold now, I have done this thing: go therefore,
bring the young man Absalom back. {14:22} And Joab fell to the ground on his
face, and did obeisance, and blessed the king: and Joab said, To-day your
servant knows that I have found favor in your sight, my lord, O king, in that
the king has performed the request of his servant. {14:23} So Joab arose and
went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to
{O10)15} Second Samuel Chapter
Fifteen. {15:1} And it came to pass
after this, that Absalom prepared him a chariot and horses, and fifty men to
run before him. {15:2} And Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of
the gate: and it was so, that, when any man had a suit which should come to the
king for judgment, then Absalom called unto him, and said, Of what city art
you? And he said, Your servant is of one of the tribes of
{15:7} And it came to pass at the end of
forty years, that Absalom said unto the king, I pray you, let me go and pay my
vow, which I have vowed unto Yahweh, in Hebron. {15:8} For your servant vowed a
vow while I abode at Geshur in Syria, saying, If Yahweh shall indeed bring me
again to Jerusalem, then I will serve Yahweh. {15:9} And the king said unto
him, Go in peace. So he arose, and went to
{O10)16} Second Samuel Chapter
Sixteen. {16:1} And when David was a
little past the top [of the ascent], behold, Ziba the servant of Mephiboshsets
met him, with a couple of asses saddled, and upon them two hundred loaves of
bread, and a hundred clusters of raisins, and a hundred of summer fruits, and a
bottle of wine. {16:2} And the king said unto Ziba, What meanest you by these?
And Ziba said, The asses are for the king's household to ride on; and the bread
and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that such as are faint
in the wilderness may drink. {16:3} And the king said, And where is your
master's son? And Ziba said unto the king, Behold, he abides at
{O10)17} Second Samuel Chapter
Seventeen. {17:1} Ahithophel also said
unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and
pursue after David this night: {17:2} and I will come upon him while he is
weary and weak-handed, and will make him afraid; and all the people that are
with him shall flee; and I will smite the king only; {17:3} and I will bring
back all the people unto you: the man whom you seek is as if all returned: [so]
all the people shall be in peace. {17:4} And the saying pleased Absalom well,
and all the elders of
{O10)18} Second Samuel Chapter
Eighteen. {18:1} And David numbered
the people that were with him, and set captains of thousands and captains of
hundreds over them. {18:2} And David sent forth the people, a third part under
the hand of Joab, and a third part under the hand of Abishai the son of
Zeruiah, Joab's brother, and a third part under the hand of Ittai the Gittite.
And the king said unto the people, I will surely go forth with you myself also.
{18:3} But the people said, You shall not go forth: for if we flee away, they
will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us: but you
are worth ten thousand of us; therefore now it is better that you be ready to
succor us out of the city. {18:4} And the king said unto them, What seems you
best I will do. And the king stood by the gate-side, and all the people went
out by hundreds and by thousands. {18:5} And the king commanded Joab and
Abishai and Ittai, saying, Deal gently for my sake with the young man, even
with Absalom. And all the people heard when the king gave all the captains
charge concerning Absalom. {18:6} So
the people went out into the field against
{O10)19} Second Samuel Chapter Nineteen. {19:1} And it was told Joab, Behold, the
king weeps and grieves for Absalom. {19:2} And the victory that day was turned
into grieving unto all the people; for the people heard say that day, The king
grieves for his son. {19:3} And the people got them by stealth that day into
the city, as people that are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.
{19:4} And the king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, O
my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son! {19:5} And Joab came into the house
to the king, and said, You have shamed this day the faces of all your servants,
who this day have saved your life, and the lives of your sons and of your
daughters, and the lives of your wives, and the lives of your concubines;
{19:6} in that you agape love them that hate you, and hates them that agape
love you. For you have declared this day, that princes and servants are nothing
unto you: for this day I perceive, that if Absalom had lived, and all we had
died this day, then it had pleased you well. {19:7} Now therefore arise, go
forth, and speak comfortably unto your servants; for I swear by Yahweh, if you
go not forth, there will not tarry a man with you this night: and that will be
worse unto you than all the evil that has befallen you from your youth until
now. {19:8} Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. And they told unto all
the people, saying, Behold, the king is sitting in the gate: and all the people
came before the king. Now
{O10)20} Second Samuel Chapter
Twenty. {20:1} And there happened to
be there a base fellow, whose name was
{O10)21} Second Samuel Chapter
TwentyOne. {21:1} And there was a
famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David sought the
face of Yahweh. And Yahweh said, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house,
because he put to death the Gibeonites. {21:2} And the king called the
Gibeonites, and said unto them (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of
Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had
sworn unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal for the children of
Israel and Judah); {21:3} and David said unto the Gibeonites, What shall I do
for you? and wherewith shall I make atonement, that you may bless the
inheritance of Yahweh? {21:4} And the Gibeonites said unto him, It is no matter
of silver or gold between us and Saul, or his house; neither is it for us to
put any man to death in Israel. And he said, What you shall say, that will I do
for you. {21:5} And they said unto the king, The man that consumed us, and that
devised against us, [that] we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the
borders of Israel, {21:6} let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and
we will hang them up unto Yahweh in Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of Yahweh. And
the king said, I will give them.
{21:7} But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of
Saul, because of Yahweh's oath that was between them, between David and
Jonathan the son of Saul. {21:8} But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the
daughter of Aiah, whom she bare unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the
five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she bare to Adriel the son of
Barzillai the Meholathite: {21:9} And he delivered them into the hands of the
Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the mountain before Yahweh, and they fell
[all] seven together. And they were put to death in the days of harvest, in the
first days, at the beginning of barley harvest. {21:10} And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah
took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of
harvest until water was poured upon them from heaven; and she suffered neither
the birds of the heavens to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by
night. {21:11} And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the
concubine of Saul, had done. {21:12}
And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son
from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the street of
Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, in the day that the
Philistines slew Saul in Gilboa; {21:13} and he brought up from there the bones
of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son: and they gathered the bones of them
that were hanged. {21:14} And they buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his
son in the country of Benjamin in Zela, in the sepulcher of
{O10)22} Second Samuel Chapter
TwentyTwo. {22:1} And David spoke unto
Yahweh the words of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered him out of the
hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul: {22:2} and he said, Yahweh
is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer, even mine; {22:3} God, my rock,
in him will I take refuge; My shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower,
and my refuge; My savior, you save me from violence. {22:4} I will call upon Yahweh,
who is worthy to be praised: So shall I be saved from mine enemies. {22:5} For
the waves of death compassed me; The floods of ungodliness made me afraid:
{22:6} The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came upon
me. {22:7} In my distress I called upon Yahweh; Behold, I called unto my God:
And he heard my voice out of his temple, And my cry [came] into his ears.
{22:8} Then the earth shook and trembled, The foundations of heaven quaked And
were shaken, because he was wroth. {22:9} There went up a smoke out of his
nostrils, And fire out of his mouth devoured: Coals were kindled by it. {22:10}
He bowed the heavens also, and came down; And thick darkness was under his
feet. {22:11} And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly; Behold, he was seen upon
the wings of the wind. {22:12} And he made darkness pavilions round about him,
Gathering of waters, thick clouds of the skies. {22:13} At the brightness
before him Coals of fire were kindled. {22:14} Yahweh thundered from heaven,
And the Most High uttered his voice. {22:15} And he sent out arrows, and
scattered them; Lightning, and discomfited them. {22:16} Then the channels of
the sea appeared, The foundations of the world were laid bare, By the rebuke of
Yahweh, At the blast of the breath of his nostrils. {22:17} He sent from on
high, he took me; He drew me out of many waters; {22:18} He delivered me from
my strong enemy, From them that hated me; for they were too mighty for me.
{22:19} They came upon me in the day of my calamity; But Yahweh was my stay.
{22:20} He brought me forth also into a large place; He delivered me, because
he delighted in me. {22:21} Yahweh rewarded me according to my lawful works;
According to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me. {22:22} For I
have kept the ways of Yahweh, And have not wickedly departed from my God.
{22:23} For all his ordinances were before me; And as for his statutes, I did
not depart from them. {22:24} I was also perfect toward him; And I kept myself
from mine works against law. {22:25} Therefore has Yahweh recompensed me
according to my lawful works,
According to my cleanness in his eyesight. {22:26} With the merciful you will
show yourself merciful; With the perfect man you will show yourself perfect;
{22:27} With the pure you will show yourself pure; And with the perverse you
will show yourself contrary. {22:28} And the afflicted people you will save;
But your eyes are upon the haughty, that you may bring them down. {22:29} For
you are my lamp, O Yahweh; And Yahweh will lighten my darkness. {22:30} For by
you I run upon a troop; By my God do I leap over a wall. {22:31} As for God,
his way is perfect: The word of Yahweh is tried; He is a shield unto all them
that take refuge in him. {22:32} For who is God, save Yahweh? And who is a
rock, save our God? {22:33} God is my strong fortress; And he guides the
perfect in his way. {22:34} He makes his feet like hinds' [feet], And sets me
upon my high places. {22:35} He teaches my hands to make war, So that mine arms
do bend a bow of brass. {22:36} You have also given me the shield of your
salvation; And your gentleness has made me great. {22:37} You have enlarged my
steps under me; And my feet have not slipped. {22:38} I have pursued mine
enemies, and destroyed them; Neither did I turn again till they were consumed.
{22:39} And I have consumed them, and smitten them through, so that they cannot arise: Behold, they are fallen
under my feet. {22:40} For you have girded me with strength unto the battle;
You have subdued under me those that rose up against me. {22:41} You have also
made mine enemies turn their backs unto me, That I might cut off them that hate
me. {22:42} They looked, but there was none to save; Even unto Yahweh, but he
answered them not. {22:43} Then did I beat them small as the dust of the earth,
I did crush them as the mire of the streets, and did spread them abroad.
{22:44} You also have delivered me from the strivings of my people; You have
kept me to be the head of the nations: A people whom I have not known shall
serve me. {22:45} The foreigners shall submit themselves unto me: As soon as
they hear of me, they shall obey me. {22:46} The foreigners shall fade away,
And shall come trembling out of their close places. {22:47} Yahweh lives; And
blessed be my rock; And exalted be God, the rock of my salvation, {22:48} Even
the God that executes vengeance for me, And that brings down peoples under me,
{22:49} And that brings me forth from mine enemies: Behold, you lifts me up
above them that rise up against me; You deliver me from the violent man.
{22:50} Therefore I will give thanks unto you, O Yahweh, among the nations, And will sing praises unto your
name. {22:51} Great deliverance he gives to his king, And shows loving kindness
to his anointed, To David and to his seed, for evermore.
{O10)23} Second Samuel Chapter
Twenty Three. {23:1} Now these are the
last words of David. David the son of Jesse said, And the man who was raised on
high said, The anointed of the God of Jacob, And the sweet psalmist of
{O10)24} Second Samuel Chapter
TwentyFour. {24:1} And again the anger
of Yahweh was kindled against
O11)1) First
kings Chapter One. {1:1} Now king
David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he
got no heat. {1:2} Therefore his servants said unto him, Let there be sought
for my lord the king a young virgin: and let her stand before the king, and
cherish him; and let her lie in your bosom, that my lord the king may get heat.
{1:3} So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the borders of
{1:5} Then Adonijah the son of Haggith
exalted himself, saying, I will be king: and he prepared him chariots and
horsemen, and fifty men to run before him. {1:6} And his father had not
displeased him at any time in saying, Why have you done so? and he was also a
very goodly man; and he was born after Absalom. {1:7} And he conferred with
Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest: and they following
Adonijah helped him. {1:8} But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of
Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and the mighty men that
belonged to David, were not with Adonijah. {1:9} And Adonijah slew sheep and
oxen and fatlings by the stone of Zoheleth, which is beside En-rogel; and he
called all his brethren, the king's sons, and all the men of Judah, the king's
servants: {1:10} but Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty men, and
Solomon his brother, he called not.
{1:11} Then Nathan spoke unto Bath-sheba the mother of Solomon, saying,
Have you not heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith does reign, and David our
lord knows it not? {1:12} Now therefore come, let me, I pray you, give you
counsel, that you may save your own life, and the life of your son Solomon.
{1:13} Go and get you in unto king David, and say unto him, Did not you, my
lord, O king, swear unto your handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon your son
shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne? why then does Adonijah
reign? {1:14} Behold, while you yet talk there with the king, I also will come
in after you, and confirm your words.
{1:15} And Bath-sheba went in unto the king into the chamber: and the
king was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite was ministering unto the king.
{1:16} And Bath-sheba bowed, and did obeisance unto the king. And the king
said, What would you? {1:17} And she said unto him, My lord, you swore by Yahweh
your God unto your handmaid, [saying], Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign
after me, and he shall sit upon my throne. {1:18} And now, behold, Adonijah
reigns; and you, my lord the king, knows it not: {1:19} and he has slain oxen
and fatlings and sheep in abundance, and has called all the sons of the king,
and Abiathar the priest, and Joab the captain of the host; but Solomon your
servant has he not called. {1:20} And you, my lord the king, the eyes of all
Israel are upon you, that you should tell them who shall sit on the throne of
my lord the king after him. {1:21} Otherwise it will come to pass, when my lord
the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be
counted offenders. {1:22} And, lo,
while she yet talked with the king, Nathan the prophet came in. {1:23} And they
told the king, saying, Behold, Nathan the prophet. And when he was come in
before the king, he bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.
{1:24} And Nathan said, My lord, O king, have you said, Adonijah shall reign
after me, and he shall sit upon my throne? {1:25} For he is gone down this day,
and has slain oxen and fatlings and sheep in abundance, and has called all the
king's sons, and the captains of the host, and Abiathar the priest; and,
behold, they are eating and drinking before him, and say, [Long] live king
Adonijah. {1:26} But me, even me your servant, and Zadok the priest, and
Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and your servant Solomon, has he not called.
{1:27} Is this thing done by my lord the king, and you have not showed unto
your servants who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him? {1:28} Then king David answered and said,
Call to me Bath-sheba. And she came into the king's presence, and stood before
the king. {1:29} And the king swore, and said, As Yahweh lives, who has
redeemed my soul out of all adversity, {1:30} verily as I swear unto you by Yahweh,
the God of Israel, saying, Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and
he shall sit upon my throne in my stead; verily so will I do this day. {1:31}
Then Bath-sheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did obeisance to the
king, and said, Let my lord king David live for ever. {1:32} And king David said, Call to me Zadok
the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada. And they
came before the king. {1:33} And the king said unto them, Take with you the
servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride upon mine own mule, and
bring him down to Gihon: {1:34} and let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet
anoint him there king over Israel; and blow you the trumpet, and say, [Long]
live king Solomon. {1:35} Then you shall come up after him, and he shall come
and sit upon my throne; for he shall be king in my stead; and I have appointed
him to be prince over
{O11)2} First Kings Chapter Two.
{2:1} Now the days of David drew near that he should die; and he charged
Solomon his son, saying, {2:2} I am going the way of all the earth: be you
strong therefore, and show yourself a man; {2:3} and keep the charge of Yahweh
your God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, [and] his commandments,
and his ordinances, and his testimonies, according to that which is written in
the law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do, and where ever you
turn yourself. {2:4} That Yahweh may establish his word which he spoke
concerning me, saying, If your children take heed to their way, to walk before
me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail
you (said he) a man on the throne of Israel. {2:5} You know also what Joab the
son of Zeruiah did unto me, even what he did to the two captains of the hosts
of Israel, unto Abner the son of Ner, and unto Amasa the son of Jether, whom he
slew, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war upon his
girdle that was about his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet. {2:6}
Do therefore according to your wisdom, and let not his hoar head go down to
Sheol in peace. {2:7} But show kindness unto the sons of Barzillai the
Gileadite, and let them be of those that eat at your table; for so they came to
me when I fled from Absalom your brother. {2:8} And, behold, there is with you
Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite, of Bahurim, who cursed me with a
grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim; but he came down to meet me
at the Jordan, and I swore to him by Yahweh, saying, I will not put you to
death with the sword. {2:9} Now therefore hold him not guiltless, for you are a
wise man; and you will know what you ought to do unto him, and you shall bring
his hoar head down to Sheol with blood.
{2:10} And David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of
{O11)3} First kings Chapter
Three. {3:1} And Solomon made affinity
with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into
the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the
house of Yahweh, and the wall of Jerusalem round about. {3:2} Only the people
sacrificed in the high places, because there was no house built for the name of
Yahweh until those days. {3:3} And Solomon agape loved Yahweh, walking in the
statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high
places. {3:4} And the king went to
{O11)4} First Kings Chapter
Four. {4:1} And king Solomon was king
over all
{O11)5} First Kings Chapter
Five. {5:1} And Hiram king of
{O11)6} First Kigs Chapter
Six. {6:1} And it came to pass in the
four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of
the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the
moon Ziv, which is the second moon, that he began to build the house of Yahweh.
{6:2} And the house which king Solomon built for Yahweh, the length there was
threescore cubits, and the breadth of it twenty [cubits], and the height of it
thirty cubits. {6:3} And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty
cubits was the length there, according to the breadth of the house; [and] ten
cubits was the breadth of it before the house. {6:4} And for the house he made
windows of fixed lattice-work. {6:5} And against the wall of the house he built
stories round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the
temple and of the oracle; and he made side-chambers round about. {6:6} The
nethermost story was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad,
and the third was seven cubits broad; for on the outside he made offsets [in
the wall] of the house round about, that [the beams] should not have hold in
the walls of the house. {6:7} And the house, when it was in building, was built
of stone made ready at the quarry; and there was neither hammer nor axe nor any
tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building. {6:8} The door for
the middle side-chambers was in the right side of the house: and they went up by
winding stairs into the middle [story], and out of the middle into the third.
{6:9} So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered the house with
beams and planks of cedar. {6:10} And he built the stories against all the
house, each five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of
cedar. {6:11} And the word of Yahweh
came to Solomon, saying, {6:12} Concerning this house which you are building,
if you will walk in my statutes, and execute mine ordinances, and keep all my
commandments to walk in them; then will I establish my word with you, which I
spoke unto David your father. {6:13} And I will dwell among the children of
{O11)7} First Kings Chapter
Seven. {7:1} And Solomon was building
his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house. {7:2} For he built
the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length of it was a hundred cubits, and
the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits, upon four
rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars. {7:3} And it was
covered with cedar above over the forty and five beams, that were upon the
pillars; fifteen in a row. {7:4} And there were beams in three rows, and window
was over against window in three ranks. {7:5} And all the doors and posts were
made square with beams: and window was over against window in three ranks.
{7:6} And he made the porch of pillars; the length of it was fifty cubits, and
the breadth of it thirty cubits; and a porch before them; and pillars and a
threshold before them. {7:7} And he made the porch of the throne where he was
to judge, even the porch of judgment: and it was covered with cedar from floor
to floor. {7:8} And his house where he was to dwell, the other court within the
porch, was of the like work. He made also a house for Pharaoh's daughter (whom
Solomon had taken to wife), like unto this porch. {7:9} All these were of costly stones,
even of hewn stone, according to measure, sawed with saws, within and with out,
even from the foundation unto the coping, and so on the outside unto the great
court. {7:10} And the foundation was of costly stones, even great stones,
stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits. {7:11} And above were costly
stones, even hewn stone, according to measure, and cedar-wood. {7:12} And the
great court round about had three courses of hewn stone, and a course of cedar
beams; like as the inner court of the house of Yahweh, and the porch of the
house. {7:13} And king Solomon sent
and fetched Hiram out of
{O11)8} First Kings Chapter
Eight. {8:1} Then Solomon assembled
the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the
fathers' [houses] of the children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, to
bring up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh out of the city of David, which is
Zion. {8:2} And all the men of
{8:54} And it was so, that, when Solomon had
made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication unto Yahweh, he arose
from before the altar of Yahweh, from kneeling on his knees with his hands
spread forth toward heaven. {8:55} And he stood, and blessed all the Ekklesia
of Israel with a loud voice, saying, {8:56} Blessed be Yahweh, that has given
rest unto his people
{8:62} And the king, and all
{O11)9} First kings Chapter
Nine. {9:1} And it came to pass, when
Solomon had finished the building of the house of Yahweh, and the king's house,
and all Solomon's desire which he was pleased to do, {9:2} that Yahweh appeared
to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared unto him at Gibeon. {9:3} And Yahweh
said unto him, I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that you have
made before me: I have hallowed this house, which you have built, to put my
name there for ever; and mine eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.
{9:4} And as for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked,
in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have
commanded you, and will keep my statutes and mine ordinances; {9:5} then I will
establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel for ever, according as I
promised to David your father, saying, There shall not fail you a man upon the
throne of Israel. {9:6} But if you shall turn away from following me, you or
your children, and not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set
before you, but shall go and serve other gods, and worship them; {9:7} then
will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house,
which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel
shall be a proverb and a byword among all peoples. {9:8} And though this house
is so high, yet shall every one that passes by it be astonished, and shall
hiss; and they shall say, Why has Yahweh done thus unto this land, and to this
house? {9:9} and they shall answer, Because they forsook Yahweh their God, who
brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other
gods, and worshipped them, and served them: therefore has Yahweh brought all
this evil upon them. {9:10} And it
came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the two
houses, the house of Yahweh and the king's house {9:11} (now Hiram the king of
Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar-trees and fir-trees, and with gold,
according to all his desire), that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities
in the land of Galilee. {9:12} And Hiram came out from
{O11)10} First Kings Chapter
Ten. {10:1} And when the queen of
{10:11} And the navy also of Hiram, that
brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plenty of alum-trees and
precious stones. {10:12} And the king made of the alum-trees pillars for the
house of Yahweh, and for the king's house, harps also and psalteries for the
singers: there came no such alum-trees, nor were seen, unto this day. {10:13} And king Solomon gave to the queen
of Sheba all her desire, what ever she asked, besides that which Solomon gave
her of his royal bounty. So she turned, and went to her own land, she and her
servants.
{10:14} Now the weight of gold that came
to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold,
{10:15} besides [that which] the traders [brought], and the traffic of the
merchants, and of all the kings of the mingled people, and of the governors of
the country. {10:16} And king Solomon made two hundred bucklers of beaten gold;
six hundred [shekels] of gold went to one buckler. {10:17} And [he made] three
hundred shields of beaten gold; three pounds of gold went to one shield: and
the king put them in the house of the
{O11)11} First Kings Chapter
Eleven. {11:1} Now king Solomon loved
many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the
Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites; {11:2} of the nations
concerning which Yahweh said unto the children of Israel, you shall not go
among them, neither shall they come among you; for surely they will turn away
your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these [women] in agape love.
{11:3} And he [Solomon] had seven hundred
wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his
heart. {11:4} For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned
away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his
God, as was the heart of David his father. {11:5} For Solomon went after
Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the
Ammonites. {11:6} And Solomon did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh,
and went not fully after Yahweh, as did David his father. {11:7} Then did
Solomon build a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, in the mount
that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the children of
Ammon. {11:8} And so did he for all his foreign wives, who burnt incense and
sacrificed unto their gods. {11:9}
And Yahweh was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned away from Yahweh,
the God of Israel, who had appeared unto him twice, {11:10} and had commanded
him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods: but he kept
not that which Yahweh commanded. {11:11} Therefore Yahweh said unto Solomon,
Forasmuch as this is done of you, and you have not kept my covenant and my
statutes, which I have commanded you, I will surely rend the kingdom from you,
and will give it to your servant. {11:12} Notwithstanding in your days I will
not do it, for David your father's sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of
your son. {11:13} Howbeit I will not rend away all the kingdom; but I will give
one tribe to your son, for David my servant's sake, and for
{O11)12} First Kings Chapter
Twelve. {12:1} And Rehoboam went to
Shechem: for all
{O11)13} First kings Chapter
Thirteen. {13:1} And, behold, there
came a man of God out of
{O11)14} First Kings Chapter
Fourteen. {14:1} At that time Abijah
the son of Jeroboam fell sick. {14:2} And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I
pray you, and disguise yourself, that you be not known to be the wife of
Jeroboam; and get you to Shiloh: behold, there is Ahijah the prophet, who spoke
concerning me that I should be king over this people. {14:3} And take with you
ten loaves, and cakes, and a cruse of honey, and go to him: he will tell you
what shall become of the child. {14:4} And Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose,
and went to
{O11)15} First Kings Chapter Fifteen. {15:1} Now in the eighteenth year of king
Jeroboam the son of Nebat began Abijam to reign over
{O11)16} First Kings Chapter
Sixteen. {16:1} And the word of Yahweh
came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying, {16:2} Forasmuch as I
exalted you out of the dust, and made you prince over my people Israel, and you
have walked in the way of Jeroboam, and have made my people Israel to sin, to
provoke me to anger with their sins; {16:3} behold, I will utterly sweep away
Baasha and his house; and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the
son of Nebat. {16:4} Him that dies of Baasha in the city shall the dogs eat;
and him that dies of his in the field shall the birds of the heavens eat. {16:5} Now the rest of the acts of Baasha,
and what he did, and his might, are they not written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of
{O11)17} First Kings Chapter
Seventeen. {17:1} And Elijah the
Tishbite, who was of the aliens of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As Yahweh, the God
of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these
years, but according to my word. {17:2} And the word of Yahweh came unto him,
saying, {17:3} Get you from here, and turn you eastward, and hide yourself by
the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan. {17:4} And it shall be, that you
shall drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.
{17:5} So he went and did according unto the word of Yahweh; for he went and
dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before the
{O11)18} First Kings Chapter Eighteen. {18:1} And it came to pass after many days,
that the word of Yahweh came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, Go, show
yourself unto Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth. {18:2} And Elijah went
to show himself unto Ahab. And the famine was sore in
{O11)19} First Kings Chapter
Nineteen. {19:1} And Ahab told Jezebel
all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the
sword. {19:2} Then Jezebel send a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the
gods do to me, and more also, if I make not your life as the life of one of
them by to-morrow about this time. {19:3} And when he saw that, he arose, and
went for his life, and came to Beer-sheba, which belongs to
{O11)20} First Kings Chapter Chapter Twenty. {20:1} And Ben-hadad the king of
{O11)21} First Kings Chapter
Twenty One. {21:1} And it came to pass
after these things, that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in
Jezreel, hard by the palace of Ahab king of Samaria. {21:2} And Ahab spoke unto
Naboth, saying, Give me your vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of
herbs, because it is near unto my house; and I will give you for it a better
vineyard than it: or, if it seem good to you, I will give you the worth of it
in money. {21:3} And Naboth said to Ahab, Yahweh forbid it me, that I should
give the inheritance of my fathers unto you. {21:4} And Ahab came into his
house heavy and displeased because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had
spoken to him; for he had said, I will not give you the inheritance of my
fathers. And he laid him down upon his bed, and turned away his face, and would
eat no bread. {21:5} But Jezebel his
wife came to him, and said unto him, Why is your spirit so sad, that you eat no
bread? {21:6} And he said unto her, Because I spoke unto Naboth the Jezreelite,
and said unto him, Give me your vineyard for money; or else, if it please you,
I will give you [another] vineyard for it: and he answered, I will not give you
my vineyard. {21:7} And Jezebel his wife said unto him, Do you now govern the
{O11)22} First Kings Chapter
Two. {22:1} And they continued three
years with out war between
{O12)1} Second Kings Chapter
One. {1:1} And Moab rebelled against
{O12)2} Second Kings Chapter
two. {2:1} And it came to pass, when Yahweh
would take up Elijah by a whirlwind into heaven, that Elijah went with Elisha
from Gilgal. {2:2} And Elijah said unto Elisha, Tarry here, I pray you; for Yahweh
has sent me as far as Beth-el. And Elisha said, As Yahweh lives, and as your
soul lives, I will not leave you. So they went down to Beth-el. {2:3} And the
sons of the prophets that were at Beth-el came forth to Elisha, and said unto
him, You know that Yahweh will take away your master from your head to-day? And
he said, Behold, I know it; hold you your peace. {2:4} And Elijah said unto
him, Elisha, tarry here, I pray you; for Yahweh has sent me to
{O12)3} Second Kings Chapter
Three. {3:1} Now Jehoram the son of
Ahab began to reign over
{O12)4} Second Kings Chapter
Four. {4:1} Now there cried a certain
woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Your
servant my husband is dead; and you know that your servant did fear Yahweh: and
the creditor is come to take unto him my two children to be bondmen. {4:2} And
Elisha said unto her, What shall I do for you? tell me; what have you in the
house? And she said, Your handmaid has not anything in the house, save a pot of
oil. {4:3} Then he said, Go, borrow you vessels abroad of all your neighbors,
even empty vessels; borrow not a few. {4:4} And you shall go in, and shut the
door upon you and upon your sons, and pour out into all those vessels; and you
shall set aside that which is full. {4:5} So she went from him, and shut the
door upon her and upon her sons; they brought [the vessels] to her, and she
poured out. {4:6} And it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that she
said unto her son, Bring me yet a vessel. And he said unto her, There is not a
vessel more. And the oil stayed. {4:7} Then she came and told the man of God.
And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt, and live you and your sons of
the rest. {4:8} And it fell on a day,
that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him
to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in there to
eat bread. {4:9} And she said unto her husband, Behold now, I perceive that
this is a holy man of God, that passes by us continually. {4:10} Let us make, I
pray you, a little chamber on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and
a table, and a seat, and a candlestick: and it shall be, when he comes to us,
that he shall turn in there. {4:11} And it fell on a day, that he came there,
and he turned into the chamber and lay there. {4:12} And he said to Gehazi his
servant, Call this Shunammite. And when he had called her, she stood before
him. {4:13} And he said unto him, Say now unto her, Behold, you have been
careful for us with all this care; what is to be done for you? would you be
spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the host? And she answered, I
dwell among mine own people. {4:14} And he said, What then is to be done for
her? And Gehazi answered, Verily she has no son, and her husband is old. {4:15}
And he said, Call her. And when he had called her, she stood in the door.
{4:16} And he said, At this season, when the time comes round, you shall
embrace a son. And she said, No, my lord, you man of God, do not lie unto your
handmaid. {4:17} And the woman
conceived, and bare a son at that season, when the time came round, as Elisha
had said unto her. {4:18} And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that
he went out to his father to the reapers. {4:19} And he said unto his father,
My head, my head. And he said to his servant, Carry him to his mother. {4:20}
And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees
till noon, and then died. {4:21} And she went up and laid him on the bed of the
man of God, and shut [the door] upon him, and went out. {4:22} And she called
unto her husband, and said, Send me, I pray you, one of the servants, and one
of the asses, that I may run to the man of God, and come again. {4:23} And he
said, Therefore will you go to him to-day? it is neither new moon nor Sabbath.
And she said, It shall be well. {4:24} Then she saddled an ass, and said to her
servant, Drive, and go forward; slacken me not the riding, except I bid you.
{4:25} So she went, and came unto the man of God to mount Carmel. And it came to pass, when the man of God
saw her afar off, that he said to Gehazi his servant, Behold, yonder is the
Shunammite: {4:26} run, I pray you, now to meet her, and say unto her, Is it
well with you? is it well with your husband? is it well with the child? And she
answered, It is well. {4:27} And when she came to the man of God to the hill,
she caught hold of his feet. And Gehazi came near to thrust her away; but the
man of God said, Let her alone: for her soul is vexed within her; and Yahweh
has hid it from me, and has not told me. {4:28} Then she said, Did I desire a
son of my lord? did I not say, Do not deceive me? {4:29} Then he said to
Gehazi, Gird up your loins, and take my staff in your hand, and go your way: if
you meet any man, salute him not; and if any salute you, answer him not again:
and lay my staff upon the face of the child. {4:30} And the mother of the child
said, As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you. And he
arose, and followed her. {4:31} And Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the
staff upon the face of the child; but there was neither voice, nor hearing.
Therefore he returned to meet him, and told him, saying, The child is not
awaked. {4:32} And when Elisha was
come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid upon his bed. {4:33}
He went in therefore, and shut the door upon them twain, and prayed unto Yahweh.
{4:34} And he went up, and lay upon the child, and put his mouth upon his
mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands: and he
stretched himself upon him; and the flesh of the child waxed warm. {4:35} Then
he returned, and walked in the house once to and fro; and went up, and
stretched himself upon him: and the child sneezed seven times, and the child
opened his eyes. {4:36} And he called Gehazi, and said, Call this Shunammite.
So he called her. And when she was come in unto him, he said, Take up your son.
{4:37} Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the ground;
and she took up her son, and went out.
{4:38} And Elisha came again to Gilgal. And there was a dearth in the
land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said unto
his servant, Set on the great pot, and boil pottage for the sons of the
prophets. {4:39} And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a
wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred
them into the pot of pottage; for they knew them not. {4:40} So they poured out
for the men to eat. And it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage,
that they cried out, and said, O man of God, there is death in the pot. And
they could not eat thereof. {4:41} But he said, Then bring meal. And he cast it
into the pot; and he said, Pour out for the people, that they may eat. And
there was no harm in the pot. {4:42}
And there came a man from Baal-shalishah, and brought the man of God bread of
the first-fruits, twenty loaves of barley, and fresh ears of grain in his sack.
And he said, Give unto the people, that they may eat. {4:43} And his servant said,
What, should I set this before a hundred men? But he said, Give the people,
that they may eat; for thus said Yahweh, They shall eat, and shall leave
thereof. {4:44} So he set it before them, and they did eat, and left thereof,
according to the word of Yahweh.
{O12)5} Second Kings Chapter
Five. {5:1} Now Naaman, captain of the
host of the king of
{O12)6} Second Kings Chapter
Six. {6:1} And the sons of the
prophets said unto Elisha, Behold now, the place where we dwell before you is
too strait for us. {6:2} Let us go, we pray you, unto the Jordan, and take
there every man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell.
And he answered, Go you. {6:3} And one said, Be pleased, I pray you, to go with
your servants. And he answered, I will go. {6:4} So he went with them. And when
they came to the
{O12)7} Second Kings Chapter
Seven. {7:1} And Elisha said, Hear you
the word of Yahweh: thus said Yahweh, To-morrow about this time shall a measure
of fine flour be [sold] for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel,
in the gate of
{O12)8} Second Kings Chapter
Eight. {8:1} Now Elisha had spoken
unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go you
and your household, and sojourn where so ever you Can sojourn: for Yahweh has
called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land seven years. {8:2}
And the woman arose, and did according to the word of the man of God; and she
went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven
years. {8:3} And it came to pass at the seven years' end, that the woman
returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth to cry unto the
king for her house and for her land. {8:4} Now the king was talking with Gehazi
the servant of the man of God, saying, Tell me, I pray you, all the great
things that Elisha has done. {8:5} And it came to pass, as he was telling the
king how he had restored to life him that was dead, that, behold, the woman,
whose son he had restored to life, cried to the king for her house and for her
land. And Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son,
whom Elisha restored to life. {8:6} And when the king asked the woman, she told
him. So the king appointed unto her a certain officer, saying, Restore all that
was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land,
even until now. {8:7} And Elisha came
to
{O12)9} Second Kings Chapter
Nine. {9:1} And Elisha the prophet
called one of the sons of the prophets, and said unto him, Gird up your loins,
and take this vial of oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth-gilead. {9:2} And when
you come there, look out there Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi,
and go in, and make him arise up from among his brethren, and carry him to an
inner chamber. {9:3} Then take the vial of oil, and pour it on his head, and
say, Thus said Yahweh, I have anointed you king over
{O12)10} Second Kings Chapter
Ten. {10:1} Now Ahab had seventy sons
in
{O12)11} Second Kings Chapter
Eleven. {11:1} Now when Athaliah the
mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the
seed royal. {11:2} But Jehoshaphat, the daughter of king Joram, sister of
Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the
king's sons that were slain, even him and his nurse, [and put them] in the
bedchamber; and they hid him from Athaliah, so that he was not slain; {11:3}
And he was with her hid in the house of Yahweh six years. And Athaliah reigned
over the land. {11:4} And in the
seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the captains over hundreds of the
Caritas and of the guard, and brought them to him into the house of Yahweh; and
he made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of Yahweh,
and showed them the king's son. {11:5} And he commanded them, saying, This is
the thing that you shall do: a third part of you, that come in on the Sabbath,
shall be keepers of the watch of the king's house; {11:6} And a third part
shall be at the gate Sure; and a third part at the gate behind the guard: so
shall you keep the watch of the house, and be a barrier. {11:7} And the two
companies of you, even all that go forth on the Sabbath, shall keep the watch
of the house of Yahweh about the king. {11:8} And you shall compass the king
round about, every man with his weapons in his hand; and he that comes within
the ranks, let him be slain: and be you with the king when he goes out, and
when he comes in. {11:9} And the
captains over hundreds did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded;
and they took every man his men, those that were to come in on the Sabbath,
with those that were to go out on the Sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.
{11:10} And the priest delivered to the captains over hundreds the spears and
shields that had been king David's, which were in the house of Yahweh. {11:11}
And the guard stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, from the right
side of the house to the left side of the house, along by the altar and the
house, by the king round about. {11:12} Then he brought out the king's son, and
put the crown upon him, and [gave him] the testimony; and they made him king,
and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, [Long] live the
king. {11:13} And when Athaliah heard
the noise of the guard [and of] the people, she came to the people into the
house of Yahweh: {11:14} and she looked, and, behold, the king stood by the
pillar, as the manner was, and the captains and the trumpets by the king; and
all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew trumpets. Then Athaliah rent her
clothes, and cried, Treason! treason! {11:15} And Jehoiada the priest commanded
the captains of hundreds that were set over the host, and said unto them, Have
her forth between the ranks; and him that follows her slay with the sword. For
the priest said, Let her not be slain in the house of Yahweh. {11:16} So they
made way for her; and she went by the way of the horses' entry to the king's
house: and there she was slain.
{11:17} And Jehoiada made a covenant between Yahweh and the king and the
people, that they should be Yahweh's people; between the king also and the
people. {11:18} And all the people of the land went to the house of Baal, and
brake it down; his altars and his images brake they in pieces thoroughly, and
slew Matthan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed officers
over the house of Yahweh. {11:19} And he took the captains over hundreds, and
the Caritas, and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought
down the king from the house of Yahweh, and came by the way of the gate of the
guard unto the king's house. And he sat on the throne of the kings. {11:20} So
all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet. And Athaliah they
had slain with the sword at the king's house. {11:21} Jehoash was seven years
old when he began to reign.
{O12)12} Second Kings Chapter
Twelve. {12:1} In the seventh year of
Jehu began Jehoash to reign; and he reigned forty years in
{O12)13} Second Kings Chapter
Thirteen. {13:1} In the three and
twentieth year of Joash the son of Ahaziah, king of Judah, Jehoahaz the son of
Jehu began to reign over
{O12)14} Second Kings Chapter
Fourteen. {14:1} In the second year of
Joash son of Joahaz king of
{O12)15} Second Kings Chapter
Fifteen. {15:1} In the twenty and seventh
year of Jeroboam king of
{O12)16} Second Kings Chapter
Sixteen. {16:1} In the seventeenth
year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of
{O12)17} Second Kings Chapter
Seventeen. {17:1} In the twelfth year
of Ahaz king of
{O12)18} Second Kings Chapter
Eighteen. {18:1} Now it came to pass
in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of
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Nineteen. {19:1} And it came to pass,
when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with
sackcloth, and went into the house of Yahweh. {19:2} And he sent Eliakim, who
was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests,
covered with sackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz. {19:3} And
they said unto him, Thus say Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of
rebuke, and of contumely; for the children are come to the birth, and there is
not strength to bring forth. {19:4} It may be Yahweh your God will hear all the
words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the
living God, and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard:
Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left. {19:5} So the
servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah. {19:6} And Isaiah said unto them,
Thus shall you say to your master, Thus say Yahweh, Be not afraid of the words
that you have heard, wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have
blasphemed me. {19:7} Behold, I will put a spirit in him, and he shall hear
tidings, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the
sword in his own land. {19:8} So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of
Assyria warring against Libnah; for he had heard that he was departed from
{O12)20} Second Kings Chapter Twenty. {20:1} In those days was Hezekiah sick unto
death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him,
Thus say Yahweh, Set your house in order: for you shall die, and not live.
{20:2} Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto Yahweh, saying,
{20:3} Remember now, O Yahweh, I ask you, how I have walked before you in truth
and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight. And
Hezekiah wept sore. {20:4} And it came to pass, before Isaiah was gone out into
the middle part of the city, that the word of Yahweh came to him, saying,
{20:5} Turn back, and say to Hezekiah the prince of my people, Thus say Yahweh,
the God of David your father, I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears:
behold, I will heal you; on the third day you shall go up unto the house of Yahweh.
{20:6} And I will add unto your days fifteen years; and I will deliver you and
this city out of the hand of the king of
{O12)21} Second Kings Chapter
Twenty One. {21:1} Manasseh was twelve
years old when he began to reign; and he reigned five and fifty years in
{O12)22} Second Kings Chapter
TwentyTwo. {22:1} Josiah was eight
years old when he began to reign; and he reigned thirty and one years in
{O12)23} Second Kings Chapter
Twenty Three. {23:1} And the king
sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of
{O12)24} Second Kings Chapter
Twenty Four. {24:1} In his days
Nebuchadnezzar king of
{O12)25} Second Kings Chapter
TwentyFive. {25:1} And it came to pass
in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth moon, in the tenth day of the
moon, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against
Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it round
about. {25:2} So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
{25:3} On the ninth day of the [fourth] moon the famine was sore in the city,
so that there was no bread for the people of the land. {25:4} Then a breach was
made in the city, and all the men of war [fled] by night by the way of the gate
between the two walls, which was by the king's garden (now the Chaldeans were
against the city round about); and [the king] went by the way of the Arabah.
{25:5} But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook him
in the plains of
{O13)1} First Chronicles Chapter
One. {1:1} Adam, Seth, Enosh, {1:2}
Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared, {1:3} Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, {1:4} Noah, Shem,
Ham, and Japheth. {1:5} The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog,
and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras. {1:6} And the sons of
Gomer: Ashkenaz, and Diphas, and Togarmah. {1:7} And the sons of Javan:
Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.
{1:8} The sons of Ham:
{o13)2} First Chronicles Chapter
two. {2:1} These are the sons of
{O13)3} First Chronicles Chapter
Three. {3:1} Now these were the sons
of David, that were born unto him in Hebron: the first-born, Amnon, of Ahinoam
the Jezreelitess; the second, Daniel, of Abigail the Carmelitess; {3:2} the
third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur; the
fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith; {3:3} the fifth, Shephatiah of Abital; the
sixth, Ithream by Eglah his wife: {3:4} six were born unto him in Hebron; and
there he reigned seven years and six moons. And in
{O13)4} First Chronicles Chapter
Four. {4:1} The sons of
{O13)5} First Chronicles Chapter Five.
{5:1} And the sons of Reuben the first-born of Israel (for he was the
first-born; but, forasmuch as he defiled his father's couch, his birthright was
given unto the sons of Joseph the son of Israel; and the genealogy is not to be
reckoned after the birthright. {5:2} For
{O13)6} First Chronicles Chapter
Chapter Six. {6:1} The sons of Levi:
Gershon, Kohas, and Merari. {6:2} And the sons of Kohas: Amram, Izhar, and
{O13)7} First Chronicles Chapter
Chapter Seven {7:1} And of the sons of
Issachar: Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four. {7:2} And the sons of
Tola: Uzi, and Rephaiah, and Jezreel, and Jahdai, and Mibsam, and Shemuel,
heads of their fathers' houses, [to wit], of Tola; mighty men of valor in their
generations: their number in the days of David was two and twenty thousand and
six hundred. {7:3} And the sons of Uzi: Isaiah. And the sons of Isaiah:
Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Isaiah, five; all of them chief men. {7:4} And
with them, by their generations, after their fathers' houses, were bands of the
host for war, six and thirty thousand; for they had many wives and sons. {7:5}
And their brethren among all the families of Issachar, mighty men of valor,
reckoned in all by genealogy, were fourscore and seven thousand. {7:6} [The sons of] Benjamin: Bela, and
Becher, and Jedaiah, three. {7:7} And the sons of Bela: Ezbon, and Uzi, and
Uzziel, and Jerioth, and Iris, five; heads of fathers' houses, mighty men of
valor; and they were reckoned by genealogy twenty and two thousand and thirty
and four. {7:8} And the sons of Becher: Seirah, and Joash, and Eliezer, and
Elioenai, and Omri, and Jerioth, and Abijah, and Anathoth, and Clemet. All
these were the sons of Becher. {7:9} And they were reckoned by genealogy, after
their generations, heads of their fathers' houses, mighty men of valor, twenty
thousand and two hundred. {7:10} And the sons of Jedaiah: Bilhan. And the sons
of Bilhan: Jeush, and Benjamin, and Ehud, and Chenaanah, and Ethan, and
Tarshish, and Ahishahar. {7:11} All these were sons of Jediael, according to
the heads of their fathers' [houses], mighty men of valor, seventeen thousand
and two hundred, that were able to go forth in the host for war. {7:12} Shuppim
also, and Huppim, the sons of Ir, Hushim, the sons of Aher. {7:13} The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, and
Guni, and Jezer, and shallum, the sons of Bilhah. {7:14} The sons of Manasseh: Asriel, whom
his concubine the Aramitess bare: she bare Machir the father of
{O13)8} First Chronicles Chapter
Chapter Eight. {8:1} And Benjamin
begot Bela his first-born, Ashbel the second, and Aharah the third, {8:2} Nohah
the fourth, and Rapha the fifth. {8:3} And Bela had sons: Addar, and
{O13)9} First Chronicles Chapter Chapter Nine. {9:1} So all
{O13)10] First Chronicles Chapter
Ten. {10:1} Now the Philistines fought
against
{O13)11} First Chronicles Chapter
Eleven. {11:1} Then all
{O13)12} First Chronicles Chapter
Twelve. {12:1} Now these are they that
came to David to Ziklag, while he yet kept himself close because of Saul the
son of
{O13)13} First Chronicles Chapter
Thirteen. {13:1} And David consulted
[to hold Ekkesia] with the captains of thousands and of hundreds, even with
every leader. {13:2} And David said unto all the Ekklesia of Israel, If it seem
good unto you, and if it be of Yahweh our God, let us send abroad every where
unto our brethren that are left in all the land of Israel, with whom the
priests and Levites are in their cities that have suburbs, that they may gather
themselves unto us; {13:3} and let us bring again the ark of our God to us: for
we sought not unto it in the days of Saul. {13:4} And all the Ekklesia said
that they would do so; for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people.
{13:5} So David assembled all
{O13)14} First Chronicles Chapter
Fourteen. {14:1} And Hiram king of
{O13)15} First Chronicles Chapter
Fifteen. {15:1} And [David] made him
houses in the city of
{O13)16} First Chronicles Chapter
Sixteen. {16:1} And they brought in
the ark of God, and set it in the midst of the tent that David had pitched for
it: and they offered burnt-offerings and peace-offerings before God. {16:2} And
when David had made an end of offering the burnt-offering and the
peace-offerings, he blessed the people in the name of Yahweh. {16:3} And he
dealt to every one of
{O13)17} First Chronicles Chapter
Seventeen. {17:1} And it came to pass,
when David dwelt in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Lo, I
dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of Yahweh [dwells] under
curtains. {17:2} And Nathan said unto David, Do all that is in your heart; for
God is with you. {17:3} And it came to pass the same night, that the word of
God came to Nathan, saying, {17:4} Go and tell David my servant, Thus said Yahweh,
you shall not build me a house to dwell in: {17:5} for I have not dwelt in a
house since the day that I brought up Israel, unto this day, but have gone from
tent to tent, and from [one] tabernacle [to another]. {17:6} In all places
wherein I have walked with all Israel, spoke I a word with any of the judges of
Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people, saying, Why have you not
built me a house of cedar? {17:7} Now therefore thus shall you say unto my
servant David, Thus said Yahweh of hosts, I took you from the sheepcote, from
following the sheep, that you should be prince over my people Israel: {17:8}
and I have been with you where ever you have gone, and have cut off all your
enemies from before you; and I will make you a name, like unto the name of the
great ones that are in the earth. {17:9} And I will appoint a place for my
people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and
be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more,
as at the first, {17:10} and [as] from the day that I commanded judges to be
over my people Israel; and I will subdue all your enemies. Furthermore I tell
you that Yahweh will build you a house. {17:11} And it shall come to pass, when
your days are fulfilled that you must go to be with your fathers, that I will
set up your seed after you, who shall be of your sons; and I will establish his
kingdom. {17:12} He shall build me a house, and I will establish his throne for
ever. {17:13} I will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not take
my loving kindness away from him, as I took it from him that was before you;
{17:14} but I will settle him in my house and in my kingdom for ever; and his
throne shall be established for ever. {17:15} According to all these words, and
according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David.
{17:16} Then David the king went in, and
sat before Yahweh; and he said, Who am I, O The God Yahweh, and what is my
house, that you have brought me thus far? {17:17} And this was a small thing in
your eyes, O God; but you have spoken of your servant's house for a great while
to come, and have regarded me according to the estate of a man of high degree,
O The God Yahweh. {17:18} What can David [say] yet more unto you concerning the
honor which is done to your servant? for you know your servant. {17:19} O Yahweh,
for your servant's sake, and according to your own heart, have you wrought all
this greatness, to make known all [these] great things. {17:20} O Yahweh, there
is none like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that
we have heard with our ears. {17:21} And what one nation in the earth is like
your people Israel, whom God went to redeem unto himself for a people, to make
you a name by great and terrible things, in driving out nations from before
your people, whom you redeemed out of Egypt? {17:22} For your people
{O13)18} First Chronicles Chapter
Eighteen. {18:1} And after this it came
to pass, that David smote the Philistines, and subdued them, and took Goth and
its towns out of the hand of the Philistines. {18:2} And he smote
{O13)19} First Chronicles Chapter
Nineteen. {19:1} And it came to pass
after this, that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon died, and his son
reigned in his stead. {19:2} And David said, I will show kindness unto Hanun
the son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me. So David sent
messengers to comfort him concerning his father. And David's servants came into
the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort him. {19:3} But the
princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, you think that David does honor
your father, in that he has sent comforters unto you? are not his servants come
unto you to search, and to overthrow, and to spy out the land? {19:4} So Hanun
took David's servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the
middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away. {19:5} Then there went
certain persons, and told David how the men were served. And he sent to meet
them; for the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said, Tarry at
{O13)20} First Chronicles Chapter
Twenty. {20:1} And it came to pass, at
the time of the return of the year, at the time when kings go out [to battle],
that Joab led forth the army, and wasted the country of the children of Ammon,
and came and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried at
{O13)21} First Chronicles Chapter
Twenty One. {21:1} And Satan stood up
against
{O13)22} First Chronicles Chapter
TwentyTwo. {22:1} Then David said,
This is the house of The God Yahweh, and this is the altar of burnt-offering
for
{O13)23} First Chronicles Chapter
Twenty Three. {23:1} Now David was old
and full of days; and he made Solomon his son king over
{23:21} The sons of Merari: Mahli and
Mushi. The sons of Mahli: Eleazar and
{O13)24} First Chronicles Chapter
TwnetyFour. {24:1} And the courses of
the sons of Aaron [were these]. The sons of Aaron: Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and
Ithamar. {24:2} But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no
children: therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priest's office. {24:3}
And David with Zadok of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sons of
Ithamar, divided them according to their ordering in their service. {24:4} And
there were more chief men found of the sons of Eleazar than of the sons of
Ithamar; and [thus] were they divided: of the sons of Eleazar there were
sixteen, heads of fathers' houses; and of the sons of Ithamar, according to
their fathers' houses, eight. {24:5} Thus were they divided by lot, one sort
with another; for there were princes of the sanctuary, and princes of God, both
of the sons of Eleazar, and of the sons of Ithamar. {24:6} And Shemaiah the son
of Nethanel the scribe, who was of the Levites, wrote them in the presence of
the king, and the princes, and Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech the son of
Abiathar, and the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the priests and of the
Levites; one fathers' house being taken for Eleazar, and one taken for Ithamar.
{24:7} Now the first lot came forth to
Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah, {24:8} the third to Harim, the fourth to
Seorim, {24:9} the fifth to Malchijah, the sixth to Mijamin, {24:10} the
seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah, {24:11} the ninth to Jeshua, the tenth
to Shecaniah, {24:12} the eleventh to Eliashib, the twelfth to Jakim, {24:13}
the thirteenth to Huppah, the fourteenth to Jeshebeab, {24:14} the fifteenth to
Bilgah, the sixteenth to Immer, {24:15} the seventeenth to Hezir, the
eighteenth to Happizzez, {24:16} the nineteenth to Pethahiah, the twentisetsto
Jehezkel, {24:17} the one and twentisetsto Jachin, the two and twentisetsto
Gamul, {24:18} the three and twentisetsto Delaiah, the four and twentisetsto
Maaziah. {24:19} This was the ordering of them in their service, to come into
the house of Yahweh according to the ordinance [given] unto them by Aaron their
father, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, had commanded him. {24:20} And of the rest of the sons of
Levi: of the sons of Amram, Shubael; of the sons of Shubael, Jehdeiah. {24:21}
Of Rehabiah: of the sons of Rehabiah, Isshiah the chief. {24:22} Of the
Izharites, Shelomoth; of the sons of Shelomoth, Jahas. {24:23} And the sons [of
{O13)25} First Chronicles Chapter
TwentyFive. {25:1} Furthermore David
and the captains of the host set apart for the service certain of the sons of
Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, with
psalteries, and with cymbals: and the number of them that did the work
according to their service was: {25:2} of the sons of Asaph: Zaccur, and
Joseph, and Nethaniah, and Asharelah, the sons of Asaph, under the hand of
Asaph, who prophesied after the order of the king. {25:3} Of Jeduthun; the sons
of Jeduthun: Gedaliah, and Zeri, and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six,
under the hands of their father Jeduthun with the harp, who prophesied in
giving thanks and praising Yahweh. {25:4} Of Heman; the sons of Heman: Bukkiah,
Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel, and Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti,
and Romamti-ezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, Mahazioth. {25:5} All these
were the sons of Heman the king's seer in the words of God, to lift up the
horn. And God gave to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters. {25:6} All these
were under the hands of their father for song in the house of Yahweh, with
cymbals, psalteries, and harps, for the service of the house of God; Asaph,
Jeduthun, and Heman being under the order of the king. {25:7} And the number of
them, with their brethren that were instructed in singing unto Yahweh, even all
that were skilful, was two hundred fourscore and eight. {25:8} And they cast
lots for their offices, all alike, as well the small as the great, the teacher
as the scholar. {25:9} Now the first
lot came forth for Asaph to Joseph: the second to Gedaliah; he and his brethren
and sons were twelve: {25:10} the third to Zaccur, his sons and his brethren,
twelve: {25:11} the fourth to Izri, his sons and his brethren, twelve: {25:12}
the fifth to Nethaniah, his sons and his brethren, twelve: {25:13} the sixth to
Bukkiah, his sons and his brethren, twelve: {25:14} the seventh to Jesharelah,
his sons and his brethren, twelve: {25:15} the eighth to Jeshaiah, his sons and
his brethren, twelve: {25:16} the ninth to Mattaniah, his sons and his
brethren, twelve: {25:17} the tenth to Shimei, his sons and his brethren,
twelve: {25:18} the eleventh to Azarel, his sons and his brethren, twelve:
{25:19} the twelfth to Hashabiah, his sons and his brethren, twelve: {25:20}
for the thirteenth, Shubael, his sons and his brethren, twelve: {25:21} for the
fourteenth, Mattithiah, his sons and his brethren, twelve: {25:22} for the
fifteenth to Jeremoth, his sons and his brethren, twelve: {25:23} for the
sixteenth to Hananiah, his sons and his brethren, twelve: {25:24} for the
seventeenth to Joshbekashah, his sons and his brethren, twelve: {25:25} for the
eighteenth to Hanani, his sons and his brethren, twelve: {25:26} for the
nineteenth to Mallothi, his sons and his brethren, twelve: {25:27} for the
twentisetsto Eliathah, his sons and his brethren, twelve: {25:28} for the one
and twentisetsto Hothir, his sons and his brethren, twelve: {25:29} for the two
and twentisetsto Giddalti, his sons and his brethren, twelve: {25:30} for the
three and twentisetsto Mahazioth, his sons and his brethren, twelve: {25:31}
for the four and twentisetsto Romamtiezer, his sons and his brethren,
twelve.
{O13)26} First Chronicles Chapter
Twenty Six. {26:1} For the courses of
the doorkeepers: of the Korahites, Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of
Asaph. {26:2} And Meshelemiah had sons: Zechariah the first-born, Jediael the
second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth, {26:3} Elam the fifth,
Jehohanan the sixth, Eliehoenai the seventh. {26:4} And Obed-edom had sons:
Shemaiah the first-born, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, and Sacar the
fourth, and Nethanel the fifth, {26:5} Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh,
Peullethai the eighth; for God blessed him. {26:6} Also unto Shemaiah his son
were sons born, that ruled over the house of their father; for they were mighty
men of valor. {26:7} The sons of Shemaiah: Othni, and Rephael, and Obed,
Elzabad, whose brethren were valiant men, Elihu, and Semachiah. {26:8} All
these were of the sons of Obed-edom: they and their sons and their brethren,
able men in strength for the service; threescore and two of Obed-edom. {26:9}
And Meshelemiah had sons and brethren, valiant men, eighteen. {26:10} Also
Hosah, of the children of Merari, had sons: Shimri the chief, (for though he
was not the first-born, yet his father made him chief), {26:11} Hilkiah the
second, Tebaliah the third, Zechariah the fourth: all the sons and brethren of
Hosah were thirteen. {26:12} Of these
were the courses of the doorkeepers, even of the chief men, having offices like
their brethren, to minister in the house of Yahweh. {26:13} And they cast lots,
as well the small as the great, according to their fathers' houses, for every
gate. {26:14} And the lot eastward fell to Shelemiah. Then for Zechariah his
son, a discreet counselor, they cast lots; and his lot came out northward.
{26:15} To Obed-edom southward; and to his sons the store-house. {26:16} To
Shuppim and Hosah westward, by the gate of shallecheth, at the causeway that
goes up, watch against watch. {26:17} Eastward were six Levites, northward four
a day, southward four a day, and for the store-house two and two. {26:18} For
Parbar westward, four at the causeway, and two at Parbar. {26:19} These were
the courses of the doorkeepers; of the sons of the Korahites, and of the sons
of Merari. {26:20} And of the
Levites, Ahijah was over the treasures of the house of God, and over the
treasures of the dedicated things. {26:21} The sons of Ladan, the sons of the
Gershonites belonging to Ladan, the heads of the fathers' [houses] belonging to
Ladan the Gershonite: Jehieli. {26:22} The sons of Jehieli: Zetham, and Joel
his brother, over the treasures of the house of Yahweh. {26:23} Of the
Amramites, of the Izharites, of the Hebronites, of the Uzzielites: {26:24} and
Shebuel the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, was ruler over the treasures. {26:25}
And his brethren: of Eliezer [came] Rehabiah his son, and Jeshaiah his son, and
Joram his son, and Zichri his son, and Shelomoth his son. {26:26} This
Shelomoth and his brethren were over all the treasures of the dedicated things,
which David the king, and the heads of the fathers' [houses], the captains over
thousands and hundreds, and the captains of the host, had dedicated. {26:27}
Out of the spoil won in battles did they dedicate to repair the house of Yahweh.
{26:28} And all that Samuel the seer, and Saul the son of
{O13)27} First Chronicles Chapter
TwentySeven. {27:1} Now the children of
Israel after their number, [to wit], the heads of fathers' [houses] and the
captains of thousands and of hundreds, and their officers that served the king,
in any matter of the courses which came in and went out moon by moon throughout
all the moons of the year-of every course were twenty and four thousand. {27:2}
Over the first cycle for the first moon [Abib] was Jashobeam the son of
Zabdiel: and in his course were twenty and four thousand. {27:3} [He was] of
the children of Perez, the chief of all the captains of the host for the first
moon. {27:4} And over the course of the second moon was Dodai the Ahohite, and
his course; and Mikloth the ruler: and in his course were twenty and four
thousand. {27:5} The third captain of the host for the third moon was Benaiah,
the son of Jehoiada the priest, chief: and in his course were twenty and four
thousand. {27:6} This is that Benaiah, who was the mighty man of the thirty,
and over the thirty: and [of] his course was Ammizabad his son. {27:7} The
fourth [captain] for the fourth moon was Asahel the brother of Joab, and
Zebadiah his son after him: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.
{27:8} The fifth captain for this fifth moon was Shamhuth the Izrahite: and in
his course were twenty and four thousand. {27:9} The sixth [captain] for the
sixth moon was Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite: and in his course were twenty
and four thousand. {27:10} The seventh [captain] for the seventh moon was Helez
the Pelonite, of the children of Ephraim: and in his course were twenty and
four thousand. {27:11} The eighth [captain] for the eighth moon was Sibbecai
the Hushasite, of the Zerahites: and in his course were twenty and four
thousand. {27:12} The ninth [captain] for the ninth moon was Abiezer the
Anathothite, of the Benjamites: and in his course were twenty and four
thousand. {27:13} The tenth [captain] for the tenth moon was Maharai the Netophasite,
of the Zerahites: and in his course were twenty and four thousand. {27:14} The
eleventh [captain] for the eleventh moon was Benaiah the Pirathonite, of the
children of Ephraim: and in his course were twenty and four thousand. {27:15}
The twelfth [captain] for the twelfth moon was Heldai the Netophasite, of
Othniel: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.
{27:16} Furthermore over the tribes of
Israel: of the Reubenites was Eliezer the son of Zichri the ruler: of the
Simeonites, Shephatiah the son of Maacah: {27:17} of Levi, Hashabiah the son of
Kemuel: of Aaron, Zadok: {27:18} of Judah, Elihu, one of the brethren of David:
of Issachar, Omri the son of Michael: {27:19} of Zebulun, Ishmaiah the son of
Obadiah: of Naphtali, Jeremoth the son of Azriel: {27:20} of the children of
Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Azaziah: of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Joel the son
of Pedaiah: {27:21} of the half -[tribe] of Manasseh in Gilead, Iddo the son of
Zechariah: of Benjamin, Jaasiel the son of Abner: {27:22} of Dan, Azarel the
son of Jeroham. These were the captains of the tribes of
{O13)28} First Chronicles Chapter
Twenty Eight. {28:1} And David
assembled all the princes of Israel, the princes of the tribes, and the
captains of the companies that served the king by course, and the captains of
thousands, and the captains of hundreds, and the rulers over all the substance
and possessions of the king and of his sons, with the officers, and the mighty
men, even all the mighty men of valor, unto Jerusalem. {28:2} Then David the
king stood up upon his feet, and said, Hear me, my brethren, and my people: as
for me, it was in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant
of Yahweh, and for the footstool of our God; and I had made ready for the
building. {28:3} But God said unto me, you shall not build a house for my name,
because you are a man of war, and have shed blood. {28:4} Howbeit Yahweh, the
God of Israel, chose me out of all the house of my father to be king over
Israel for ever: for he has chosen Judah to be prince; and in the house of
Judah, the house of my father; and among the sons of my father he took pleasure
in me to make me king over all Israel; {28:5} And of all my sons (for Yahweh
has given me many sons), he has chosen Solomon my son to sit upon the throne of
the kingdom of Yahweh over Israel. {28:6} And he said unto me, Solomon your
son, he shall build my house and my courts; for I have chosen him to be my son,
and I will be his father. {28:7} And I will establish his kingdom for ever, if
he be constant to do my commandments and mine ordinances, as at this day.
{28:8} Now therefore, in the sight of all
{28:9} And you, Solomon my son, know you the God of your father, and
serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all
hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts: if you seek him,
he will be found of you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off for ever.
{28:10} Take heed now; for Yahweh has chosen you to build a house for the
sanctuary: be strong, and do it.
{28:11} Then David gave to Solomon his son the pattern of the porch [of
the temple], and of the houses there, and of the treasuries there, and of the
upper rooms there, and of the inner chambers there, and of the place of the
mercy-seat; {28:12} and the pattern of all that he had by the Spirit, for the
courts of the house of Yahweh, and for all the chambers round about, for the
treasuries of the house of God, and for the treasuries of the dedicated things;
{28:13} also for the courses of the priests and the Levites, and for all the
work of the service of the house of Yahweh, and for all the vessels of service
in the house of Yahweh; {28:14} of gold by weight for the [vessels of] gold,
for all vessels of every kind of service; [of silver] for all the vessels of
silver by weight, for all vessels of every kind of service; {28:15} by weight
also for the candlesticks of gold, and for the lamps there, of gold, by weight
for every candlestick and for the lamps there; and for the candlesticks of
silver, [silver] by weight for [every] candlestick and for the lamps there,
according to the use of every candlestick; {28:16} and the gold by weight for
the tables of showbread, for every table; and silver for the tables of silver;
{28:17} and the flesh-hooks, and the basins, and the cups, of pure gold; and
for the golden bowls by weight for every bowl; and for the silver bowls by
weight for every bowl; {28:18} and for the altar of incense refined gold by
weight; and gold for the pattern of the chariot, [even] the cherubim, that
spread out [their wings], and covered the ark of the covenant of Yahweh.
{28:19} All this, [said David], have I been made to understand in writing from
the hand of Yahweh, even all the works of this pattern.
{28:20} And David said to Solomon his son,
Be strong and of good courage, and do it: fear not, nor be dismayed; for The
God Yahweh, even my God, is with you; he will not fail you, nor forsake you,
until all the work for the service of the house of Yahweh be finished. {28:21}
And, behold, there are the courses of the priests and the Levites, for all the
service of the house of God: and there shall be with you in all manner of work
every willing man that has skill, for any manner of service: also the captains
and all the people will be wholly at your commandment.
{O13)29} First Chronicles Chapter
Twenty Nine. {29:1} And David the king
said unto all the Ekklesia, Solomon my son, whom alone God has chosen, is yet
young and tender, and the work is great; for the palace is not for man, but for
The God Yahweh. {29:2} Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of
my God the gold for the [things of] gold, and the silver for the [things of]
silver, and the brass for the [things of] brass, the iron for the [things of]
iron, and wood for the [things of] wood; onyx stones, and [stones] to be set,
stones for inlaid work, and of divers colors, and all manner of precious
stones, and marble stones in abundance. {29:3} Furthermore also, because I have
set my affection on the house of my God, seeing that I have a treasure of mine
own of gold and silver, I give it unto the house of my God, over and above all
that I have prepared for the holy house, {29:4} even three thousand talents of
gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver,
wherewith to overlay the walls of the houses; {29:5} of gold for the [things
of] gold, and of silver for the [things of] silver, and for all manner of work
[to be made] by the hands of craftsmen who then offered willingly to consecrate
himself this day unto Yahweh?
{29:6} Then the princes of the fathers'
[houses], and the princes of the tribes of Israel, and the captains of
thousands and of hundreds, with the rulers over the king's work, offered
willingly; {29:7} and they gave for the service of the house of God of gold
five thousand talents and ten thousand drams, and of silver ten thousand
talents, and of brass eighteen thousand talents, and of iron a hundred thousand
talents. {29:8} And they with whom [precious] stones were found gave them to
the treasure of the house of Yahweh, under the hand of Jehiel the Gershonite.
{29:9} Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly, because with
a perfect heart they offered willingly to Yahweh: and David the king also
rejoiced with great joy.
{29:10} Therefore David blessed Yahweh
before all the Ekklesia; and David said, Blessed be you, O Yahweh, the God of
Israel our father, for ever and ever. {29:11} your, O Yahweh, is the greatness,
and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is
in the heavens and in the earth [is your]; your is the kingdom, O Yahweh, and
you are exalted as head above all. {29:12} Both riches and honor come of you,
and you rule over all; and in your hand is power and might; and in your hand it
is to make great, and to give strength unto all. {29:13} Now therefore, our
God, we thank you, and praise your glorious name. {29:14} But who am I, and
what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this
sort? for all things come of you, and of your own have we given you. {29:15}
For we are strangers before you, and aliens, as all our fathers were: our days
on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding. {29:16} O Yahweh our
God, all this store that we have prepared to build you a house for your holy
name comes of your hand, and is all your own. {29:17} I know also, my God, that
you test the heart, and have Agape love in uprightness. As for me, in the
uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have
I seen with joy your people, that are present here, offer willingly unto you.
{29:18} O Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers,
keep this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of your
people, and prepare their heart unto you; {29:19} and give unto Solomon my son
a perfect heart, to keep your commandments, your testimonies, and your
statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the palace, for which I have
made provision. {29:20} And David
said to all the Ekklesia, Now bless Yahweh your God. And all the Ekklesia
blessed Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and bowed down their heads, and
worshipped Yahweh, and the king. {29:21} And they sacrificed sacrifices unto Yahweh,
and offered burnt-offerings unto Yahweh, on the morrow after that day, even a
thousand bullocks, a thousand rams, and a thousand lambs, with their
drink-offerings, and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel, {29:22} and did
eat and drink before Yahweh on that day with great gladness. And they made Solomon the son of David
king the second time, and anointed him unto Yahweh to be prince, and Zadok to
be priest. {29:23} Then Solomon sat on the throne of Yahweh as king instead of
David his father, and prospered; and all
{O14)1} Second Chronicles Chapter
One. {1:1} And Solomon the son of
David was strengthened in his kingdom, and Yahweh his God was with him, and
magnified him exceedingly. {1:2}And Solomon spoke unto [the Ekklesia] all
{o14)2} Second Chronicles Chapter
two. {2:1} Now Solomon purposed to
build a house for the name of Yahweh, and a house for his kingdom. {2:2} And
Solomon counted out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and
fourscore thousand men that were hewers in the mountains, and three thousand
and six hundred to oversee them. {2:3} And Solomon sent to Huram the king of
Tyre, saying, As you did deal with David my father, and did send him cedars to
build him a house to dwell therein, [even so deal with me]. {2:4} Behold, I am
about to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God, to dedicate it to him,
and to burn before him incense of sweet spices, and for the continual
showbread, and for the burnt-offerings morning and evening, on the Sabbaths, and
on the new moons, and on the set feasts of Yahweh our God. This is [an
ordinance] for ever to
{O14)3} Second Chronicles Chapter
Three. {3:1} Then Solomon began to
build the house of Yahweh at Jerusalem on mount Moriah, where [Yahweh] appeared
unto David his father, which he made ready in the place that David had appointed,
in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite. {3:2} And he began to build in
the second [day] of the second moon, in the fourth year of his reign. {3:3} Now
these are the foundations which Solomon laid for the building of the house of
God. The length by cubits after the first measure was threescore cubits, and
the breadth twenty cubits. {3:4} And the porch that was before [the house], the
length of it, according to the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and the
height a hundred and twenty; and he overlaid it within with pure gold. {3:5}
And the greater house he ceiled with fir-wood, which he overlaid with fine
gold, and wrought thereon palm-trees and chains. {3:6} And he garnished the
house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim. {3:7}
He overlaid also the house, the beams, the thresholds, and the walls there, and
the doors there, with gold; and graved cherubim on the walls. {3:8} And he made
the most holy house: the length there, according to the breadth of the house,
was twenty cubits, and the breadth of it twenty cubits; and he overlaid it with
fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents. {3:9} And the weight of the nails
was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold. {3:10}
And in the most holy house he made two cherubim of image work; and they
overlaid them with gold. {3:11} And the wings of the cherubim were twenty
cubits long: the wing of the one [cherub] was five cubits, reaching to the wall
of the house; and the other wing was [likewise] five cubits, reaching to the
wing of the other cherub. {3:12} And the wing of the other cherub was five
cubits, reaching to the wall of the house; and the other wing was five cubits
[also], joining to the wing of the other cherub. {3:13} The wings of these
cherubim spread themselves forth twenty cubits: and they stood on their feet,
and their faces were toward the house. {3:14} And he made the veil of blue, and
purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubim thereon. {3:15} Also
he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high, and the
capital that was on the top of each of them was five cubits. {3:16} And he made
chains in the oracle, and put [them] on the tops of the pillars; and he made a
hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains. {3:17} And he set up the
pillars before the temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the left;
and called the name of that on the right hand Jachin, and the name of that on
the left Boaz.
{O14)4} Second Chronicles Chapter
Four. {4:1} Furthermore he made an
altar of brass, twenty cubits the length there, and twenty cubits the breadth
there, and ten cubits the height there. {4:2} Also he made the molten sea of
ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass; and the height of it was five
cubits; and a line of thirty cubits compassed it round about. {4:3} And under
it was the likeness of oxen, which did compass it round about, for ten cubits,
compassing the sea round about. The oxen were in two rows, cast when it was
cast. {4:4} It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and
three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three
looking toward the east: and the sea was set upon them above, and all their
hinder parts were inward. {4:5} And it was a handbreadth thick; and the brim of
it was wrought like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it received
and held three thousand baths. {4:6} He made also ten lavers, and put five on
the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them; such things as belonged
to the burnt-offering they washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to
wash in. {4:7} And he made the ten candlesticks of gold according to the
ordinance concerning them; and he set them in the temple, five on the right
hand, and five on the left. {4:8} He made also ten tables, and placed them in
the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. And he made a hundred
basins of gold. {4:9} Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the
great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with
brass. {4:10} And he set the sea on the right side [of the house] eastward,
toward the south. {4:11} And Huram made the pots, and the shovels, and the
basins. So Huram made an end of doing the work that he wrought for king Solomon
in the house of God: {4:12} the two pillars, and the bowls, and the two
capitals which were on the top of the pillars, and the two networks to cover
the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars, {4:13} and
the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks; two rows of pomegranates
for each network, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were upon the
pillars. {4:14} He made also the bases, and the lavers made he upon the bases;
{4:15} one sea, and the twelve oxen under it. {4:16} The pots also, and the
shovels, and the flesh-hooks, and all the vessels there, did Huram his father
make for king Solomon for the house of Yahweh of bright brass. {4:17} In the
plain of the
{O14)5} Second Chronicles Chapter
Five. {5:1} Thus all the work that
Solomon wrought for the house of Yahweh was finished. And Solomon brought in
the things that David his father had dedicated, even the silver, and the gold,
and all the vessels, and put them in the treasuries of the house of God. {5:2}
Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes,
the princes of the fathers' [houses] of the children of Israel, unto Jerusalem,
to bring up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh out of the city of David, which
is Zion. {5:3} And all the men of
{O14)6} Second Chronicles Chapter
Six. {6:1} Then spoke Solomon, Yahweh
has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness. {6:2} But I have built you
a house of habitation, and a place for you to dwell in for ever. {6:3} And the
king turned his face, and blessed all the Ekklesia of Israel: and all the
Ekklesia of Israel stood. {6:4} And he said, Blessed be Yahweh, the God of
Israel, who spoke with his mouth unto David my father, and has with his hands
fulfilled it, saying, {6:5} Since the day that I brought forth my people out of
the land of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a
house in, that my name might be there; neither chose I any man to be prince
over my people Israel: {6:6} but I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be
there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel. {6:7} Now it was in
the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of Yahweh, the God
of Israel. {6:8} But Yahweh said unto David my father, Whereas it was in your
heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart:
{6:9} nevertheless you shall not build the house; but your son that shall come
forth out of your loins, he shall build the house for my name. {6:10} And Yahweh
has performed his word that he spoke; for I am risen up in the room of David my
father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as Yahweh promised, and have built the
house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel. {6:11} And there have I set
the ark, wherein is the covenant of Yahweh, which he made with the children of
{O14)7}
Second Chronicles Chapter Seven. {7:1}
Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven,
and consumed the burnt-offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of Yahweh
filled the house. {7:2} And the priests could not enter into the house of Yahweh,
because the glory of Yahweh filled Yahweh's house. {7:3} And all the children
of Israel looked on, when the fire came down, and the glory of Yahweh was upon
the house; and they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground upon the
pavement, and worshipped, and gave thanks unto Yahweh, [saying], For he is
good; for his loving kindness [endures] for ever. {7:4} Then the king and all
the people offered sacrifice before Yahweh. {7:5} And king Solomon offered a
sacrifice of twenty and two thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty thousand
sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God. {7:6} And the
priests stood, according to their offices; the Levites also with instruments of
music of Yahweh, which David the king had made to give thanks unto Yahweh, (for
his loving kindness [endures] for ever,) when David praised by their ministry:
and the priests sounded trumpets before them; and all
{O14)8} Second Chronicles Chapter
Eight. {8:1} And it came to pass at
the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the house of Yahweh, and his
own house, {8:2} that the cities which Huram had given to Solomon, Solomon
built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there. {8:3} And Solomon
went to Hamath-zobah, and prevailed against it. {8:4} And he built Tadmor in
the wilderness, and all the store-cities, which he built in Hamath. {8:5} Also
he built Beth-horon the upper, and Beth-horon the nether, fortified cities,
with walls, gates, and bars; {8:6} and Baalath, and all the store-cities that
Solomon had, and all the cities for his chariots, and the cities for his
horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem,
and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion. {8:7} As for all the
people that were left of the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites,
and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, that were not of Israel; {8:8} of their
children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel consumed
not, of them did Solomon raise a levy [of bondservants] unto this day. {8:9}
But of the children of
{O14)9} Second Chronicles Chapter
Nine. {9:1} And when the queen of
Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to prove Solomon with hard
questions at Jerusalem, with a very great train, and camels that bare spices,
and gold in abundance, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon,
she communed with him of all that was in her heart. {9:2} And Solomon told her
all her questions; and there was not anything hid from Solomon which he told
her not. {9:3} And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and
the house that he had built, {9:4} and the food of his table, and the sitting
of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel,, his
cupbearers also, and their apparel, and his ascent by which he went up unto the
house of Yahweh; there was no more spirit in her. {9:5} And she said to the
king, It was a true report that I heard in mine own land of your acts, and of
your wisdom. {9:6} Howbeit I believed not their words, until I came, and mine
eyes had seen it; and, behold, the half of the greatness of your wisdom was not
told me: you exceed the fame that I heard. {9:7} Happy are your men, and happy
are these your servants, that stand continually before you, and hear your
wisdom. {9:8} Blessed be Yahweh your God, who delighted in you, to set you on
his throne, to be king for Yahweh your God: because your God agape loved
Israel, to establish them for ever, therefore made he you king over them, to do
justice and lawful works. {9:9} And she gave the king a hundred and twenty
talents of gold, and spices in great abundance, and precious stones: neither
was there any such spice as the queen of
{O14)10} Second Chronicles Chapter
Ten. {10:1} And Rehoboam went to
Shechem; for all
{O14)11} Second Chronicles Chapter
Eleven. {11:1} And when Rehoboam was
come to Jerusalem, he assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin, a hundred and
fourscore thousand chosen men, that were warriors, to fight against Israel, to
bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam. {11:2} But the word of Yahweh came to
Shemaiah the man of God, saying, {11:3} Speak unto Rehoboam the son of Solomon,
king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying, {11:4} Thus
said Yahweh, you shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren: return every
man to his house; for this thing is of me. So they heard unto the words of Yahweh,
and returned from going against Jeroboam. {11:5} And Rehoboam dwelt in
{O14)12} Second Chronicles Chapter
Twelve. {12:1} And it came to pass,
when the kingdom of Rehoboam was established, and he was strong, that he
forsook the law of Yahweh, and all Israel with him. {12:2} And it came to pass
in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against
Jerusalem, because they had trespassed against Yahweh, {12:3} with twelve
hundred chariots, and threescore thousand horsemen. And the people were outside
number that came with him out of
{O14)13} Second Chronicles Chapter
Thirteen. {13:1} In the eighteenth
year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to reign over
{O14)14} Second Chronicles Chapter
Fourteen. {14:1} So Abijah slept with
his fathers, and they buried him in the city of
{O14)15} Second Chronicles Chapter
Fifteen. {15:1} And the Spirit of God
came upon Azariah the son of Oded: {15:2} and he went out to meet Asa, and said
unto him, Hear you me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: Yahweh is with you,
while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found of you; but if
you forsake him, he will forsake you. {15:3} Now for a long season
{O14)16} Second Chronicles Chapter Sixteen. {16:1} In the six and thirtieth year of the
reign of Asa, Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah,
that he might not suffer any one to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.
{16:2} Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the treasures of the house
of Yahweh and of the king's house, and sent to Ben-hadad king of Syria, that
dwelt at Damascus, saying, {16:3} [There is] a league between me and you, as
[there was] between my father and your father: behold, I have sent you silver
and gold; go, break your league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart
from me. {16:4} And Ben-hadad heard unto king Asa, and sent the captains of his
armies against the cities of
{O14)17} Second Chronicles Chapter
Seventeen. {17:1} And Jehoshaphat his
son reigned in his stead, and strengthened himself against
{O14)18} Second Chronicles Chapter
Eighteen. {18:1} Now Jehoshaphat had
riches and honor in abundance; and he joined affinity with Ahab. {18:2} And
after certain years he went down to Ahab to
{O14)19} Second Chronicles Chapter
Nineteen. {19:1} And Jehoshaphat the
king of
{O14)20} Second Chronicles Chapter Twenty. {20:1} And it came to pass after this, that
the children of
{O14)21} Second Chronicles Chapter
Twenty One. {21:1} And Jehoshaphat
slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of
{O14)22} Second Chronicles Chapter
Twenty Two. {22:1} And the inhabitants
of
{O14)23} Second Chronicles Chapter
Twenty Three. {23:1} And in the
seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself, and took the captains of hundreds,
Azariah the son of Jeroham, and Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, and Azariah the
son of Obed, and Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri,
into covenant with him. {23:2} And they went about in Judah, and gathered the
Levites out of all the cities of Judah, and the heads of fathers' [houses] of
Israel, and they came to Jerusalem. {23:3} And all the Ekklesia made a covenant
with the king in the house of God. And he said unto them, Behold, the king's
son shall reign, as Yahweh has spoken concerning the sons of David. {23:4} This
is the thing that you shall do: a third part of you, that come in on the
Sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, shall be porters of the thresholds;
{23:5} and a third part shall be at the king's house; and a third part at the
gate of the foundation: and all the people shall be in the courts of the house
of Yahweh. {23:6} But let none come into the house of Yahweh, save the priests,
and they that minister of the Levites; they shall come in, for they are holy:
but all the people shall keep the charge of Yahweh. {23:7} And the Levites
shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand; and
anyone who comes into the house, let him be slain: and be you with the king
when he comes in, and when he goes out. {23:8} So the Levites and all
{O14)24} Second Chronicles Chapter
Twenty Four. {24:1} Joash was seven
years old when he began to reign; and he reigned forty years in
{O14)25} Second Chronicles Chapter
Twenty Five. {25:1} Amaziah was twenty
and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years
in
{O14)26} Second Chronicles Chapter
Twenty Six. {26:1} And all the people
of
{O14)27} Second Chronicles Chapter
Twenty Seven. {27:1} Jotham was twenty
and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in
{O14)28} Second Chronicles Chapter
Twenty Eight. {28:1} Ahaz was twenty
years old when he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem:
and he did not that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, like David his
father; {28:2} but he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also
molten images for the Baalim. {28:3} Furthermore he burnt incense in the valley
of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, according to the
abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out before the children of
{O14)29} Second Chronicles Chapter
Twenty Nine. {29:1} Hezekiah began to
reign when he was five and twenty years old; and he reigned nine and twenty
years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Abijah, the daughter of
Zechariah. {29:2} And he did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh,
according to all that David his father had done. {29:3} He in the first year of
his reign, in the first moon [Abib], opened the doors of the house of Yahweh,
and repaired them. {29:4} And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and
gathered them together into the broad place on the east, {29:5} and said unto
them, Hear me, you Levites; now sanctify yourselves, and sanctify the house of Yahweh,
the God of your fathers, and carry forth the defilement out of the holy place.
{29:6} For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the
sight of Yahweh our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces
from the habitation of Yahweh, and turned their backs. {29:7} Also they have
shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned
incense nor offered burnt-offerings in the holy place unto the God of Israel.
{29:8} Therefore the wrath of Yahweh was upon
{O14)30} Second Chronicles Chapter
Thirty. {30:1} And Hezekiah sent to
all
{O14)31} Second Chronicles Chapter
Thirty One. {31:1} Now when all this
was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and
brake in pieces the pillars, and hewed down the Asherim, and brake down the
high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and
Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the children of
{O14)32} Second Chronicles Chapter
Thrirty Two. {32:1} After these
things, and this faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered
into
{O14)33} Second Chronicles Chapter
Thirty Three. {33:1} Manasseh was
twelve years old when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty and five years in
{O14)34} Second Chronicles Chapter
Thrirty Four. {34:1} Josiah was eight
years old when he began to reign; and he reigned thirty and one years in
{O14)35} Second Chronicles Chapter
Thirty Five. {35:1} And Josiah kept a
Passover unto Yahweh in
{O14)36} Second Chronicles Chapter
Thirty Six.. {36:1} Then the people of
the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father's
stead in
{o15)1 Ezra Chapter One. {1:1} Now in the first year of Cyrus king of
Persia, that the word of Yahweh by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished,
Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a
proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and [put it] also in writing, saying,
{1:2} Thus said Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth has Yahweh,
the God of heaven, given me; and he has charged me to build him a house in
Jerusalem, which is in Judah. {1:3} Anyone who there is among you of all his
people, his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah,
and build the house of Yahweh, the God of Israel (he is God), which is in
Jerusalem. {1:4} And anyone who is left, in any place where he sojourns, let
the men of his place help him with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and
with beasts, besides the freewill-offering for the house of God which is in
Jerusalem. {1:5} Then rose up the heads of fathers' [houses] of
{O15)2} Ezra 2. {2:1} Now these are the children of the
province, that went up out of the captivity of those that had been carried
away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away unto Babylon,
and that returned unto Jerusalem and Judah, every one unto his city; {2:2} who
came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan,
Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of
{O15)3} Ezra Chapter Three. {3:1} And when the seventh moon was come,
and the children of
{O15)4} Ezra Chapter Four. {4:1} Now when the adversaries of Judah and
Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity were building a temple unto Yahweh,
the God of Israel; {4:2} then they drew near to Zerubbabel, and to the heads of
fathers' [houses], and said unto them, Let us build with you; for we seek your
God, as you do; and we sacrifice unto him since the days of Esar-haddon king of
Assyria, who brought us up here. {4:3} But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest
of the heads of fathers' [houses] of Israel, said unto them, you have nothing
to do with us in building a house unto our God; but we ourselves together will
build unto Yahweh, the God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of Persia has
commanded us. {4:4} Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the
people of Judah, and troubled them in building, {4:5} and hired counselors
against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia,
even until the reign of Darius king of Persia. {4:6} And in the reign of
Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, wrote they an accusation against the
inhabitants of
{O15)5} Ezra Chapter Five. {5:1} Now the prophets, Haggai the prophet,
and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied unto the Jews that were in
{O15)6} Ezra Chapter Six. {6:1} Then Darius the king made a decree,
and search was made in the house of the archives, where the treasures were laid
up in
{O15)7} Ezra Chapter Seven. {7:1} Now after these things, in the reign
of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the
son of Hilkiah, {7:2} the son of shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub,
{7:3} the son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth, {7:4} the
son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki, {7:5} the son of Abishua,
the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest;
{7:6} this Ezra went up from Babylon: and he was a ready scribe in the law of
Moses, which Yahweh, the God of Israel, had given; and the king granted him all
his request, according to the hand of Yahweh his God upon him. {7:7} And there
went up some of the children of
{O15)8} Ezra Chapter Eight.
{8:1} Now these are the heads of their fathers' [houses], and this is
the genealogy of them that went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of
Artaxerxes the king: {8:2} Of the sons of Phinehas, Gershom. Of the sons of
Ithamar, Daniel. Of the sons of David, Hattush. {8:3} Of the sons of Shecaniah,
of the sons of Parosh, Zechariah; and with him were reckoned by genealogy of
the males a hundred and fifty. {8:4} Of the sons of Pahas-moab, Eliehoenai the
son of Zerahiah; and with him two hundred males. {8:5} Of the sons of
Shecaniah, the son of Jahaziel; and with him three hundred males. {8:6} And of
the sons of Adin, Ebed the son of Jonathan; and with him fifty males. {8:7} And
of the sons of
{O15)9} Ezra Chapter Nine. {9:1} Now when these things were done, the
princes drew near unto me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests and
the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands,
[doing] according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites,
the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and
the Amorites. {9:2} For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and
for their sons, so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the peoples
of the lands: behold, the hand of the princes and rulers has been chief in this
trespass. {9:3} And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my robe, and
plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down confounded. {9:4}
Then were assembled unto me every one that trembled at the words of the God of
Israel, because of the trespass of them of the captivity; and I sat confounded
until the evening oblation. {9:5} And at the evening oblation I arose up from
my humiliation, even with my garment and my robe rent; and I fell upon my
knees, and spread out my hands unto Yahweh my God; {9:6} and I said, O my God,
I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, my God; for our iniquities
are increased over our head, and our guiltiness is grown up unto the heavens.
{9:7} Since the days of our fathers we have been exceeding guilty unto this
day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, and our priests, been delivered
into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to
plunder, and to confusion of face, as it is this day. {9:8} And now for a
little moment grace has been showed from Yahweh our God, to leave us a remnant
to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten
our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage. {9:9} For we are
bondmen; yet our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but has extended
loving kindness unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a
reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the ruins there, and to
give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem. {9:10} And now, O our God, what shall
we say after this? for we have forsaken your commandments, {9:11} which you
have commanded by your servants the prophets, saying, The land, unto which you
go to possess it, is an unclean land through the uncleanness of the peoples of
the lands, through their abominations, which have filled it from one end to
another with their defilement: {9:12} now therefore give not your daughters
unto their sons, neither take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their
peace or their prosperity for ever; that you may be strong, and eat the good of
the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever. {9:13} And
after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great guilt,
seeing that you our God have punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and
have given us such a remnant, {9:14} shall we again break your commandments,
and join in affinity with the peoples that do these abominations? would not you
be angry with us till you had consumed us, so that there should be no remnant,
nor any to escape? {9:15} O Yahweh, the God of Israel, you are a lawful worker;
for we are left a remnant that is escaped, as it is this day: behold, we are
before you in our guiltiness; for none can stand before you because of this.
{O15)10} Ezra Chapter Ten. {10:1} Now while Ezra prayed and made confession,
weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there was gathered
together unto him out of Israel a very great Ekklesia of men and women and
children; for the people wept very sore. {10:2} And Shecaniah the son of
Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have
trespassed against our God, and have married foreign women of the peoples of
the land: yet now there is hope for Israel concerning this thing. {10:3} Now
therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and
such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those
that tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the
law. {10:4} Arise; for the matter belongs unto you, and we are with you: be of
good courage, and do it. {10:5} Then arose Ezra, and made the chiefs of the
priests, the Levites, and all
{O16)1}
Nehemiah Chapter One. {1:1} The
words of Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah. Now it came to pass in the moon Chislev,
in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the palace, {1:2} that Hanani, one
of my brethren, came, he and certain men out of Judah; and I asked them
concerning the Jews that had escaped, that were left of the captivity, and
concerning Jerusalem. {1:3} And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of
the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the
wall of
{O16)2} Nehemiah Chapter Two. {2:1} And it came to pass in the moon
Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, when wine was before him,
that I took up the wine, and gave it unto the king. Now I had not been
[beforetime] sad in his presence. {2:2} And the king said unto me, Why is your
countenance sad, seeing you are not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of
heart. Then I was very sore afraid. {2:3} And I said unto the king, Let the
king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the
place of my fathers' sepulchers, lies waste, and the gates of it are consumed
with fire? {2:4} Then the king said unto me, For what do you make request? So I
prayed to the God of heaven. {2:5} And I said unto the king, If it please the
king, and if your servant have found favor in your sight, that you would send
me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers' sepulchers, that I may build it.
{2:6} And the king said unto me (the queen also sitting by him,) For how long
shall your journey be? and when will you return? So it pleased the king to send
me; and I set him a time. {2:7} Furthermore I said unto the king, If it please
the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the River, that they
may let me pass through till I come unto Judah; {2:8} and a letter unto Asaph
the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for
the gates of the castle which appertains to the house, and for the wall of the
city, and for the house that I shall enter into. And the king granted me,
according to the good hand of my God upon me. {2:9} Then I came to the
governors beyond the River, and gave them the king's letters. Now the king had
sent with me captains of the army and horsemen. {2:10} And when Sanballat the
Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them
exceedingly, for that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the children
of Israel. {2:11} So I came to
{O16)3} Nehemiah Chapter Three. {3:1} Then Eliashib the high priest rose up
with his brethren the priests, and they built the sheep gate; they sanctified
it, and set up the doors of it; even unto the tower of Hammeah they sanctified
it, unto the tower of Hananel. {3:2} And next unto him built the men of
{O16)4} Nehemiah Chapter Four. {4:1} But it came to pass that, when
Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was wroth, and took great
indignation, and mocked the Jews. {4:2} And he spoke before his brethren and
the army of
{O16)5} Nehemiah Chapter Five. {5:1} Then there arose a great cry of the
people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews. {5:2} For there were
that said, We, our sons and our daughters, are many: let us get grain, that we
may eat and live. {5:3} Some also there were that said, We are mortgaging our
fields, and our vineyards, and our houses: let us get grain, because of the
dearth. {5:4} There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's
tribute [upon] our fields and our vineyards. {5:5} yet now our flesh is as the
flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into
bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters
are brought into bondage [already]: neither is it in our power to help it; for
other men have our fields and our vineyards. {5:6} And I was very angry when I
heard their cry and these words. {5:7} Then I consulted with myself, and
contended with the nobles and the rulers, and said unto them, you exact usury,
every one of his brother. And I held a great assembly against them. {5:8} And I
said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, that
were sold unto the nations; and would you even sell your brethren, and should
they be sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found never a word. {5:9}
Also I said, The thing that you do is not good: ought you not to walk in the
fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies? {5:10} And
I likewise, my brethren and my servants, do lend them money and grain. I pray
you, let us leave off this usury. {5:11} Restore, I pray you, to them, even
this day, their fields, their vineyards, their olive yards, and their houses,
also the hundredth part of the money, and of the grain, the new wine, and the
oil, that you exact of them. {5:12} Then said they, We will restore them, and
will require nothing of them; so will we do, even as you say. Then I called the
priests, and took an oath of them, that they would do according to this
promise. {5:13} Also I shook out my lap, and said, So God shake out every man
from his house, and from his labor, that performs not this promise; even thus
be he shaken out, and emptied. And all the Ekklesia said, Amen, and praised Yahweh.
And the people did according to this promise. {5:14} Furthermore from the time
that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the
twentieth year even unto the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king,
[that is], twelve years, I and my brethren have not eaten the bread of the
governor. {5:15} But the former governors that were before me were chargeable
unto the people, and took of them bread and wine, besides forty shekels of
silver; behold, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not
I, because of the fear of God. {5:16} behold, also I continued in the work of
this wall, neither bought we any land: and all my servants were gathered there unto
the work. {5:17} Furthermore there were at my table, of the Jews and the
rulers, a hundred and fifty men, besides those that came unto us from among the
nations that were round about us. {5:18} Now that which was prepared for one
day was one ox and six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, and once
in ten days store of all sorts of wine: yet for all this I demanded not the
bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy upon this people. {5:19}
Remember unto me, O my God, for good, all that I have done for this
people.
{O16)6} Nehemiah Chapter Six. {6:1} Now it came to pass, when it was
reported to Sanballat and Tobiah, and to Geshem the Arabian, and unto the rest
of our enemies, that I had built the wall, and that there was no breach left
therein; (though even unto that time I had not set up the doors in the gates;)
{6:2} that Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me, saying, Come, let us meet
together in [one of] the villages in the plain of Ono. But they sought to do me
mischief. {6:3} And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great
work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it,
and come down to you? {6:4} And they sent unto me four times after this sort;
and I answered them after the same manner. {6:5} Then sent Sanballat his
servant unto me in like manner the fifth time with an open letter in his hand,
{6:6} wherein was written, It is reported among the nations, and Gashmu said
it, that you and the Jews think to rebel; for which cause you are building the
wall: and you would be their king, according to these words. {6:7} And you have
also appointed prophets to preach of you at
{O16)7} Nehemiah Chapter Seven. {7:1} Now it came to pass, when the wall
was built, and I had set up the doors, and the porters and the singers and the
Levites were appointed, {7:2} that I gave my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the
governor of the castle, charge over Jerusalem; for he was a faithful man, and
feared God above many. {7:3} And I said unto them, Let not the gates of
{O16)8} Nehemiah Eight.
{8:1} And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into
the broad place that was before the water gate; and they spoke unto Ezra the
scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which Yahweh had commanded to
Israel. {8:2} And Ezra the priest brought the law before the assembly, both men
and women, and all that could hear with understanding, upon the first day of
the seventh moon [Ethanim of end harvest]. {8:3} And he read therein before the
broad place that was before the water gate from early morning until midday, in
the presence of the men and the women, and of those that could understand; and
the ears of all the people were [attentive] unto the book of the law. {8:4} And
Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the
purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Uriah, and
Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and
Mishael, and Malchijah, and Hashum, and Hashbaddanah, Zechariah, [and]
Meshullam. {8:5} And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people; (for
he was above all the people;) and when he opened it, all the people stood up:
{8:6} and Ezra blessed Yahweh, the great God. And all the people answered,
Amen, Amen, with the lifting up of their hands: and they bowed their heads, and
worshipped Yahweh with their faces to the ground. {8:7} Also Jeshua, and Bani,
and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah,
Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the
law: and the people [stood] in their place. {8:8} And they read in the book, in
the law of God, distinctly; and they gave [comment of] the sense, so that they
understood the reading. {8:9} And Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the
priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the
people, This day is holy unto Yahweh your God; grieve not, nor weep. For all
the people wept, when they heard the words of the law. {8:10} Then he said unto
them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto him
for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be
you grieved; for the joy of Yahweh is your strength. {8:11} So the Levites
stilled all the people, saying, Hold your peace, for the day is holy; neither
be you grieved. {8:12} And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink,
and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the
words that were declared unto them. {8:13} And on the second day were gathered
together the heads of fathers' [houses] of all the people, the priests, and the
Levites, unto Ezra the scribe, even to give attention to the words of the law.
{8:14} And they found written in the law, how that Yahweh had commanded by
Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in Teporary Shelters in the
feast of the seventh moon [Ethanim]; {8:15} and that they should publish and
proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the
mount, and fetch olive branches, and branches of wild olive, and myrtle
branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make temporary
shelters, as it is written. {8:16} So the people went forth, and brought them,
and made themselves temporary shelters, every one upon the roof of his house,
and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the broad
place of the water gate, and in the broad place of the gate of Ephraim. {8:17}
And all the Ekklesia of them that were come again out of the captivity made
temporary shelters, and dwelt in the temporary shelters; for since the days of
Jeshua the son of Nun unto that day had not the children of Israel done so. And
there was very great gladnesss. {8:18} Also day by day, from the first day unto
the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. And they kept the feast
seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according unto the
ordinance.
{O16)9} Nehemiah Chapter Nine. {9:1} Now in the twenty and fourth day of
this moon [Ethanim] the children of
{O16)10} Nehemiah Chapter Ten. {10:1} Now those that sealed were: Nehemiah
the governor, the son of Hacaliah, and Zedekiah, {10:2} Seraiah, Azariah,
Jeremiah, {10:3} Pashhur, Amariah, Malchijah, {10:4} Hattush, Shebaniah,
Malluch, {10:5} Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah, {10:6} Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch,
{10:7} Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin, {10:8} Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah; these were
the priests. {10:9} And the Levites: namely, Jeshua the son of Azaniah, Binnui of
the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel; {10:10} and their brethren, Shebaniah, Hodiah,
Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan, {10:11} Mica, Rehob, Hashabiah, {10:12} Zaccur,
Sherebiah, Shebaniah, {10:13} Hodiah, Bani, Beninu. {10:14} The chiefs of the
people: Parosh, Pahas-moab, Elam, Zattu, Bani, {10:15} Bunni, Azgad, Bebai,
{10:16} Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin, {10:17} Ater, Hezekiah, Azzur, {10:18} Hodiah,
Hashum, Bezai, {10:19} Hariph, Anathoth, Nobai, {10:20} Magpiash, Meshullam,
Hezir, {10:21} Meshezabel, Zadok, Jaddua, {10:22} Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah,
{10:23} Hoshea, Hananiah, Hasshub, {10:24} Hallohesh, Pilha, Shobek, {10:25}
Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah, {10:26} and Ahiah, Hanan, Anan, {10:27} Malluch,
Harim, Baanah. {10:28} And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the
porters, the singers, the Nethinim, and all they that had separated themselves
from the peoples of the lands unto the law of God, their wives, their sons, and
their daughters, every one that had knowledge, and understanding; {10:29} They
clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an
oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to
observe and do all the commandments of Yahweh our Lord, and his ordinances and
his statutes; {10:30} and that we would not give our daughters unto the peoples
of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons; {10:31} and if the peoples
of the land bring wares or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, that we would
not buy of them on the Sabbath, or on a holy day; and that we would forego the
seventh year, and the exaction of every debt. {10:32} Also we made ordinances
for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the
service of the house of our God; {10:33} for the showbread, and for the continual
meal-offering, and for the continual burnt-offering, for the Sabbaths, for the
new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the
sin-offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house
of our God. {10:34} And we cast lots, the priests, the Levites, and the people,
for the wood-offering, to bring it into the house of our God, according to our
fathers' houses, at times appointed, year by year, to burn upon the altar of Yahweh
our God, as it is written in the law; {10:35} and to bring the first-fruits of
our ground, and the first-fruits of all fruit of all manner of trees, year by
year, unto the house of Yahweh; {10:36} also the first-born of our sons, and of
our cattle, as it is written in the law, and the firstlings of our herds and of
our flocks, to bring to the house of our God, unto the priests that minister in
the house of our God; {10:37} and that we should bring the first-fruits of our
dough, and our heave-offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, the new
wine and the oil, unto the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God;
and the tithes of our ground unto the Levites; for they, the Levites, take the
tithes in all the cities of our tillage. {10:38} And the priest the son of
Aaron shall be with the Levites, when the Levites take tithes: and the Levites
shall bring up the tithe of the tithes unto the house of our God, to the
chambers, into the treasure-house. {10:39} For the children of Israel and the
children of Levi shall bring the heave-offering of the grain, of the new wine,
and of the oil, unto the chambers, where are the vessels of the sanctuary, and
the priests that minister, and the porters, and the singers: and we will not
forsake the house of our God.
{O16)11} Nehemiah Chapter Eleven. {11:1} And the princes of the people dwelt
in Jerusalem: the rest of the people also cast lots, to bring one of ten to
dwell in Jerusalem the holy city, and nine parts in the [other] cities. {11:2}
And the people blessed all the men that willingly offered themselves to dwell
in
{O16)12} Nehemiah
Chapter Twelve. {12:1} Now these are
the priests and the Levites that went up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel,
and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra, {12:2} Amariah, Malluch, Hattush, {12:3}
Shecaniah, Rehum, Meremoth, {12:4} Iddo, Ginnethoi, Abijah, {12:5} Mijamin,
Maadiah, Bilgah, {12:6} Shemaiah, and Joiarib, Jedaiah. {12:7} Sallu, Amok,
Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were the chiefs of the priests and of their brethren in
the days of Jeshua. {12:8} Furthermore the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel,
{O16)13} Nehemiah Chapter Thirteen. {13:1} On that day they read in the book of
Moses in the audience of the people; and therein was found written, that an
Ammonite and a Moabite should not enter into the Ekklesia of God for ever,
{13:2} because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water,
but hired Balaam against them, to curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse
into a blessing. {13:3} And it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that
they separated from
{O17)1}
Easter Chapter One.
Historicity of the Book of Esther
See wickipedia: The blatant historical difficulties, the internal
inconsistencies, the pronounced symmetry of themes and events, the plenitude of
quoted dialogue, and the gross exaggeration in the reporting of numbers
(involving time, money, and people) all point to Esther as a work of fiction,
its vivid characters (except for Xerxes) being the product of the author's
creative imagination. See book by Barton, John; Muddiman, John (2007). The
The Book of Easter is not
accepted by the Ancient Jews Book of their Bible.
The Ekklesia Bible
translation is not a canon for any book of fiction or fables or any book of
make belive. In the new information age no longer can any Bible filled with
books of fiction and fantasy stand before scrutiny of the highly educated. Because
so many of the holy men that are now dead that has started the Ekklesia Bible
translation we will let the future large group of the Ekklesia deciede if this
book should be in their Ekklesia Bible Canon as “Holy Scripture.” This book of
Easter will give cause for all the highly educated to reject the entire Ekklesia
Bible as being “Holy.” The future entire Ekklesia must deliberate the
validity of this book and make certain only "holy Books" are in the true
canon of the Ekklesia Bible translation.
Be wise this book and others that clearly are not canon should be completely
separate from the Canon of the Ekkleisa Bible translation.
Easter {1:1} Now it came to pass in the days of
Ahasuerus (this is Ahasuerus who reigned from India even unto Ethiopia, over a
hundred and seven and twenty provinces), {1:2} that in those days, when the
king Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which was in Shushan the
palace, {1:3} in the third year of his reign, he made a feast unto all his
princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes
of the provinces, being before him; {1:4} when he showed the riches of his
glorious kingdom and the honor of his excellent majesty many days, even a
hundred and fourscore days. {1:5} And when these days were fulfilled, the king
made a feast unto all the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both
great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king's palace.
{1:6} [There were hangings of] white [cloth], [of] green, and [of] blue,
fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of
marble: the couches were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and white,
and yellow, and black marble. {1:7} And they gave them drink in vessels of gold
(the vessels being diverse one from another), and royal wine in abundance,
according to the bounty of the king. {1:8} And the drinking was according to
the law; none could compel: for so the king had appointed to all the officers
of his house, that they should do according to every man's pleasure. {1:9} Also
Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged
to king Ahasuerus. {1:10} On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was
merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha,
Zethar, and Carcas, the seven chamberlains that ministered in the presence of
Ahasuerus the king, {1:11} to bring Vashti the queen before the king with the
crown royal, to show the peoples and the princes her beauty; for she was fair
to look on. {1:12} But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king's commandment
by the chamberlains: therefore was the king very wroth, and his anger burned in
him. {1:13} Then the king said to the wise men, who knew the times, (for so was
the king's manner toward all that knew law and judgment; {1:14} and the next
unto him were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and
Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, who saw the king's face, and
sat first in the kingdom), {1:15} What shall we do unto the queen Vashti
according to law, because she has not done the bidding of the king Ahasuerus by
the chamberlains? {1:16} And Memucan answered before the king and the princes,
Vashti the queen has not done wrong to the king only, but also to all the
princes, and to all the peoples that are in all the provinces of the king
Ahasuerus. {1:17} For this deed of the queen will come abroad unto all women,
to make their husbands contemptible in their eyes, when it shall be reported,
The king Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but
she came not. {1:18} And this day will the princesses of
{O17)2} Esther Chapter Two. {2:1} After these things, when the wrath of
king Ahasuerus was pacified, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and
what was decreed against her. {2:2} Then said the king's servants that ministered
unto him, Let there be fair young virgins sought for the king: {2:3} and let
the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may
gather together all the fair young virgins unto Shushan the palace, to the
house of the women, unto the custody of Hegai the king's chamberlain, keeper of
the women; and let their things for purification be given them; {2:4} and let
the maiden that pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti. And the thing
pleased the king; and he did so. {2:5} There was a certain Jew in Shushan the
palace, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of
Kish, a Benjamite, {2:6} who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the
captives that had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom
Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away. {2:7} And he brought up
Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor
mother, and the maiden was fair and beautiful; and when her father and mother
were dead, Mordecai took her for his own daughter. {2:8} So it came to pass,
when the king's commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens
were gathered together unto Shushan the palace, to the custody of Hegai, that
Esther was taken into the king's house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the
women. {2:9} And the maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness of him; and
he speedily gave her, her things for purification, with her portions, and the
seven maidens who were meet to be given her out of the king's house: and he
removed her and her maidens to the best place of the house of the women. {2:10}
Esther had not made known her people nor her kindred; for Mordecai had charged
her that she should not make it known. {2:11} And Mordecai walked every day
before the court of the women's house, to know how Esther did, and what would
become of her. {2:12} Now when the turn of every maiden was come to go in to
king Ahasuerus, after that it had been done to her according to the law for the
women twelve moons (for so were the days of their purifications accomplished,
[to wit], six moons with oil of myrrh, and six moons with sweet odors and with
the things for the purifying of the women), {2:13} then in this wise came the
maiden unto the king: what ever she desired was given her to go with her out of
the house of the women unto the king's house. {2:14} In the evening she went,
and on the morrow she returned into the second house of the women, to the
custody of Shaashgaz, the king's chamberlain, who kept the concubines: she came
in unto the king no more, except the king delighted in her, and she were called
by name. {2:15} Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle
of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in unto the
king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's chamberlain, the keeper of
the women, appointed. And Esther obtained favor in the sight of all them that
looked upon her. {2:16} So Esther was taken unto king Ahasuerus into his house
royal in the tenth moon, which is the moon Tebeth, in the seventh year of his
reign. {2:17} And the king loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained
favor and kindness in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the
royal crown upon her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti. {2:18} Then
the king made a great feast unto all his princes and his servants, even
Esther's feast; and he made a release to the provinces, and gave gifts,
according to the bounty of the king. {2:19} And when the virgins were gathered
together the second time, then Mordecai was sitting in the king's gate. {2:20}
Esther had not yet made known her kindred nor her people; as Mordecai had
charged her: for Esther did the commandment of Mordecai, like as when she was
brought up with him. {2:21} In those days, while Mordecai was sitting in the
king's gate, two of the king's chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those that
kept the threshold, were wroth, and sought to lay hands on the king Ahasuerus.
{2:22} And the thing became known to Mordecai, who showed it unto Esther the
queen; and Esther told the king [there] in Mordecai's name. {2:23} And when
inquisition was made of the matter, and it was found to be so, they were both
hanged on a tree: and it was written in the book of the chronicles before the
king.
{O17)3} Esther Chapter Three.
{3:1} After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the son of
Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the
princes that were with him. {3:2} And all the king's servants, that were in the
king's gate, bowed down, and did reverence to Haman; for the king had so
commanded concerning him. But Mordecai bowed not down, nor did him reverence.
{3:3} Then the king's servants, that were in the king's gate, said unto
Mordecai, Why transgress you the king's commandment? {3:4} Now it came to pass,
when they spoke daily unto him, and he heard not unto them, that they told
Haman, to see whether Mordecai's matters would stand: for he had told them that
he was a Jew. {3:5} And when Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not down, nor did
him reverence, then was Haman full of wrath. {3:6} But he thought scorn to lay
hands on Mordecai alone; for they had made known to him the people of Mordecai:
Therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole
kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai. {3:7} In the first moon
[Bagayedish], which is the moon [determined but the vernal equinox], in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they
cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from moon to
moon, [to] the twelfth [moon], which is the moon Adar. {3:8} And Haman said
unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed
among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom; and their laws are
diverse from [those of] every people; neither keep they the king's laws:
therefore it is not for the king's profit to suffer them. {3:9} If it please
the king, let it be written that they be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand
talents of silver into the hands of those that have the charge of the [king's]
business, to bring it into the king's treasuries. {3:10} And the king took his
ring from his hand, and gave it unto Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite,
the Jews' enemy. {3:11} And the king said unto Haman, The silver is given to
you, the people also, to do with them as it seems good to you. {3:12} Then were
the king's scribes called in the first moon, on the thirteenth day there; and
there was written according to all that Haman commanded unto the king's satraps,
and to the governors that were over every province, and to the princes of every
people, to every province according to the writing there, and to every people after their
language; in the name of king Ahasuerus was it written, and it was sealed with
the king's ring. {3:13} And letters were sent by posts into all the king's
provinces, to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young
and old, little children and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth [day]
of the twelfth moon, which is the moon Adar, and to take the spoil of them for
a prey. {3:14} A copy of the writing, that the decree should be given out in
every province, was published unto all the peoples, that they should be ready
against that day. {3:15} The posts went forth in haste by the king's
commandment, and the decree was given out in Shushan the palace. And the king
and Haman sat down to drink; but the city of
{O17)4} Esther Chapter Four. {4:1} Now when Mordecai knew all that was
done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out
into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry; {4:2} and
he came even before the king's gate: for none might enter within the king's
gate clothed with sackcloth. {4:3} And in every province, where so ever the
king's commandment and his decree came, there was great grieving among the
Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and
ashes. {4:4} And Esther's maidens and her chamberlains came and told it her;
and the queen was exceedingly grieved: and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai,
and to take his sackcloth from off him; but he received it not. {4:5} Then
called Esther for Hasach, one of the king's chamberlains, whom he had appointed
to attend upon her, and charged him to go to Mordecai, to know what this was,
and why it was. {4:6} So Hasach went forth to Mordecai unto the broad place of
the city, which was before the king's gate. {4:7} And Mordecai told him of all
that had happened unto him, and the exact sum of the money that Haman had
promised to pay to the king's treasuries for the Jews, to destroy them. {4:8}
Also he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given out in
Shushan to destroy them, to show it unto Esther, and to declare it unto her,
and to charge her that she should go in unto the king, to make supplication
unto him, and to make request before him, for her people. {4:9} And Hasach came
and told Esther the words of Mordecai. {4:10} Then Esther spoke unto Hasach,
and gave him a message unto Mordecai [saying]: {4:11} All the king's servants,
and the people of the king's provinces, do know, that anyone who, whether man
or woman, shall come unto the king into the inner court, who is not called,
there is one law for him, that he be put to death, except those to whom the
king shall hold out the golden Scepterer, that he may live: but I have not been
called to come in unto the king these thirty days. {4:12} And they told to
Mordecai Esther's words. {4:13} Then Mordecai bade them return answer unto
Esther, Think not with yourself that you shall escape in the king's house, more
than all the Jews. {4:14} For if you altogether hold your peace at this time,
then will relief and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place, but you
and your father's house will perish: and who knows whether you are not come to
the kingdom for such a time as this? {4:15} Then Esther bade them return answer
unto Mordecai, {4:16} Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in
Shushan, and fast you for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or
day: I also and my maidens will fast in like manner; and so will I go in unto
the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish. {4:17}
So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther had commanded
him.
{O17)5}
Esther Chapter Five. {5:1} Now
it came to pass on the third day, that Esther put on her royal apparel, and
stood in the inner court of the king's house, over against the king's house:
and the king sat upon his royal throne in the royal house, over against the
entrance of the house. {5:2} And it was so, when the king saw Esther the queen
standing in the court, that she obtained favor in his sight; and the king held
out to Esther the golden Scepter that was in his hand. So Esther drew near, and
touched the top of the Scepter. {5:3} Then said the king unto her, What will
you, queen Esther? and what is your request? it shall be given you even to the
half of the kingdom. {5:4} And Esther said, If it seem good unto the king, let
the king and Haman come this day unto the banquet that I have prepared for him.
{5:5} Then the king said, Cause Haman to make haste, that it may be done as
Esther has said. So the king and Haman came to the banquet that Esther had
prepared. {5:6} And the king said unto Esther at the banquet of wine, What is
your petition? and it shall be granted you: and what is your request? even to
the half of the kingdom it shall be performed. {5:7} Then answered Esther, and
said, My petition and my request is: {5:8} if I have found favor in the sight
of the king, and if it please the king to grant my petition, and to perform my
request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I shall prepare for
them, and I will do to-morrow as the king has said. {5:9} Then went Haman forth
that day joyful and glad of heart: but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king's
gate, that he stood not up nor moved for him, he was filled with wrath against
Mordecai. {5:10} Nevertheless Haman refrained himself, and went home; and he
sent and fetched his friends and Zeresh his wife. {5:11} And Haman recounted
unto them the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all
the things wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above
the princes and servants of the king. {5:12} Haman said furthermore, behold,
Esther the queen did let no man come in with the king unto the banquet that she
had prepared but myself; and to-morrow also am I invited by her together with
the king. {5:13} yet all this avails me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the
Jew sitting at the king's gate. {5:14} Then said Zeresh his wife and all his
friends unto him, Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and in the morning
speak you unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go you in
merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he
caused the gallows to be made.
{o17)6} Esther Chapter Six. {6:1} On that night could not the king
sleep; and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles, and
they were read before the king. {6:2} And it was found written, that Mordecai
had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's chamberlains, of those that
kept the threshold, who had sought to lay hands on the king Ahasuerus. {6:3}
And the king said, What honor and dignity has been bestowed on Mordecai for
this? Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him, There is nothing
done for him. {6:4} And the king said, Who is in the court? Now Haman was come
into the outward court of the king's house, to speak unto the king to hang
Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him. {6:5} And the king's
servants said unto him, Behold, Haman stands in the court. And the king said,
Let him come in. {6:6} So Haman came in. And the king said unto him, What shall
be done unto the man whom the king delights to honor? Now Haman said in his
heart, To whom would the king delight to do honor more than to myself? {6:7}
And Haman said unto the king, For the man whom the king delights to honor,
{6:8} let royal apparel be brought which the king uses to wear, and the horse
that the king rides upon, and on the head of which a crown royal is set: {6:9}
and let the apparel and the horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's
most noble princes, that they may array the man with whom the king delights to
honor, and cause him to ride on horseback through the street of the city, and
proclaim before him, Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to
honor. {6:10} Then the king said to Haman, Make haste, and take the apparel and
the horse, as you have said, and do even so to Mordecai the Jew, that sits at
the king's gate: let nothing fail of all that you have spoken. {6:11} Then took
Haman the apparel and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and caused him to ride
through the street of the city, and proclaimed before him, Thus shall it be
done unto the man whom the king delights to honor. {6:12} And Mordecai came
again to the king's gate. But Haman hurried to his house, grievingand having
his head covered. {6:13} And Haman recounted unto Zeresh his wife and all his
friends everything that had befallen him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh his
wife unto him, If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, be of the seed
of the Jews, you shall not prevail against him, but shall surely fall before
him. {6:14} While they were yet talking with him, came the king's chamberlains,
and hurried to bring Haman unto the banquet that Esther had prepared.
{O17)7} Esther Chapter Seven. {7:1} So the king and Haman came to banquet
with Esther the queen. {7:2} And the king said again unto Esther on the second
day at the banquet of wine, What is your petition, queen Esther? and it shall
be granted you: and what is your request? even to the half of the kingdom it
shall be performed. {7:3} Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have
found favor in your sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be
given me at my petition, and my people at my request: {7:4} for we are sold, I and
my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold
for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my peace, although the adversary could
not have compensated for the king's damage. {7:5} Then spoke the king Ahasuerus
and said unto Esther the queen, Who is he, and where is he, that durst presume
in his heart to do so? {7:6} And Esther said, An adversary and an enemy, even
this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen. {7:7}
And the king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine [and went] into the
palace garden: and Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the
queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king. {7:8}
Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet
of wine; and Haman was fallen upon the couch whereon Esther was. Then said the
king, Will he even force the queen before me in the house? As the word went out
of the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face. {7:9} Then said Harbonah, one of
the chamberlains that were before the king, Behold also, the gallows fifty
cubits high, which Haman has made for Mordecai, who spoke good for the king,
stands in the house of Haman. And the king said, Hang him thereon. {7:10} So
they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was
the king's wrath pacified.
{O17)8} Esther Chapter Eight. {8:1} On that day did the king Ahasuerus
give the house of Haman the Jews' enemy unto Esther the queen. And Mordecai
came before the king; for Esther had told what he was unto her. {8:2} And the
king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it unto
Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman. {8:3} And Esther
spoke yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and beg him with
tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his device that he had
devised against the Jews. {8:4} Then the king held out to Esther the golden
Scepter. So Esther arose, and stood before the king. {8:5} And she said, If it
please the king, and if I have found favor in his sight, and the thing seem
right before the king, and I be pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to
reverse the letters devised by Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which
he wrote to destroy the Jews that are in all the king's provinces: {8:6} for
how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I
endure to see the destruction of my kindred? {8:7} Then the king Ahasuerus said
unto Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, Behold, I have given Esther the
house of Haman, and him they have hanged upon the gallows, because he laid his
hand upon the Jews. {8:8} Write you also to the Jews, as it pleases you, in the
king's name, and seal it with the king's ring; for the writing which is written
in the king's name, and sealed with the king's ring, may no man reverse. {8:9}
Then were the king's scribes called at that time, in the third moon Sivan, on
the three and twentieth [day] there; and it was written according to all that Mordecai
commanded unto the Jews, and to the satraps, and the governors and princes of
the provinces which are from India unto Ethiopia, a hundred twenty and seven
provinces, unto every province according to the writing there, and unto every
people after their language, and to the Jews according to their writing, and
according to their language. {8:10} And he wrote the name of king Ahasuerus,
and sealed it with the king's ring, and sent letters by post on horseback,
riding on swift steeds that were used in the king's service, bred of the stud:
{8:11} wherein the king granted the Jews that were in every city to gather
themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to slay, and to
cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault
them, [their] little ones and women, and to take the spoil of them for a prey,
{8:12} upon one day in all the provinces of king Ahasuerus, [namely], upon the
thirteenth [day] of the twelfth moon, which is the moon Adar. {8:13} A copy of
the writing, that the decree should be given out in every province, was
published unto all the peoples, and that the Jews should be ready against that
day to avenge themselves on their enemies. {8:14} So the posts that rode upon
swift steeds that were used in the king's service went out, being hurried and
pressed on by the king's commandment; and the decree was given out in Shushan
the palace. {8:15} And Mordecai went forth from the presence of the king in
royal apparel of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a
robe of fine linen and purple: and the city of Shushan shouted and was glad.
{8:16} The Jews had light and gladness, and joy and honor. {8:17} And in every
province, and in every city, where ever the king's commandment and his decree
came, the Jews had gladness and joy, a feast and a good day. And many from
among the peoples of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews was fallen
upon them.
{O17)9} Esther Chapter Nine. {9:1} Now in the twelfth moon, which is the
moon Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's commandment and
his decree drew near to be put in execution, on the day that the enemies of the
Jews hoped to have rule over them, (whereas it was turned to the contrary, that
the Jews had rule over them that hated them,) {9:2} the Jews gathered
themselves together in their cities throughout all the provinces of the king
Ahasuerus, to lay hand on such as sought their hurt: and no man could withstand
them; for the fear of them was fallen upon all the peoples. {9:3} And all the
princes of the provinces, and the satraps, and the governors, and they that did
the king's business, helped the Jews; because the fear of Mordecai was fallen
upon them. {9:4} For Mordecai was great in the king's house, and his fame went
forth throughout all the provinces; for the man Mordecai waxed greater and
greater. {9:5} And the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the
sword, and with slaughter and destruction, and did what they would unto them
that hated them. {9:6} And in Shushan the palace the Jews slew and destroyed
five hundred men. {9:7} And Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha, {9:8} and
Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha, {9:9} and Parmashta, and Arisai, and Aridai,
and Vaizatha, {9:10} the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Jew's
enemy, slew they; but on the spoil they laid not their hand. {9:11} On that day
the number of those that were slain in Shushan the palace was brought before
the king. {9:12} And the king said unto Esther the queen, The Jews have slain and
destroyed five hundred men in Shushan the palace, and the ten sons of Haman;
what then have they done in the rest of the king's provinces! Now what is your
petition? and it shall be granted you: or what is your request further? and it
shall be done. {9:13} Then said Esther, If it please the king, let it be
granted to the Jews that are in Shushan to do to-morrow also according unto
this day's decree, and let Haman's ten sons be hanged upon the gallows. {9:14}
And the king commanded it so to be done: and a decree was given out in Shushan;
and they hanged Haman's ten sons. {9:15} And the Jews that were in Shushan
gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the moon Adar, and
slew three hundred men in Shushan; but on the spoil they laid not their hand.
{9:16} And the other Jews that were in the king's provinces gathered themselves
together, and stood for their lives, and had rest from their enemies, and slew
of them that hated them seventy and five thousand; but on the spoil they laid
not their hand. {9:17} [This was done] on the thirteenth day of the moon Adar;
and on the fourteenth day of the same they rested, and made it a day of
feasting and gladness. {9:18} But the Jews that were in Shushan assembled
together on the thirteenth [day] there, and on the fourteenth there; and on the
fifteenth [day] of the same they rested, and made it a day of feasting and
gladness. {9:19} Therefore do the Jews of the villages, that dwell in the towns
without walls, make the fourteenth day of the moon Adar [a day of] gladness and
feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another. {9:20} And
Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters unto all the Jews that were in
all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both near and far, {9:21} to enjoin
them that they should keep the fourteenth day of the moon Adar, and the
fifteenth day of the same, yearly, {9:22} as the days wherein the Jews had rest
from their enemies, and the moon which was turned unto them from sorrow to
gladness, and from grieving into a good day; that they should make them days of
feasting and gladness, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the
poor. {9:23} And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai
had written unto them; {9:24} because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite,
the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and
had cast Pur, that is the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them; {9:25} but
when [the matter] came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked
device, which he had devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head,
and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows. {9:26} Therefore they
called these days Purim, after the name of Pur. Therefore because of all the
words of this letter, and of that which they had seen concerning this matter,
and that which had come unto them, {9:27} the Jews ordained, and took upon
them, and upon their seed, and upon all such as joined themselves unto them, so
that it should not fail, that they would keep these two days according to the
writing there, and according to the appointed time there, every year; {9:28}
and that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation,
every family, every province, and every city; and that these days of Purim
should not fail from among the Jews, nor the remembrance of them perish from
their seed. {9:29} Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai
the Jew, wrote with all authority to confirm this second letter of Purim.
{9:30} And he sent letters unto all the Jews, to the hundred twenty and seven
provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, [with] words of peace and truth, {9:31}
to confirm these days of Purim in their appointed times, according as Mordecai
the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had ordained for
themselves and for their seed, in the matter of the fastings and their cry.
{9:32} And the commandment of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it
was written in the book.
{O17)10} Esther Chapter Ten. {10:1} And the king Ahasuerus laid a
tribute upon the land, and upon the isles of the sea. {10:2} And all the acts
of his power and of his might, and the full account of the greatness of
Mordecai, whereunto the king advanced him, are they not written in the book of
the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia? {10:3} For Mordecai the Jew
was next unto king Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted of the
multitude of his brethren, seeking the good of his people, and speaking peace
to all his seed.
{O18)1} Job Chapter One. {1:1} There was a man in the
{O18)2} Job Chapter Two. {2:1} Again it came to pass on the day when
the sons of God came to present themselves before Yahweh, that Satan came also
among them to present himself before Yahweh. {2:2} And Yahweh said unto Satan,
From where [are you] coming [from]? And Satan answered Yahweh, and said, From
going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it. {2:3} And Yahweh
said unto Satan, Have you considered my servant Job? for there is none like him
in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that fears God, and turns away
from evil: and he still holds fast his integrity, although you movedst me
against him, to destroy him without cause. {2:4} And Satan answered Yahweh, and
said, Skin for skin, behold, all that a man has will he give for his life.
{2:5} But put forth your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he
will renounce you to your face. {2:6} And Yahweh said unto Satan, Behold, he is
in your hand; only spare his life. {2:7} So Satan went forth from the presence
of Yahweh, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his
crown. {2:8} And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself with; and he sat
among the ashes. {2:9} Then said his wife unto him, Do you still hold fast your
integrity? renounce God, and die. {2:10} But he said unto her, you speak as one
of the foolish women speak. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and
shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips. {2:11}
Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him,
they came every one from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the
Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, and they made an appointment together to
come to bemoan him and to comfort him. {2:12} And when they lifted up their
eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they
rent every one his robe, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.
{2:13} So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights,
and none spoke a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.
{O18)3} Job Chapter Three. {3:1} After this opened Job his mouth, and
cursed his day. {3:2} And Job answered and said: {3:3} Let the day perish
wherein I was born, And the night which said, There is a man-child conceived.
{3:4} Let that day be darkness; Let not God from above seek for it, Neither let
the light shine upon it. {3:5} Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it
for their own; Let a cloud dwell upon it; Let all that makes black the day terrify
it. {3:6} As for that night, let thick darkness seize upon it: Let it not
rejoice among the days of the year; Let it not come into the number of the
moons. {3:7} Lo, let that night be barren; Let no joyful voice come therein.
{3:8} Let them curse it that curse the day, Who are ready to rouse up
leviathan. {3:9} Let the stars of the twilight of it be dark: Let it look for
light, but have none; Neither let it behold the eyelids of the morning: {3:10}
Because it shut not up the doors of my [mother's] womb, Nor hid trouble from
mine eyes. {3:11} Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost
when my mother bare me? {3:12} Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast,
that I should suck? {3:13} For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I
should have slept; then had I been at rest, {3:14} With kings and counselors of
the earth, Who built up waste places for themselves; {3:15} Or with princes
that had gold, Who filled their houses with silver: {3:16} Or as a hidden
untimely birth I had not been, As infants that never saw light. {3:17} There
the wicked cease from troubling; And there the weary are at rest. {3:18} There
the prisoners are at ease together; They hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
{3:19} The small and the great are there: And the servant is free from his
master. {3:20} Therefore is light given to him that is in misery, And life unto
the bitter in soul; {3:21} Who long for death, but it comes not, And dig for it
more than for hid treasures; {3:22} Who rejoice exceedingly, And are [a] glad,
when they can find the grave? {3:23} [Why is light given] to a man whose way is
hid, And whom God has hedged in? {3:24} For my sighing comes before I eat, And
my groanings are poured out like water. {3:25} For the thing which I fear comes
upon me, And that which I am afraid of comes unto me. {3:26} I am not at ease,
neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; But trouble comes.
{O18)4} Job Chapter Four. {4:1} Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite,
and said, {4:2} If one assay to commune with you, will you be grieved? But who
can withhold himself from speaking? {4:3} Behold, you have instructed many, And
you have strengthened the weak hands. {4:4} Your words have upheld him that was
falling, And you have made firm the feeble knees. {4:5} But now it is come unto
you, and you faintest; It touches you, and you are troubled. {4:6} Is not your
fear [of God] your confidence, [And] the integrity of your ways your hope?
{4:7} Remember, I pray you, who [ever] perished, being innocent? Or where were
the upright cut off? {4:8} According as I have seen, they that plow works against
law, And sow trouble, reap the same. {4:9} By the breath of God they perish,
And by the blast of his anger are they consumed. {4:10} The roaring of the
lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, And the teeth of the young lions, are
broken. {4:11} The old lion perish for lack of prey, And the whelps of the
lioness are scattered abroad. {4:12}
Now a thing was secretly brought to me, And mine ear received a whisper there.
{4:13} In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falls on men,
{4:14} Fear came upon me, and trembling, Which made all my bones to shake.
{4:15} Then a spirit passed before my face; The hair of my flesh stood up.
{4:16} It stood still, but I could not discern the appearance there; A form was
before mine eyes: [There was] silence, and I heard a voice, [saying], {4:17}
shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his
Maker? {4:18} Behold, he puts no trust in his servants; And his messengers he
charged with folly: {4:19} How much more them that dwell in houses of clay,
Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth! {4:20}
Between morning and evening they are destroyed: They perish for ever outside
any regarding it. {4:21} Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them? They
die, and that outside wisdom.
{o18)5} Job Chapter Five. {5:1} Call now; is there any that will answer
you? And to which of the holy ones will you turn? {5:2} For vexation kills the
foolish man, And jealousy slays the silly one. {5:3} I have seen the foolish
taking root: But suddenly I cursed his habitation. {5:4} His children are far
from safety, And they are crushed in the gate, Neither is there any to deliver
them: {5:5} Whose harvest the hungry eats up, And takes it even out of the
thorns; And the snare steals their substance. {5:6} For affliction comes not
forth from the dust, Neither does trouble spring out of the ground; {5:7} But
man is born unto trouble, As the sparks fly upward. {5:8}
But as for me, I would seek unto God, And unto God would I commit my cause;
{5:9} Who does great things and un-searchable, Marvelous things outside number:
{5:10} Who gives rain upon the earth, And sends waters upon the fields; {5:11}
So that he sets up on high those that are low, And those that grieve are
exalted to safety. {5:12} He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that
their hands cannot perform their enterprise. {5:13} He takes the wise in their
own craftiness; And the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong. {5:14} They
meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night.
{5:15} But he saves from the sword of their mouth, Even the needy from the hand
of the mighty. {5:16} So the poor has hope, And works against law stops her
mouth. {5:17} Behold, happy is the man
whom God corrects: Therefore despise not you the chastening of the Almighty.
{5:18} For he makes sore, and binds up; He wounds, and his hands make whole.
{5:19} He will deliver you in six troubles; behold, in seven there shall no
evil touch you. {5:20} In famine he will redeem you from death; And in war from
the power of the sword. {5:21} you shall be hid from the scourge of the tongue;
Neither shall you be afraid of destruction when it comes. {5:22} At destruction
and dearth you shall laugh; Neither shall you be afraid of the beasts of the
earth. {5:23} For you shall be in league with the stones of the field; And the
beasts of the field shall be at peace with you. {5:24} And you shall know that
your tent is in peace; And you shall visit your fold, and shall miss nothing.
{5:25} you shall know also that your seed shall be great, And your offspring as
the grass of the earth. {5:26} you shall come to your grave in a full age, Like
as a shock of grain come in, in its season. {5:27} Lo this, we have searched
it, so it is; Hear it, and know you it for your good. {O18)6} Job Chapter Six. {6:1} Then Job answered and said, {6:2} Oh
that my vexation were but weighed, And all my calamity laid in the balances!
{6:3} For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas: Therefore have my
words been rash. {6:4} For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, The poison
where my spirit drinks up: The terrors of God do set themselves in array
against me. {6:5} Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass? Or the ox lows
over his fodder? {6:6} Can that which has no savor be eaten outside salt? Or is
there any taste in the white of an egg? {6:7} My soul refuses to touch [them];
They are as loathsome food to me. {6:8}
Oh that I might have my request; And that God would grant [me] the thing that I
long for! {6:9} Even that it would please God to crush me; That he would let
loose his hand, and cut me off! {6:10} And be it still my consolation, behold,
let me exult in pain that spares not, That I have not denied the words of the
Holy One. {6:11} What is my strength, that I should wait? And what is mine end,
that I should be patient? {6:12} Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is
my flesh of brass? {6:13} Is it not that I have no help in me, And that wisdom
is driven quite from me? {6:14} To him that is ready to faint kindness [should
be showed] from his friend; Even to
him that forsakes the fear of the Almighty. {6:15} My brethren have dealt
deceitfully as a brook, As the channel of brooks that pass away; {6:16} Which
are black by reason of the ice, [And] wherein the snow hides itself: {6:17}
What time they wax warm, they vanish; When it is hot, they are consumed out of
their place. {6:18} The caravans [that travel] by the way of them turn aside;
They go up into the waste, and perish. {6:19} The caravans of Tema looked, The
companies of
{O18)7} Job Chapter Seven. {7:1} Is there not a warfare to man upon
earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling? {7:2} As a servant
that earnestly desires the shadow, And as a hireling that looks for his wages:
{7:3} So am I made to possess moons of misery, And wearisome nights are
appointed to me. {7:4} When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the
night be gone? And I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the
day. {7:5} My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; My skin closes up,
and breaks out afresh. {7:6} My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, And
are spent outside hope. {7:7} Oh remember that my life is a breath: Mine eye
shall no more see good. {7:8} The eye of him that sees me shall behold me no
more; your eyes shall be upon me, but I shall not be. {7:9} As the cloud is
consumed and vanishes away, So he that goes down to Sheol shall come up no
more. {7:10} He shall return no more to his house, Neither shall his place know
him any more. {7:11} Therefore I will
not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain
in the bitterness of my soul. {7:12} Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, That you set
a watch over me? {7:13} When I say, My bed shall comfort me, My couch shall
ease my complaint; {7:14} Then you scare me with dreams, And terrify me through
visions: {7:15} So that my soul chooses strangling, And death rather than
[these] my bones. {7:16} I loathe [my life]; I would not live always: Let me
alone; for my days are vanity. {7:17} What is man, that you should magnify him,
And that you should set your mind upon him, {7:18} And that you should visit
him every morning, And try him every moment? {7:19} How long will you not look
away from me, Nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle? {7:20} If I have
sinned, what do I unto you, O you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark
for you, So that I am a burden to myself? {7:21} And why do you not pardon my
transgression of the law, and take away
mine works against law? For now shall I lie down in the dust; And you
will seek me diligently, but I shall not be.
{O18)8} Job Chapter Eight. {8:1} Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and
said, {8:2} How long will you speak these things? And [how long] shall the
words of your mouth be [like] a mighty wind? {8:3} Does God pervert justice? Or
does the Almighty pervert lawful works? {8:4} If your children have sinned
against him, And he has delivered them into the hand of their transgression of
the law; {8:5} If you would seek diligently unto God, And make your
supplication to the Almighty; {8:6} If you were pure and upright: Surely now he
would awake for you, And make the habitation of your lawful works prosperous.
{8:7} And though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly
increase. {8:8} For inquire, I pray you, of the former age, And apply yourself
to that which their fathers have searched out: {8:9} (For we are but of yEstherday,
and know nothing, Because our days upon earth are a shadow); {8:10} shall not
they teach you, and tell you, And utter words out of their heart? {8:11} Can the rush grow up outside mire? Can
the flag grow outside water? {8:12} While it is yet in its greenness, [and] not
cut down, It withers before any [other] herb. {8:13} So are the paths of all
that forget God; And the hope of the godless man shall perish: {8:14} Whose
confidence shall break in sunder, And whose trust is a spider's web. {8:15} He
shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: He shall hold fast thereby,
but it shall not endure. {8:16} He is green before the sun, And his shoots go
forth over his garden. {8:17} His roots are wrapped about the [stone] -heap, He
beholds the place of stones. {8:18} If he be destroyed from his place, Then it
shall deny him, [saying], I have not seen you. {8:19} Behold, this is the joy
of his way; And out of the earth shall others spring. {8:20} Behold, God will
not cast away a perfect man, Neither will he uphold the evil-doers. {8:21} He
will yet fill your mouth with laughter, And your lips with shouting. {8:22}
They that hate you shall be clothed with shame; And the tent of the wicked
shall be no more.
{O18)9} Job Chapter Nine. {9:1} Then Job answered and said, {9:2} Of
a truth I know that it is so: But how can man be just with God? {9:3} If he be
pleased to contend with him, He cannot answer him one of a thousand. {9:4} [He
is] wise in heart, and mighty in strength: Who has hardened himself against
him, and prospered?- {9:5} [Him] that removes the mountains, and they know it
not, When [mountains] he overturns them in his anger; {9:6} That shakes the
earth out of its place, And the pillars of it tremble; {9:7} That commands the
sun, and it rises not, And seals up the stars; {9:8} That alone stretches out
the heavens, And treads upon the waves of the sea; {9:9} That makes Bear,
Orion, and the Pleiades, And the chambers of the south; {9:10} That do great
things past finding out, behold, marvellous things outside number. {9:11} Lo,
he goes by me, and I see him not: He passes on also, but I perceive him not.
{9:12} Behold, he seizes [the prey], who can hinder him? Who will say unto him,
What do you do? {9:13} God will not
withdraw his anger; The helpers of Rahab do stoop under him. {9:14} How much
less shall I answer him, And choose out my words [to reason] with him? {9:15}
Whom, though I were lawful in works, yet would I not answer; I would make
supplication to my judge. {9:16} If I had called, and he had answered me, yet
would I not believe that he heard unto my voice. {9:17} For he breaks me with a
tempest, And multiplies my wounds outside cause. {9:18} He will not suffer me
to take my breath, But fills me with bitterness. {9:19} If [we speak] of
strength, lo, [he is] mighty! And if of justice, Who, [said he], will summon
me? {9:20} though I be lawful in works, mine own mouth shall condemn me: though
I be perfect, it shall prove me perverse. {9:21} I am perfect; I regard not
myself; I despise my life. {9:22} It is all one; therefore I say, He destroys
the perfect and the wicked. {9:23} If the scourge slay suddenly, He will mock
at the trial of the innocent. {9:24} The earth is given into the hand of the
wicked; He covers the faces of the judges there: If [it be] not [he], who then
is it? {9:25} Now my days are swifter
than a post: They flee away, they see no good, {9:26} They are passed away as
the swift ships; As the eagle that swoops upon the prey. {9:27} If I say, I
will forget my complaint, I will put off my [sad] countenance, and be of good
cheer; {9:28} I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that you will not hold me
innocent. {9:29} I shall be condemned; Why then do I labor in vain? {9:30} If I
wash myself with snow water, And make my hands never so clean; {9:31} yet will
you plunge me in the ditch, And mine own clothes shall abhor me. {9:32} For he
is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, That we should come together
in judgment. {9:33} There is no umpire between us, That might lay his hand upon
us both. {9:34} Let him take his rod away from me, And let not his terror make
me afraid: {9:35} Then would I speak, and not fear him; For I am not so in
myself.
{o18)10} Job Chapter Ten. {10:1} My soul is
weary of my life; I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the
bitterness of my soul. {10:2} I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; show me therefore
you contend with me. {10:3} Is it good unto you that you should oppress, That
you should despise the work of your hands, And shine upon the counsel of the
wicked? {10:4} Have you eyes of flesh? Or sees you as man sees? {10:5} Are your
days as the days of man, Or your years as man's days, {10:6} That you inquire
after mine works against law, And search after my sin, {10:7} Although you know
that I am not wicked, And there is none that can deliver out of your hand? {10:8} Your hands have framed me and
fashioned me Together round about; yet you do destroy me. {10:9} Remember, I
ask you, that you have fashioned me as clay; And will you bring me into dust
again? {10:10} Have you not poured me out as milk, And curdled me like cheese?
{10:11} you have clothed me with skin and flesh, And knit me together with
bones and sinews. {10:12} you have granted me life and loving kindness; And your
visitation has preserved my spirit. {10:13} yet these things you did hide in
your heart; I know that this is with you: {10:14} If I sin, then you mark me,
And you will not acquit me from mine works against law. {10:15} If I be wicked,
a curse unto me; And if I be lawful in works, yet shall I not lift up my head;
Being filled with ignominy, And looking upon mine affliction. {10:16} And if
[my head] exalt itself, you hunt me as a lion; And again you show yourself
marvellous upon me. {10:17} you renew your witnesses against me, And increase
your indignation upon me: Changes and warfare are with me. {10:18}
For what reason then have you brought me forth out of the womb? I had
given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me. {10:19} I should have been as
though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
{10:20} Are not my days few? cease then, And let me alone, that I may take
comfort a little, {10:21} Before I go where I shall not return, [Even] to the
land of darkness and of the shadow of death; {10:22} The land dark as midnight,
[The land] of the shadow of death, outside any order, And where the light is as
midnight.
{O18)11} Job Chapter Eleven. {11:1} Then answered Zophar the Naamathite,
and said, {11:2} Should not the multitude of words be answered? And should a
man full of talk be justified? {11:3} Should your boastings make men hold their
peace? And when you mock, no man shall make you ashamed? {11:4} For you say, My
instructions is pure, And I am clean in your eyes. {11:5} But oh that God would
speak, And open his lips against you, {11:6} And that he would show you the
secrets of wisdom! For he is manifold in understanding. Know therefore that God
exacts of you less than your works against law deserves. {11:7} Can you by searching find out God? Can
you find out the Almighty unto perfection? {11:8} It is high as heaven; what can
you do? Deeper than Sheol; what can you know? {11:9} The measure of it is
longer than the earth, And broader than the sea. {11:10} If he pass through,
and shut up, And all unto judgment, then who can hinder him? {11:11} For he
knows false men: He sees works against law also, even though he consider it
not. {11:12} But vain man is void of understanding, behold, man is born [as] a
wild ass's colt. {11:13} If you set your
heart aright, And stretch out your hands toward him; {11:14} If works against
law be in your hand, put it far away, And let not [illegal] works outside law
dwell in your tents. {11:15} Surely then shall you lift up your face outside
spot; behold, you shall be steadfast, and shall not fear: {11:16} For you shall
forget your misery; you shall remember it as waters that are passed away,
{11:17} And [your] life shall be clearer than the noonday; though there be
darkness, it shall be as the morning. {11:18} And you shall be secure, because
there is hope; behold, you shall search [about you], and shall take your rest
in safety. {11:19} Also you shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid;
behold, many shall make suit unto you. {11:20} But the eyes of the wicked shall
fail, And they shall have no way to flee; And their hope shall be the giving up
of the ghost.
{O18)12} Job Chapter Twelve. {12:1} Then Job answered and said, {12:2}
No doubt but you are the people, And wisdom shall die with you. {12:3} But I
have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: behold, who knows
not such things as these? {12:4} I am as one that is a laughing-stock to his
neighbor, I who called upon God, and he answered: The just, the perfect man is a
laughing-stock. {12:5} In the thought of him that is at ease there is contempt
for misfortune; It is ready for them whose foot slips. {12:6} The tents of
robbers prosper, And they that provoke God are secure; Into whose hand God
brings[abundantly]. {12:7} But ask now
the beasts, and they shall teach you; And the birds of the heavens, and they
shall tell you: {12:8} Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach you; And the
fishes of the sea shall declare unto you. {12:9} Who knows not in all these,
That the hand of Yahweh has wrought this, {12:10} In whose hand is the soul of
every living thing, And the breath of all mankind? {12:11} Does not the ear try
words, Even as the palate tastes its food? {12:12} With aged men is wisdom, And
in length of days understanding. {12:13}
With [God] is wisdom and might; He has counsel and understanding. {12:14}
Behold, he breaks down, and it cannot be built again; He shuts up a man, and
there can be no opening. {12:15} Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry
up; Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth. {12:16} With him is
strength and wisdom; The deceived and the deceiver are his. {12:17} He leads
counselors away stripped, And judges he makes fools. {12:18} He loosen the bond
of kings, And he binds their loins with a girdle. {12:19} He leads priests away
stripped, And overthrows the mighty. {12:20} He removes the speech of the
trusty, And takes away the understanding of the elders. {12:21} He pours
contempt upon princes, And looses the belt of the strong. {12:22} He uncovers
deep things out of darkness, And brings out to light the shadow of death.
{12:23} He increases the nations, and he destroys them: He enlarges the
nations, and he leads them captive. {12:24} He takes away understanding from
the chiefs of the people of the earth, And causes them to wander in a
wilderness where there is no way. {12:25} They grope in the dark outside light;
And he makes them to stagger like a drunk man.
{O18)13} Job Chapter Thirteen. {13:1} Lo, mine eye has seen all [this], Mine
ear has heard and understood it. {13:2} What you know, [the same] do I know
also: I am not inferior unto you. {13:3}
Surely I would speak to the Almighty, And I desire to reason with God. {13:4}
But you are forgers of lies; you are all physicians of no value. {13:5} Oh that
you would altogether hold your peace! And it would be your wisdom. {13:6} Hear
now my reasoning, And hear to the pleadings of my lips. {13:7} Will you speak
un-lawfully for God, And talk deceitfully for him? {13:8} Will you show partiality
to him? Will you contend for God? {13:9} Is it good that he should search you
out? Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him? {13:10} He will surely
reprove you If you do secretly show partiality. {13:11} shall not his majesty
make you afraid, And his dread fall upon you? {13:12} Your memorable sayings
are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay. {13:13} Hold your peace, let me alone, that I
may speak; And let come on me what will. {13:14} Therefore should I take my
flesh in my teeth, And put my life in my hand? {13:15} Behold, he will slay me;
I have no hope: Nevertheless I will maintain my ways before him. {13:16} This
also shall be my salvation, That a godless man shall not come before him.
{13:17} Hear diligently my speech, And let my declaration be in your ears.
{13:18} Behold now, I have set my cause in order; I know that I am working
lawfully. {13:19} Who is he that will contend with me? For then would I hold my
peace and give up the ghost. {13:20}
Only do not two things unto me; Then will I not hide myself from your face:
{13:21} Withdraw your hand far from me; And let not your terror make me afraid.
{13:22} Then call you, and I will answer; Or let me speak, and answer you me.
{13:23} How many are mine iniquities and sins? Make me to know my transgression
of the law and my sin. {13:24} Therefore hide you your face, And hold me for
your enemy? {13:25} Will you harass a driven leaf? And will you pursue the dry
stubble? {13:26} For you write bitter things against me, And make me to inherit
the iniquities of my youth: {13:27} you put my feet also in the stocks, And
mark all my paths; you set a bound to the soles of my feet: {13:28} though I am
like a rotten thing that consumes, Like a garment that is moth-eaten.
{O18)14} Job Chapter Fourteen. {14:1} Man, that is born of a woman, Is of
few days, and full of trouble. {14:2} He comes forth like a 4.n your eyes upon
such a one, And brings me into judgment with you? {14:4} Who can bring a clean
thing out of an unclean? not one. {14:5} Seeing his days are determined, The
number of his moons is with you, And you have appointed his bounds that he
cannot pass; {14:6} Look away from him, that he may rest, Till he shall
accomplish, as a hireling, his day.
{14:7} For there is hope of a tree, If it be cut down, that it will
sprout again, And that the tender branch of it will not cease. {14:8} though
the root of it wax old in the earth, And the stock of it die in the ground;
{14:9} yet through the scent of water it will bud, And put forth boughs like a
plant. {14:10} But man dies, and is laid low: behold, man gives up the ghost,
and where is he? {14:11} [As] the waters fail from the sea, And the river
decays sand dries up; {14:12} So man lies down and rises not: Till the heavens
be no more, they shall not awake, Nor be roused out of their sleep. {14:13} Oh that you would hide me in Sheol,
That you would keep me secret, until your wrath be past, That you would appoint
me a set time, and remember me! {14:14} If a man die, shall he live [again]?
All the days of my warfare would I wait, Till my release should come. {14:15}
you would call, and I would answer you: you would have a desire to the work of
your hands. {14:16} But now you number my steps: Do you not watch over my sin?
{14:17} My transgression of the law is sealed up in a bag, And you fasten up
mine works against law. {14:18} But the
mountain falling comes to nothing; And the rock is removed out of its place;
{14:19} The waters wear the stones; The overflowings of it wash away the dust
of the earth: So you destroys the hope of man. {14:20} you prevail for ever
against him, and he passes; you change his countenance, and send him away.
{14:21} His sons come to honor, and he knows it not; And they are brought low,
but he perceives it not of them. {14:22} But his flesh upon him has pain, And
his soul within him grieves.
{o18)15} Job Chapter Fifteen. {15:1} Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite,
and said, {15:2} Should a wise man make answer with vain knowledge, And fill
himself with the east wind? {15:3} Should he reason with unprofitable talk, Or
with speeches wherewith he can do no good? {15:4} behold, you do away with
fear, And hinder devotion before God. {15:5} For your works against law teaches
your mouth, And you choose the tongue of the crafty. {15:6} your own mouth
condemns you, and not I; behold, your own lips testify against you. {15:7} are you the first man that was born?
Or was you brought forth before the hills? {15:8} Have you heard the secret
counsel of God? And do you limit wisdom to yourself? {15:9} What do you know,
that we know not? What do you understand, which is not in us? {15:10} With us
are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, Much elder than your father.
{15:11} Are the consolations of God too small for you, Even the word that is
gentle toward you? {15:12} Why does your heart carry you away? And why do your
eyes flash, {15:13} That against God you turn your spirit, And let words go out
of your mouth? {15:14} What is man, that he should be clean? And he that is
born of a woman, that he should be working lawfully? {15:15} Behold, he puts no
trust in his holy ones; behold, the heavens are not clean in his sight: {15:16}
How much less one that is abominable and corrupt, A man that drinks works against
law like water! {15:17} I will show you,
hear you me; And that which I have seen I will declare: {15:18} (Which wise men
have told from their fathers, and have not hid it; {15:19} Unto whom alone the
land was given, And no stranger passed among them): {15:20} The wicked man
travails with pain all his days, Even the number of years that are laid up for
the oppressor. {15:21} A sound of terrors is in his ears; In prosperity the
destroyer shall come upon him. {15:22} He believes not that he shall return out
of darkness, And he is waited for of the sword. {15:23} He wanders abroad for
bread, [saying], Where is it? He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his
hand. {15:24} Distress and anguish make him afraid; They prevail against him,
as a king ready to the battle. {15:25} Because he has stretched out his hand
against God, And behaves himself proudly against the Almighty; {15:26} He runs
upon him with a [stiff] neck, With the thick bosses of his bucklers; {15:27}
Because he has covered his face with his fatness, And gathered fat upon his
loins; {15:28} And he has dwelt in desolate cities, In houses which no man
inhabited, Which were ready to become heaps; {15:29} He shall not be rich,
neither shall his substance continue, Neither shall their possessions be
extended on the earth. {15:30} He shall not depart out of darkness; The flame
shall dry up his branches, And by the breath of [God's] mouth shall he go away.
{15:31} Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself; For vanity shall be his
recompense. {15:32} It shall be accomplished before his time, And his branch
shall not be green. {15:33} He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine,
And shall cast off his flower as the olive-tree. {15:34} For the company of the
godless shall be barren, And fire shall consume the tents of bribery. {15:35}
They conceive mischief, and bring forth works against law, And their heart
prepares deceit.
{O18)16} Job Chapter Sixteen. {16:1} Then Job answered and said, {16:2} I
have heard many such things: Miserable comforters are you all. {16:3} shall
vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer? {16:4} I also
could speak as you do; If your soul were in my soul's stead, I could join words
together against you, And shake my head at you. {16:5} [But] I would strengthen
you with my mouth, And the solace of my lips would assuage [your grief]. {16:6}
though I speak, my grief is not assuaged; And though I forbear, what am I
eased? {16:7} But now he has made me weary: you have made desolate all my
company. {16:8} And you have laid fast hold on me, [which] is a witness
[against me]: And my leanness rises up against me, It testifies to my face.
{16:9} He has torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me; He has gnashed upon me
with his teeth: Mine adversary sharpens his eyes upon me. {16:10} They have
gaped upon me with their mouth; They have smitten me upon the cheek
reproachfully: They gather themselves together against me. {16:11} God delivers
me to the ungodly, And casts me into the hands of the wicked. {16:12} I was at
ease, and he brake me asunder; behold, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed
me to pieces: He has also set me up for his mark. {16:13} His archers compass
me round about; He cleaves my reins asunder, and does not spare; He pours
out my gall upon the ground. {16:14} He
breaks me with breach upon breach; He runs upon me like a giant. {16:15} I have
sewed sackcloth upon my skin, And have laid my horn in the dust. {16:16} My
face is red with weeping, And on my eyelids is the shadow of death; {16:17}
Although there is no violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure. {16:18} O earth, cover not you my blood, And
let my cry have no [resting] -place. {16:19} Even now, behold, my witness is in
heaven, And he that vouches for me is on high. {16:20} My friends scoff at me:
[But] mine eye pours out tears unto God, {16:21} That he would maintain the
right of a man with God, And of a son of man with his neighbor! {16:22} For
when a few years are come, I shall go the way where I shall not return.
{O18)17} Job Chapter Seventeen. {17:1} My spirit is consumed, my days are
extinct, The grave is [ready] for me. {17:2} Surely there are mockers with me,
And mine eye dwells upon their provocation.
{17:3} Give now a pledge, be for
a guarentee for me with yourself; Who is there that will strike hands with me?
{17:4} For you have hid their heart from understanding: Therefore shall you not
exalt [them]. {17:5} He that denounces his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of
his children shall fail. {17:6} But he
has made me a byword of the people; And they spit in my face. {17:7} Mine eye
also is dim by reason of sorrow, And all my members are as a shadow. {17:8}
Upright men shall be astonished at this, And the innocent shall stir up himself
against the godless. {17:9} yet shall the lawful worker hold on his way, And he
that has clean hands shall wax stronger and stronger. {17:10} But as for you
all, come on now again; And I shall not find a wise man among you. {17:11} My
days are past, my purposes are broken off, Even the thoughts of my heart. {17:12}
They change the night into day: The light, [say they], is near unto the
darkness. {17:13} If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in
the darkness; {17:14} If I have said to corruption, you are my father; To the
worm, [you are] my mother, and my sister; {17:15} Where then is my hope? And as
for my hope, who shall see it? {17:16} It shall go down to the bars of Sheol,
When once there is rest in the dust.
{O18)18} Job Chapter Eighteen. {18:1} Then answered Bildad the Shuhite,
and said, {18:2} How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we
will speak. {18:3} Therefore are we counted as beasts, [And] are become unclean
in your sight? {18:4} you that tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be
forsaken for you? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place? {18:5} behold, the light of the wicked shall
be put out, And the spark of his fire shall not shine. {18:6} The light shall
be dark in his tent, And his lamp above him shall be put out. {18:7} The steps
of his strength shall be straitened, And his own counsel shall cast him down.
{18:8} For he is cast into a net by his own feet, And he walks upon the toils.
{18:9} A gin shall take [him] by the heel, [And] a snare shall lay hold on him.
{18:10} A noose is hid for him in the ground, And a trap for him in the way.
{18:11} Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, And shall chase him at his
heels. {18:12} His strength shall be hunger-bitten, And calamity shall be ready
at his side. {18:13} The members of his body shall be devoured, [behold], the
first-born of death shall devour his members. {18:14} He shall be rooted out of
his tent where he trust; And he shall be brought to the king of terrors.
{18:15} There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his: Brimstone
shall be scattered upon his habitation. {18:16} His roots shall be dried up
beneath, And above shall his branch be cut off. {18:17} His remembrance shall
perish from the earth, And he shall have no name in the street. {18:18} He
shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world. {18:19}
He shall have neither son nor son's son among his people, Nor any remaining
where he sojourned. {18:20} They that come after shall be astonished at his
day, As they that went before were affrighted. {18:21} Surely such are the
dwellings of the worker against the law, And this is the place of him that
knows not God.
{O18)19} Job Chapter Nineteen. {19:1} Then Job answered and said, {19:2}
How long will you vex my soul, And break me in pieces with words? {19:3} These
ten times have you reproached me: you are not ashamed that you deal hardly with
me. {19:4} And be it indeed that I have erred, Mine error remains with myself.
{19:5} If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me
my reproach; {19:6} Know now that God has subverted me [in my cause], And has
compassed me with his net. {19:7}
Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for help, but there is no
justice. {19:8} He has walled up my way that I cannot pass, And has set
darkness in my paths. {19:9} He has stripped me of my glory, And taken the
crown from my head. {19:10} He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone;
And my hope has he plucked up like a tree. {19:11} He has also kindled his
wrath against me, And he counts me unto him as [one of] his adversaries.
{19:12} His troops come on together, And cast up their way against me, And
encamp round about my tent. {19:13} He has put my brethren far from me, And
mine acquaintance are wholly estranged from me. {19:14} My kinsfolk have
failed, And my familiar friends have forgotten me. {19:15} They that dwell in
my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.
{19:16} I call unto my servant, and he gives me no answer, [though] I entreat
him with my mouth. {19:17} My breath is strange to my wife, And my supplication
to the children of mine own mother. {19:18} Even young children despise me; If
I arise, they speak against me. {19:19} All my familiar friends abhor me, And
they whom I agape loved are turned against me. {19:20} My bone cleaves to my
skin and to my flesh, And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. {19:21} Have
pity upon me, have pity upon me, O you my friends; For the hand of God has
touched me. {19:22} Why do you persecute me as God, And are not satisfied with
my flesh? {19:23} Oh that my words were
now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book! {19:24} That with an iron
pen and lead They were graven in the rock for ever! {19:25} But as for me I
know that my Redeemer lives, And at last he will stand up upon the earth:
{19:26} And after my skin, [even] this [body], is destroyed, Then outside my
flesh shall I see God; {19:27} Whom I, even I, shall see, on my side, And mine
eyes shall behold, and not as a stranger. My heart is consumed within me.
{19:28} If you say, How we will persecute him! And that the root of the matter
is found in me; {19:29} Be you afraid of the sword: For wrath [brings] the
punishments of the sword, That you may know there is a judgment.
{O18)20} Job Chapter Twenty. {20:1} Then answered Zophar the Naamathite,
and said, {20:2} Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, Even by reason of
my haste that is in me. {20:3} I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame;
And the spirit of my understanding answers me. {20:4} Know you [not] this of
old time, Since man was placed upon earth, {20:5} That the triumphing of the
wicked is short, And the joy of the godless but for a moment? {20:6} though his
height mount up to the heavens, And his head reach unto the clouds; {20:7} yet
he shall perish for ever like his own dung: They that have seen him shall say,
Where is he? {20:8} He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found:
behold, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night. {20:9} The eye which
saw him shall see him no more; Neither shall his place any more behold him.
{20:10} His children shall seek the favor of the poor, And his hands shall give
back his wealth. {20:11} His bones are full of his youth, But it shall lie down
with him in the dust. {20:12} though
wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue, {20:13}
though he spare it, and will not let it go, But keep it still within his mouth;
{20:14} yet his food in his bowels is turned, It is the gall of asps within
him. {20:15} He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again;
God will cast them out of his belly. {20:16} He shall suck the poison of asps:
The viper's tongue shall slay him. {20:17} He shall not look upon the rivers,
The flowing streams of honey and butter. {20:18} That which he labored for
shall he restore, and shall not
swallow it down; According to the substance that he has gotten, he shall
not rejoice. {20:19} For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor; He has
violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up. {20:20} Because he knew no quietness within
him, He shall not save anything of that wherein he delight. {20:21} There was
nothing left that he devoured not; Therefore his prosperity shall not endure.
{20:22} In the fullness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: The hand of
every one that is in misery shall come upon him. {20:23} When he is about to
fill his belly, [God] will cast the
fierceness of his wrath upon him, And will rain it upon him while he is
eating. {20:24} He shall flee from the iron weapon, And the bow of brass shall
strike him through. {20:25} He draws it forth, and it comes out of his body;
behold, the glittering point comes out of his gall: Terrors are upon him.
{20:26} All darkness is laid up for his treasures: A fire not blown [by man]
shall devour him; It shall consume that which is left in his tent. {20:27} The
heavens shall reveal his works against law, And the earth shall rise up against
him. {20:28} The increase of his house shall depart; [His goods] shall flow
away in the day of his wrath. {20:29} This is the portion of a wicked man from
God, And the heritage appointed unto him by God.
{O18)21} Job Chapter Chapter TwentyOne. {21:1} Then Job answered and said, {21:2}
Hear diligently my speech; And let this be your consolations. {21:3} Suffer me,
and I also will speak; And after that I have spoken, mock on. {21:4} As for me,
is my complaint to man? And why should I not be impatient? {21:5} Mark me, and
be astonished, And lay your hand upon your mouth. {21:6} Even when I remember I
am troubled, And horror takes hold on my flesh. {21:7} Therefore do the wicked
live, Become old, behold, wax mighty in power? {21:8} Their seed is established
with them in their sight, And their offspring before their eyes. {21:9} Their
houses are safe from fear, Neither is the rod of God upon them. {21:10} Their
bull genders, and fails not; Their cow calves, and casts not her calf. {21:11}
They send forth their little ones like a flock, And their children dance.
{21:12} They sing to the timbrel and harp, And rejoice at the sound of the
pipe. {21:13} They spend their days in prosperity, And in a moment they go down
to Sheol. {21:14} And they say unto God, Depart from us; For we desire not the
knowledge of your ways. {21:15} What is the Almighty, that we should serve him?
And what profit should we have, if we pray unto him? {21:16} Lo, their
prosperity is not in their hand: The counsel of the wicked is far from me. {21:17} How oft is it that the lamp of the
wicked is put out? That their calamity comes upon them? That [God] distributes
sorrows in his anger? {21:18} That they are as stubble before the wind, And as
chaff that the storm carries away? {21:19} [you say], God lays up his works against
law for his children. Let him recompense it unto himself, that he may know it:
{21:20} Let his own eyes see his destruction, And let him drink of the wrath of
the Almighty. {21:21} For what cares he for his house after him, When the
number of his moons is cut off? {21:22} shall any teach God knowledge, Seeing
he judges those that are high? {21:23} One dies in his full strength, Being
wholly at ease and quiet: {21:24} His pails are full of milk, And the marrow of
his bones is moistened. {21:25} And another dies in bitterness of soul, And
never tastes of good. {21:26} They lie down alike in the dust, And the worm
covers them. {21:27} Behold, I know your
thoughts, And the devices wherewith you would wrong me. {21:28} For you say, Where
is the house of the prince? And where is the tent wherein the wicked dwelt?
{21:29} Have you not asked wayfaring men? And do you not know their evidences,
{21:30} That the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity? That they are led
forth to the day of wrath? {21:31} Who shall declare his way to his face? And
who shall repay him what he has done? {21:32} yet shall he be borne to the
grave, And men shall keep watch over the tomb. {21:33} The clods of the valley
shall be sweet unto him, And all men shall draw after him, As there were innumerable
before him. {21:34} How then comfort you me in vain, Seeing in your answers
there remains[only] falsehood?
{O18)22} Job Chapter TwentyTwo. {22:1} Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite,
and said, {22:2} Can a man be profitable unto God? Surely he that is wise is
profitable unto himself. {22:3} Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that you
are a lawful worker? Or is it gain [to him], that you make your ways perfect?
{22:4} Is it for your fear [of him] that he reproves you, That he enters with
you into judgment? {22:5} Is not your wickedness great? Neither is there any
end to your works against law. {22:6} For you have taken pledges of your
brother for nothing, And stripped the naked of their clothing. {22:7} you have
not given water to the weary to drink, And you have withheld bread from the
hungry. {22:8} But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; And the honorable
man, he dwelt in it. {22:9} you have sent widows away empty, And the arms of
the fatherless have been broken. {22:10} Therefore snares are round about you,
And sudden fear troubles you, {22:11} Or darkness, so that you Can not see, And
abundance of waters cover you. {22:12}
Is not God in the height of heaven? And behold the height of the stars, how
high they are! {22:13} And you say, What does God know? Can he judge through
the thick darkness? {22:14} Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he sees
not; And he walks on the vault of heaven. {22:15} Will you keep the old way
Which wicked men have trodden? {22:16} Who were snatched away before their
time, Whose foundation was poured out as a stream, {22:17} Who said unto God,
Depart from us; And, What can the Almighty do for us? {22:18} yet he filled
their houses with good things: But the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
{22:19} The lawful worker see it, and are glad; And the innocent laugh them to
scorn, {22:20} [Saying], Surely they that did rise up against us are cut off,
And the remnant of them the fire has consumed.
{22:21} Acquaint now yourself with him, and be at peace: Thereby good
shall come unto you. {22:22} Receive, I pray you, the law from his mouth, And
lay up his words in your heart. {22:23} If you return to the Almighty, you
shall be built up, If you put away [illegal] works outside law far from your
tents. {22:24} And lay you [your] treasure in the dust, And [the gold of] Ophir
among the stones of the brooks; {22:25} And the Almighty will be your treasure,
And precious silver unto you. {22:26} For then shall you delight yourself in
the Almighty, And shall lift up your face unto God. {22:27} you shall make your
prayer unto him, and he will hear you; And you shall pay your vows. {22:28} you
shall also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto you; And light shall shine upon your
ways. {22:29} When they cast [you] down, you shall say, [There is] lifting up; And the humble person he will save.
{22:30} He will deliver [even] him that is not innocent: behold, he shall be
delivered through the cleanness of your hands.
{O18)23} Job Chapter TwentyThree. {23:1} Then Job answered and said, {23:2}
Even to-day is my complaint rebellious: My stroke is heavier than my groaning.
{23:3} Oh that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his
seat! {23:4} I would set my cause in order before him, And fill my mouth with
arguments. {23:5} I would know the words which he would answer me, And
understand what he would say unto me. {23:6} Would he contend with me in the
greatness of his power? No; but he would give heed unto me. {23:7} There the
upright might reason with him; So should I be delivered for ever from my judge.
{23:8} Behold, I go forward, but he is not [there]; And backward, but I cannot
perceive him; {23:9} On the left hand, when he does work, but I cannot behold
him; He hides himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him. {23:10} But he knows the way that I take;
When he has tried me, I shall come forth as gold. {23:11} My foot has held fast
to his steps; His way have I kept, and turned not aside. {23:12} I have not
gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have treasured up the words of
his mouth more than my necessary food. {23:13} But he is in one [mind], and who
can turn him? And what his soul desires, even that he does. {23:14} For he
performs that which is appointed for me: And many such things are with him.
{23:15} Therefore am I terrified at his presence; When I consider, I am afraid
of him. {23:16} For God has made my heart faint, And the Almighty has terrified
me; {23:17} Because I was not cut off before the darkness, Neither did he cover
the thick darkness from my face.
{O18)24} Job Chapter TwentyFour. {24:1} Why
are times not laid up by the Almighty? And why do not they that know him see
his days? {24:2} There are that remove the landmarks; They violently take away
flocks, and feed them. {24:3} They drive away the donkey of the fatherless;
They take the widow's ox for a pledge. {24:4} They turn the needy out of the
way: The poor of the earth all hide themselves. {24:5} Behold, as wild asses in
the desert They go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food; The
wilderness [yields] them bread for their children. {24:6} They cut their
provender in the field; And they glean the vintage of the wicked. {24:7} They
lie all night naked outside clothing, And have no covering in the cold. {24:8}
They are wet with the showers of the mountains, And embrace the rock for want
of a shelter. {24:9} There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, And
take a pledge of the poor; {24:10} [So that] they go about naked outside clothing,
And being hungry they carry the sheaves. {24:11} They make oil within the walls
of these men; They tread [their] winepresses, and suffer thirst. {24:12} From
out of the populous city men groan, And the soul of the wounded cries out: yet
God regards not the folly. {24:13} These
are of them that rebel against the light; They know not the ways there, Nor
abide in the paths there. {24:14} The murderer rises with the light; He kills
the poor and needy; And in the night he is as a thief. {24:15} The eye also of
the adulterer waits for the twilight, Saying, No eye shall see me: And he
disguises his face. {24:16} In the dark they dig through houses: They shut
themselves up in the day-time; They know not the light. {24:17} For the morning
is to all of them as thick darkness; For they know the terrors of the thick
darkness. {24:18} Swiftly they [pass
away] upon the face of the waters; Their portion is cursed in the earth: They
turn not into the way of the vineyards. {24:19} Drought and heat consume the
snow waters: [So does] Sheol [those that] have sinned. {24:20} The womb shall
forget him; The worm shall feed sweetly on him; He shall be no more remembered;
And [illegal] works outside law shall be broken as a tree. {24:21} He devours
the barren that bears not, And does not good to the widow. {24:22} yet [God]
preserves the mighty by his power: He rises up that has no assurance of life.
{24:23} [God] gives them to be in security, and they rest thereon; And his eyes
are upon their ways. {24:24} They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are
gone; behold, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all
others, And are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain. {24:25} And if it be
not so now, who will prove me a liar, And make my speech nothing worth?
{O18)25} Job TwentyFive. {25:1} Then answered Bildad the Shuhite,
and said, {25:2} Dominion and fear are with him; He makes peace in his high
places. {25:3} Is there any number of his armies? And upon whom does not his
light arise? {25:4} How then can man be just with God? Or how can he be clean
that is born of a woman? {25:5} Behold, even the moon has no brightness, And
the stars are not pure in his sight: {25:6} How much less man, that is a worm!
And the son of man, that is a worm!
{O18)26} Job Chapter TwentySix. {26:1} Then Job answered and said, {26:2}
How have you helped him that is outside power! How have you saved the arm that
has no strength! {26:3} How have you counseled him that has no wisdom, And
plentifully declared sound knowledge! {26:4} To whom have you uttered words?
And whose spirit came forth from you?
{26:5} They that are deceased tremble Beneath the waters and the
inhabitants there. {26:6} Sheol is naked before [God], And Abaddon has no covering.
{26:7} He stretches out the north over empty space, And hangs the earth upon
nothing. {26:8} He binds up the waters in his thick clouds; And the cloud is
not rent under them. {26:9} He encloses the face of his throne, And spreads his
cloud upon it. {26:10} He has described a boundary upon the face of the waters,
Unto the confines of light and darkness. {26:11} The pillars of heaven tremble
And are astonished at his rebuke. {26:12} He stirs up the sea with his power,
And by his understanding he smites through Rahab. {26:13} By his Spirit the heavens
are garnished; His hand has pierced the swift serpent. {26:14} Lo, these are
but the outskirts of his ways: And how small a whisper do we hear of him! But
the thunder of his power who can understand?
{O18)27} Job Chapter TwentySeven. {27:1} And Job again took up his parable,
and said, {27:2} As God lives, who has taken away my right, And the Almighty,
who has vexed my soul: {27:3} (For my life is yet whole in me, And the spirit
of God is in my nostrils); {27:4} Surely my lips shall not speak [illegal]
works outside law, Neither shall my tongue utter deceit. {27:5} Far be it from
me that I should justify you: Till I die I will not put away mine integrity
from me. {27:6} My [legal] works in the law, I hold fast, and will not let it
go: My heart shall not reproach [me] so long as I live. {27:7} Let mine enemy
be as the wicked, And let him that rises up against me be as the [illegal]
works against law. {27:8} For what is
the hope of the godless, though he get him gain, When God takes away his soul?
{27:9} Will God hear his cry, When trouble comes upon him? {27:10} Will he
delight himself in the Almighty, And call upon God at all times? {27:11} I will
teach you concerning the hand of God; That which is with the Almighty will I
not conceal. {27:12} Behold, all you yourselves have seen it; Why then are you
become altogether vain? {27:13} This is
the portion of a wicked man with God, And the heritage of oppressors, which
they receive from the Almighty: {27:14} If his children be multiplied, it is
for the sword; And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread. {27:15}
Those that remain of him shall be buried in death, And his widows shall make no
lamentation. {27:16} though he heap up silver as the dust, And prepare raiment
as the clay; {27:17} He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, And the
innocent shall divide the silver. {27:18} He builds his house as the moth, And
as a teporary shelter which the keeper makes. {27:19} He lies down rich, but he
shall not be gathered [to his fathers]; He opens his eyes, and he is not.
{27:20} Terrors overtake him like waters; A tempest steals him away in the
night. {27:21} The east wind carries him away, and he departs; And it sweeps
him out of his place. {27:22} For [God] shall hurl at him, and not spare: He
would fain flee out of his hand. {27:23} Men shall clap their hands at him, And
shall hiss him out of his place.
{O18)28} Job Chapter TwentyEight. {28:1} Surely there is a mine for silver, And
a place for gold which they refine. {28:2} Iron is taken out of the earth, And
copper is molten out of the stone. {28:3} [Man] sets an end to darkness, And
searches out, to the furthest bound, The stones of obscurity and of thick
darkness. {28:4} He breaks open a shaft away from where men sojourn; They are
forgotten of the foot; They hang afar from men, they swing to and fro. {28:5}
As for the earth, out of it comes bread; And underneath it is turned up as it
were by fire. {28:6} The stones of it are the place of sapphires, And it has
dust of gold. {28:7} That path no bird of prey knows, Neither has the falcon's
eye seen it: {28:8} The proud beasts have not trodden it, Nor has the fierce
lion passed thereby. {28:9} He puts forth his hand upon the flinty rock; He
overturns the mountains by the roots. {28:10} He cuts out channels among the
rocks; And his eye sees every precious thing. {28:11} He binds the streams that
they trickle not; And the thing that is hid brings he forth to light. {28:12} But where shall wisdom be found? And
where is the place of understanding? {28:13} Man knows not the price there;
Neither is it found in the land of the living. {28:14} The deep said, It is not
in me; And the sea said, It is not with me. {28:15} It cannot be gotten for
gold, Neither shall silver be weighed for the price there. {28:16} It cannot be
valued with the gold of Ophir, With the precious onyx, or the sapphire. {28:17}
Gold and glass cannot equal it, Neither shall it be exchanged for jewels of
fine gold. {28:18} No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal: behold, the
price of wisdom is above rubies. {28:19} The topaz of
{O18)29} Job Chapter TwentyNine. {29:1} And Job again took up his parable,
and said, {29:2} Oh that I were as in the moons of old, As in the days when God
watched over me; {29:3} When his lamp shined upon my head, And by his light I
walked through darkness; {29:4} As I was in the ripeness of my days, When the
friendship of God was upon my tent; {29:5} When the Almighty was yet with me,
And my children were about me; {29:6} When my steps were washed with butter,
And the rock poured me out streams of oil! {29:7} When I went forth to the gate
unto the city, When I prepared my seat in the street, {29:8} The young men saw
me and hid themselves, And the aged rose up and stood; {29:9} The princes
refrained from talking, And laid their hand on their mouth; {29:10} The voice
of the nobles was hushed, And their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
{29:11} For when the ear heard [me], then it blessed me; And when the eye saw
[me], it gave witness unto me: {29:12} Because I delivered the poor that cried,
The fatherless also, that had none to help him. {29:13} The blessing of him
that was ready to perish came upon me; And I caused the widow's heart to sing
for joy. {29:14} I put on good works, and it clothed me: My justice was as a
robe and a diadem. {29:15} I was eyes to the blind, And feet was I to the lame.
{29:16} I was a father to the needy: And the cause of him that I knew not I
searched out. {29:17} And I brake the jaws of the [illegal] worker of the law,
And plucked the prey out of his teeth. {29:18} Then I said, I shall die in my
nest, And I shall multiply my days as the sand: {29:19} My root is spread out
to the waters, And the dew lies all night upon my branch; {29:20} My glory is
fresh in me, And my bow is renewed in my hand. {29:21} Unto me men gave ear,
and waited, And kept silence for my counsel. {29:22} After my words they spoke
not again; And my speech distilled upon them. {29:23} And they waited for me as
for the rain; And they opened their mouth wide [as] for the latter rain.
{29:24} I smiled on them, when they had no confidence; And the light of my
countenance they cast not down. {29:25} I chose out their way, and sat [as]
chief, And dwelt as a king in the army, As one that comforts the grieveers.
{O18)30} Job Chapter Thirty. {30:1} But now
they that are younger than I have me in derision, Whose fathers I disdained to
set with the dogs of my flock. {30:2} behold, the strength of their hands,
whereto should it profit me? Men in whom ripe age is perished. {30:3} They are
gaunt with want and famine; They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of
wastefullness and desolation. {30:4} They pluck Mallow by the bushes; And the
roots of the broom are their food. {30:5} They are driven forth from the midst
[of men]; They cry after them as after a thief; {30:6} So that they dwell in
frightful valleys, In holes of the earth and of the rocks. {30:7} Among the
bushes they bray; Under the nettles they are gathered together. {30:8} [They
are] children of fools, behold, children of base men; They were scourged out of
the land. {30:9} And now I am become their song, behold, I am a byword unto
them. {30:10} They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, And spare not to spit in
my face. {30:11} For he has loosed his cord, and afflicted me; And they have
cast off the bridle before me. {30:12} Upon my right hand rise the rabble; They
thrust aside my feet, And they cast up against me their ways of destruction.
{30:13} They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, [Even] men that have no
helper. {30:14} As through a wide breach they come: In the midst of the ruin
they roll themselves [upon me]. {30:15} Terrors are turned upon me; They chase
mine honor as the wind; And my welfare is passed away as a cloud. {30:16} And now my soul is poured out within
me; Days of affliction have taken hold upon me. {30:17} In the night season my
bones are pierced in me, And the [pains] that gnaw me take no rest. {30:18} By
[God's] great force is my garment disfigured; It binds me about as the collar
of my coat. {30:19} He has cast me into the mire, And I am become like dust and
ashes. {30:20} I cry unto you, and you do not answer me: I stand up, and you gaze
at me. {30:21} you are turned to be cruel to me; With the might of your hand
you persecute me. {30:22} you lift me up to the wind, you cause me to ride
[upon it]; And you dissolve me in the storm. {30:23} For I know that you will
bring me to death, And to the house appointed for all living. {30:24} Howbeit
does not one stretch out the hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry
for help? {30:25} Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? Was not my soul
grieved for the needy? {30:26} When I looked for good, then evil came; And when
I waited for light, there came darkness. {30:27} My heart is troubled, and
rests not; Days of affliction are come upon me. {30:28} I go grievingoutside
the sun: I stand up in the Ekklesia, and cry for help. {30:29} I am a brother
to jackals, And a companion to ostriches. {30:30} My skin is black, [and falls]
from me, And my bones are burned with heat. {30:31} Therefore is my harp
[turned] to grieveing, And my pipe into the voice of them that weep.
{O18)31} Job Chapter ThirtyOne. {31:1} I made a covenant with mine eyes; How
then should I look upon a virgin? {31:2} For what is the portion from God
above, And the heritage from the Almighty on high? {31:3} Is it not calamity to
the worker against law, And disaster to the workers of works against law?
{31:4} Does not he see my ways, And number all my steps? {31:5}
If I have walked with falsehood, And my foot has hurried to deceit {31:6} (Let
me be weighed in an even balance, That God may know mine integrity); {31:7} If
my step has turned out of the way, And my heart walked after mine eyes, And if
any spot has cleaved to my hands: {31:8} Then let me sow, and let another eat;
behold, let the produce of my field be rooted out. {31:9}
If my heart has been enticed unto a woman, And I have laid wait at my
neighbor's door; {31:10} Then let my wife grind unto another, And let others
bow down upon her. {31:11} For that were a heinous crime; behold, it were an
work against law to be punished by the judges: {31:12} For it is a fire that
consumes unto Destruction, And would root out all mine increase. {31:13} If I
have despised the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant, When they contended with me;
{31:14} What then shall I do when God rises up? And when he visits, what shall
I answer him? {31:15} Did not he that made me in the womb make him? And did not
one fashion us in the womb? {31:16} If I have withheld the poor from [their]
desire, Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail, {31:17} Or have eaten my
morsel alone, And the fatherless has not eaten there {31:18} (No, from my youth
he grew up with me as with a father, And her have I guided from my mother's
womb); {31:19} If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, Or that the
needy had no covering; {31:20} If his loins have not blessed me, And if he has
not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep; {31:21} If I have lifted up my
hand against the fatherless, Because I saw my help in the gate: {31:22} Then
let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, And mine arm be broken from the
bone. {31:23} For calamity from God is a terror to me, And by reason of his
majesty I can do nothing. {31:24} If I
have made gold my hope, And have said to the fine gold, [you are] my
confidence; {31:25} If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, And because
my hand had gotten much; {31:26} If I have beheld the sun when it shined, Or
the moon walking in brightness, {31:27} And my heart has been secretly enticed,
And my mouth has kissed my hand: {31:28} This also were an work against law to
be punished by the judges; For I should have denied the God that is above.
{31:29} If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, Or lifted
up myself when evil found him; {31:30} (behold, I have not suffered by mouth to
sin By asking his life with a curse); {31:31} If the men of my tent have not
said, Who can find one that has not been filled with his meat? {31:32} (The
alien has not lodged in the street; But I have opened my doors to the
traveler); {31:33} If like Adam I have covered my transgression of the law, By
hiding mine work against law in my bosom, {31:34} Because I feared the great
multitude, And the contempt of families terrified me, So that I kept silence,
and went not out of the door- {31:35} Oh that I had one to hear me! (Lo, here
is my signature, let the Almighty answer me); And [that I had] the indictment
which mine adversary has written! {31:36} Surely I would carry it upon my
shoulder; I would bind it unto me as a crown: {31:37} I would declare unto him
the number of my steps; As a prince would I go near unto him. {31:38} If my
land cries out against me, And the furrows of it weep together; {31:39} If I
have eaten the fruits of it outside money, Or have caused the owners of it to
lose their life: {31:40} Let thistles grow instead of wheat, And cockle instead
of barley. The words of Job are
ended.
{O18)32} Job Chapter ThirtyTwo. {32:1} So these three men ceased to answer
Job, because he was a lawful worker in his own eyes. {32:2} Then was kindled
the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram:
against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than
God. {32:3} Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they
had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job. {32:4} Now Elihu had waited to
speak unto Job, because they were elder than he. {32:5} And when Elihu saw that
there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, his wrath was
kindled. {32:6} And Elihu the son of
Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and you are very old;
Therefore I held back, and durst not show you mine opinion. {32:7} I said, Days
should speak, And multitude of years should teach wisdom. {32:8} But there is a
spirit in man, And the breath of the Almighty gives them understanding. {32:9}
It is not the great that are wise, Nor the aged that understand justice.
{32:10} Therefore I said, Hear to me; I also will show mine opinion. {32:11} Behold, I waited for your words, I
listened for your reasonings, Whilst you searched out what to say. {32:12}
behold, I attended unto you, And, behold, there was none that convinced Job, Or
that answered his words, among you. {32:13} Beware lest you say, We have found
wisdom; God may vanquish him, not man: {32:14} For he has not directed his
words against me; Neither will I answer him with your speeches. {32:15} They are amazed, they answer no more:
They have not a word to say. {32:16} And shall I wait, because they speak not,
Because they stand still, and answer no more? {32:17} I also will answer my
part, I also will show mine opinion. {32:18} For I am full of words; The spirit
within me constrains me. {32:19} Behold, my breast is as wine which has no
vent; Like new wine-skins it is ready to burst. {32:20} I will speak, that I
may be refreshed; I will open my lips and answer. {32:21} Let me not, I pray
you, respect any man's person; Neither will I give flattering titles unto any
man. {32:22} For I know not to give flattering titles; [Else] would my Maker
soon take me away.
{O18)33} Job Chapter Thirty Three. {33:1}
Howbeit, Job, I pray you, hear my speech, And hear to all my words. {33:2}
Behold now, I have opened my mouth; My tongue has spoken in my mouth. {33:3} My
words [shall utter] the uprightness of my heart; And that which my lips know
they shall speak sincerely. {33:4} The Spirit of God has made me, And the
breath of the Almighty gives me life. {33:5} If you Can, answer you me; Set
[your words] in order before me, stand forth. {33:6} Behold, I am toward God
even as you are: I also am formed out of the clay. {33:7} Behold, my terror
shall not make you afraid, Neither shall my pressure be heavy upon you. {33:8}
Surely you have spoken in my hearing, And I have heard the voice of [your]
words, [saying], {33:9} I am clean, outside transgression of the law; I am
innocent, neither is there works against law in me: {33:10} Behold, he finds
occasions against me, He counts me for his enemy: {33:11} He puts my feet in
the stocks, He marks all my paths. {33:12} Behold, I will answer you, in this
you are not just; For God is greater than man.
{33:13} Why do you strive against him, For that he gives not account of
any of his matters? {33:14} For God speaks once, behold twice, [though man]
regards it not. {33:15} In a dream, in a vision of the night, When deep sleep
falls upon men, In slumberings upon the bed; {33:16} Then he opens the ears of
men, And seals their instruction, {33:17} That he may withdraw man [from his]
purpose, And hide pride from man; {33:18} He keeps back his soul from the pit,
And his life from perishing by the sword. {33:19} He is chastened also with
pain upon his bed, And with continual strife in his bones; {33:20} So that his
life abhors bread, And his soul dainty food. {33:21} His flesh is consumed
away, that it cannot be seen; And his bones that were not seen stick out.
{33:22} behold, his soul draws near unto the pit, And his life to the
destroyers. {33:23} If there be with him
an messenger, An interpreter, one among a thousand, To show unto man what is
right for him; {33:24} Then [God] is gracious unto him, and said, Deliver him
from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom. {33:25} His flesh shall be
fresher than a child's; He returns to the days of his youth. {33:26} He prays
unto God, and he is favorable unto him, So that he sees his face with joy: And
he restores unto man his good works. {33:27} He sings before men, and said, I
have sinned, and perverted that which was right, And it profited me not:
{33:28} He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit, And my life shall
behold the light. {33:29} Lo, all these
things does God work, Twice, [behold] thrice, with a man, {33:30} To bring back
his soul from the pit, That he may be enlightened with the light of the living.
{33:31} Mark well, O Job, hear unto me: Hold your peace, and I will speak.
{33:32} If you have anything to say, answer me: Speak, for I desire to justify
you. {33:33} If not, hear you unto me: Hold your peace, and I will teach you
wisdom.
{O18)34} Job Chapter Thirty Four. {34:1} Furthermore Elihu answered and said,
{34:2} Hear my words, you wise men; And give ear unto me, you that have
knowledge. {34:3} For the ear tries words, As the palate tastes food. {34:4}
Let us choose for us that which is right: Let us know among ourselves what is
good. {34:5} For Job has said, I am a
lawful worker, And God has taken away my right: {34:6} Notwithstanding my right
I am [accounted] a liar; My wound is incurable, [though I am] outside
transgression of the law. {34:7} What man is like Job, Who drinks up scoffing
like water, {34:8} Who goes in company with the workers of works against law,
And walks with wicked men? {34:9} For he has said, It profits a man nothing
That he should delight himself with God. {34:10} Therefore hear unto me, you
men of understanding: Far be it from God, that he should do wickedness, And
from the Almighty, that he should commit works against law. {34:11} For the
work of a man will he render unto him, And cause every man to find according to
his ways. {34:12} behold, of a guarentee, God will not do wickedly, Neither
will the Almighty pervert justice. {34:13} Who gave him a charge over the
earth? Or who has disposed the whole world? {34:14} If he set his heart upon
himself, [If] he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath; {34:15} All flesh
shall perish together, And man shall turn again unto dust. {34:16} If now [you have] understanding, hear
this: Hear to the voice of my words. {34:17} shall even one that hates justice
govern? And will you condemn him that is a lawful worker [and] mighty?- {34:18}
[Him] that said to a king, [you are] vile, [Or] to nobles, [you are] wicked;
{34:19} That respects not the persons of princes, Nor regards the rich more
than the poor; For they all are the work of his hands. {34:20} In a moment they
die, even at midnight; The people are shaken and pass away, And the mighty are
taken away outside hand. {34:21} For his
eyes are upon the ways of a man, And he sees all his goings. {34:22} There is
no darkness, nor thick gloom, Where the workers of works against law may hide
themselves. {34:23} For he need sets not further to consider a man, That he
should go before God in judgment. {34:24} He breaks in pieces mighty men [in
ways] past finding out, And sets others in their stead. {34:25} Therefore he
takes knowledge of their works; And he overturns them in the night, so that
they are destroyed. {34:26} He strikes them as wicked men In the open sight of
others; {34:27} Because they turned aside from following him, And would not
have regard in any of his ways: {34:28} So that they caused the cry of the poor
to come unto him, And he heard the cry of the afflicted. {34:29} When he gives
quietness, who then can condemn? And when he hides his face, who then can
behold him? Alike whether [it be done] unto a nation, or unto a man: {34:30}
That the godless man reign not, That there be none to ensnare the people. {34:31} For has any said unto God, I have
borne [chastisement], I will not offend [any more]: {34:32} That which I see
not teach you me: If I have done works against law, I will do it no more?
{34:33} shall his recompense be as you will, that you refuse it? For you must
choose, and not I: Therefore speak what you know. {34:34} Men of understanding
will say unto me, behold, every wise man that hears me: {34:35} Job speaks
outside knowledge, And his words are outside wisdom. {34:36} Would that Job
were tried unto the end, Because of his answering like wicked men. {34:37} For
he adds rebellion unto his sin; He claps his hands among us, And multiplies his
words against God.
{O18)35} Job Chapter Thirty Five. {35:1} Furthermore Elihu answered and said,
{35:2} Think you this to be [your] right, [Or] say you, My good works is more
than God's, {35:3} That you say, What advantage will it be unto you? [And],
What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned? {35:4} I will answer you,
And your companions with you. {35:5} Look unto the heavens, and see; And behold
the skies, which are higher than you. {35:6} If you have sinned, what effect
you against him? And if your transgression of the law be multiplied, what do
you unto him? {35:7} If you be of Good works, what give you him? Or what
receive she of your hand? {35:8} Your wickedness [may hurt] a man as you are;
And your good works [may profit] a son of man.
{35:9} By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out; They cry
for help by reason of the arm of the mighty. {35:10} But none said, Where is
God my Maker, Who gives songs in the night, {35:11} Who teaches us more than
the beasts of the earth, And makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?
{35:12} There they cry, but none gives answer, Because of the pride of evil
men. {35:13} Surely God will not hear an empty [cry], Neither will the Almighty
regard it. {35:14} How much less when you say you behold him not, The cause is
before him, and you wait for him! {35:15} But now, because he has not visited
in his anger, Neither does he greatly regard arrogance; {35:16} Therefore does
Job open his mouth in vanity; He multiplies words outside knowledge.
{O18)36} Job Chapter Thirty Six. {36:1} Elihu also proceeded, and said,
{36:2} Suffer me a little, and I will show you; For I have yet somewhat to say
on God's behalf. {36:3} I will fetch my knowledge from afar, And will ascribe
good works to my Maker. {36:4} For truly my words are not false: One that is
perfect in knowledge is with you. {36:5} Behold, God is mighty, and despises
not any: He is mighty in strength of understanding. {36:6} He preserves not the
life of the wicked, But gives to the afflicted [their] right. {36:7} He
withdraws not his eyes from the lawful worker: But with kings upon the throne
He sets them for ever, and they are exalted. {36:8} And if they be bound in
fetters, And be taken in the cords of afflictions; {36:9} Then he shows them
their work, And their transgression of the law, that they have behaved
themselves proudly. {36:10} He opens also their ear to instruction, And
commands that they return from works against law. {36:11} If they hear and
serve [him], They shall spend their days in prosperity, And their years in
pleasures. {36:12} But if they hear not, they shall perish by the sword, And
they shall die outside knowledge. {36:13} But they that are godless in heart
lay up anger: They cry not for help when he binds them. {36:14} They die in
youth, And their life [perishes] among the unclean. {36:15} He delivers the
afflicted by their affliction, And opens their ear in oppression. {36:16}
behold, he would have allured you out of distress Into a broad place, where
there is no straitness; And that which is set on your table would be full of
fatness. {36:17} But you are full of the
judgment of the wicked: Judgment and justice take hold [on you]. {36:18} For
let not wrath stir you up against chastisements; Neither let the greatness of
the ransom turn you aside. {36:19} Will your cry avail, [that you be] not in
distress, Or all the forces of [your] strength? {36:20} Desire not the night,
When peoples are cut off in their place. {36:21} Take heed, regard not works against
law: For this have you chosen rather than affliction. {36:22} Behold, God does
loftily in his power: Who is a teacher like unto him? {36:23} Who has enjoined
him his way? Or who can say, you have wrought [illegal] works outside the
law? {36:24} Remember that you magnify
his work, Where men have sung. {36:25} All men have looked thereon; Man beholds
it afar off. {36:26} Behold, God is great, and we know him not; The number of
his years is un-searchable. {36:27} For he draws up the drops of water, Which
distils in rain from his vapor, {36:28} Which the skies pour down And drop upon
man abundantly. {36:29} behold, can any understand the spreadings of the
clouds, The thunderings of his pavilion? {36:30} Behold, he spreads his light
around him; And he covers the bottom of the sea. {36:31} For by these he judges
the people; He gives food in abundance. {36:32} He covers his hands with the
lightning, And gives it a charge that it strike the mark. {36:33} The noise of
it tells concerning him, The cattle also concerning [the storm] that comes up.
{o18)37}
Job Chapter Thirty Seven. {37:1}
behold, at this my heart trembles, And is moved out of its place. {37:2} Hear,
oh, hear the noise of his voice, And the sound that goes out of his mouth.
{37:3} He sends it forth under the whole heaven, And his lightening unto the
ends of the earth. {37:4} After it a voice roars; He thunders with the voice of
his majesty; And he restrains not [the lightnings] when his voice is heard.
{37:5} God thunders marvelously with his voice; Great things does he, which we
cannot comprehend. {37:6} For he said to the snow, Fall you on the earth;
Likewise to the shower of rain, And to the showers of his mighty rain. {37:7}
He seals up the hand of every man, That all men whom he has made may know [it].
{37:8} Then the beasts go into coverts, And remain in their dens. {37:9} Out of
the chamber [of the south] comes the storm, And cold out of the north. {37:10}
By the breath of God ice is given; And the breadth of the waters is straitened.
{37:11} behold, he loads the thick cloud with moisture; He spreads abroad the
cloud of his lightning: {37:12} And it is turned round about by his guidance,
That they may do what ever he commands them Upon the face of the habitable
world, {37:13} Whether it be for correction, or for his land, Or for loving
kindness, that he cause it to come.
{37:14} Hear unto this, O Job: Stand still, and consider the wondrous
works of God. {37:15} Do you know how God lays [his charge] upon them, And
causes the lightning of his cloud to shine? {37:16} Do you know the balancings
of the clouds, The wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge? {37:17}
How your garments are warm, When the earth is still by reason of the south
[wind]? {37:18} Can you with him spread out the sky, Which is strong as a
molten mirror? {37:19} Teach us what we shall say unto him; [For] we cannot set
[our speech] in order by reason of darkness. {37:20} shall it be told him that
I would speak? Or should a man wish that he were swallowed up? {37:21} And now
men see not the light which is bright in the skies; But the wind pass, and
clears them. {37:22} Out of the north comes golden splendor: God has upon him
terrible majesty. {37:23} [Touching] the Almighty, we cannot find him out He is excellent in power; And in justice and
plenteous good works he will not afflict. {37:24} Men do therefore fear him: He
regards not any that are wise of heart.
{O18)38} Job Chapter ThirtyEight. {38:1} Then Yahweh answered Job out of the
whirlwind, and said, {38:2} Who is this that darkens counsel By words outside
knowledge? {38:3} Gird up now your loins like a man; For I will demand of you,
and declare you unto me. {38:4} Where was you when I laid the foundations of
the earth? Declare, if you have understanding. {38:5} Who determined the
measures there, if you know? Or who stretched the line upon it? {38:6}
Whereupon were the foundations of it fastened? Or who laid the corner-stone
there, {38:7} When the morning stars sang together, And all the sons of God
shouted for joy? {38:8} Or [who] shut up
the sea with doors, When it brake forth, [as if] it had issued out of the womb;
{38:9} When I made clouds the garment there, And thick darkness a
swaddling-band for it, {38:10} And marked out for it my bound, And set bars and
doors, {38:11} And said, Hereto shall you come, but no further; And here shall
your proud waves be stayed? {38:12} Have
you commanded the morning since your days [began], [And] caused the dayspring
to know its place; {38:13} That it might take hold of the ends of the earth,
And the wicked be shaken out of it? {38:14} It is changed as [by turning the]
clay under the seal; And [all things] stand forth as a garment: {38:15} And
from the wicked their light is withheld, And the high arm is broken. {38:16} Have you entered into the springs of
the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep? {38:17} Have the gates
of death been revealed unto you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of
death? {38:18} Have you comprehended the earth in its breadth? Declare, if you
know it all. {38:19} Where is the way to
the dwelling of light? And as for darkness, where is the place there, {38:20}
That you should take it to the bound there, And that you should discern the
paths to the house there? {38:21} [Doubtless], you know, for you was then born,
And the number of your days is great! {38:22} Have you entered the treasuries
of the snow, Or have you seen the treasures of the hail, {38:23} Which I have
reserved against the time of trouble, Against the day of battle and war?
{38:24} By what way is the light parted, Or the east wind scattered upon the
earth? {38:25} Who has cleft a channel for the water flood, Or the way for the
lightning of the thunder; {38:26} To cause it to rain on a land where no man
is; On the wilderness, wherein there is no man; {38:27} To satisfy the waste
and desolate [ground], And to cause the tender grass to spring forth? {38:28}
Has the rain a father? Or who has begotten the drops of dew? {38:29} Out of
whose womb came the ice? And the hoary frost of heaven, who has gendered it?
{38:30} The waters hide themselves [and become] like stone, And the face of the
deep is frozen. {38:31} Can you bind the
cluster of the Pleiades, Or loose the bands of Orion? {38:32} Can you lead
forth the Mazzaroth in their season? Or Can you guide the Bear with her train?
{38:33} Know you the ordinances of the heavens? Can you establish the dominion
of it in the earth? {38:34} Can you lift
up your voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover you? {38:35} Can
you send forth lightnings, that they may go, And say unto you, Here we are?
{38:36} Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding
to the mind? {38:37} Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out
the bottles of heaven, {38:38} When the dust runs into a mass, And the clods
cleave fast together? {38:39} Can you
hunt the prey for the lioness, Or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,
{38:40} When they couch in their dens, [And] abide in the covert to lie in
wait? {38:41} Who provides for the raven his prey, When his young ones cry unto
God, [And] wander for lack of food?
{O18)39}
Job Chapter ThirtyNine. {39:1}
Know you the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? [Or] Can you mark when the hinds
do calve? {39:2} Can you number the moons that they fulfill? Or know you the
time when they bring forth? {39:3} They bow themselves, they bring forth their
young, They cast out their pains. {39:4} Their young ones become strong, they
grow up in the open field; They go forth, and return not again. {39:5} Who has sent out the wild donkey free?
Or who has loosed the bonds of the swift ass, {39:6} Whose home I have made the
wilderness, And the salt land his dwelling-place? {39:7} He scorns the tumult
of the city, Neither hears the shoutings of the driver. {39:8} The range of the
mountains is his pasture, And he searches after every green thing. {39:9} Will
the wild-ox be content to serve you? Or will he abide by your crib? {39:10} Can
you bind the wild-ox with his band in the furrow? Or will he harrow the valleys
after you? {39:11} Will you trust him, because his strength is great? Or will
you leave to him your labor? {39:12} Will you confide in him, that he will
bring home your seed, And gather [the grain] of your threshing-floor? {39:13} The wings of the ostrich wave
proudly; [But] are they the pinions and plumage of love? {39:14} For she leaves
her eggs on the earth, And warms them in the dust, {39:15} And forgets that the
foot may crush them, Or that the wild beast may trample them. {39:16} She deals
hardly with her young ones, as if they were not hers: though her labor be in vain, [she
is] outside fear; {39:17} Because God has deprived her of wisdom, Neither has
he imparted to her understanding. {39:18} What time she lifts up herself on
high, She scorns the horse and his rider.
{39:19} Have you given the horse [his] might? Have you clothed his neck
with the quivering mane? {39:20} Have you made him to leap as a locust? The
glory of his snorting is terrible. {39:21} He paws in the valley, and rejoices
in his strength: He goes out to meet the armed men. {39:22} He mocks at fear,
and is not dismayed; Neither turns he back from the sword. {39:23} The quiver
rattles against him, The flashing spear and the javelin. {39:24} He swallows
the ground with fierceness and rage; Neither believes he that it is the voice
of the trumpet. {39:25} As oft as the trumpet [sound] he said, Aha! And he
smells the battle afar off, The thunder of the captains, and the shouting. {39:26} Is it by your wisdom that the hawk
soars, (And) stretches her wings toward the south? {39:27} Is it at your
command that the eagle mounts up, And makes her nest on high? {39:28} On the
cliff she dwells, and makes her home, Upon the point of the cliff, and the
stronghold. {39:29} From there she spies out the prey; Her eyes behold it afar
off. {39:30} Her young ones also suck up blood: And where the slain are, there
is she.
{O18)40} Job Chapter Forty. {40:1} Furthermore Yahweh answered Job, and
said, {40:2} shall he that contends with the Almighty instruct Him? He that
argues with God, let him answer it.
{40:3} Then Job answered Yahweh, and said, {40:4} Behold, I am of small
account; What shall I answer you? I lay my hand upon my mouth. {40:5} Once have
I spoken, and I will not answer; behold, twice, but I will proceed no
further. {40:6} Then Yahweh
answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said, {40:7} Gird up your loins now like
a man: I will demand of you, and declare you unto me. {40:8} Will you even
annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified? {40:9} Or
have you an arm like God? And Can you thunder with a voice like him? {40:10} Deck yourself now with excellency and
dignity; And array yourself with honor and majesty. {40:11} Pour forth the
overflowings of your anger; And look upon every one that is proud, and abase
him. {40:12} Look on every one that is proud, [and] bring him low; And tread
down the wicked where they stand. {40:13} Hide them in the dust together; Bind
their faces in the hidden [place]. {40:14} Then will I also confess of you That
your own right hand can save you.
{40:15} Behold now, behemoth, which I made as well as you; He eats grass
as an ox. {40:16} Lo now, his strength is in his loins, And his force is in the
muscles of his belly. {40:17} He moves his tail like a cedar [tree]: The sinews
of his thighs are knit together. {40:18} His bones are [as] tubes of brass; His
limbs are like bars of iron. {40:19} He is the chief of the ways of God: He
[only] that made him gives him his sword. {40:20} Surely the mountains bring
him forth food, Where all the beasts of the field do play. {40:21} He lies
under the lotus-trees, In the covert of the reed, and the fen. {40:22} The
lotus-trees cover him with their shade; The willows of the brook compass him
about. {40:23} Behold, if a river overflow, he trembles not; He is confident,
though a
{O18)41} Job Chapter FortyOne. {41:1} Can
you draw out leviathan with a fishhook? Or press down his tongue with a cord?
{41:2} Can you put a rope into his nose? Or pierce his jaw through with a hook?
{41:3} Will he make many supplications unto you? Or will he speak soft words
unto you? {41:4} Will he make a covenant with you, That you should take him for
a servant for ever? {41:5} Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you
bind him for your maidens? {41:6} Will the bands [of fishermen] make traffic of
him? Will they part him among the merchants? {41:7} Can you fill his skin with
barbed irons, Or his head with fish-spears? {41:8} Lay your hand upon him;
Remember the battle, and do so no more. {41:9} Behold, the hope of him is in
vain: Will not one be cast down even at the sight of him? {41:10} None is so
fierce that he dare stir him up; Who then is he that can stand before me?
{41:11} Who has first given unto me, that I should repay him? [What ever is]
under the whole heaven is mine. {41:12}
I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, Nor his mighty strength, nor his
goodly frame. {41:13} Who can strip off his outer garment? Who shall come
within his jaws? {41:14} Who can open the doors of his face? Round about his
teeth is terror. {41:15} [His] strong scales are [his] pride, Shut up together
[as with] a close seal. {41:16} One is so near to another, That no air can come
between them. {41:17} They are joined one to another; They stick together, so
that they cannot be sundered. {41:18} His sneezings flash forth light, And his
eyes are like the eyelids of the morning. {41:19} Out of his mouth go burning
torches, And sparks of fire leap forth. {41:20} Out of his nostrils a smoke
goes, As of a boiling pot and [burning] rushes. {41:21} His breath kindles
coals, And a flame goes forth from his mouth. {41:22} In his neck abides
strength, And terror dances before him. {41:23} The flakes of his flesh are
joined together: They are firm upon him; they cannot be moved. {41:24} His
heart is as firm as a stone; behold, firm as the nether millstone. {41:25} When
he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid: By reason of consternation they
are beside themselves. {41:26} If one lay at him with the sword, it cannot
avail; Nor the spear, the dare, nor the pointed shaft. {41:27} He counts iron
as straw, [And] brass as rotten wood. {41:28} The arrow cannot make him flee:
Sling-stones are turned with him into stubble. {41:29} Clubs are counted as
stubble: He laughs at the rushing of the javelin. {41:30} His under parts are
[like] sharp potsherds: He spreads [as it were] a threshing-wain upon the mire.
{41:31} He make the deep to boil like a pot: He makes the sea like a pot of
ointment. {41:32} He makes a path to shine after him; One would think the deep
to be hoary. {41:33} Upon earth there is not his like, That is made outside
fear. {41:34} He beholds everything that is high: He is king over all the sons
of pride. {42:1} Then Job answered Yahweh,
and said, {42:2} I know that you Can do all things, And that no purpose of your
can be restrained. {42:3} Who is this that hides counsel outside knowledge?
Therefore have I uttered that which I understood not, Things too wonderful for
me, which I knew not. {42:4} Hear, I ask you, and I will speak; I will demand
of you, and declare you unto me. {42:5} I had heard of you by the hearing of
the ear; But now mine eye sees you: {42:6} Therefore I abhor [myself], And
repent in dust and ashes.
{O18)42} Job Chapter FortyTwo. {42:7} And it was so, that, after Yahweh
had spoken these words unto Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath
is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken
of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has. {42:8} Now therefore,
take unto you seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer
up for yourselves a burnt-offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you; for
him will I accept, that I deal not with you after your folly; for you have not
spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has. {42:9} So Eliphaz
the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did
according as Yahweh commanded them: and Yahweh accepted Job. {42:10} And Yahweh turned the captivity of
Job, when he prayed for his friends: and Yahweh gave Job twice as much as he
had before. {42:11} Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his
sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat
bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him
concerning all the evil that Yahweh had brought upon him: every man also gave
him a piece of money, and every one a ring of gold. {42:12} So Yahweh blessed
the latter end of Job more than his beginning: And he had fourteen thousand
sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand
she-asses. {42:13} He had also seven sons and three daughters.. {42:14} And he
called the name of the first, Jemimah: and the name of the second, Keziah; and
the name of the third, Keren-happuch. {42:15} And in all the land were no women
found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance
among their brethren. {42:16} And after this Job lived a hundred and forty
years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, [even] four generations. {42:17}
So Job died, being old and full of days.
{O19)1}
Psalms Chapter One. {1:1} Blessed
is the man that walks not in the counsel of the wicked, Nor stands in the way
of sinners, Nor sits in the seat of scoffers: {1:2} But his delight is in the
law of Yahweh; And on his law does he meditate day and night. {1:3} And he
shall be like a tree planted by the streams of water, That brings forth its
fruit in its season, Whose leaf also does not wither; And what ever he does
shall prosper. {1:4} The wicked are not so, But are like the chaff which the
wind drives away. {1:5} Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment,
Nor sinners in the Ekklesia [that is] doing lawful works. {1:6} For Yahweh
knows the way of the lawful works; But the way of the wicked shall perish.
{O19)2} Psalms Chapter Two. {2:1} Why do the nations rage, And the
peoples meditate a vain thing? {2:2} The kings of the earth set themselves, And
the rulers take counsel together, Against Yahweh, and against his anointed,
[saying], {2:3} Let us break their bonds asunder, And cast away their cords
from us. {2:4} He that sit-in the heavens will laugh: The Lord will have them
in derision. {2:5} Then will he speak unto them in his wrath, And vex them in
his sore displeasure: {2:6} yet I have set my king Upon my holy hill of Zion.
{2:7} I will tell of the decree: Yahweh said unto me, you are my son; This day
have I begotten you. {2:8} Ask of me, and I will give [you] the nations for
your inheritance, And the uttermost
parts of the earth for your possession. {2:9} you shall break them with a rod
of iron; you shall dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel. {2:10} Now therefore be wise, O you kings: Be
instructed, you judges of the earth. {2:11} Serve Yahweh with fear, And rejoice
with trembling. {2:12} Kiss the son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the
way, For his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all they that take refuge
in him.
{o19)3} Psalms Chapter Three. A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom
his son. {3:1} Yahweh, how are mine
adversaries increased! Many are they that rise up against me. {3:2} Many there
are that say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah {3:3} But you, O Yahweh, are a
shield about me; My glory and the lifter up of my head. {3:4} I cry unto Yahweh
with my voice, And he answers me out of his holy hill. Selah {3:5} I laid me down and slept; I
awaked; for Yahweh sustains me. {3:6} I will not be afraid of ten thousands of
the people That have set themselves against me round about. {3:7} Arise, O Yahweh;
save me, O my God: For you have smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone;
you have broken the teeth of the wicked. {3:8} Salvation belongs unto Yahweh:
Your blessing be upon your people.
"Selah" (Pause here and thnk about that)
{O19)4} Psalms Chapter Four. For the Chief Musician; on stringed
instruments. A Psalm of David. {4:1}
Answer me when I call, O God of my good works; you have set me at large [when I
was] in distress: Have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer. {4:2} O you sons of
men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? [How long] will you love
vanity, and seek after falsehood?
Selah {4:3} But know that Yahweh has set apart for himself him that
is godly: Yahweh will hear when I call
unto him. {4:4} Stand in awe, and sin not: Commune with your own heart upon
your bed, and be still. Selah (Pause)
{4:5} Offer the sacrifices of lawful works, And put your trust in Yahweh. {4:6}
Many there are that say, Who will show us [any] good? Yahweh, lift you up the
light of your countenance upon us. {4:7} you have put gladness in my heart,
More than [they have] when their grain and their new wine are increased. {4:8}
In peace will I both lay me down and sleep; For you, Yahweh, alone make me
dwell in safety.
{o19)5} Psalms Chapter Five. For the Chief Musician; with the Nehiloth. A
Psalm of David. {5:1} Give ear to my
words, O Yahweh, Consider my meditation. {5:2} Hear unto the voice of my cry,
my King, and my God; For unto you do I pray. {5:3} O Yahweh, in the morning
shall you hear my voice; In the morning will I order [my prayer] unto you, and
will keep watch. {5:4} For you are not a God that has pleasure in wickedness:
Evil shall not sojourn with you. {5:5} The arrogant shall not stand in your
sight: you hate all workers of works against law. {5:6} you will destroy them
that speak lies: Yahweh abhor the blood-thirsty and deceitful man. {5:7} But as
for me, in the abundance of your loving kindness will I comes into your house: In your fear will I worship
toward your holy temple. {5:8} Lead me, O Yahweh, in your works of law because
of mine enemies; Make your way straight before my face. {5:9} For there is no
faithfulness in their mouth; Their inward part is very wickedness; Their throat
is an open sepulcher; They flatter with their tongue. {5:10} Hold them guilty,
O God; Let them fall by their own counsels; Thrust them out in the multitude of
their transgression of the law; For they have rebelled against you. {5:11} But
let all those that take refuge in you rejoice, Let them ever shout for joy,
because you defend them: Let them also that agape love your name be joyful in
you. {5:12} For you will bless the lawful worker; O Yahweh, you will compass
him with favor as with a shield.
{o19)6} Psalms Chapter Six. For the Chief Musician; on stringed
instruments, set to the Sheminith. A Psalm of David. {6:1} O Yahweh, rebuke me not in your anger,
Neither chasten me in your hot displeasure. {6:2} Have mercy upon me, O Yahweh;
for I am withered away: O Yahweh, heal me; for my bones are troubled. {6:3} My
soul also is sore troubled: And you, O Yahweh, how long? {6:4} Return, O Yahweh,
deliver my soul: Save me for your agape loving kindness' sake. {6:5} For in
death there is no remembrance of you: In Sheol who shall give you thanks? {6:6}
I am weary with my groaning; Every night make I my bed to swim; I water my
couch with my tears. {6:7} Mine eye wastes away because of grief; It waxes sold
because of all mine adversaries. {6:8} Depart from me, all you workers of works
against law; For Yahweh has heard the voice of my weeping. {6:9} Yahweh has
heard my supplication; Yahweh will receive my prayer. {6:10} All mine enemies
shall be put to shame and sore troubled: They shall turn back, they shall be
put to shame suddenly.
{O19)7} Psalms Chapter Seven. Shiggaion of David, which he sang unto
Jehova, concerning the words of
{O19)8} Psalms Chapter Eight. For the Chief Musician; set to the Gittith. A
Psalm of David. {8:1} O Yahweh, our
Lord, How excellent is your name in all the earth, Who have set your glory upon
the heavens! {8:2} Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings have you
established strength, Because of
your adversaries, That you might still the enemy and the avenger. {8:3} When I
consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, The moon and the stars, which
you have ordained; {8:4} What is man, that you are mindful of him? And the son
of man, that you visit him? {8:5} For you have made him but little lower than
God, And crown him with glory and honor. {8:6} you make him to have dominion
over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet: {8:7} All
sheep and oxen, behold, and the beasts of the field, {8:8} The birds of the
heavens, and the fish of the sea, What ever passes through the paths of the
seas. {8:9} O Yahweh, our Lord, How excellent is your name in all the earth!
{O19)9}
Psalms hapter nine. For the Chief
Musician; set to Muthlabben. A Psalm of David.
{9:1} I will give thanks unto Yahweh with my whole heart; I will show
forth all your marvellous works. {9:2} I will be glad and exult in you; I will
sing praise to your name, O you Most High. {9:3} When mine enemies turn back,
They stumble and perish at your presence. {9:4} For you have maintained my
right and my cause; you sits in the throne judging lawful works. {9:5} you have
rebuked the nations, you have destroyed the wicked; you have blotted out their
name for ever and ever. {9:6} The enemy are come to an end, they are desolate for
ever; And the cities which you have overthrown, The very remembrance of them is
perished. {9:7} But Yahweh sits[as king] for ever: He has prepared his throne
for judgment; {9:8} And he will judge the world in good works, He will minister
judgment to the peoples in uprightness. {9:9} Yahweh also will be a high tower
for the oppressed, A high tower in times of trouble; {9:10} And they that know
your name will put their trust in you; For you, Yahweh, have not forsaken them
that seek you. {9:11} Sing praises to Yahweh, who dwells in
{O19)10} Psalms Chapter Ten. {10:1} Why stand you afar off, O Yahweh? Why
hide you yourself in times of trouble? {10:2} In the pride of the wicked the
poor is hotly pursued; Let them be taken in the devices that they have
conceived. {10:3} For the wicked boasts of his heart's desire, And the covetous
renounces, [behold], contemns Yahweh. {10:4} The wicked, in the pride of his
countenance, [said], He will not require [it]. All his thoughts are, There is
no God. {10:5} His ways are firm at all times; Your judgments are far above out
of his sight: As for all his adversaries, he puffs at them. {10:6} He said in
his heart, I shall not be moved; To all generations I shall not be in
adversity. {10:7} His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression: Under
his tongue is mischief and works against law. {10:8} He sits in the
lurking-places of the villages; In the secret places does he murder the
innocent; His eyes are privately set against the helpless. {10:9} He lurks in
secret as a lion in his covert; He lies in wait to catch the poor: He does
catch the poor, when he draws him in his net. {10:10} He crouches, he bows
down, And the helpless fall by his strong ones. {10:11} He said in his heart,
God has forgotten; He hides his face; he will never see it. {10:12} Arise, O Yahweh;
O God, lift up your hand: Forget not the poor. {10:13} Therefore does the
wicked contemn God, And say in his heart, you will not require [it]? {10:14}
you have seen [it]; for you behold mischief and spite, to requite it with your
hand: The helpless commits [himself] unto you; you have been the helper of the
fatherless. {10:15} Break you the arm of the wicked; And as for the evil man,
seek out his wickedness till you find none. {10:16} Yahweh is King for ever and
ever: The nations are perished out of his land. {10:17} Yahweh, you have heard
the desire of the meek: you will prepare their heart, you will cause your ear
to hear; {10:18} To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, That man who is of
the earth may be terrible no more.
{O19)11} Psalms Chapter Eleven. For the Chief Musician. [A Psalm] of
David. {11:1} In Yahweh do I take
refuge: How say you to my soul, Flee [as] a bird to your mountain; {11:2} For,
lo, the wicked bend the bow, They make ready their arrow upon the string, That
they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart; {11:3} If the foundations
be destroyed, What can the lawful workers do? {11:4} Yahweh is in his holy
temple; Yahweh, his throne is in heaven; His eyes behold, his eyelids try, the
children of men. {11:5} Yahweh tries the righteous; But the wicked and him that
loves violence his soul hates. {11:6} Upon the wicked he will rain snares; Fire
and brimstone and burning wind shall be the portion of their cup. {11:7} For Yahweh
is good works; he loves good works: The upright shall behold his face.
{O19)12} Psalms Chapter Twelve. For the Chief Musician; set to the Sheminith.
A Psalm of David. {12:1} Help, Yahweh;
for the godly man ceases; For the faithful fail from among the children of men.
{12:2} They speak falsehood every one with his neighbor: With flattering lip,
and with a double heart, do they speak. {12:3} Yahweh will cut off all
flattering lips, The tongue that speaks great things; {12:4} Who have said,
With our tongue will we prevail; Our lips are our own: who is lord over us?
{12:5} Because of the oppression of the poor, because of the sighing of the
needy, Now will I arise, said Yahweh; I will set him in the safety he pants
for. {12:6} The words of Yahweh are pure words; As silver tried in a furnace on
the earth, Purified seven times. {12:7} you will keep them, O Yahweh, you will
preserve them from this generation for ever. {12:8} The wicked walk on every
side, When vileness is exalted among the sons of men.
{O19)13} Psalms Chapter Thirteen. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of
David. {13:1} How long, O Yahweh? will
you forget me for ever? How long will you hide your face from me? {13:2} How
long shall I take counsel in my soul, Having sorrow in my heart all the day?
How long shall mine enemy be exalted over me? {13:3} Consider [and] answer me,
O Yahweh my God: Lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the [sleep of] death; {13:4}
Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; [Lest] mine adversaries
rejoice when I am moved. {13:5} But I have trusted in your loving kindness; My
heart shall rejoice in your salvation. {13:6} I will sing unto Yahweh, Because
he has dealt bountifully with me.
{O19)14} Psalms Chapter
Fourteen. For the Chief Musician. [A
Psalm] of David. {14:1} The fool has
said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable
works; There is none that does good. {14:2} Yahweh looked down from heaven upon
the children of men, To see if there were any that did understand, That did
seek after God. {14:3} They are all gone aside; they are together become
filthy; There is none that does good, no, not one. {14:4} Have all the workers
of works against law no knowledge, Who eat up my people [as] they eat bread,
And call not upon Yahweh? {14:5} There were they in great fear; For God is in
the generation of the lawful worker. {14:6} you put to shame the counsel of the
poor, Because Yahweh is his refuge. {14:7} Oh that the salvation of
{O19)15} Psalms Chapter Fifteen. A Psalm of David. {15:1} Yahweh, who shall sojourn in your
tabernacle? Who shall dwell in your holy hill? {15:2} He that walks uprightly,
and works good works, And speaks truth in his heart; {15:3} He that slanders
not with his tongue, Nor does evil to his friend, Nor takes up a reproach
against his neighbor; {15:4} In whose eyes a reprobate is despised, But who
honors them that fear Yahweh; He that swears to his own hurt, and changes not;
{15:5} He that puts not out his money to interest, Nor takes reward against the
innocent. He that does these things shall never be moved.
{O19)16} Psalms Chapter
Sixteen. Michtam of David. {16:1} Preserve me, O God; for in you do I
take refuge. {16:2} [O my soul], you have said unto Yahweh, you are my Lord: I
have no good beyond you. {16:3} As for the Holy People that are in the earth,
They are the excellent in whom is all my delight. {16:4} Their sorrows shall be
multiplied that give gifts for another
[god]: Their drink-offerings of blood will I not offer, Nor take their
names upon my lips. {16:5} Yahweh is the portion of mine inheritance and of my
cup: you maintains my lot. {16:6} The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant
places; behold, I have a goodly heritage. {16:7} I will bless Yahweh, who has
given me counsel; behold, my heart instructs me in the night seasons. {16:8} I
have set Yahweh always before me: Because he is at my right hand, I shall not
be moved. {16:9} Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices; My flesh
also shall dwell in safety. {16:10} For you will not leave my soul to Sheol;
Neither will you suffer your holy one to see corruption. {16:11} you will show
me the path of life: In your presence is fullness of joy; In your right hand
there are pleasures for evermore.
{O19)17} Psalms Chapter Seventeen. A Prayer of David. {17:1} Hear the right, O Yahweh, attend unto
my cry; Give ear unto my prayer, that goes not out of feigned lips. {17:2} Let
my sentence come forth from your presence; Let your eyes look upon equity.
{17:3} you have proved my heart; you have visited me in the night; you have
tried me, and find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
{17:4} As for the works of men, by the word of your lips I have kept me from
the ways of the violent. {17:5} My steps have held fast to your paths, My feet
have not slipped. {17:6} I have called upon you, for you will answer me, O God:
Incline your ear unto me, [and] hear my speech. {17:7} Show your marvellous
loving kindness, O you that saves by your right hand them that take refuge [in
you] From those that rise up [against them]. {17:8} Keep me as the apple of the
eye; Hide me under the shadow of your wings, {17:9} From the wicked that
oppress me, My deadly enemies, that compass me about. {17:10} They are enclosed
in their own fat: With their mouth they speak proudly. {17:11} They have now
compassed us in our steps; They set their eyes to cast [us] down to the earth.
{17:12} He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, And as it were a young
lion lurking in secret places. {17:13} Arise, O Yahweh, Confront him, cast him
down: Deliver my soul from the wicked by your sword; {17:14} From men by your
hand, O Yahweh, From men of the world, whose portion is in [this] life, And
whose belly you fill with your treasure: They are satisfied with children, And
leave the rest of their substance to their babes. {17:15} As for me, I shall
behold your face in lawful works; I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with
[beholding] your form.
{O19)18} Psalms Chapter
Eighteen. For the Chief Musician. [A
Psalm] of David the servant of Yahweh, who spoke unto Yahweh the words of this
song in the day that Yahweh delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and
from the hand of Saul: and he said,
{18:1} I agape love you, O Yahweh, my strength. {18:2} Yahweh is my
rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; My God, my rock, in whom I will take
refuge; My shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower. {18:3} I will
call upon Yahweh, who is worthy to be praised: So shall I be saved from mine
enemies. {18:4} The cords of death compassed me, And the floods of ungodliness
made me afraid. {18:5} The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of
death came upon me. {18:6} In my distress I called upon Yahweh, And cried unto
my God: He heard my voice out of his temple, And my cry before him came into
his ears. {18:7} Then the earth shook and trembled; The foundations also of the
mountains quaked And were shaken, because he was wroth. {18:8} There went up a
smoke out of his nostrils, And fire out of his mouth devoured: Coals were
kindled by it. {18:9} He bowed the heavens also, and came down; And thick
darkness was under his feet. {18:10} And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly;
behold, he soared upon the wings of the wind. {18:11} He made darkness his
hiding-place, his pavilion round about him, Darkness of waters, thick clouds of
the skies. {18:12} At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed,
Hailstones and coals of fire. {18:13} Yahweh also thundered in the heavens, And
the Most High uttered his voice, Hailstones and coals of fire. {18:14} And he
sent out his arrows, and scattered them; behold, lightnings manifold, and
discomfited them. {18:15} Then the channels of waters appeared, And the
foundations of the world were laid bare, At your rebuke, O Yahweh, At the blast
of the breath of your nostrils. {18:16} He sent from on high, he took me; He
drew me out of many waters. {18:17} He delivered me from my strong enemy, And
from them that hated me; for they were too mighty for me. {18:18} They came
upon me in the day of my calamity; But Yahweh was my stay. {18:19} He brought
me forth also into a large place; He delivered me, because he delighted in me.
{18:20} Yahweh has rewarded me according to my lawful works; According to the
cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me. {18:21} For I have kept the ways
of Yahweh, And have not wickedly departed from my God. {18:22} For all his
ordinances were before me, And I put not away his statutes from me. {18:23} I
was also perfect with him, And I kept myself from mine works against law.
{18:24} Therefore has Yahweh recompensed me according to my lawful works,
According to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight. {18:25} With the
merciful you will show yourself merciful; With the perfect man you will show
yourself perfect; {18:26} With the pure you will show yourself pure; And with
the perverse you will show yourself ill-tempered. {18:27} For you will save the
afflicted people; But the haughty eyes you will bring down. {18:28} For you
will light my lamp: Yahweh my God will lighten my darkness. {18:29} For by you
I run upon a troop; And by my God do I leap over a wall. {18:30} As for God,
his way is perfect: The word of Yahweh is tried; He is a shield unto all them
that take refuge in him. {18:31} For who is God, save Yahweh? And who is a
rock, besides our God, {18:32} The God that girds me with strength, And makes
my way perfect? {18:33} He makes my feet like hinds' [feet]: And sets me upon
my high places. {18:34} He teaches my hands to war; So that mine arms do bend a
bow of brass. {18:35} you have also given me the shield of your salvation; And
your right hand has held me up, And your gentleness has made me great. {18:36}
you have enlarged my steps under me, And my feet have not slipped. {18:37} I
will pursue mine enemies, and overtake them; Neither will I turn again till
they are consumed. {18:38} I will smite them through, so that they shall not be
able to rise: They shall fall under my feet. {18:39} For you have girded me
with strength unto the battle: you have subdued under me those that rose up
against me. {18:40} you have also made mine enemies turn their backs unto me,
That I might cut off them that hate me. {18:41} They cried, but there was none
to save; Even unto Yahweh, but he answered them not. {18:42} Then did I beat
them small as the dust before the wind; I did cast them out as the mire of the
streets. {18:43} you have delivered me from the strivings of the people; you
have made me the head of the nations: A people whom I have not known shall
serve me. {18:44} As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me; The foreigners
shall submit themselves unto me. {18:45} The foreigners shall fade away, And
shall come trembling out of their close places. {18:46} Yahweh lives; and
blessed be my rock; And exalted be the God of my salvation, {18:47} Even the
God that executes vengeance for me, And subdues peoples under me. {18:48} He
rescues me from mine enemies; behold, you lift me up above them that rise up
against me; you delivers me from the violent man. {18:49} Therefore I will give
thanks unto you, O Yahweh, among the
nations, And will sing praises unto your name. {18:50} Great deliverance
gives he to his king, And shows loving kindness to his anointed, To David and
to his seed, for evermore.
{O19)19} Psalms Chapter
Nineteen. For the Chief Musician. A
Psalm of David. {19:1} The heavens
declare the glory of God; And the firmament shows his handiwork. {19:2} Day
unto day utters speech, And night unto night shows knowledge. {19:3} There is
no speech nor language; Their voice is not heard. {19:4} Their line is gone out
through all the earth, And their words to the end of the world. In them has he set
a tabernacle for the sun, {19:5} Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his
chamber, And rejoices as a strong man to run his course. {19:6} His going forth
is from the end of the heavens, And his circuit unto the ends of it; And there
is nothing hid from the heat there.
{19:7} The law of Yahweh is perfect, restoring the soul: The testimony
of Yahweh is sure, making wise the simple. {19:8} The precepts of Yahweh are
right, rejoicing the heart: The commandment of Yahweh is pure, enlightening the
eyes. {19:9} The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring for ever: The ordinances of Yahweh
are true, [and] lawful works altogether. {19:10} More to be desired are they
than gold, behold, than much fine gold; Sweeter also than honey and the
droppings of the honeycomb. {19:11} Furthermore by them is your servant warned:
In keeping them there is great reward. {19:12} Who can discern [his] errors?
Clear you me from hidden [faults]. {19:13} Keep back your servant also from
presumptuous [sins]; Let them not have dominion over me: Then shall I be
upright, And I shall be clear from great transgression of the law. {19:14} Let
the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart Be acceptable in your
sight, O Yahweh, my rock, and my redeemer.
{O19)20} Psalms Chapter Twenty. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of
David. {20:1} Yahweh answer you in the
day of trouble; The name of the God of Jacob set you up on high; {20:2} Send
you help from the sanctuary, And strengthen you out of Zion; {20:3} Remember
all your offerings, And accept your burnt-sacrifice; Selah {20:4} Grant you your heart's desire,
And fulfill all your counsel. {20:5} We will triumph in your salvation, And in
the name of our God we will set up our banners: Yahweh fulfill all your
petitions. {20:6} Now know I that Yahweh saves his anointed; He will answer him
from his holy heaven With the saving strength of his right hand. {20:7} Some
[trust] in chariots, and some in horses; But we will make mention of the name
of Yahweh our God. {20:8} They are bowed down and fallen; But we are risen, and
stand upright. {20:9} Save, Yahweh: Let the King answer us when we call.
{O19)21} Psalms Chapter Twenty One. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of
David. {21:1} The king shall joy in
your strength, O Yahweh; And in your salvation how greatly shall he rejoice!
{21:2} you have given him his heart's desire, And have not withheld the request
of his lips. Selah {21:3} For you
meet him with the blessings of goodness: you set a crown of fine gold on his
head. {21:4} He asked life of you, you gave it him, Even length of days for
ever and ever. {21:5} His glory is great in your salvation: Honor and majesty
do you lay upon him. {21:6} For you make him most blessed for ever: you make
him glad with joy in your presence. {21:7} For the king trusts in Yahweh; And
through the loving kindness of the Most High he shall not be moved. {21:8} Your
hand will find out all your enemies; Your right hand will find out those that
hate you. {21:9} you will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger: Yahweh will swallow them up in
his wrath, And the fire shall devour them. {21:10} Their fruit will you destroy
from the earth, And their seed from among the children of men. {21:11} For they
intended evil against you; They conceived a device which they are not able to
perform. {21:12} For you will make them turn their back; you will make ready
with your bowstrings against their face. {21:13} Be you exalted, O Yahweh, in
your strength: So will we sing and praise your power.
{O19)22} Psalms Chapter Twenty Two. For the Chief Musician; set to
Aijalsetshash-Shahar. A Psalm of David.
{22:1} My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? [Why are you so] far
from helping me, [and from] the words of my groaning? {22:2} O my God, I cry in the
daytime, but you answer not; And in the night season, and am not silent. {22:3}
But you are holy, O you that inhabits the praises of Israel. {22:4} Our fathers
trusted in you: They trusted, and you did deliver them. {22:5} They cried unto
you, and were delivered: They trusted in you, and were not put to shame. {22:6}
But I am a worm, and no man; A reproach of men, and despised of the people.
{22:7} All they that see me laugh me to scorn: They shoot out the lip, they
shake the head, [saying], {22:8} Commit [yourself] unto Yahweh; Let him deliver
him: Let him rescue him, seeing he delights in him. {22:9} But you are he that
took me out of the womb; you did make me trust [when I was] upon my mother's
breasts. {22:10} I was cast upon you from the womb; you are my God since my
mother bare me. {22:11} Be not far from me; for trouble is near; For there is
none to help. {22:12} Many bulls have compassed me; Strong bulls of Bashan have
beset me round. {22:13} They gape upon me with their mouth, [As] a ravening and
a roaring lion. {22:14} I am poured out like water, And all my bones are out of
joint: My heart is like wax; It is melted within me. {22:15} My strength is
dried up like a potsherd; And my tongue cleaves to my jaws; And you have
brought me into the dust of death. {22:16} For dogs have compassed me: A
company of evil-doers have enclosed me; They pierced my hands and my feet.
{22:17} I may count all my bones; They look and stare upon me. {22:18} They
part my garments among them, And upon my vesture do they cast lots. {22:19} But
be not you far off, O Yahweh: O you my succor, haste you to help me. {22:20}
Deliver my soul from the sword, My darling from the power of the dog. {22:21}
Save me from the lion's mouth; behold, from the horns of the wild-oxen you have
answered me. {22:22} I will declare
your name unto my brethren: In the midst of the Ekklesia will I praise you.
{22:23} you that fear Yahweh, praise him; All you the seed of Jacob, glorify
him; And stand in awe of him, all you the seed of Israel. {22:24} For he has
not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; Neither has he hid
his face from him; But when he cried unto him, he heard. {22:25} Of you comes
my praise in the great Ekklesia: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.
{22:26} The meek shall eat and be satisfied; They shall praise Yahweh that seek
after him: Let your heart live for ever. {22:27} All the ends of the earth
shall remember and turn unto Yahweh; And all the kindred's of the nations shall
worship before you. {22:28} For the kingdom is Yahweh's; And he is the ruler
over the nations. {22:29} All the fat ones of the earth shall eat and worship:
All they that go down to the dust shall bow before him, Even he that cannot
keep his soul alive. {22:30} A seed shall serve him; It shall be told of the
Lord unto the [next] generation. {22:31} They shall come and shall declare his
lawful works Unto a people that shall be born, that he has done it.
{O19)23} Psalms Chapter Twenty Three. A Psalm of David. {23:1} Yahweh is my shepherd; I shall not
want. {23:2} He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside
still waters. {23:3} He restores my soul: He guides me in the paths of lawful
works for his name's sake. {23:4} behold, though I walk through the valley of
the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for you are with me; Your rod and
your staff, they comfort me. {23:5} you prepare a table before me in the
presence of mine enemies: you have anointed my head with oil; My cup runs over.
{23:6} Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my
life; And I shall dwell in the house of Yahweh for ever.
{O19)24} Psalms Chapter Twenty Four. A Psalm of David. {24:1} The earth is Yahweh's, and the
fullness there; The world, and they that dwell therein. {24:2} For he has
founded it upon the seas, And established it upon the floods. {24:3} Who shall
ascend into the hill of Yahweh? And who shall stand in his holy place? {24:4}
He that has clean hands, and a pure heart; Who has not lifted up his soul unto
falsehood, And has not sworn deceitfully. {24:5} He shall receive a blessing
from Yahweh, And lawful works from the God of his salvation. {24:6} This is the
generation of them that seek after him, That seek your face, [even] Jacob. Selah
{24:7} Lift up your heads, O you gates; And be you lifted up, you
everlasting doors: And the King of glory will come in. {24:8} Who is the King
of glory? Yahweh strong and mighty, Yahweh mighty in battle. {24:9} Lift up
your heads, O you gates; behold, lift them up, you everlasting doors: And the
King of glory will come in. {24:10} Who is this King of glory? Yahweh of hosts,
He is the King of glory. Selah
{O19)25} Psalms Chapter Twenty Five. [A Psalm] of David. {25:1} Unto you, O Yahweh, do I lift up my
soul. {25:2} O my God, in you have I trusted, Let me not be put to shame; Let
not mine enemies triumph over me. {25:3} behold, none that wait for you shall
be put to shame: They shall be put to shame that deal treacherously outside
cause. {25:4} Show me your ways, O Yahweh; Teach me your paths. {25:5} Guide me
in your truth, and teach me; For you are the God of my salvation; For you do I
wait all the day. {25:6} Remember, O Yahweh, your tender mercies and your
loving kindness; For they have been ever of old. {25:7} Remember not the sins
of my youth, nor my transgression of the law: According to your loving kindness
remember you me, For your goodness' sake, O Yahweh. {25:8} Good and upright is Yahweh:
Therefore will he instruct sinners in the way. {25:9} The meek will he guide in
justice; And the meek will he teach his way. {25:10} All the paths of Yahweh
are loving kindness and truth Unto such as keep his covenant and his
testimonies. {25:11} For your name's sake, O Yahweh, Pardon mine works against
law, for it is great. {25:12} What man is he that fears Yahweh? Him shall he
instruct in the way that he shall choose. {25:13} His soul shall dwell at ease;
And his seed shall inherit the land. {25:14} The friendship of Yahweh is with
them that fear him; And he will show them his covenant. {25:15} Mine eyes are
ever toward Yahweh; For he will pluck my feet out of the net. {25:16} Turn you
unto me, and have mercy upon me; For I am desolate and afflicted. {25:17} The
troubles of my heart are enlarged: Oh bring you me out of my distresses.
{25:18} Consider mine affliction and my travail; And forgive all my sins.
{25:19} Consider mine enemies, for they are many; And they hate me with cruel
hatred. {25:20} Oh keep my soul, and deliver me: Let me not be put to shame,
for I take refuge in you. {25:21} Let integrity and uprightness preserve me,
For I wait for you. {25:22} Redeem Israel, O God, Out all of his troubles.
{O19)26} Psalms Chapter Twenty Six. A Psalm of David. {26:1} Judge me, O Yahweh, for I have walked
in mine integrity: I have trusted also in Yahweh outside wavering. {26:2}
Examine me, O Yahweh, and prove me; Try my heart and my mind. {26:3} For your
loving kindness is before mine eyes; And I have walked in your truth. {26:4} I
have not sat with men of falsehood; Neither will I go in with dissemblers.
{26:5} I hate the assembly of evil-doers, And will not sit with the wicked.
{26:6} I will wash my hands in innocence: So will I compass your altar, O Yahweh;
{26:7} That I may make the voice of thanksgiving to be heard, And tell of all
your wondrous works. {26:8} Yahweh, I agape love the habitation of your house,
And the place where your glory dwells. {26:9} Gather not my soul with sinners,
Nor my life with men of blood; {26:10} In whose hands is wickedness, And their
right hand is full of bribes. {26:11} But as for me, I will walk in mine
integrity: Redeem me, and be merciful unto me. {26:12} My foot stands in an
even place: In the congregations will I bless Yahweh.
{O19)27} Psalms Chapter Twenty Seven. [A Psalm] of David. {27:1} Yahweh is my light and my salvation;
Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life; Of whom shall I be
afraid? {27:2} When evil-doers came upon me to eat up my flesh, [Even] mine
adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell. {27:3} though a host should
encamp against me, My heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me,
Even then will I be confident. {27:4} One thing have I asked of Yahweh, that
will I seek after; That I may dwell in the house of Yahweh all the days of my
life, To behold the beauty of Yahweh, And to inquire in his temple. {27:5} For
in the day of trouble he will keep me secretly in his pavilion: In the covert
of his tabernacle will he hide me; He will lift me up upon a rock. {27:6} And now
shall my head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me. And I will offer
in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, behold, I will sing praises
unto Yahweh. {27:7} Hear, O Yahweh,
when I cry with my voice: Have mercy also upon me, and answer me. {27:8} [When
you said], Seek you my face; My heart said unto you, Your face, Yahweh, will I
seek. {27:9} Hide not your face from me; Put not your servant away in anger:
you have been my help; Cast me not off, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.
{27:10} When my father and my mother forsake me, Then Yahweh will take me up.
{27:11} Teach me your way, O Yahweh; And lead me in a plain path, Because of
mine enemies. {27:12} Deliver me not over unto the will of mine adversaries:
For false witnesses are risen up against me, And such as breathe out cruelty.
{27:13} [I had fainted], unless I had believed to see the goodness of Yahweh In
the land of the living. {27:14} Wait for Yahweh: Be strong, and let your heart
take courage; behold, wait you for Yahweh.
{O19)28} Psalm 28. [A Psalm] of David. {28:1} Unto you, O Yahweh, will I call: My
rock, be not you deaf unto me; Lest, if you be silent unto me, I become like
them that go down into the pit. {28:2} Hear the voice of my supplications, when
I cry unto you, When I lift up my hands toward your holy oracle. {28:3} Draw me
not away with the wicked, And with the workers of works against law; That speak
peace with their neighbors, But mischief is in their hearts. {28:4} Give them
according to their work, and according to the wickedness of their doings: Give
them after the operation of their hands; Render to them their desert. {28:5}
Because they regard not the works of Yahweh, Nor the operation of his hands, He
will break them down and not build them up.
{28:6} Blessed be Yahweh, Because he has heard the voice of my
supplications. {28:7} Yahweh is my strength and my shield; My heart has trusted
in him, and I am helped: Therefore my heart greatly rejoices; And with my song
will I praise him. {28:8} Yahweh is their strength, And he is a stronghold of
salvation to his anointed. {28:9} Save your people, and bless your inheritance:
Be their shepherd also, and bear them up for ever.
{O19)29} Psalms Chapter Twenty Nine. A Psalm of David. {29:1} Ascribe unto Yahweh, O you sons of
the mighty, Ascribe unto Yahweh glory and strength. {29:2} Ascribe unto Yahweh
the glory due unto his name; Worship Yahweh in holy array. {29:3} The voice of Yahweh is upon the
waters: The God of glory thunders, Even Yahweh upon many waters. {29:4} The
voice of Yahweh is powerful; The voice of Yahweh is full of majesty. {29:5} The
voice of Yahweh breaks the cedars; behold, Yahweh breaks in pieces the cedars
of Lebanon. {29:6} He makes them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion
like a young wild-ox. {29:7} The voice of Yahweh cleaves the flames of fire.
{29:8} The voice of Yahweh shakes the wilderness; Yahweh shakes the wilderness
of Kadesh. {29:9} The voice of Yahweh makes the hinds to calve, And strips the
forests bare: And in his temple everything said, Glory. {29:10} Yahweh sat [as King] at the Flood;
behold, Yahweh sits as King for ever. {29:11} Yahweh will give strength unto
his people; Yahweh will bless his people with peace.
{O19)30} Psalms Chapter Thirty. A Psalm; a Song at the Dedication of the
House. [A Psalm] of David. {30:1} I
will extol you, O Yahweh; for you have raised me up, And have not made my foes
to rejoice over me. {30:2} O Yahweh my God, I cried unto you, and you have
healed me. {30:3} O Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol; you have
kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit. {30:4} Sing praise unto Yahweh,
O you Holy People of his, And give thanks to his holy memorial [name]. {30:5}
For his anger is but for a moment; His favor is for a life-time: Weeping may
tarry for the night, But joy [comes] in the morning. {30:6} As for me, I said
in my prosperity, I shall never be moved. {30:7} you, Yahweh, of your favor had
made my mountain to stand strong: you did hide your face; I was troubled.
{30:8} I cried to you, O Yahweh; And unto Yahweh I made supplication: {30:9}
What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? shall the dust
praise you? shall it declare your truth? {30:10} Hear, O Yahweh, and have mercy
upon me: Yahweh, be you my helper. {30:11} you have turned for me my
grievinginto dancing; you have loosed my sackcloth, and girded me with
gladness; {30:12} To the end that [my] glory may sing praise to you, and not
be silent. O Yahweh my God, I will give
thanks unto you for ever.
{O19)31} Psalms 31. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of
David. {31:1} In you, O Yahweh, do I
take refuge; Let me never be put to shame: Deliver me in your lawful works.
{31:2} Bow down your ear unto me; deliver me speedily: Be you to me a strong
rock, A house of defense to save me. {31:3} For you are my rock and my
fortress; Therefore for your name's sake lead me and guide me. {31:4} Pluck me
out of the net that they have laid a hidden snare for me; For you are my
stronghold. {31:5} Into your hand I commend my spirit: you have redeemed me, O Yahweh,
you God of truth. {31:6} I hate them that regard lying vanities; But I trust in
Yahweh. {31:7} I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness; For you have
seen my affliction: you have known my soul in adversities; {31:8} And you have
not shut me up into the hand of the enemy; you have set my feet in a large
place. {31:9} Have mercy upon me, O Yahweh, for I am in distress: Mine eye
wastes away with grief, [behold], my soul and my body. {31:10} For my life is
spent with sorrow, And my years with sighing: My strength fails because of mine
[illegal] works against law, And my bones are wasted away. {31:11} Because of
all mine adversaries I am become a reproach, behold, unto my neighbors exceedingly,
And a fear to mine acquaintance: They that did see me outside fled from me.
{31:12} I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
{31:13} For I have heard the defaming of many, Terror on every side: While they
took counsel together against me, They devised to take away my life. {31:14}
But I trusted in you, O Yahweh: I said, you are my God. {31:15} My times are in
your hand: Deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that
persecute me. {31:16} Make your face to
shine upon your servant: Save me in your loving kindness. {31:17} Let me not be
put to shame, O Yahweh; for I have called upon you: Let the wicked be put to
shame, let them be silent in Sheol. {31:18} Let the lying lips be dumb, Which
speak against the lawful works insolently, With pride and contempt. {31:19} Oh
how great is your goodness, Which you have laid up for them that fear you,
Which you have wrought for them that take refuge in you, Before the sons of
men! {31:20} In the covert of your presence will you hide them from the plottings of man: you will keep them secretly
in a pavilion from the strife of tongues. {31:21} Blessed be Yahweh; For he has
showed me his marvellous loving kindness in a strong city. {31:22} As for me, I
said in my haste, I am cut off from before your eyes: Nevertheless you heard
the voice of my supplications When I cried unto you. {31:23} Oh agape love Yahweh,
all you his Holy People: Yahweh preserves the faithful, And plentifully rewards
him that deals proudly. {31:24} Be strong, and let your heart take courage, All
you that hope in Yahweh.
{O19)32} Psalm 32. [A Psalm] of David. Maschil. {32:1} Blessed is he whose transgression of
the law is forgiven, Whose sin is covered. {32:2} Blessed is the man unto whom Yahweh
does not count [his] works [he has done] against law, And in whose spirit there
is no guile. {32:3} When I kept silence, my bones wasted away Through my
groaning all the day long. {32:4} For day and night your hand was heavy upon
me: My moisture was changed [as] with the drought of summer. Selah {32:5} I acknowledged my sin unto
you, And mine works against law did I not hide: I said, I will confess my
transgression of the law unto Yahweh; And you forgave the works against law of
my sin. Selah {32:6} For this let
every one that is godly pray unto you in a time when you may be found: Surely
when the great waters overflow they shall not reach unto him. {32:7} you are my
hiding-place; you will preserve me from trouble; you will compass me about with
songs of deliverance. Selah {32:8} I
will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go: I will counsel
you with mine eye upon you. {32:9} Be you not as the horse, or as the mule,
which have no understanding; Whose trappings must be bit and bridle to hold
them in, [Else] they will not come near unto you. {32:10} Many sorrows shall be
to the wicked; But he that trusts in Yahweh, loving kindness shall compass him
about. {32:11} Be glad in Yahweh, and rejoice, you in lawful works; And shout
for joy, all you that are upright in heart.
{O19)33} Psalms 33. {33:1} Rejoice in Yahweh, O you lawful
worker: Praise is comely for the upright. {33:2} Give thanks unto Yahweh with
the harp: Sing praises unto him with the psaltery of ten strings. {33:3} Sing
unto him a new song; Play skillfully with a loud noise. {33:4} For the word of Yahweh
is right; And all his work is [done] in faithfulness. {33:5} He agape loves
lawful works and justice: The earth is full of the loving kindness of Yahweh.
{33:6} By the word of Yahweh were the heavens made, And all the host of them by
the breath of his mouth. {33:7} He gathers the waters of the sea together as a
heap: He lays up the deeps in store-houses. {33:8} Let all the earth fear Yahweh:
Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him. {33:9} For he spoke,
and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast. {33:10} Yahweh brings the
counsel of the nations to nothing; He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be
of no effect. {33:11} The counsel of Yahweh stands fast for ever, The thoughts
of his heart to all generations. {33:12} Blessed is the nation whose God is Yahweh,
The people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance. {33:13} Yahweh looks
from heaven; He beholds all the sons of men; {33:14} From the place of his
habitation he looks forth Upon all the inhabitants of the earth, {33:15} He
that fashions the hearts of them all, That consider all their works. {33:16}
There is no king saved by the multitude of a host: A mighty man is not
delivered by great strength. {33:17} A horse is a vain thing for safety;
Neither does he deliver any by his great power. {33:18} Behold, the eye of Yahweh
is upon them that fear him, Upon them that hope in his loving kindness; {33:19}
To deliver their soul from death, And to keep them alive in famine. {33:20} Our
soul has waited for Yahweh: He is our help and our shield. {33:21} For our
heart shall rejoice in him, Because we have trusted in his holy name. {33:22}
Let your loving kindness, O Yahweh, be upon us, According as we have hoped in
you.
{o19)34} Psalms 34. A Psalm of David; when he changed his
behavior before Abimelech, who drove him away, and he departed. {34:1} I will bless Yahweh at all times: His
praise shall continually be in my mouth. {34:2} My soul shall make her boast in
Yahweh: The meek shall hear there, and be glad. {34:3} Oh magnify Yahweh with
me, And let us exalt his name together. {34:4} I sought Yahweh, and he answered
me, And delivered me from all my fears. {34:5} They looked unto him, and were
radiant; And their faces shall never be confounded. {34:6} This poor man cried,
and Yahweh heard him, And saved him out of all his troubles. {34:7} The
messenger of Yahweh encamps round about them that fear him, And delivers them.
{34:8} Oh taste and see that Yahweh is good: Blessed is the man that takes
refuge in him. {34:9} Oh fear Yahweh, you his Holy People; For there is no want
to them that fear him. {34:10} The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger; But
they that seek Yahweh shall not want any good thing. {34:11} Come, you children, hear unto me: I
will teach you the fear of Yahweh. {34:12} What man is he that desires life,
And agape loves[many] days, that he may see good? {34:13} Keep your tongue from
evil, And your lips from speaking guile. {34:14} Depart from evil, and do good;
Seek peace, and pursue it. {34:15} The eyes of Yahweh are toward the lawful
worker, And his ears are [open] unto their cry. {34:16} The face of Yahweh is
against them that do evil, To cut off the remembrance of them from the earth. {34:17}
[The lawful worker] cried, and Yahweh heard, And delivered them out of all
their troubles. {34:18} Yahweh is near unto them that are of a broken heart,
And saves such as are of a contrite spirit. {34:19} Many are the afflictions of
the lawful worker; But Yahweh delivers him out of them all. {34:20} He keeps
all his bones: Not one of them is broken. {34:21} Evil shall slay the wicked;
And they that hate the lawful worker shall be condemned. {34:22} Yahweh redeems
the soul of his servants; And none of them that take refuge in him shall be
condemned.
{O19)35} Psalms 35. [A Psalm] of David. {35:1} Strive you, O Yahweh, with them that
strive with me: Fight you against them that fight against me. {35:2} Take hold
of shield and buckler, And stand up for my help. {35:3} Draw out also the
spear, and stop the way against them that pursue me: Say unto my soul, I am
your salvation. {35:4} Let them be put to shame and brought to dishonor that
seek after my soul: Let them be turned back and confounded that devise my hurt.
{35:5} Let them be as chaff before the wind, And the messenger of Yahweh
driving [them] on. {35:6} Let their way be dark and slippery, And the messenger
of Yahweh pursuing them. {35:7} For outside cause have they hid for me their
net [in] a pit; outside cause have they dug [a pit] for my soul. {35:8} Let
destruction come upon him unawares; And let his net that he has hid catch
himself: With destruction let him fall therein. {35:9} And my soul shall be
joyful in Yahweh: It shall rejoice in his salvation. {35:10} All my bones shall
say, Yahweh, who is like unto you, Who delivers the poor from him that is too
strong for him, behold, the poor and the needy from him that robs him? {35:11}
Works of the unlawful witnesses rise up; They ask me of things that I know not.
{35:12} They reward me evil for good, [To] the bereaving of my soul. {35:13}
But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I afflicted my
soul with fasting; And my prayer returned into mine own bosom. {35:14} I behaved
myself as though it had been my friend or my brother: I bowed down grieveing,
as one that bewails his mother. {35:15} But in mine adversity they rejoiced,
and gathered themselves together: The attackers gathered themselves together
against me, and I knew [it] not; They did tear me, and ceased not: {35:16} Like
the profane mockers in feasts, They gnashed upon me with their teeth. {35:17}
Lord, how long will you look on? Rescue my soul from their destructions, My
darling from the lions. {35:18} I will give you thanks in the great Ekklesia: I
will praise you among much people. {35:19} Let not them that are mine enemies
wrongfully rejoice over me; Neither let them wink with the eye that hate me
outside a cause. {35:20} For they speak not peace; But they devise deceitful
words against them that are quiet in the land. {35:21} behold, they opened
their mouth wide against me; They said, Aha, aha, our eye has seen it. {35:22}
you have seen it, O Yahweh; keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.
{35:23} Stir up yourself, and awake to the justice [due] unto me, [Even] unto
my cause, my God and my Lord. {35:24} Judge me, O Yahweh my God, according to
your lawful works; And let them not rejoice over me. {35:25} Let them not say
in their heart, Aha, so would we have it: Let them not say, We have swallowed
him up. {35:26} Let them be put to shame and confounded together that rejoice
at my hurt: Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor that magnify themselves
against me. {35:27} Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favor my cause in
lawful works: behold, let them say continually, Yahweh be magnified, Who has
pleasure in the prosperity of his servant. {35:28} And my tongue shall talk of
your lawful works [And] of your praise all the day long. {O19)36} Psalms 36. For the Chief Musician. [A Psalm] of David
the servant of Yahweh. {36:1} The
transgression of the law of the wicked said within my heart, There is no fear
of God before his eyes. {36:2} For he flatters himself in his own eyes, That
his works against law will not be found out and be hated. {36:3} The words of
his mouth are works against law and deceit: He has ceased to be wise [and] to
do good. {36:4} He devises work against law upon his bed; He sets himself in a
way that is not good; He abhors not evil.
{36:5} Your loving kindness, O Yahweh,
is in the heavens; Your faithfulness [reach] unto the skies. {36:6} Your works
of law is like the mountains of God; Your judgments are a great deep: O Yahweh,
you preserve man and beast. {36:7} How precious is your loving kindness, O God!
And the children of men take refuge under the shadow of your wings. {36:8} They
shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of your house; And you will make
them drink of the river of your pleasures. {36:9} For with you is the fountain
of life: In your light shall we see light. {36:10} Oh continue your loving
kindness unto them that know you, And your works of law to the upright in
heart. {36:11} Let not the foot of pride come against me, And let not the hand
of the wicked drive me away. {36:12} There are the workers of work against law
fallen: They are thrust down, and shall not be able to rise.
{O19)37} Psalms 37. [A Psalm] of David. {37:1} Fret not yourself because of
evil-doers, Neither be you envious against them that [illegally] work outside
law. {37:2} For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, And wither as the
green herb. {37:3} Trust in Yahweh, and do good; Dwell in the land, and feed on
[his] faithfulness. {37:4} Delight yourself also in Yahweh; And he will give
you the desires of your heart. {37:5} Commit your way unto Yahweh; Trust also
in him, and he will bring it to pass. {37:6} And he will make your lawful works
to go forth as the light, And your justice as the noon-day. {37:7} Rest in Yahweh,
and wait patiently for him: Fret not yourself because of him who prospers in
his way, Because of the man who brings wicked devices to pass. {37:8} Cease
from anger, and forsake wrath: Fret not yourself, [it tend] only to evil-doing.
{37:9} For evil-doers shall be cut off; But those that wait for Yahweh, they
shall inherit the land. {37:10} For yet a little while, and the wicked shall
not be: behold, you shall diligently consider his place, and he shall not be.
{37:11} But the meek shall inherit the land, And shall delight themselves in
the abundance of peace. {37:12} The wicked plots against the just, And gnashes
upon him with his teeth. {37:13} The Lord will laugh at him; For he sees that
his day is coming. {37:14} The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent
their bow, To cast down the poor and needy, To slay such as are upright in the
way. {37:15} Their sword shall enter into their own heart, And their bows shall
be broken. {37:16} Better is a little that the lawful worker has Than the
abundance of many wicked. {37:17} For the arms of the wicked shall be broken;
But Yahweh upholds the lawful worker. {37:18} Yahweh knows the days of the
perfect; And their inheritance shall be for ever. {37:19} They shall not be put
to shame in the time of evil; And in the days of famine they shall be
satisfied. {37:20} But the wicked shall perish, And the enemies of Yahweh shall
be as the fat of lambs: They shall consume; In smoke shall they consume away.
{37:21} The wicked borrows, and pays not again; But the lawful worker deals graciously,
and gives. {37:22} For such as are blessed of him shall inherit the land; And
they that are cursed of him shall be cut off. {37:23} A man's goings are
established of Yahweh; And he delights in his way. {37:24} though he fall, he
shall not be utterly cast down; For Yahweh upholds him with his hand. {37:25} I
have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the lawful worker
forsaken, Nor his seed begging bread. {37:26} All the day long he deals
graciously, and lends; And his seed is blessed. {37:27} Depart from evil, and
do good; And dwell for evermore. {37:28} For Yahweh agape loves justice, And
forsakes not his Holy People; They are preserved for ever: But the seed of the
wicked shall be cut off. {37:29} The lawful worker shall inherit the land, And
dwell therein for ever. {37:30} The mouth of the lawful worker talks of wisdom,
And his tongue speaks justice. {37:31} The law of his God is in his heart; None
of his steps shall slide. {37:32} The wicked watch the lawful worker, And seeks
to slay him. {37:33} Yahweh will not leave him in his hand, Nor condemn him
when he is judged. {37:34} Wait for Yahweh, and keep his way, And he will exalt
you to inherit the land: When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it. {37:35}
I have seen the wicked in great power, And spreading himself like a green tree
in its native soil. {37:36} But one passed by, and, lo, he was not: behold, I
sought him, but he could not be found. {37:37} Mark the perfect man, and behold
the upright; For there is a [happy] end to the man of peace. {37:38} As for
transgressors, they shall be destroyed together; The end of the wicked shall be
cut off. {37:39} But the salvation of the lawful worker is of Yahweh; He is
their stronghold in the time of trouble. {37:40} And Yahweh helps them, and
rescues them ; He rescues them from the wicked, and saves them, Because they
have taken refuge in him.
{o19)38} Psalms 38. A Psalm of David, to bring to
remembrance. {38:1} O Yahweh, rebuke me
not in your wrath; Neither chastise me in your hot displeasure. {38:2} For your
arrows stick fast in me, And your hand press me sore. {38:3} There is no
soundness in my flesh because of your indignation; Neither is there any health
in my bones because of my sin. {38:4} For mine iniquities are gone over my
head: As a heavy burden they are too heavy for me. {38:5} My wounds are
loathsome and corrupt, Because of my foolishness. {38:6} I am pained and bowed
down greatly; I go grievingall the day long. {38:7} For my loins are filled
with burning; And there is no soundness in my flesh. {38:8} I am faint and sore
bruised: I have groaned by reason of the disquietness of my heart. {38:9} Lord,
all my desire is before you; And my groaning is not hid from you. {38:10} My
heart throbs, my strength fails me: As for the light of mine eyes, it also is
gone from me. {38:11} My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague; And
my kinsmen stand afar off. {38:12} They also that seek after my life lay snares
[for me]; And they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, And meditate
deceits all the day long. {38:13} But I, as a deaf man, hear not; And I am as a
dumb man that opens not his mouth. {38:14} behold, I am as a man that hears
not, And in whose mouth are no reproofs. {38:15} For in you, O Yahweh, do I
hope: you will answer, O Lord my God. {38:16} For I said, Lest they rejoice
over me: When my foot slipped, they magnify themselves against me. {38:17} For
I am ready to fall, And my sorrow is continually before me. {38:18} For I will
declare mine work against law; I will be sorry for my sin. {38:19} But mine
enemies are lively, [and] are strong; And they that hate me wrongfully are
multiplied. {38:20} They also that render evil for good Are adversaries unto
me, because I follow the thing that is good. {38:21} Forsake me not, O Yahweh:
O my God, be not far from me. {38:22} Make haste to help me, O Lord, my
salvation.
{O19)39} Psalms 39. For the Chief Musician, Jeduthun. A Psalm of
David. {39:1} I said, I will take heed
to my ways, That I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle,
While the wicked is before me. {39:2} I was dumb with silence, I held my peace,
even from good; And my sorrow was stirred. {39:3} My heart was hot within me;
While I was musing the fire burned: [Then] spoke I with my tongue: {39:4} Yahweh,
make me to know mine end, And the measure of my days, what it is; Let me know
how frail I am. {39:5} Behold, you have made my days [as] handbreadths; And my
life-time is as nothing before you: Surely every man at his best estate is
altogether vanity. Selah {39:6}
Surely every man walks in a vain show; Surely they are disquieted in vain: He
heap up [riches], and knows not who shall gather them. {39:7} And now, Lord,
what wait I for? My hope is in you. {39:8} Deliver me from all my transgression
of the law: Make me not the reproach of the foolish. {39:9} I was dumb, I
opened not my mouth; Because you did it. {39:10} Remove your stroke away from
me: I am consumed by the blow of your hand. {39:11} When you with rebukes do
correct man for works against law, you make his beauty to consume away like a
moth: Surely every man is vanity.
Selah {39:12} Hear my prayer, O Yahweh, and give ear unto my cry; Hold
not your peace at my tears: For I am a stranger with you, A alien, as all my
fathers were. {39:13} Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, Before I go
from here, and be no more.
{O19)40} Psalms 40. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of
David. {40:1} I waited patiently for Yahweh;
And he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. {40:2} He brought me up also out of
a horrible pit, out of the miry clay; And he set my feet upon a rock, and
established my goings. {40:3} And he has put a new song in my mouth, even
praise unto our God: Many shall see it, and fear, And shall trust in Yahweh.
{40:4} Blessed is the man that makes Yahweh his trust, And respects not the
proud, nor such as turn aside to lies. {40:5} Many, O Yahweh my God, are the
wonderful works which you have done, And your thoughts which are to us-ward;
They cannot be set in order unto you; If I would declare and speak of them,
They are more than can be numbered. {40:6} Sacrifice and offering you have no
delight in; Mine ears have you opened: Burnt-offering and sin-offering have you
not required. {40:7} Then said I, Lo, I am come; In the roll of the book it is
written of me: {40:8} I delight to do your will, O my God; behold, your law is
within my heart. {40:9} I have proclaimed glad tidings of lawful works in the
great Ekklesia; Lo, I will not refrain my lips, O Yahweh, you know. {40:10} I
have not hid your works of law within my heart; I have declared your
faithfulness and your salvation; I have not concealed your loving kindness and
your truth from the great Ekklesia. {40:11} Withhold not you your tender
mercies from me, O Yahweh; Let your loving kindness and your truth continually
preserve me. {40:12} For innumerable evils have compassed me about; Mine
illegal works against law have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up;
They are more than the hairs of my head; And my heart has failed me. {40:13} Be
pleased, O Yahweh, to deliver me: Make haste to help me, O Yahweh. {40:14} Let
them be put to shame and confounded together That seek after my soul to destroy
it: Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor That delight in my
hurt. {40:15} Let them be desolate by reason of their shame That say unto me,
Aha, aha. {40:16} Let all those that seek you rejoice and be glad in you: Let
such as agape love your salvation say continually, Yahweh be magnified. {40:17}
But I am poor and needy; [yet] the Lord thinks upon me: you are my help and my
deliverer; tarry not, O my God.
{O19)41} Psalms 41. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of
David. {41:1} Blessed is he that
considers the poor: Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil. {41:2} Yahweh
will preserve him, and keep him alive, And he shall be blessed upon the earth;
And deliver not you him unto the will of his enemies. {41:3} Yahweh will
support him upon the couch of languishing: you make all his bed in his
sickness. {41:4} I said, O Yahweh, have mercy upon me: Heal my soul; for I have
sinned against you. {41:5} Mine enemies speak evil against me, [saying], When
will he die, and his name perish? {41:6} And if he come to see [me], he speaks
falsehood; His heart gathers works against law to itself: When he goes abroad,
he tells it. {41:7} All that hate me whisper together against me; Against me do
they devise my hurt. {41:8} An evil disease, [say they], cleaves fast unto him;
And now that he lies he shall rise up no more. {41:9} behold, mine own familiar
friend, in whom I trusted, Who did eat of my bread, Has lifted up his heel
against me. {41:10} But you, O Yahweh, have mercy upon me, and raise me up,
That I may requite them. {41:11} By this I know that you delight in me, Because
mine enemy does not triumph over me. {41:12} And as for me, you uphold me in
mine integrity, And set me before your face for ever. {41:13} Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel,
From everlasting and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen.
{O19)42} Psalms 42. Book II
For the Chief Musician. Maschil of the sons of Korah. {42:1} As the hare pants after the water
brooks, So pants my soul after you, O God. {42:2} My soul thirst for God, for
the living God: When shall I come and appear before God? {42:3} My tears have
been my food day and night, While they continually say unto me, Where is your
God? {42:4} These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, How I went
with the throng, and led them to the house of God, With the voice of joy and
praise, a multitude keeping holy [the] day. {42:5} Why are you cast down, O my
soul? And [why] are you disquieted within me? Hope you in God; for I shall yet
praise him [For] the help of his countenance.
{42:6} O my God, my soul is cast down within me: Therefore do I remember
you from the land of the Jordan, And the Hermons, from the hill Mizar. {42:7}
Deep calls unto deep at the noise of your waterfalls: All your waves and your
billows are gone over me. {42:8} [yet] Yahweh will command his loving kindness
in the day-time; And in the night his song shall be with me, [Even] a prayer
unto the God of my life. {42:9} I will say unto God my rock, Why have you
forgotten me? Why go I grievingbecause of the oppression of the enemy? {42:10}
As with a sword in my bones, mine adversaries reproach me, While they
continually say unto me, Where is your God? {42:11} Why are you cast down, O my
soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope you in God; for I shall yet
praise him, [Who is] the help of my countenance, and my God.
{O19)43} Psalms 43. {43:1} Judge me, O God, and plead my cause
against an ungodly nation: Oh deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
{43:2} For you are the God of my strength; why have you cast me off? Why go I
grievingbecause of the oppression of the enemy? {43:3} Oh send out your light
and your truth; let them lead me: Let them bring me unto your holy hill, And to
your tabernacles. {43:4} Then will I go unto the altar of God, Unto God my
exceeding joy; And upon the harp will I praise you, O God, my God. {43:5} Why
are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope you in
God; for I shall yet praise him, [Who is] the help of my countenance, and my
God.
{O19)44} Psalms 44. For the Chief Musician. [A Psalm] of the sons
of Korah. Maschil. {44:1} We have heard
with our ears, O God, Our fathers have told us, What work you did in their
days, In the days of old. {44:2} you did drive out the nations with your hand;
But them you did plant: you did afflict the peoples; But them you did spread
abroad. {44:3} For they got not the land in possession by their own sword,
Neither did their own arm save them; But your right hand, and your arm, and the
light of your countenance, Because you was favorable unto them. {44:4} you are
my King, O God: Command deliverance for Jacob. {44:5} Through you will we push
down our adversaries: Through your name will we tread them under that rise up
against us. {44:6} For I will not trust in my bow, Neither shall my sword save
me. {44:7} But you have saved us from our adversaries, And have put them to
shame that hate us. {44:8} In God have we made our boast all the day long, And
we will give thanks unto your name for ever.
Selah {44:9} But now you have
cast [us] off, and brought us to dishonor, And go not forth with our hosts.
{44:10} you make us to turn back from the adversary; And they that hate us take
spoil for themselves. {44:11} you have made us like sheep [appointed] for food,
And have scattered us among the nations. {44:12} you sell your people for
nothing, And have not increased [your wealth] by their price. {44:13} you make
us a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and a derision to them that are
round about us. {44:14} you make us a byword among the nations, A shaking of
the head among the peoples. {44:15} All the day long is my dishonor before me,
And the shame of my face has covered me, {44:16} For the voice of him that
reproaches sand blasphemes, By reason of the enemy and the avenger. {44:17} All
this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten you, Neither have we dealt
falsely in your covenant. {44:18} Our heart is not turned back, Neither have
our steps declined from your way, {44:19} That you have sore broken us in the
place of jackals, And covered us with the shadow of death. {44:20} If we have
forgotten the name of our God, Or spread forth our hands to a strange god;
{44:21} Will not God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.
{44:22} behold, for your sake are we killed all the day long; We are accounted
as sheep for the slaughter. {44:23} Awake, why sleep you, O Lord? Arise, cast
[us] not off for ever. {44:24} Therefore hide you your face, And forget our
affliction and our oppression? {44:25} For our soul is bowed down to the dust:
Our body cleaves unto the earth. {44:26} Rise up for our help, And redeem us
for your loving kindness' sake.
{O19)45} Psalms 45. For the Chief Musician; set to Shoshannim. [A
Psalm] of the sons of Korah. Maschil. A Song of agape loves. {45:1} My heart over flows with a goodly
matter; I speak the things which I have made touching the king: My tongue is
the pen of a ready writer. {45:2} you are fairer than the children of men;
Grace is poured into your lips: Therefore God has blessed you for ever. {45:3}
Gird your sword upon your thigh, O mighty one, Your glory and your majesty.
{45:4} And in your majesty ride on prosperously, Because of truth and meekness
[and] good works: And your right hand shall teach you terrible things. {45:5}
your arrows are sharp; The peoples fall under you; [They are] in the heart of
the king's enemies.
{45:6} Your throne, O God, is for ever and
ever: A Scepter of equity is the Scepter of your kingdom. {45:7} you have agape
loved lawful works, and hated wickedness: Therefore God, your God, has anointed
you With the oil of gladness above your fellows. {45:8} All your garments
[smell of] myrrh, and aloes, [and] cassia; Out of ivory palaces make glad [the heart].
{45:9} Kings' daughters are among your
honorable women: At your right hand does stand the queen in gold of Ophir.
{45:10} Hear, O daughter, and consider, and incline your ear; Forget also your
own people, and your father's house: {45:11} So will the king desire your
beauty; For he is your lord; and reverence you him. {45:12} And the daughter of
Tyre [shall be there] with a gift; The rich among the people shall entreat your
favor. {45:13} The king's daughter within [the palace] is all glorious: Her
clothing is inwrought with gold. {45:14} She shall be led unto the king in
broidered work: The virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought
unto you. {45:15} With gladness and rejoicing shall they be led: They shall
enter into the king's palace. {45:16} Instead of your fathers shall be your
children, Whom you shall make princes in all the earth. {45:17} I will make
your name to be remembered in all generations: Therefore shall the peoples give
you thanks for ever and ever.
{O19)46} Psalms 46. For the Chief Musician. [A Psalm] of the sons
of Korah; set to Alamoth. A Song.
{46:1} God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble.
{46:2} Therefore will we not fear, though the earth do change, And though the
mountains be shaken into the heart of the seas; {46:3} though the waters of it
roar and be troubled, though the mountains tremble with the swelling
there. Selah {46:4} There is a river, the streams where
make glad the city of God, The holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High.
{46:5} God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God will help her,
and that right early. {46:6} The
nations raged, the kingdoms were moved: He uttered his voice, the earth melted.
{46:7} Yahweh of hosts is with us; The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah
{46:8} Come, behold the works of Yahweh, What desolations he has made in
the earth. {46:9} He makes wars to cease unto the end of the earth; He breaks
the bow, and cuts the spear in sunder; He burns the chariots in the fire.
{46:10} Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth. {46:11} Yahweh of hosts is with us; The God of
Jacob is our refuge. Selah
{O19)47} Psalms 47. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons
of Korah. {47:1} Oh clap your hands,
all you peoples; Shout unto God with the voice of triumph. {47:2} For Yahweh Most
High is terrible; He is a great King over all the earth. {47:3} He subdues
peoples under us, And nations under our feet. {47:4} He chooses our inheritance
for us, The glory of Jacob whom he agape loved. Selah
{47:5} God is gone up with a shout, Yahweh
with the sound of a trumpet. {47:6} Sing praise to God, sing praises: Sing
praises unto our King, sing praises. {47:7} For God is the King of all the
earth: Sing you praises with understanding. {47:8} God reigns over the nations:
God sits upon his holy throne. {47:9} The princes of the peoples are gathered
together [To be] the people of the God of Abraham: For the shields of the earth
belong unto God; He is greatly exalted.
{O19)48} Psalms 48. A Song; a Psalm of the sons of Korah. {48:1} Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be
praised, In the city of our God, in his holy mountain. {48:2} Beautiful in
elevation, the joy of the whole earth, Is mount Zion, [on] the sides of the
north, The city of the great King. {48:3} God has made himself known in her
palaces for a refuge. {48:4} For, lo, the kings assembled themselves, They
passed by together. {48:5} They saw it, then were they amazed; They were
dismayed, they hurried away. {48:6} Trembling took hold of them there, Pain, as
of a woman in travail. {48:7} With the east wind you breaks the ships of
Tarshish. {48:8} As we have heard, so have we seen In the city of Yahweh of
hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah {48:9} We have thought on your loving
kindness, O God, In the midst of your temple. {48:10} As is your name, O God,
So is your praise unto the ends of the earth: Your right hand is full of good
works. {48:11} Let mount Zion be glad, Let the daughters of Judah rejoice,
Because of your judgments. {48:12} Walk about Zion, and go round about her;
Number the towers there; {48:13} Mark you well her bulwarks; Consider her
palaces: That you may tell it to the generation following. {48:14} For this God
is our God for ever and ever: He will be our guide [even] unto death.
{O19)49}
Psalms 49. For the Chief
Musician. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.
{49:1} Hear this, all you peoples; Give ear, all you inhabitants of the
world, {49:2} Both low and high, Rich and poor together. {49:3} My mouth shall
speak wisdom; And the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding. {49:4}
I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.
{49:5} Therefore should I fear in the days of evil, When works against law at
my heels compasses me about? {49:6} They that trust in their wealth, And boast
themselves in the multitude of their riches; {49:7} None [of them] can by any
means redeem his brother, Nor give to God a ransom for him; {49:8} (For the
redemption of their life is costly, And it fails for ever;) {49:9} That he
should still live always, That he should not see corruption. {49:10} For he
shall see it. Wise men die; The fool and the brutish alike perish, And leave
their wealth to others. {49:11} Their inward thought is, [that] their houses
[shall continue] for ever, [And] their dwelling-places to all generations; They
call their lands after their own names. {49:12} But man [being] in honor abides
not: He is like the beasts that perish.
{49:13} This their way is their folly: yet after them men approve their
sayings. Selah {49:14} They are
appointed as a flock for Sheol; Death shall be their shepherd; And the upright
shall have dominion over them in the morning; And their beauty shall be for
Sheol to consume, That there be no habitation for it. {49:15} But God will
redeem my soul from the power of Sheol; For he will receive me. Selah {49:16}
Be not you afraid when one is made rich, When the glory of his house is
increased. {49:17} For when he dies he shall carry nothing away; His glory
shall not descend after him. {49:18} though while he lived he blessed his soul
(And men praise you, when you do well to yourself,) {49:19} He shall go to the
generation of his fathers; They shall never see the light. {49:20} Man that is
in honor, and understands not, Is like the beasts that perish.
{O19)50} Psalms 50. A Psalm of Asaph. {50:1} The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, has
spoken, And called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down
there. {50:2} Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shined forth.
{50:3} Our God comes, and does not keep silence: A fire devours before him, And
it is very tempestuous round about him. {50:4} He calls to the heavens above,
And to the earth, that he may judge his people: {50:5} Gather my Holy People
together unto me, Those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice. {50:6}
And the heavens shall declare his lawful works; For God is judge himself. Selah {50:7} Hear, O my people, and I will
speak; O Israel, and I will testify unto you: I am God, [even] your God. {50:8}
I will not reprove you for your sacrifices; And your burnt-offerings are
continually before me. {50:9} I will take no bullock out of your house, Nor
he-goats out of your folds. {50:10} For every beast of the forest is mine, And
the cattle upon a thousand hills. {50:11} I know all the birds of the
mountains; And the wild beasts of the field are mine. {50:12} If I were hungry,
I would not tell you; For the world is mine, and the fullness there. {50:13}
Will I eat the flesh of bulls, Or drink the blood of goats? {50:14} Offer unto
God the sacrifice of thanksgiving; And pay your vows unto the Most High:
{50:15} And call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you
shall glorify me. {50:16} But unto the
wicked God said, What have you to do to declare my statutes, And that you have
taken my covenant in your mouth, {50:17} Seeing you hate instruction, And casts
my words behind you? {50:18} When you saw a thief, you did take pleasure with
him, And have been partaker with adulterers. {50:19} you give your mouth to
evil, And your tongue frames deceit. {50:20} you sit and speak against your
brother; you slander your own mother's son. {50:21} These things have you done,
and I kept silence; you ought that I was altogether such a one as yourself:
[But] I will reprove you, and set [them] in order before your eyes. {50:22} Now consider this, you that forget
God, Lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver: {50:23} Who so
offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me; And to him that orders his
way [aright] Will I show the salvation of God.
{O19)51} Psalms 51. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David;
when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. {51:1} Have mercy upon me, O God, according
to your loving kindness: According to the multitude of your tender mercies blot
out my transgression of the law. {51:2} Wash me thoroughly from mine works against
law, And cleanse me from my sin. {51:3} For I know my transgression of the law;
And my sin is ever before me. {51:4} Against you, you only, have I sinned, And
done that which is evil in your sight; That you may be justified when you
speak, And be clear when you judge. {51:5} Behold, I was brought forth in works
against law; And in sin did my mother conceive me. {51:6} Behold, you desire
truth in the inward parts; And in the hidden part you will make me to know
wisdom. {51:7} Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: Wash me, and I
shall be whiter than snow. {51:8} Make me to hear joy and gladness, That the
bones which you have broken may rejoice. {51:9} Hide your face from my sins,
And blot out all mine iniquities. {51:10} Create in me a clean heart, O God;
And renew a right spirit within me. {51:11} Cast me not away from your
presence; And take not your holy Spirit from me. {51:12} Restore unto me the
joy of your salvation; And uphold me with a willing spirit. {51:13} Then will I
teach transgressors your ways; And sinners shall be converted unto you. {51:14}
Deliver me from blood guiltiness, O God, you God of my salvation; [And] my tongue shall sing
aloud of your lawful works. {51:15} O Lord, open you my lips; And my mouth
shall show forth your praise. {51:16} For you delight not in sacrifice; else
would I give it: you have no pleasure in burnt-offering. {51:17} The sacrifices
of God are a broken spirit: A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not
despise. {51:18} Do good in your good
pleasure unto Zion: Build you the walls of Jerusalem. {51:19} Then will you
delight in the sacrifices of of lawful works, In burnt-offering and in whole
burnt-offering: Then will they offer bullocks upon your altar.
{O19)52} Psalms 52. For the Chief Musician. Maschil of David;
when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him, David is come to
the house of Abimelech. {52:1} Why
boast you yourself in mischief, O mighty man? The loving kindness of God
[endures] continually. {52:2} Your tongue devise very wickedness, Like a sharp
razor, working deceitfully. {52:3} you agape love evil more than good, And
lying rather than to speak lawful works.
Selah {52:4} you love all devouring words, you deceitful tongue. {52:5}
God will likewise destroy you for ever; He will take you up, and pluck you out
of your tent, And root you out of the land of the living. Selah {52:6} The lawful worker also shall
see [it], and fear, And shall laugh at him, [saying], {52:7} Lo, this is the
man that made not God his strength, But trusted in the abundance of his riches,
And strengthened himself in his wickedness. {52:8} But as for me, I am like a
green olive-tree in the house of God: I trust in the loving kindness of God for
ever and ever. {52:9} I will give you thanks for ever, because you have done
it; And I will hope in your name, for it is good, in the presence of your Holy
People.
{o19)53} Psalms 53 For the Chief Musician; set to Mahalath.
Maschil of David. {53:1} The fool has
said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable
works against law; There is none that does good. {53:2} God looked down from
heaven upon the children of men, To see if there were any that did understand,
That did seek after God. {53:3} Every one of them is gone back; they are
together become corrupted; There is none that does good, no, not one. {53:4}
Have the workers of works against law no knowledge, Who eat up my people [as]
they eat bread, And call not upon God? {53:5} There were they in great fear,
where no fear was; For God has scattered the bones of him that encamps against
you: you have put them to shame, because of God has rejected them. {53:6} Oh
that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When God brings back the
captivity of his people, Then shall Jacob rejoice, [and] Israel shall be glad.
{O19)54} Psalms 54. For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments.
Maschil of David; when the Ziphites came and said to Saul, Does not David hide
himself with us? {54:1} Save me, O God,
by your name, And judge me in your might. {54:2} Hear my prayer, O God; Give
ear to the words of my mouth. {54:3} For strangers are risen up against me, And
violent men have sought after my soul: They have not set God before them. Selah {54:4} Behold, God is my helper: The
Lord is of them that uphold my soul. {54:5} He will requite the evil unto mine
enemies: Destroy you them in your truth. {54:6} With a freewill-offering will I
sacrifice unto you: I will give thanks unto your name, O Yahweh, for it is
good. {54:7} For he has delivered me out of all trouble; And mine eye has seen
[my desire] upon mine enemies.
{O19)55} Psalm 55. For the Chief Musician; on stringed
instruments. Maschil of David. {55:1}
Give ear to my prayer, O God; And hide not yourself from my supplication.
{55:2} Attend unto me, and answer me: I am restless in my complaint, and moan,
{55:3} Because of the voice of the enemy, Because of the oppression of the
wicked; For they cast works against law upon me, And in anger they persecute
me. {55:4} My heart is sore pained within me: And the terrors of death are
fallen upon me. {55:5} Fearfullness and trembling are come upon me, And horror
has overwhelmed me. {55:6} And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then
would I fly away, and be at rest. {55:7} Lo, then would I wander far off, I
would lodge in the wilderness.
Selah {55:8} I would haste me to
a shelter From the stormy wind and tempest. {55:9} Destroy, O Lord, [and]
divide their tongue; For I have seen violence and strife in the city. {55:10}
Day and night they go about it upon the walls there: Works against law also and
mischief are in the midst of it. {55:11} Wickedness is in the midst there:
Oppression and guile depart not from its streets. {55:12} For it was not an
enemy that reproached me; Then I could have borne it: Neither was it he that
hated me that did magnify himself against me; Then I would have hid myself from
him: {55:13} But it was you, a man mine equal, My companion, and my familiar
friend. {55:14} We took sweet counsel together; We walked in the house of God
with the throng. {55:15} Let death come suddenly upon them, Let them go down alive
into Sheol; For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them. {55:16}
As for me, I will call upon God; And Yahweh will save me. {55:17} Evening, and
morning, and at noonday, will I complain, and moan; And he will hear my voice.
{55:18} He has redeemed my soul in peace from the battle that was against me;
For they were many [that strove] with me. {55:19} God will hear, and answer
them, Even he that abides of old,
Selah [The men] who have no changes, And who fear not God. {55:20} He
has put forth his hands against such as were at peace with him: He has profaned
his covenant. {55:21} His mouth was smooth as butter, But his heart was war:
His words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords. {55:22} Cast your
burden upon Yahweh, and he will sustain you: He will never suffer the lawful
worker to be moved. {55:23} But you, O God, will bring them down into the pit
of destruction: Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their
days; But I will trust in you.
{O19)56} Psalms 56. For the Chief Musician; set to Jonath elem
rehokim. [A Psalm] of David. Michtam: when the Philistines took him in
Goth. {56:1} Be merciful unto me, O
God; for man would swallow me up: All the day long he fighting oppresses me.
{56:2} Mine enemies would swallow me up all the day long; For they are many
that fight proudly against me. {56:3} What time I am afraid, I will put my
trust in you. {56:4} In God (I will praise his word), In God have I put my
trust, I will not be afraid; What can flesh do unto me? {56:5} All the day long
they withhold my words: All their thoughts are against me for evil. {56:6} They
gather themselves together, they hide themselves, They mark my steps, Even as
they have waited for my soul. {56:7} shall they escape by works against law? In
anger cast down the peoples, O God. {56:8} you number my wanderings: Put you my
tears into your bottle; Are they not in your book? {56:9} Then shall mine
enemies turn back in the day that I call: This I know, that God is for me.
{56:10} In God (I will praise [his] word), In Yahweh (I will praise [his]
word), {56:11} In God have I put my trust, I will not be afraid; What can man
do unto me? {56:12} Your vows are upon me, O God: I will render thank-offerings
unto you. {56:13} For you have delivered my soul from death: [Have you] not
[delivered] my feet from falling, That I may walk before God In the light of
the living?
{O19)57} Psalms 57. For the Chief Musician; [set to]
Al-tash-heth. [A Psalm] of David. Michtam; when he fled from Saul, in the cave. {57:1} Be merciful unto me, O God, be
merciful unto me; For my soul takes refuge in you: behold, in the shadow of
your wings will I take refuge, Until [these] calamities be overpass. {57:2} I
will cry unto God Most High, Unto God that performs [all things] for me. {57:3}
He will send from heaven, and save me, [When] he that would swallow me up
reproaches; Selah. God will send forth his loving kindness and
his truth. {57:4} My soul is among lions; I lie among them that are set on
fire, Even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, And their tongue
a sharp sword. {57:5} Be you exalted, O God, above the heavens; [Let] your
glory [be] above all the earth. {57:6}
They have prepared a net for my steps; My soul is bowed down: They have dug a pit
before me; They are fallen into the midst of it themselves. Selah {57:7} My heart is fixed, O God, my
heart is fixed: I will sing, behold, I will sing praises. {57:8} Awake up, my
glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake right early. {57:9} I will
give thanks unto you, O Lord, among the peoples: I will sing praises unto you
among the nations. {57:10} For your loving kindness is great unto the heavens,
And your truth unto the skies. {57:11} Be you exalted, O God, above the
heavens; [Let] your glory [be] above all the earth.
{O19)58} Psalms 58. For the Chief Musician; [set to] Al-tashheth.
[A Psalm] of David. Michtam. {58:1} Do
you indeed in silence speak lawful works? Do you judge uprightly, O you sons of
men? {58:2} No, in heart you work wickedness; you weigh out the violence of
your hands in the earth. {58:3} The wicked are estranged from the womb: They go
astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies. {58:4} Their poison is like the
poison of a serpent: [They are] like the deaf adder that stops her ear, {58:5}
Which hears not to the voice of charmers, Charming never so wisely. {58:6}
Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: Break out the great teeth of the
young lions, O Yahweh. {58:7} Let them melt away as water that runs apace: When
he aims his arrows, let them be as though they were cut off. {58:8} [Let them
be] as a snail which melts and passes away, [Like] the untimely birth of a
woman, that has not seen the sun. {58:9} Before your pots can feel the thorns,
He will take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.
{58:10} The lawful worker shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance: He shall
wash his feet in the blood of the wicked; {58:11} So that men shall say, Verily
there is a reward for the lawful worker: Verily there is a God that judges in
the earth.
{O19)59} Psalms 59. For the Chief Musician; [set to] Al-tashheth.
[A Psalm] of David. Michtam; when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill
him. {59:1} Deliver me from mine
enemies, O my God: Set me on high from them that rise up against me. {59:2}
Deliver me from the workers of works against law, And save me from the
bloodthirsty men. {59:3} For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul; The mighty
gather themselves together against me: Not for my transgression of the law, nor
for my sin, O Yahweh. {59:4} They run and prepare themselves outside [my]
fault: Awake you to help me, and behold. {59:5} Even you, O The God Yahweh of
hosts, the God of Israel, Arise to visit all the nations: Be not merciful to
any wicked transgressors. Selah
{59:6} They return at evening, they howl like a dog, And go round about the
city. {59:7} Behold, they belch out with their mouth; Swords are in their lips:
For who, [say they], does hear? {59:8} But you, O Yahweh, will laugh at them;
you will have all the nations in derision. {59:9} [Because of] his strength I
will give heed unto you; For God is my high tower. {59:10} My God with his
loving kindness will meet me: God will let me see [my desire] upon mine
enemies. {59:11} Slay them not, lest my people forget: Scatter them by your
power, and bring them down, O Lord our shield. {59:12} [For] the sin of their
mouth, [and] the words of their lips, Let them even be taken in their pride,
And for cursing and lying which they speak. {59:13} Consume them in wrath,
consume them, so that they shall be no more: And let them know that God rules
in Jacob, Unto the ends of the earth.
Selah {59:14} And at evening let them return, let them howl like a dog,
And go round about the city. {59:15} They shall wander up and down for food,
And tarry all night if they be not satisfied. {59:16} But I will sing of your
strength; behold, I will sing aloud of your loving kindness in the morning: For
you have been my high tower, And a refuge in the day of my distress. {59:17}
Unto you, O my strength, will I sing praises: For God is my high tower, the God
of my mercy.
{O19)60}
Psalms 60. For the Chief
Musician; [set to] Shushan Eduth. Michtam of David, to teach; and when he
strove with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, and Joab returned, and smote of
Edom in the Valley of Salt twelve thousand.
{60:1} O God you have cast us off, you have broken us down; you have
been angry; oh restore us again. {60:2} you have made the land to tremble; you
have rent it: Heal the breaches there; for it shakes. {60:3} you have showed
your people hard things: you have made us to drink the wine of staggering.
{60:4} you have given a banner to them that fear you, That it may be displayed
because of the truth. Selah {60:5}
That your agape beloved may be delivered, Save with your right hand, and answer
us. {60:6} God has spoken in his
holiness: I will exult; I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of
Succoth. {60:7} Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the
defense of my head; Judah is my Scepter. {60:8} Moab is my wash pot; Upon Edom
will I cast my shoe: Philistia, shout you because of me. {60:9} Who will bring
me into the strong city? Who has led me unto Edom? {60:10} Have not you, O God,
cast us off? And you go not forth, O God, with our hosts. {60:11} Give us help
against the adversary; For vain is the help of man. {60:12} Through God we
shall do valiantly; For he it is that will tread down our adversaries.
{O19)61} Psalm 61. For the Chief Musician; on a stringed
instrument. [A Psalm] of David. {61:1}
Hear my cry, O God; Attend unto my prayer. {61:2} From the end of the earth
will I call unto you, when my heart is overwhelmed: Lead me to the rock that is
higher than I. {61:3} For you have been a refuge for me, A strong tower from
the enemy. {61:4} I will dwell in your tabernacle for ever: I will take refuge
in the covert of your wings. Selah
{61:5} For you, O God, have heard my vows: you have given [me] the heritage of
those that fear your name. {61:6} you will prolong the king's life; His years
shall be as many generations. {61:7} He shall abide before God for ever: Oh
prepare loving kindness and truth, that they may preserve him. {61:8} So will I
sing praise unto your name for ever, That I may daily perform my vows.
O19)62 Psalm 62 For the Chief Musician; after the manner of
Jeduthan. A Psalm of David. {62:1} My
soul waits in silence for God only: From him [comes] my salvation. {62:2} He
only is my rock and my salvation: [He is] my high tower; I shall not be greatly
moved. {62:3} How long will you set upon a man, That you may slay [him], all of
you, Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence? {62:4} They only consult to
thrust him down from his dignity; They delight in lies; They bless with their
mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah
{62:5} My soul, wait you in silence for God only; For my expectation is from
him. {62:6} He only is my rock and my salvation: [He is] my high tower; I shall
not be moved. {62:7} With God is my salvation and my glory: The rock of my
strength, and my refuge, is in God. {62:8} Trust in him at all times, you
people; Pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah {62:9} Surely men of low degree are
vanity, and men of high degree are
a lie: In the balances they will go up; They are together lighter than
vanity. {62:10} Trust not in oppression, And become not vain in robbery: If
riches increase, set not your heart [thereon]. {62:11} God has spoken once,
Twice have I heard this, That power belongs unto God. {62:12} Also unto you, O
Lord, belongs loving kindness; For you renders to every man according to his
work.
{O19)63} Psalms 63. A Psalm of David when he was in the
wilderness of Judah. {63:1} O God, you
are my God; earnestly will I seek you: My soul thirst for you, my flesh longs
for you, In a dry and weary land, where no water is. {63:2} So have I looked
upon you in the sanctuary, To see your power and your glory. {63:3} Because
your loving kindness is better than life, My lips shall praise you. {63:4} So
will I bless you while I live: I will lift up my hands in your name. {63:5} My
soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; And my mouth shall praise
you with joyful lips; {63:6} When I remember you upon my bed, [And] meditate on
you in the night-watches. {63:7} For you have been my help, And in the shadow
of your wings will I rejoice. {63:8} My soul follows hard after you: Your right
hand upholds me. {63:9} But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go
into the lower parts of the earth. {63:10} They shall be given over to the
power of the sword: They shall be a portion for foxes. {63:11} But the king
shall rejoice in God: Every one that swears by him shall glory; For the mouth
of them that speak lies shall be stopped.
{O19)64} Psalms 64. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of
David. {64:1} Hear my voice, O God, in
my complaint: Preserve my life from fear of the enemy. {64:2} Hide me from the
secret counsel of evil-doers, From the tumult of the workers of works against
law; {64:3} Who have whet their tongue like a sword, And have aimed their
arrows, even bitter words, {64:4} That they may shoot in secret places at the
perfect: Suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not. {64:5} They encourage
themselves in an evil purpose; They commune of laying snares privily; They say,
Who will see them? {64:6} They search out iniquities; We have accomplished,
[say they], a diligent search: And the inward thought and the heart of every
one is deep. {64:7} But God will shoot at them; With an arrow suddenly shall
they be wounded. {64:8} So they shall be made to stumble, their own tongue
being against them: All that see them shall wag the head. {64:9} And all men
shall fear; And they shall declare the work of God, And shall wisely consider
of his doing. {64:10} The lawful worker shall be glad in Yahweh, and shall take
refuge in him; And all the upright
in heart shall glory.
{O19)65} Psalms 65. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm. A song of
David. {65:1} Praise waits for you, O
God, in Zion; And unto you shall the vow be performed. {65:2} O you that hear
prayer, Unto you shall all flesh come. {65:3} Iniquities prevail against me: As
for our transgression of the law, you will forgive them. {65:4} Blessed is the man
whom you choose, and cause to approach [unto you], That he may dwell in your
courts: We shall be satisfied with the goodness of your house, Your holy
temple. {65:5} By terrible things you will answer us in rlawful works, Oh God
of our salvation, you that are the confidence of all the ends of the earth, And
of them that are afar off upon the sea: {65:6} Who by his strength sets fast
the mountains, Being girded about with might; {65:7} Who stills the roaring of
the seas, The roaring of their waves, And the tumult of the peoples. {65:8}
They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at your tokens: you make
the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice. {65:9} you visits the
earth, and waters it, you greatly enriches it; The river of God is full of
water: you provide them grain, when you have so prepared the earth. {65:10} you
water its furrows abundantly; you settle the ridges there: you make it soft
with showers; you bless the springing there. {65:11} you crown the year with
your goodness; And your paths drop fatness. {65:12} They drop upon the pastures
of the wilderness; And the hills are girded with joy. {65:13} The pastures are
clothed with flocks; The valleys also are covered over with grain; They shout
for joy, they also sing.
{O19)66} Psalms 66. For the Chief Musician. A song, a Psalm. {66:1} Make a joyful noise unto God, all the
earth: {66:2} Sing forth the glory of his name: Make his praise glorious.
{66:3} Say unto God, How terrible are your works! Through the greatness of your
power shall your enemies submit themselves unto you. {66:4} All the earth shall
worship you, And shall sing unto you; They shall sing to your name. Selah {66:5} Come, and see the works of
God; [He is] terrible in his doing toward the children of men. {66:6} He turned
the sea into dry land; They went through the river on foot: There did we
rejoice in him. {66:7} He rules by his might for ever; His eyes observe the
nations: Let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah {66:8} Oh bless our God, you peoples,
And make the voice of his praise to be heard; {66:9} Who holds our soul in
life, And suffers not our feet to be moved. {66:10} For you, O God, have proved
us: you have tried us, as silver is tried. {66:11} you brought us into the net;
you lays a sore burden upon our loins. {66:12} you did cause men to ride over
our heads; We went through fire and through water; But you brought us out into
a wealthy place. {66:13} I will come into your house with burnt-offerings; I
will pay you my vows, {66:14} Which my lips uttered, And my mouth spoke, when I
was in distress. {66:15} I will offer unto you burnt-offerings of fatlings,
With the incense of rams; I will offer bullocks with goats. Selah {66:16} Come, and hear, all you that
fear God, And I will declare what he has done for my soul. {66:17} I cried unto
him with my mouth, And he was extolled with my tongue. {66:18} If I regard
works against law in my heart, The Lord will not hear: {66:19} But verily God
has heard; He has attended to the voice of my prayer. {66:20} Blessed be God,
Who has not turned away my prayer, Nor his loving kindness from me.
{O19)67} Psalms 67. For the Chief Musician; on stringed
instruments. A Psalm, a song. {67:1}
God be merciful unto us, and bless us, [And] cause his face to shine upon
us; Selah {67:2} That your way may be
known upon earth, Your salvation among all nations. {67:3} Let the peoples
praise you, O God; Let all the peoples praise you. {67:4} Oh let the nations be
glad and sing for joy; For you will judge the peoples with equity, And govern
the nations upon earth. Selah {67:5}
Let the peoples praise you, O God; Let all the peoples praise you. {67:6} The
earth has yielded its increase: God, even our own God, will bless us. {67:7}
God will bless us; And all the ends of the earth shall fear him.
{O19)68} Psalms 68. For the Chief Musician; A Psalm of David, a
song. {68:1} Let God arise, let his
enemies be scattered; Let them also that hate him flee before him. {68:2} As
smoke is driven away, so drive them away: As wax melts before the fire, So let
the wicked perish at the presence of God. {68:3} But let the lawful worker be glad;
let them exult before God: behold, let them rejoice with gladness. {68:4} Sing
unto God, sing praises to his name: Cast up a highway for him that rides
through the deserts; His name is Yahweh; and exult you before him. {68:5} A
father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, Is God in his holy
habitation. {68:6} God sets the solitary in families: He brings out the
prisoners into prosperity; But the rebellious dwell in a parched land. {68:7} O God, when you went forth before
your people, When you did march through the wilderness; Selah {68:8} The earth trembled, The
heavens also dropped [rain] at the presence of God: Yon Sinai [trembled] at the
presence of God, the God of Israel. {68:9} you, O God, did send a plentiful
rain, you did confirm your inheritance, when it was weary. {68:10} Your
congregation dwelt therein: you, O God, did prepare of your goodness for the
poor. {68:11} The Lord gives the word: The women that publish the tidings are a
great host. {68:12} Kings of armies flee, they flee; And she that tarries at
home divides the spoil. {68:13} When you lie among the sheepfolds, [It is as]
the wings of a dove covered with silver, And her pinions with yellow gold.
{68:14} When the Almighty scattered kings therein, [It was as when] it snows in
Zalmon. {68:15} A mountain of God is the mountain of Bashan; A high mountain is
the mountain of Bashan. {68:16} Why look you askance, you high mountains, At
the mountain which God has desired for his abode? behold, Yahweh will dwell [in
it] for ever. {68:17} The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands
upon thousands; The Lord is among them, [as in] Sinai, in the sanctuary.
{68:18} you have ascended on high, you have led away captives; you have
received gifts among men, behold, [among] the rebellious also, that The God
Yahweh might dwell [with them]. {68:19}
Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burden, Even the God who is our
salvation. Selah {68:20} God is unto us a God of deliverances; And unto Yahweh
the Lord belongs escape from death. {68:21} But God will smite through the head
of his enemies, The hairy scalp of such a one as goes on still in his
guiltiness. {68:22} The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring
[them] again from the depths of the sea; {68:23} That you may crush [them],
[dipping] your foot in blood, That the tongue of your dogs may have its portion
from [your] enemies. {68:24} They have seen your goings, O God, Even the goings
of my God, my King, into the sanctuary. {68:25} The singers went before, the
minstrels followed after, In the midst of the damsels playing with timbrels.
{68:26} Bless you God in the congregations, Even the Lord, [you that are] of
the fountain of Israel. {68:27} There is little Benjamin their ruler, The
princes of Judah [and] their council, The princes of Zebulun, the princes of
Naphtali. {68:28} Your God has commanded
your strength: Strengthen, O God, that which you have wrought for us. {68:29}
Because of your temple at Jerusalem Kings shall bring presents unto you.
{68:30} Rebuke the wild beast of the reeds, The multitude of the bulls, with
the calves of the peoples, Trampling under foot the pieces of silver: He has
scattered the peoples that delight in war. {68:31} Princes shall come out of
Egypt; Ethiopia shall haste to stretch out her hands unto God. {68:32} Sing
unto God, you kingdoms of the earth; Oh sing praises unto the Lord; Selah {68:33} To him that rides upon the
heaven of heavens, which are of old; Lo, he utters his voice, a mighty voice.
{68:34} Ascribe you strength unto God: His excellency is over Israel, And his
strength is in the skies. {68:35} O God, [you are] terrible out of your holy
places: The God of Israel, he gives strength and power unto [his] people.
Blessed be God.
{O19)69} Psalms 69. For the Chief Musician; set to Shoshanim. [A
Psalm] of David. {69:1} Save me, O God;
For the waters are come in unto my soul. {69:2} I sink in deep mire, where
there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
{69:3} I am weary with my crying; my throat is dried: Mine eyes fail while I
wait for my God. {69:4} They that hate me outside a cause are more than the
hairs of my head: They that would cut me off, being mine enemies wrongfully,
are mighty: That which I took not away I have to restore. {69:5} O God, you
know my foolishness; And my sins are not hid from you. {69:6} Let not them that
wait for you be put to shame through me, O Lord Yahweh of hosts: Let not those
that seek you be brought to dishonor through me, O God of Israel. {69:7}
Because for your sake I have borne reproach; Shame has covered my face. {69:8}
I am become a stranger unto my brethren, And an alien unto my mother's
children. {69:9} For the zeal of your house has eaten me up; And the reproaches
of them that reproach you are fallen upon me. {69:10} When I wept, [and
chastens] my soul with fasting, That was to my reproach. {69:11} When I made
sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword unto them. {69:12} They that sit in
the gate talk of me; And [I am] the song of the drunkards. {69:13} But as for
me, my prayer is unto you, O Yahweh, in an
acceptable time: O God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, Answer
me in the truth of your salvation. {69:14} Deliver me out of the mire, and let
me not sink: Let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep
waters. {69:15} Let not the water flood overwhelm me, Neither let the deep
shallow me up; And let not the pit shut its mouth upon me. {69:16} Answer me, O
Yahweh; for your loving kindness is good: According to the multitude of your
tender mercies turn you unto me. {69:17} And hide not your face from your
servant; For I am in distress; answer me speedily. {69:18} Draw near unto my
soul, and redeem it: Ransom me because of mine enemies. {69:19} you know my
reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor: Mine adversaries are all before you.
{69:20} Reproach has broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: And I looked
for some to take pity, but there was none; And for comforters, but I found
none. {69:21} They gave me also gall for my food; And in my thirst they gave me
vinegar to drink. {69:22} Let their table before them become a snare; And when
they are in peace, [let it become] a trap. {69:23} Let their eyes be darkened,
so that they cannot see; And make their loins continually to shake. {69:24}
Pour out your indignation upon them, And let the fierceness of your anger
overtake them. {69:25} Let their habitation be desolate; Let none dwell in
their tents. {69:26} For they persecute him whom you have smitten; And they
tell of the sorrow of those whom you have wounded. {69:27} Add works against
law unto their works against law; And let them not come into your good works.
{69:28} Let them be blotted out of the book of life, And not be written with
the lawful worker. {69:29} But I am poor and sorrowful: Let your salvation, O
God, set me up on high. {69:30} I will praise the name of God with a song, And
will magnify him with thanksgiving. {69:31} And it will please Yahweh better
than an ox, [Or] a bullock that has horns and hoofs. {69:32} The meek have seen
it, and are glad: you that seek after God, let your heart live. {69:33} For Yahweh
hears the needy, And despises not his prisoners. {69:34} Let heaven and earth
praise him, The seas, and everything that moves therein. {69:35} For God will
save Zion, and build the cities of Judah; And they shall abide there, and have
it in possession. {69:36} The seed also of his servants shall inherit it; And
they that agape love his name shall dwell therein.
{O19)70} Psalms 70. For the Chief Musician. [A Psalm] of David;
to bring to remembrance. {70:1} [Make
haste], O God, to deliver me; Make haste to help me, O Yahweh. {70:2} Let them
be put to shame and confounded That seek after my soul: Let them be turned
backward and brought to dishonor That delight in my hurt. {70:3} Let them be
turned back by reason of their shame That say, Aha, aha. {70:4} Let all those
that seek you rejoice and be glad in you; And let such as agape love your
salvation say continually, Let God be magnified. {70:5} But I am poor and
needy; Make haste unto me, O God: you are my help and my deliverer; O Yahweh,
make no tarrying.
{ O19)71} Psalms 71. {71:1} In you, O Yahweh, do I take refuge:
Let me never be put to shame. {71:2} Deliver me in your good works, and rescue
me: Bow down your ear unto me, and save me. {71:3} Be you to me a rock of
habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: you have given commandment to
save me; For you are my rock and my fortress. {71:4} Rescue me, O my God, out
of the hand of the wicked, Out of the hand of the unlawful worker and cruel
man. {71:5} For you are my hope, O Lord Yahweh: [you are] my trust from my
youth. {71:6} By you have I been held up from the womb; you are he that took me
out of my mother's bowels: My praise shall be continually of you. {71:7} I am
as a wonder unto many; But you are my strong refuge. {71:8} My mouth shall be
filled with your praise, And with your honor all the day. {71:9} Cast me not
off in the time of old age; Forsake me not when my strength fails. {71:10} For
mine enemies speak concerning me; And they that watch for my soul take counsel
together, {71:11} Saying, God has forsaken him: Pursue and take him; for there
is none to deliver. {71:12} O God, be not far from me; O my God, make haste to
help me. {71:13} Let them be put to shame [and] consumed that are adversaries
to my soul; Let them be covered with reproach and dishonor that seek my hurt.
{71:14} But I will hope continually, And will praise you yet more and more.
{71:15} My mouth shall tell of your lawful works, [And] of your salvation all
the day; For I know not the numbers [there]. {71:16} I will come with the mighty
acts of the Lord Yahweh: I will make mention of your good works, even of yours
only. {71:17} O God, you have taught me from my youth; And hereto have I
declared your wondrous works. {71:18} behold, even when I am old and gray
headed, O God, forsake me not, Until I have declared your strength unto [the
next] generation, Your might to every one that is to come. {71:19} Your good
works also, O God, is very high; you who have done great things, O God, who is
like unto you? {71:20} you, who have showed us many and sore troubles, Will
quicken us again, And will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.
{71:21} Increase you my greatness, And turn again and comfort me. {71:22} I
will also praise you with the psaltery, [Even] your truth, O my God: Unto you will
I sing praises with the harp, O you Holy One of Israel. {71:23} My lips shall
shout for joy when I sing praises unto you; And my soul, which you have
redeemed. {71:24} My tongue also shall talk of your good works all the day
long; For they are put to shame, for they are confounded, that seek my hurt.
{O19)72} Psalms 72. [A Psalm] of Solomon. {72:1} Give the king your judgments, O God,
And your lawful works unto the king's son. {72:2} He will judge your people
with lawful works, And your poor with justice. {72:3} The mountains shall bring
peace to the people, And the hills, in lawful works. {72:4} He will judge the
poor of the people, He will save the children of the needy, And will break in
pieces the oppressor. {72:5} They shall fear you while the sun endures, And so
long as the moon, throughout all generations. {72:6} He will come down like
rain upon the mown grass, As showers that water the earth. {72:7} In his days
shall the lawful worker flourish, And abundance of peace, till the moon be no more.
{72:8} He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, And from the River unto the
ends of the earth. {72:9} They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before
him; And his enemies shall lick the dust. {72:10} The kings of Tarshish and of
the isles shall render tribute: The kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.
{72:11} behold, all kings shall fall down before him; All nations shall serve
him. {72:12} For he will deliver the needy when he cries, And the poor, that
has no helper. {72:13} He will have pity on the poor and needy, And the souls
of the needy he will save. {72:14} He will redeem their soul from oppression
and violence; And precious will their blood be in his sight: {72:15} And they
shall live; and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba: And men shall pray
for him continually; They shall bless him all the day long. {72:16} There shall
be abundance of grain in the earth upon the top of the mountains; The fruit of
it shall shake like Lebanon: And they of the city shall flourish like grass of the
earth. {72:17} His name shall endure for ever; His name shall be continued as
long as the sun: And men shall be blessed in him; All nations shall call him
happy.
{72:18} Blessed be The God Yahweh, the God
of Israel, Who only does wondrous things: {72:19} And blessed be his glorious
name for ever; And let the whole earth be filled with his glory. Amen, and
Amen. {72:20} The prayers of David the
son of Jesse are ended.
{O19)73} Psalms 73. BOOK III
A Psalm of Asaph. {73:1} Surely
God is good to Israel, [Even] to such as are pure in heart. {73:2} But as for
me, my feet were almost gone; My steps had well near slipped. {73:3} For I was
envious at the arrogant, When I saw the prosperity of the wicked. {73:4} For
there are no pangs in their death; But their strength is firm. {73:5} They are
not in trouble as [other] men; Neither are they plagued like [other] men.
{73:6} Therefore pride is as a chain about their neck; Violence covers them as
a garment. {73:7} Their eyes stand out with fatness: They have more than heart
could wish. {73:8} They scoff, and in wickedness utter oppression: They speak
loftily. {73:9} They have set their mouth in the heavens, And their tongue
walks through the earth. {73:10} Therefore his people return here: And waters
of a full [cup] are drained by them. {73:11} And they say, How does God know?
And is there knowledge in the Most High? {73:12} Behold, these are the wicked;
And, being always at ease, they increase in riches. {73:13} Surely in vain have
I cleansed my heart, And washed my hands in innocence; {73:14} For all the day
long have I been plagued, And chastens every morning.
{73:15} If I had said, I will speak thus;
Behold, I had dealt treacherously with the generation of your children. {73:16}
When I thought how I might know this, It was too painful for me; {73:17} Until
I went into the sanctuary of God, And considered their latter end. {73:18}
Surely you set them in slippery places: you casts them down to destruction.
{73:19} How are they become a desolation in a moment! They are utterly consumed
with terrors. {73:20} As a dream when one awakes, So, O Lord, when you awake,
you will despise their image. {73:21} For my soul was grieved, And I was
pricked in my heart: {73:22} So brutish was I, and ignorant; I was [as] a beast
before you. {73:23} Nevertheless I am continually with you: you have held my
right hand. {73:24} you will guide me with your counsel, And afterward receive
me to glory. {73:25} Whom have I in heaven [but you]? And there is none upon earth
that I desire besides you. {73:26} My flesh and my heart fails; [But] God is
the strength of my heart and my portion for ever. {73:27} For, lo, they that
are far from you shall perish: you have destroyed all them that play the prostitute,
[departing] from you. {73:28} But it is good for me to draw near unto God: I
have made the Lord Yahweh my refuge, That I may tell of all your works.
{O19)74} Psalms 74. Maschil of Asaph. {74:1} O God, why have you cast [us] off for
ever? Why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture? {74:2}
Remember your congregation, which you have gotten of old, Which you have
redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance; [And] mount Zion, wherein you
have dwelt. {74:3} Lift up your feet unto the perpetual ruins, All the evil
that the enemy has done in the sanctuary. {74:4} your adversaries have roared
in the midst of your assembly; They have set up their ensigns for signs. {74:5}
They seemed as men that lifted up Axes upon a thicket of trees. {74:6} And now
all the carved work there They break down with hatchet and hammers. {74:7} They
have set your sanctuary on fire; They have profaned the dwelling-place of your
name [by casting it] to the ground. {74:8} They said in their heart, Let us
make havoc of them altogether: They have burned up all the synagogues of God in
the land. {74:9} We see not our signs: There is no more any prophet; Neither is
there among us any that know-how long. {74:10} How long, O God, shall the
adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme your name for ever? {74:11} Why
draw you back your hand, even your right hand? [Pluck it] out of your bosom
[and] consume [them]. {74:12} yet God
is my King of old, Working salvation in the midst of the earth. {74:13} you did
divide the sea by your strength: you brake the heads of the sea-monsters in the
waters. {74:14} you brake the heads of leviathan in pieces; you gave him to be
food to the people inhabiting the wilderness. {74:15} you did cleave fountain
and flood: you dry up mighty rivers. {74:16} The day is your, the night also is
your: you have prepared the light and the sun. {74:17} you have set all the
borders of the earth: you have made summer and winter. {74:18} Remember this,
that the enemy has reproached, O Yahweh, And that a foolish people has
blasphemed your name. {74:19} Oh deliver not the soul of your turtle-dove unto
the wild beast: Forget not the life of your poor for ever. {74:20} Have respect
unto the covenant; For the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations
of violence. {74:21} Oh let not the oppressed return ashamed: Let the poor and
needy praise your name. {74:22} Arise, O God, plead your own cause: Remember
how the foolish man reproaches you all the day. {74:23} Forget not the voice of
your adversaries: The tumult of those that rise up against you ascend
continually.
{O19)75} Psalm 75. For the Chief Musician; [set to]
Al-tash-heth. A Psalm of Asaph; a song.
{75:1} We give thanks unto you, O God; We give thanks, for your name is
near: Men tell of your wondrous works. {75:2} When I shall find the set time, I
will judge uprightly. {75:3} The earth and all the inhabitants of it are
dissolved: I have set up the pillars of it.
Selah {75:4} I said unto the arrogant, Deal not arrogantly; And to the
wicked, Lift not up the horn: {75:5} Lift not up your horn on high; Speak not
with a stiff neck. {75:6} For neither from the east, nor from the west, Nor yet
from the south, [comes] lifting up. {75:7} But God is the judge: He puts down
one, and lifts up another. {75:8} For in the hand of Yahweh there is a cup, and
the wine foams; It is full of mixture, and he pours out of the same: Surely the
dregs there, all the wicked of the earth shall drain them, and drink them.
{75:9} But I will declare for ever, I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.
{75:10} All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; But the horns of the
lawful worker shall be lifted up.
{O19)76} Psalms 76. For the Chief Musician; on stringed
instruments. A Psalm of Asaph, a song.
{76:1} In Judah is God known: His name is great in Israel. {76:2} In
Salem also is his tabernacle, And his dwelling-place in Zion. {76:3} There he
brake the arrows of the bow; The shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah
(Rest and think about that.) {76:4} Glorious are you [and] excellent, From the
mountains of prey. {76:5} The stouthearted are made a spoil, They have slept
their sleep; And none of the men of might have found their hands. {76:6} At
your rebuke, O God of Jacob, Both chariot and horse are cast into a deep sleep.
{76:7} you, even you, are to be feared; And who may stand in your sight when
once you are angry? {76:8} you did cause sentence to be heard from heaven; The
earth feared, and was still, {76:9} When God arose to judgment, To save all the
meek of the earth. Selah {76:10}
Surely the wrath of man shall praise you: The residue of wrath shall you gird
upon you. {76:11} Vow, and pay unto Yahweh your God: Let all that are round
about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared. {76:12} He will cut
off the spirit of princes: He is terrible to the kings of the earth.
{O19)77} Psalms 77. For the Chief Musician; after the manner of
Jeduthan. A Psalm of Asaph. {77:1} I
will cry unto God with my voice, Even unto God with my voice; and he will give
ear unto me. {77:2} In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: My hand was
stretched out in the night, and slacked not; My soul refused to be comforted.
{77:3} I remember God, and am disquieted: I complain, and my spirit is
overwhelmed. Selah {77:4} you hold mine eyes watching: I am so
troubled that I cannot speak. {77:5} I have considered the days of old, The
years of ancient times. {77:6} I call to remembrance my song in the night: I
commune with mine own heart; And my spirit makes diligent search. {77:7} Will
the Lord cast off for ever? And will he be favorable no more? {77:8} Is his
loving kindness clean gone for ever? Does his promise fail for evermore? {77:9}
Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah {77:10} And I said, This is my
infirmity; [But I will remember] the years of the right hand of the Most High.
{77:11} I will make mention of the deeds of Yahweh; For I will remember your
wonders of old. {77:12} I will meditate also upon all your work, And muse on
your doings. {77:13} Your way, O God, is in the sanctuary: Who is a great god
like unto God? {77:14} you are the God that do wonders: you have made known
your strength among the peoples. {77:15} you have with your arm redeemed your
people, The sons of Jacob and Joseph.
Selah {77:16} The waters saw you, O God; The waters saw you, they were
afraid: The depths also trembled. {77:17} The clouds poured out water; The
skies sent out a sound: your arrows also went abroad. {77:18} The voice of your
thunder was in the whirlwind; The lightnings lightened the world: The earth
trembled and shook. {77:19} Your way was in the sea, And your paths in the
great waters, And your footsteps were not known. {77:20} you led your people
like a flock, By the hand of Moses and Aaron.
{o19)78} Psalms 78. Maschil of Asaph. {78:1} Give ear, O my people, to my law:
Incline your ears to the words of my mouth. {78:2} I will open my mouth in a
parable; I will utter dark sayings of old, {78:3} Which we have heard and
known, And our fathers have told us. {78:4} We will not hide them from their
children, Telling to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh, And his
strength, and his wondrous works that he has done. {78:5} For he established a
testimony in Jacob, And appointed a law in Israel, Which he commanded our
fathers, That they should make them known to their children; {78:6} That the
generation to come might know [them], even the children that should be born;
Who should arise and tell [them] to their children, {78:7} That they might set
their hope in God, And not forget the works of God, But keep his commandments,
{78:8} And might not be as their fathers, A stubborn and rebellious generation,
A generation that set not their heart aright, And whose spirit was not
steadfast with God. {78:9} The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying
bows, Turned back in the day of battle. {78:10} They kept not the covenant of
God, And refused to walk in his law; {78:11} And they forgot his doings, And
his wondrous works that he had showed them. {78:12} Marvellous things did he in
the sight of their fathers, In the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. {78:13}
He clave the sea, and caused them to pass through; And he made the waters to
stand as a heap. {78:14} In the day-time also he led them with a cloud, And all
the night with a light of fire. {78:15} He clave rocks in the wilderness, And
gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths. {78:16} He brought streams
also out of the rock, And caused waters to run down like rivers. {78:17} yet
went they on still to sin against him, To rebel against the Most High in the
desert. {78:18} And they tempted God in their heart By asking food according to
their desire. {78:19} behold, they spoke against God; They said, Can God prepare
a table in the wilderness? {78:20} Behold, he smote the rock, so that waters
gushed out, And streams overflowed; Can he give bread also? Will he provide
flesh for his people? {78:21} Therefore Yahweh heard, and was wroth; And a fire
was kindled against Jacob, And anger also went up against Israel; {78:22}
Because they believed not in God, And trusted not in his salvation. {78:23} yet
he commanded the skies above, And opened the doors of heaven; {78:24} And he
rained down manna upon them to eat, And gave them food from heaven. {78:25} Man
did eat the bread of the mighty: He sent them food to the full. {78:26} He
caused the east wind to blow in the heavens; And by his power he guided the
south wind. {78:27} He rained flesh also upon them as the dust, And winged
birds as the sand of the seas: {78:28} And he let it fall in the midst of their
camp, Round about their habitations. {78:29} So they did eat, and were well
filled; And he gave them their own desire. {78:30} They were not estranged from
that which they desired, Their food was yet in their mouths, {78:31} When the
anger of God went up against them, And slew of the fattest of them, And smote
down the young men of Israel. {78:32} For all this they sinned still, And
believed not in his wondrous works. {78:33} Therefore their days did he consume
in vanity, And their years in terror. {78:34} When he slew them, then they
inquired after him; And they returned and sought God earnestly. {78:35} And
they remembered that God was their rock, And the Most High God their redeemer.
{78:36} But they flattered him with their mouth, And lied unto him with their
tongue. {78:37} For their heart was not right with him, Neither were they
faithful in his covenant. {78:38} But he, being merciful, forgave [their] works
against law, and destroyed [them] not: behold, many a time turned he his anger
away, And did not stir up all his wrath. {78:39} And he remembered that they
were but flesh, A wind that passes away, and comes not again. {78:40} How oft
did they rebel against him in the wilderness, And grieve him in the desert!
{78:41} And they turned again and tempted God, And provoked the Holy One of
Israel. {78:42} They remember not his hand, Nor the day when he redeemed them
from the adversary; {78:43} How he set his signs in Egypt, And his wonders in
the field of Zoan, {78:44} And turned their rivers into blood, And their
streams, so that they could not drink. {78:45} He sent among them swarms of
flies, which devoured them; And frogs, which destroyed them. {78:46} He gave
also their increase unto the caterpillar, And their labor unto the locust.
{78:47} He destroyed their vines with hail, And their sycamore-trees with
frost. {78:48} He gave over their cattle also to the hail, And their flocks to
hot thunderbolts. {78:49} He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, Wrath,
and indignation, and trouble, A band of messengers of evil. {78:50} He made a
path for his anger; He spared not their soul from death, But gave their life
over to the pestilence, {78:51} And smote all the first-born in Egypt, The
chief of their strength in the tents of Ham. {78:52} But he led forth his own
people like sheep, And guided them in the wilderness like a flock. {78:53} And
he led them safely, so that they feared not; But the sea overwhelmed their
enemies. {78:54} And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, To this
mountain, which his right hand had gotten. {78:55} He drove out the nations
also before them, And allotted them for an inheritance by line, And made the
tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents. {78:56} yet they tempted and rebelled
against the Most High God, And kept not his testimonies; {78:57} But turned
back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers: They were turned aside like a
deceitful bow. {78:58} For they provoked him to anger with their high places,
And moved him to jealousy with their graven images. {78:59} When God heard
[this], he was wroth, And greatly abhorred Israel; {78:60} So that he forsook
the tabernacle of Shiloh, The tent which he placed among men; {78:61} And delivered
his strength into captivity, And his glory into the adversary's hand. {78:62}
He gave his people over also unto the sword, And was wroth with his
inheritance. {78:63} Fire devoured their young men; And their virgins had no
marriage-song. {78:64} Their priests fell by the sword; And their widows made
no lamentation. {78:65} Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, Like a mighty
man that shouts by reason of wine. {78:66} And he smote his adversaries
backward: He put them to a perpetual reproach. {78:67} Furthermore he refused
the tent of Joseph, And chose not the tribe of Ephraim, {78:68} But chose the
tribe of Judah, The mount Zion which he agape loved. {78:69} And he built his
sanctuary like the heights, Like the earth which he has established for ever. {78:70}
He chose David also his servant, And took him from the sheepfolds: {78:71} From
following the ewes that have their young he brought him, To be the shepherd of
Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance. {78:72} So he was their shepherd
according to the integrity of his heart, And guided them by the skillfullness
of his hands.
{O19)79} Psalms 79. A Psalm of Asaph. {79:1} O God, the nations are come into your
inheritance; Your holy temple have they defiled; They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
{79:2} The dead bodies of your servants have they given to be food unto the
birds of the heavens, The flesh of your Holy People unto the beasts of the
earth. {79:3} Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; And
there was none to bury them. {79:4} We are become a reproach to our neighbors,
A scoffing and derision to them that are round about us. {79:5} How long, O Yahweh?
will you be angry for ever? shall your jealousy burn like fire? {79:6} Pour out
your wrath upon the nations that know you not, And upon the kingdoms that call
not upon your name. {79:7} For they have devoured Jacob, And laid waste his
habitation. {79:8} Remember not against us the iniquities of our forefathers:
Let your tender mercies speedily meet us; For we are brought very low. {79:9}
Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of your name; And deliver us,
and forgive our sins, for your name's sake. {79:10} Therefore should the
nations say, Where is their God? Let the avenging of the blood of your servants
which is shed Be known among the nations in our sight. {79:11} Let the sighing
of the prisoner come before you: According to the greatness of your power
preserve you those that are
appointed to death; {79:12} And render unto our neighbors sevenfold into
their bosom Their reproach, wherewith they have reproached you, O Lord. {79:13}
So we your people and sheep of your pasture Will give you thanks for ever: We
will show forth your praise to all generations.
{O19)80} Psalms 80. For the Chief Musician, set to Shoshanim
Eduth.. A Psalm of Asaph. {80:1} Give
ear, O Shepherd of Israel, you that lead Joseph like a flock; you that sits
[above] the cherubim, shine forth. {80:2} Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh,
stir up your might, And come to save us. {80:3} Turn us again, O God; And cause
your face to shine, and we shall be saved.
{80:4} O The God Yahweh of hosts, How long will you be angry against the
prayer of your people? {80:5} you have fed them with the bread of tears, And
given them tears to drink in large measure. {80:6} you make us a strife unto
our neighbors; And our enemies laugh among themselves. {80:7} Turn us again, O
God of hosts; And cause your face to shine, and we shall be saved. {80:8} you brought a vine out of Egypt: you
did drive out the nations, and plant it. {80:9} you prepared [room] before it,
And it took deep root, and filled the land. {80:10} The mountains were covered
with the shadow of it, And the boughs of it was [like] cedars of God. {80:11}
It sent out its branches unto the sea, And its shoots unto the River. {80:12}
Why have you broken down its walls, So that all they that pass by the way do
pluck it? {80:13} The boar out of the wood does ravage it, And the wild beasts
of the field feed on it. {80:14} Turn again, we ask you, O God of hosts: Look
down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine, {80:15} And the stock which
your right hand planted, And the branch that you made strong for yourself.
{80:16} It is burned with fire, it is cut down: They perish at the rebuke of
your countenance. {80:17} Let your hand be upon the man of your right hand,
Upon the son of man whom you made strong for yourself. {80:18} So shall we not
go back from you: Quicken you us, and we will call upon your name. {80:19} Turn
us again, O The God Yahweh of hosts; Cause your face to shine, and we shall be
saved.
{O19)81} Psalms 81. For the Chief Musician; set to the Gittith.
[A Psalm] of Asaph. {81:1} Sing aloud
unto God our strength: Make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob. {81:2} Raise
a song, and bring here the timbrel, The pleasant harp with the psaltery. {81:3}
Blow the trumpet at the new moon, At the full moon, on our feast-day. {81:4}
For it is a statute for Israel, An ordinance of the God of Jacob. {81:5} He
appointed it in Joseph for a testimony, When he went out over the land of
Egypt, [Where] I heard a language that I knew not. {81:6} I removed his
shoulder from the burden: His hands were freed from the basket. {81:7} you
called in trouble, and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of
thunder; I proved you at the waters of Meribah. Selah
{81:8} Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto you: O Israel, if you
would hear unto me! {81:9} There shall no strange god be in you; Neither shall
you worship any foreign god. {81:10} I am Yahweh your God, Who brought you up
out of the land of Egypt: Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it. {81:11} But
my people heard not to my voice; And Israel would none of me. {81:12} So I let
them go after the stubbornness of their heart, That they might walk in their
own counsels. {81:13} Oh that my people would hear unto me, That Israel would
walk in my ways! {81:14} I would soon subdue their enemies, And turn my hand
against their adversaries. {81:15} The haters of Yahweh should submit
themselves unto him: But their time should endure for ever. {81:16} He would
feed them also with the finest of the wheat; And with honey out of the rock
would I satisfy you.
{O19)82} Psalms 82. A Psalm of Asaph. {82:1} God stands in the Ekklesia of God; He
judges among the gods. {82:2} How long will you judge unjustly, And favor the
persons of the wicked? Selah {82:3} Judge the poor and fatherless: Do
justice to the afflicted and destitute. {82:4} Rescue the poor and needy:
Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked. {82:5} They know not, neither do
they understand; They walk to and fro in darkness: All the foundations of the
earth are shaken. {82:6} I said, you are gods, And all of you sons of the Most
High. {82:7} Nevertheless you shall die like men, And fall like one of the
princes. {82:8} Arise, O God, judge the earth; For you shall inherit all the
nations.
{O19)83} Psalms 83. A song. A Psalm of Asaph. {83:1} O God, keep not your silence: Hold
not your peace, and be not still, O God. {83:2} For, lo, your enemies make a
tumult; And they that hate you have lifted up the head. {83:3} Your take crafty
counsel against your people, And consult together against your hidden ones.
{83:4} They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; That
the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance. {83:5} For they have
consulted together with one consent; Against you do they make a covenant:
{83:6} The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab, and the Hagarenes; {83:7} Gebal,
and Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre: {83:8} Assyria
also is joined with them; They have helped the children of Lot. Selah {83:9} Do you unto them as unto
Midian, As to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon; {83:10} Who perished at
Endor, Who became as dung for the earth. {83:11} Make their nobles like Oreb
and Zeeb; behold, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna; {83:12} Who said,
Let us take to ourselves in possession The habitations of God. {83:13} O my
God, make them like the whirling dust; As stubble before the wind. {83:14} As
the fire that burns the forest, And as the flame that sets the mountains on
fire, {83:15} So pursue them with your tempest, And terrify them with your
storm. {83:16} Fill their faces with confusion, That they may seek your name, O
Yahweh. {83:17} Let them be put to shame and dismayed for ever; behold, let
them be confounded and perish; {83:18} That they may know that you alone, whose
name is Yahweh, are the Most High over all the earth.
{O19)84} Psalms 84. For the Chief Musician; set to the Gittith. A
Psalm of the sons of Korah. {84:1} How
amiable are your tabernacles, O Yahweh of hosts! {84:2} My soul longs, behold,
even faints for the courts of Yahweh; My heart and my flesh cry out unto the
living God. {84:3} behold, the sparrow has found her a house, And the swallow a
nest for herself, where she may lay her young, Even your altars, O Yahweh of
hosts, My King, and my God. {84:4} Blessed are they that dwell in your house:
They will be still praising you.
Selah {84:5} Blessed is the man whose strength is in you; In whose heart
are the highways [to Zion]. {84:6} Passing through the valley of Weeping they
make it a place of springs; behold, the early rain covers it with blessings. {84:7}
They go from strength to strength; Every one of them appears before God in
Zion. {84:8} O The God Yahweh of hosts, hear my prayer; Give ear, O God of
Jacob. Selah {84:9} Behold, O God our
shield, And look upon the face of your anointed. {84:10} For a day in your
courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of
my God, Than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. {84:11} For The God Yahweh is
a sun and a shield: Yahweh will give grace and glory; No good thing will he withhold
from them that walk uprightly. {84:12} O Yahweh of hosts, Blessed is the man
that trusts in you.
{O19)85} Psalms 85. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons
of Korah. {85:1} Yahweh, you have been
favorable unto your land; you have brought back the captivity of Jacob. {85:2}
you have forgiven the works against law of your people; you have covered all
their sin. Selah {85:3} you have
taken away all your wrath; you have turned [yourself] from the fierceness of
your anger. {85:4} Turn us, O God of our salvation, And cause your indignation
toward us to cease. {85:5} Will you be angry with us for ever? Will you draw
out your anger to all generations? {85:6} Will you not quicken us again, That
your people may rejoice in you? {85:7} Show us your loving kindness, O Yahweh,
And grant us your salvation. {85:8} I will hear what God Yahweh will speak; For
he will speak peace unto his people, and to his Holy People: But let them not
turn again to folly. {85:9} Surely his salvation is near them that fear him,
That glory may dwell in our land. {85:10} Mercy and truth are met together;
lawful works and peace have kissed each other. {85:11} Truth springs out of the
earth; And good works has looked down from heaven. {85:12} behold, Yahweh will
give that which is good; And our land shall yield its increase. {85:13} Lawful
works shall go before him, And shall make his footsteps a way [to walk in].
{O19)86} Psalm 86 A Prayer of David {86:1} Bow down your ear, O Yahweh, and
answer me; For I am poor and needy. {86:2} Preserve my soul; for I am godly: O
you my God, save your servant that trusts sin you. {86:3} Be merciful unto me,
O Lord; For unto you do I cry all the day long. {86:4} Rejoice the soul of your
servant; For unto you, O Lord, do I lift up my soul. {86:5} For you, Lord, are
good, and ready to forgive, And abundant in loving kindness unto all them that
call upon you. {86:6} Give ear, O Yahweh, unto my prayer; And hear unto the
voice of my supplications. {86:7} In the day of my trouble I will call upon
you; For you will answer me. {86:8} There is none like unto you among the gods,
O Lord; Neither [are there any works] like unto your works. {86:9} All nations
whom you have made shall come and worship before you, O Lord; And they shall
glorify your name. {86:10} For you are great, and do wondrous things: you are
God alone. {86:11} Teach me your way, O Yahweh; I will walk in your truth:
Unite my heart to fear your name. {86:12} I will praise you, O Lord my God,
with my whole heart; And I will glorify your name for evermore. {86:13} For
great is your loving kindness toward me; And you have delivered my soul from
the lowe Sheol. {86:14} O God, the proud are risen up against me, And a company
of violent men have sought after my soul, And have not set you before them.
{86:15} But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, Slow to anger, and
abundant in loving kindness and truth. {86:16} Oh turn unto me, and have mercy
upon me; Give your strength unto your servant, And save the son of your
handmaid. {86:17} Show me a token for good, That they who hate me may see it,
and be put to shame, Because you, Yahweh, have helped me, and comforted
me.
{O19)87} Psalms 87. A Psalm of the sons of Korah; a Song. {87:1} His foundation is in the holy mountains.
{87:2} Yahweh agape loves the gates of Zion More than all the dwellings of
Jacob. {87:3} Glorious things are spoken of you, O city of God. Selah {87:4} I will make mention of Rahab
and Babylon as among them that know me: Behold, Philistia, and Tyre, with
Ethiopia: This one was born there. {87:5} behold, of Zion it shall be said,
This one and that one was born in her; And the Most High himself will establish
her. {87:6} Yahweh will count, when he writes up the peoples, This one was born
there. Selah {87:7} They that sing as
well as they that dance [shall say], All my fountains are in you.
{o19)88} Psalms 88. A Song, a Psalm of the sons of Korah; for the
Chief Musician; set to Mahalath Leannoth. Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite. {88:1} O Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I
have cried day and night before you. {88:2} Let my prayer enter into your
presence; Incline your ear unto my cry. {88:3} For my soul is full of troubles,
And my life draws near unto Sheol. {88:4} I am reckoned with them that go down
into the pit; I am as a man that has no help, {88:5} Cast off among the dead,
Like the slain that lie in the grave, Whom you remember no more, And they are
cut off from your hand. {88:6} you have laid me in the lowe pit, In dark
places, in the deeps. {88:7} Your wrath lies hard upon me, And you have
afflicted me with all your waves.
Selah {88:8} you have put mine acquaintance far from me; you have made
me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth. {88:9} Mine
eye waste away by reason of affliction: I have called daily upon you, O Yahweh;
I have spread forth my hands unto you. {88:10} Will you show wonders to the
dead? shall they that are deceased arise and praise you? Selah {88:11} shall your loving kindness
be declared in the grave? Or your faithfulness in Destruction? {88:12} shall
your wonders be known in the dark? And your good works in the land of
forgetfullness? {88:13} But unto you, O Yahweh, have I cried; And in the
morning shall my prayer come before you. {88:14} Yahweh, why cast you off my
soul? Why hide you your face from me? {88:15} I am afflicted and ready to die
from my youth up: While I suffer your terrors I am distracted. {88:16} Your
fierce wrath is gone over me; Your terrors have cut me off. {88:17} They came
round about me like water all the day long; They compassed me about together.
{88:18} Lover and friend have you put far from me, And mine acquaintance into
darkness.
{O19)89} Psalms 89. Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite. {89:1} I will sing of the loving kindness of
Yahweh for ever: With my mouth will I make known your faithfulness to all
generations. {89:2} For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever; Your
faithfulness will you establish in the very heavens. {89:3} I have made a covenant with my chosen,
I have sworn unto David my servant: {89:4} Your seed will I establish for ever,
And build up your throne to all generations.
Selah {89:5} And the heavens shall praise your wonders, O Yahweh; Your
faithfulness also in the Ekklesia of the holy ones. {89:6} For who in the skies
can be compared unto Yahweh? Who among the sons of the mighty is like unto Yahweh,
{89:7} A God very terrible in the council of the holy ones, And to be feared
above all them that are round about him? {89:8} O The God Yahweh of hosts, Who
is a mighty one, like unto you, O Yahweh? And your faithfulness is round about
you. {89:9} you rule the pride of the sea: When the waves of it arise, you
stillest them. {89:10} you have broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; you
have scattered your enemies with the arm of your strength. {89:11} The heavens
are yours, the earth also is yours: The world and the fullness there, you have
founded them. {89:12} The north and the south, you have created them: Tabor and
Hermon rejoice in your name. {89:13} you have a mighty arm; Strong is your
hand, and high is your right hand. {89:14} Lawful works and justice are the
foundation of your throne: Loving kindness and truth go before your face.
{89:15} Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: They walk, O Yahweh,
in the light of your countenance. {89:16} In your name they do rejoice all the
day; And in your lawful works they are exalted. {89:17} For you are the glory
of their strength; And in your favor our horn shall be exalted. {89:18} For our
shield belongs unto Yahweh; And our king to the Holy One of Israel. {89:19} Then you spoke in vision to your Holy
People, And said, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one
chosen out of the people. {89:20} I have found David my servant; With my holy
oil have I anointed him: {89:21} With whom my hand shall be established; Mine
arm also shall strengthen him. {89:22} The enemy shall not exact from him, Nor
the son of wickedness afflict him. {89:23} And I will beat down his adversaries
before him, And smite them that hate him. {89:24} But my faithfulness and my
loving kindness shall be with him; And in my name shall his horn be exalted.
{89:25} I will set his hand also on the sea, And his right hand on the rivers.
{89:26} He shall cry unto me, you are my Father, My God, and the rock of my
salvation. {89:27} I also will make him [my] first-born, The highest of the
kings of the earth. {89:28} My loving kindness will I keep for him for
evermore; And my covenant shall stand fast with him. {89:29} His seed also will
I make to endure for ever, And his throne as the days of heaven. {89:30} If his
children forsake my law, And walk not in mine ordinances; {89:31} If they break
my statutes, And keep not my commandments; {89:32} Then will I visit their
transgression of the law with the rod, And their works against law with
stripes. {89:33} But my loving kindness will I not utterly take from him, Nor
suffer my faithfulness to fail. {89:34} My covenant will I not break, Nor alter
the thing that is gone out of my lips. {89:35}
Once have I sworn by my holiness: I will not lie unto David: {89:36} His
seed shall endure for ever, And his throne as the sun before me. {89:37} It shall be established for ever as the moon,
And [as] the faithful witness in the sky.
Selah {89:38} But you have cast
off and rejected, you have been wroth with your anointed. {89:39} you have
abhorred the covenant of your servant: you have profaned his crown [by casting
it] to the ground. {89:40} you have broken down all his hedges; you have
brought his strongholds to ruin. {89:41} All that pass by the way rob him: He
is become a reproach to his neighbors. {89:42} you have exalted the right hand
of his adversaries; you have made all his enemies to rejoice. {89:43} behold,
you turn back the edge of his sword, And have not made him to stand in the
battle. {89:44} you have made his brightness to cease, And cast his throne down
to the ground. {89:45} The days of his youth have you shortened: you have
covered him with shame. Selah {89:46}
How long, O Yahweh? will you hide yourself for ever? [How long] shall your
wrath burn like fire? {89:47} Oh remember how short my time is: For what vanity
have you created all the children of men! {89:48} What man is he that shall
live and not see death, That shall deliver his soul from the power of
Sheol? Selah {89:49} Lord, where are
your former loving kindnesses, Which you swearst unto David in your
faithfulness? {89:50} Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants; How I do
bear in my bosom [the reproach of] all the mighty peoples, {89:51} Wherewith
your enemies have reproached, O Yahweh, Wherewith they have reproached the
footsteps of your anointed. {89:52}
Blessed be Yahweh for evermore. Amen, and Amen.
{O19)90} Psalms 90. BOOK IV A Prayer of Moses the man of God. {90:1} Lord, you have been our
dwelling-place In all generations. {90:2} Before the mountains were brought
forth, Or before you had formed the earth and the world, Even from everlasting
to everlasting, you are God. {90:3} you turn man to destruction, And say,
Return, you children of men.
{90:4} For thousands of years
[to man], in your sight, [thousands of
years] are but as yEstherday when it is past, And [our thousands of years to
man, is to you only] a [three hour] watch in the night. {90:5} you carry them
away as with a flood; they [like thousands of years to us] are [to you only ] as
a sleep: In the morning they are like grass which grows up. {90:6} In the
morning it flourishes, and grows up; In the evening it is cut down, and
withers. {90:7} For we are consumed in your anger, And in your wrath are we
troubled. {90:8} you have set our iniquities before you, Our secret sins in the
light of your countenance. {90:9} For all our days are passed away in your
wrath: We bring our years to an end as a sigh. {90:10} The days of our years
are threescore years and ten, Or even by reason of strength fourscore years;
yet is their pride but labor and sorrow; For it is soon gone, and we fly away.
{90:11} Who knows the power of your anger, And your wrath according to the fear
that is due unto you? {90:12} So teach us to number our days, That we may get
us a heart of wisdom. {90:13} Return, O Yahweh; how long? And let it repent you
concerning your servants. {90:14} Oh satisfy us in the morning with your loving
kindness, That we may rejoice and be glad all our days. {90:15} Make us glad
according to the days wherein you have afflicted us, And the years wherein we
have seen evil. {90:16} Let your work appear unto your servants, And your glory
upon their children. {90:17} And let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us;
And establish you the work of our hands upon us; behold, the work of our hands
you establish it.
{O19)91} Psalms 91. {91:1} He that dwells in the secret place of
the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. {91:2} I will say
of Yahweh, He is my refuge and my fortress; My God, in whom I trust. {91:3} For
he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, And from the deadly
pestilence. {91:4} He will cover you with his pinions, And under his wings
shall you take refuge: His truth is a shield and a protection. {91:5} you shall
not be afraid for the terror by night, Nor for the arrow that flies by day;
{91:6} For the pestilence that walks in darkness, Nor for the destruction that
wastes at noonday. {91:7} A thousand shall fall at your side, And ten thousand
at your right hand; [But] it shall not come near you. {91:8} Only with your
eyes shall you behold, And see the reward of the wicked. {91:9} For you, O Yahweh, are my refuge! you have
made the Most High your habitation; {91:10} There shall no evil befall you,
Neither shall any plague come near your tent. {91:11} For he will give his
messengers charge over you, To keep you in all your ways. {91:12} They shall
bear you up in their hands, Lest you dash your foot against a stone. {91:13}
you shall tread upon the lion and adder: The young lion and the serpent shall
you trample under foot. {91:14} Because he has set his love upon me, therefore
will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he has known my name.
{91:15} He shall call upon me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in
trouble: I will deliver him, and honor him. {91:16} With long life will I
satisfy him, And show him my salvation.
{O19)92} Psalms 92. A Psalm, a Song for the Sabbath day. {92:1} It is a good thing to give thanks
unto Yahweh, And to sing praises unto your name, O Most High; {92:2} To show
forth your loving kindness in the morning, And your faithfulness every night,
{92:3} With an instrument of ten strings, and with the psaltery; With a solemn
sound upon the harp. {92:4} For you, Yahweh, have made me glad through your
work: I will triumph in the works of your hands. {92:5} How great are your
works, O Yahweh! Your thoughts are very deep. {92:6} A brutish man knows not;
Neither does a fool understand this: {92:7} When the wicked spring as the
grass, And when all the workers of works against law do flourish; It is that
they shall be destroyed for ever. {92:8} But you, O Yahweh, are on high for
evermore. {92:9} For, lo, your enemies, O Yahweh, For, lo, your enemies shall
perish; All the workers of works against law shall be scattered. {92:10} But my
horn have you exalted like [the horn of] the wild-ox: I am anointed with fresh
oil. {92:11} Mine eye also has seen [my desire] on mine enemies, Mine ears have
heard [my desire] of the evil-doers that rise up against me. {92:12} The lawful
worker shall flourish like the palm-tree: He shall grow like a cedar in
Lebanon. {92:13} They are planted in the house of Yahweh; They shall flourish
in the courts of our God. {92:14} They shall still bring forth fruit in old
age; They shall be full of sap and green: {92:15} To show that Yahweh is
upright; He is my rock, and there is no works that will cause pain or suffering
because of him.
{O19)93} Psalms 93. {93:1} Yahweh reigns; he is clothed with
majesty; Yahweh is clothed with strength; he has girded himself with: The world
also is established, that it cannot be moved. {93:2} Your throne is established
of old: you are from everlasting. {93:3} The floods have lifted up, O Yahweh,
The floods have lifted up their voice; The floods lift up their waves. {93:4}
Above the voices of many waters, The mighty breakers of the sea, Yahweh on high
is mighty. {93:5} Your testimonies are very sure: Holiness becomes your house,
O Yahweh, for evermore.
{O19)94} Psalms 94. {94:1} O Yahweh, you God to whom vengeance
belongs, you God to whom vengeance belongs, shine forth. {94:2} Lift up
yourself, you judge of the earth: Render to the proud [their] desert. {94:3} Yahweh,
how long shall the wicked, How long shall the wicked triumph? {94:4} They
prate, they speak arrogantly: All the workers of works against law boast
themselves. {94:5} They break in pieces your people, O Yahweh, And afflict your
heritage. {94:6} They slay the widow and the alien, And murder the fatherless.
{94:7} And they say, Yahweh will not see, Neither will the God of Jacob
consider. {94:8} Consider, you brutish among the people; And you fools, when
will you be wise? {94:9} He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? He that
formed the eye, shall he not see? {94:10} He that chastises the nations, shall
not he correct, [Even] he that teaches man knowledge? {94:11} Yahweh knows the
thoughts of man, That they are vanity. {94:12} Blessed is the man whom you
chastise, O Yahweh, And teach out of your law; {94:13} That you may give him
rest from the days of adversity, Until the pit be dug for the wicked. {94:14}
For Yahweh will not cast off his people, Neither will he forsake his
inheritance. {94:15} For judgment shall return unto lawful works; And all the
upright in heart shall follow it. {94:16} Who will rise up for me against the
evil-doers? Who will stand up for me against the workers of works against law?
{94:17} Unless Yahweh had been my help, My soul had soon dwelt in silence.
{94:18} When I said, My foot slipped; Your Agape loving kindness, O Yahweh,
held me up. {94:19} In the multitude of my thoughts within me Your comforts
delight my soul. {94:20} shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with
you, Which frames mischief by statute? {94:21} They gather themselves together
against the soul of the lawful worker, And condemn the innocent blood. {94:22}
But Yahweh has been my high tower, And my God the rock of my refuge. {94:23}
And he has brought upon them their own works against law, And will cut them off
in their own wickedness; Yahweh our God will cut them off.
{O19)95}
Psalms 95. {95:1} Oh come, let
us sing unto Yahweh; Let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.
{95:2} Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving; Let us make a joyful
noise unto him with Psalms. {95:3} For Yahweh is a great God, And a great King
above all gods. {95:4} In his hand are the deep places of the earth; The
heights of the mountains are his also. {95:5} The sea is his, and he made it;
And his hands formed the dry land. {95:6} Oh come, let us worship and bow down;
Let us kneel before Yahweh our Maker: {95:7} For he is our God, And we are the
people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To-day, oh that you would
hear his voice! {95:8} Harden not your heart, as at Meribah, As in the day of
Massah in the wilderness; {95:9} When your fathers tempted me, Proved me, and
saw my work. {95:10} Forty years long was I grieved with [that] generation, And
said, It is a people that do err in their heart, And they have not known my
ways: {95:11} Therefore I swear in my wrath, That they should not enter into my
rest.
O19)96 Psalms 96 {96:1} Oh sing unto Yahweh a new song: Sing
unto Yahweh, all the earth. {96:2} Sing unto Yahweh, bless his name; Show forth
his salvation from day to day. {96:3} Declare his glory among the nations, His
marvellous works among all the peoples. {96:4} For great is Yahweh, and greatly
to be praised: He is to be feared above all gods. {96:5} For all the gods of
the peoples are idols; But Yahweh made the heavens. {96:6} Honor and majesty
are before him: Strength and beauty are in his sanctuary. {96:7} Ascribe unto Yahweh,
you kindreds of the peoples, Ascribe unto Yahweh glory and strength. {96:8}
Ascribe unto Yahweh the glory due unto his name: Bring an offering, and come
into his courts. {96:9} Oh worship Yahweh in holy array: Tremble before him,
all the earth. {96:10} Say among the nations, Yahweh reigns: The world also is
established that it cannot be moved: He will judge the peoples with equity.
{96:11} Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice; Let the sea roar,
and the fullness there; {96:12} Let the field exult, and all that is therein;
Then shall all the trees of the wood sing for joy {96:13} Before Yahweh; for he
comes, For he comes to judge the earth: He will judge the world with good
works, And the peoples with his truth.
{O19)97}
Psalms 97. {97:1} Yahweh reigns;
let the earth rejoice; Let the multitude of isles be glad. {97:2} Clouds and
darkness are round about him: Lawful works and justice are the foundation of
his throne. {97:3} A fire goes before him, And burns up his adversaries round
about. {97:4} His lightnings lightened the world: The earth saw, and trembled.
{97:5} The mountains melted like wax at the presence of Yahweh, At the presence
of the Lord of the whole earth. {97:6} The heavens declare his good works, And
all the peoples have seen his glory. {97:7} Let all them be put to shame that
serve graven images, That boast themselves of idols: Worship him, all you gods.
{97:8} Zion heard and was glad, And the daughters of Judah rejoiced, Because of
your judgments, O Yahweh. {97:9} For you, Yahweh, are most high above all the
earth: you are exalted far above all gods. {97:10} O you that agape love Yahweh,
hate evil: He preserves the souls of his Holy People; He delivers them out of
the hand of the wicked. {97:11} Light is sown for the lawful worker, And
gladness for the upright in heart. {97:12} Be glad in Yahweh, you lawful
worker; And give thanks to his holy memorial [name].
{O19)98} Psalms 98 A Psalm.
{98:1} Oh sing unto Yahweh a new song; For he has done marvellous
things: His right hand, and his holy arm, has wrought salvation for him. {98:2}
Yahweh has made known his salvation: His good works he has openly showed in the
sight of the nations. {98:3} He has remembered his loving kindness and his
faithfulness toward the house of Israel: All the ends of the earth have seen
the salvation of our God. {98:4} Make a joyful noise unto Yahweh, all the
earth: Break forth and sing for joy, behold, sing praises. {98:5} Sing praises
unto Yahweh with the harp; With the harp and the voice of melody. {98:6} With
trumpets and sound of cornet Make a joyful noise before the King, Yahweh.
{98:7} Let the sea roar, and the fullness there; The world, and they that dwell
therein; {98:8} Let the floods clap their hands; Let the hills sing for joy
together {98:9} Before Yahweh; for he comes to judge the earth: He will judge
the world with lawful works, And the peoples with works against law.
{O19)99} Psalms 99. {99:1} Yahweh reigns; let the peoples
tremble: He sits[above] the cherubim; let the earth be moved. {99:2} Yahweh is
great in Zion; And he is high above all the peoples. {99:3} Let them praise
your great and terrible name: Holy is he.
{99:4} The king's strength also agape loves justice; you do establish
equity; you execute justice and lawful works in Jacob. {99:5} Exalt you Yahweh
our God, And worship at his footstool: Holy is he. {99:6} Moses and Aaron among his priests,
And Samuel among them that call upon his name; They called upon Yahweh, and he
answered them. {99:7} He spoke unto them in the pillar of cloud: They kept his
testimonies, And the statute that he gave them. {99:8} you answered them, O Yahweh
our God: you was a God that forgave them, though you took vengeance of their
doings. {99:9} Exalt you Yahweh our God, And worship at his holy hill; For Yahweh
our God is holy.
{O19)100} Psalms Chapter One Hundred. A Psalm of thanksgiving. {100:1} Make a joyful noise unto Yahweh, all
you lands. {100:2} Serve Yahweh with gladness: Come before his presence with
singing. {100:3} Know you that Yahweh, he is God: It is he that has made us,
and we are his; We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. {100:4} Enter
into his gates with thanksgiving, And into his courts with praise: Give thanks
unto him, and bless his name. {100:5} For Yahweh is good; his loving kindness
[endures] for ever, And his faithfulness unto all generations.
{O19)101} Psalm Chapter 101. A Psalm of David. {101:1} I will sing of loving kindness and
justice: Unto you, O Yahweh, will I sing praises. {101:2} I will behave myself
wisely in a perfect way: Oh when will you come unto me? I will walk within my
house with a perfect heart. {101:3} I will set no base thing before mine eyes:
I hate the work of them that turn aside; It shall not cleave unto me. {101:4} A
perverse heart shall depart from me: I will know no evil thing. {101:5} Who so
privily slanders his neighbor, him will I destroy: Him that has a high look and
a proud heart will I not suffer. {101:6} Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful
of the land, that they may dwell with me: He that walks in a perfect way, he
shall minister unto me. {101:7} He that works deceit shall not dwell within my
house: He that speaks false hood shall not be established before mine eyes.
{101:8} Morning by morning will I destroy all the wicked of the land; To cut
off all the workers of works against law from the city of Yahweh.
{O19)102} Psalms Chapter 102. A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is
overwhelmed, and pours out his complaint before Yahweh. {102:1} Hear my prayer, O Yahweh, And let my
cry come unto you. {102:2} Hide not your face from me in the day of my
distress: Incline your ear unto me; In the day when I call answer me speedily.
{102:3} For my days consume away like smoke, And my bones are burned as a
firebrand. {102:4} My heart is smitten like grass, and withered; For I forget
to eat my bread. {102:5} By reason of the voice of my groaning My bones cleave
to my flesh. {102:6} I am like a pelican of the wilderness; I am become as an owl
of the waste places. {102:7} I watch, and am become like a sparrow That is
alone upon the house-top. {102:8} Mine enemies reproach me all the day; They
that are mad against me do curse by me. {102:9} For I have eaten ashes like
bread, And mingled my drink with weeping, {102:10} Because of your indignation
and your wrath: For you have taken me up, and cast me away. {102:11} My days
are like a shadow that declines; And I am withered like grass. {102:12} But you, O Yahweh, will abide for
ever; And your memorial [name] unto all generations. {102:13} you will arise,
and have mercy upon Zion; For it is time to have pity upon her, behold, the set
time is come. {102:14} For your servants take pleasure in her stones, And have
pity upon her dust. {102:15} So the nations shall fear the name of Yahweh, And
all the kings of the earth your glory. {102:16} For Yahweh has built up Zion;
He has appeared in his glory. {102:17} He has regarded the prayer of the
destitute, And has not despised their prayer. {102:18} This shall be written
for the generation to come; And a people which shall be created shall praise Yahweh.
{102:19} For he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary; From heaven
did Yahweh behold the earth; {102:20} To hear the sighing of the prisoner; To loose
those that are appointed to death; {102:21} That men may declare the name of Yahweh
in Zion, And his praise in Jerusalem; {102:22} When the peoples are gathered
together, And the kingdoms, to serve Yahweh.
{102:23} He weakened my strength in the way; He shortened my days.
{102:24} I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: Your years
are throughout all generations. {102:25} Of old did you lay the foundation of
the earth; And the heavens are the work of your hands. {102:26} They shall
perish, but you shall endure; behold, all of them shall wax old like a garment;
As a vesture shall you change them, and they shall be changed: {102:27} But you
are the same, And your years shall have no end. {102:28} The children of your
servants shall continue, And their seed shall be established before you.
O19)103 Psalms Chapter 103 [A Psalm] of David. {103:1} Bless Yahweh, O my soul; And all
that is within me, [bless] his holy name. {103:2} Bless Yahweh, O my soul, And
forget not all his benefits: {103:3} Who forgives all your iniquities; Who
heals all your diseases; {103:4} Who redeems your life from destruction; Who
crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies; {103:5} Who satisfies your
desire with good things, [So that] your youth is renewed like the eagle.
{103:6} Yahweh executes benevolent acts,
And judgments for all that are oppressed. {103:7} He made known his ways unto
Moses, His doings unto the children of Israel. {103:8} Yahweh is merciful and
gracious, Slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness. {103:9} He will not
always chide; Neither will he keep [his anger] for ever. {103:10} He has not
dealt with us after our sins, Nor rewarded us after our works against law.
{103:11} For as the heavens are high above the earth, So great is his loving
kindness toward them that fear him. {103:12} As far as the east is from the
west, So far has he removed our transgression of the law from us. {103:13} Like
as a father pities his children, So Yahweh pities them that fear him. {103:14}
For he knows our frame; He remembers that we are dust. {103:15} As for man, his
days are as grass; As a flower of the field, so he flourishes. {103:16} For the
wind passes over it, and it is gone; And the place of it shall know it no more.
{103:17} But the loving kindness of Yahweh is from everlasting to everlasting
upon them that fear him, And his lawful works unto children's children;
{103:18} To such as keep his covenant, And to those that remember his precepts
to do them. {103:19} Yahweh has established his throne in the heavens; And his
kingdom rules over all. {103:20} Bless Yahweh, you his messengers, That are
mighty in strength, that fulfill his word, Hearing unto the voice of his word.
{103:21} Bless Yahweh, all you his hosts, you ministers of his, that do his
pleasure. {103:22} Bless Yahweh, all you his works, In all places of his
dominion: Bless Yahweh, O my soul.
{O19)104} Psalms Chapter 104. {104:1} Bless Yahweh, O my soul. O Yahweh
my God, you are very great; you are clothed with honor and majesty: {104:2} Who
cover yourself with light as with a garment; Who stretch out the heavens like a
curtain; {104:3} Who lays the beams of his chambers in the waters; Who makes
the clouds his chariot; Who walks upon the wings of the wind; {104:4} Who makes
winds his messengers; Flames of fire his ministers; {104:5} Who laid the foundations of the earth, That
it should not be moved for ever. {104:6} you coverers it with the deep as with
a vesture; The waters stood above the mountains. {104:7} At your rebuke they
fled; At the voice of your thunder they hurried away {104:8} (The mountains rose, the valleys sank down)
Unto the place which you had founded for them. {104:9} you have set a bound
that they may not pass over; That they turn not again to cover the earth.
{104:10} He sends forth springs into the valleys; They run among the mountains;
{104:11} They give drink to every beast of the field; The wild asses quench
their thirst. {104:12} By them the birds of the heavens have their habitation;
They sing among the branches. {104:13} He waters the mountains from his
chambers: The earth is filled with the fruit of your works. {104:14} He causes
the grass to grow for the cattle, And herb for the service of man; That he may
bring forth food out of the earth, {104:15} And wine that makes glad the heart
of man, [And] oil to make his face to shine, And bread that strengthens man's
heart. {104:16} The trees of Yahweh are filled [with moisture], The cedars of
Lebanon, which he has planted; {104:17} Where the birds make their nests: As
for the stork, the fir-trees are her house. {104:18} The high mountains are for
the wild goats; The rocks are a refuge for the conies. {104:19} He appointed
the moon for seasons: The sun knows his going down. {104:20} you make darkness,
and it is night, Wherein all the beasts of the forest creep forth. {104:21} The
young lions roar after their prey, And seek their food from God. {104:22} The
sun arises, they get them away, And lay them down in their dens. {104:23} Man
goes forth unto his work And to his labor until the evening. {104:24} O Yahweh,
how manifold are your works! In wisdom have you made them all: The earth is
full of your riches. {104:25} Yonder is the sea, great and wide, Wherein are
things creeping innumerable, Both small and great beasts. {104:26} There go the
ships; There is leviathan, whom you have formed to play therein. {104:27} These
wait all for you, That you may give them their food in due season. {104:28} you
give unto them, they gather; you open your hand, they are satisfied with good.
{104:29} you hide your face, they are troubled; you take away their breath,
they die, And return to their dust. {104:30} you send forth your Spirit, they
are created; And you renew the face of the ground. {104:31} Let the glory of Yahweh
endure for ever; Let Yahweh rejoice in his works: {104:32} Who looks on the
earth, and it trembles; He touches the mountains, and they smoke. {104:33} I
will sing unto Yahweh as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I
have any being. {104:34} Let your meditation be sweet unto him: I will rejoice
in Yahweh. {104:35} Let sinners be consumed out of the earth. And let the
wicked be no more. Bless Yahweh, O my soul. Praise you Yahweh.
{O19)105}
Psalms Chapter 105. {105:1} Oh
give thanks unto Yahweh, call upon his name; Make known among the peoples his
doings. {105:2} Sing unto him, sing praises unto him; Talk you of all his
marvelous works. {105:3} Glory you in his holy name: Let the heart of them
rejoice that seek Yahweh. {105:4} Seek you Yahweh and his strength; Seek his
face evermore. {105:5} Remember his marvellous works that he has done, His
wonders, and the judgments of his mouth, {105:6} O you seed of Abraham his
servant, you children of Jacob, his chosen ones. {105:7} He is Yahweh our God:
His judgments are in all the earth. {105:8} He has remembered his covenant for
ever, The word which he commanded to a thousand generations, {105:9} [The
covenant] which he made with Abraham, And his oath unto Isaac, {105:10} And
confirmed the same unto Jacob for a statute, To Israel for an everlasting
covenant, {105:11} Saying, Unto you will I give the land of Canaan, The lot of
your inheritance; {105:12} When they were but a few men in number, behold, very
few, and aliens in it. {105:13} And they went about from nation to nation, From
one kingdom to another people. {105:14} He suffered no man to do them wrong;
behold, he reproved kings for their sakes, {105:15} [Saying], Touch not mine
anointed ones, And do my prophets no harm. {105:16} And he called for a famine
upon the land; He brake the whole staff of bread. {105:17} He sent a man before
them; Joseph was sold for a servant: {105:18} His feet they hurt with fetters:
He was laid in [chains of] iron, {105:19} Until the time that his word came to
pass, The word of Yahweh tried him. {105:20} The king sent and loosed him; Even
the ruler of peoples, and let him go free. {105:21} He made him lord of his
house, And ruler of all his substance; {105:22} To bind his princes at his
pleasure, And teach his elders wisdom. {105:23} Israel also came into Egypt;
And Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham. {105:24} And he increased his people
greatly, And made them stronger than their adversaries. {105:25} He turned
their heart to hate his people, To deal subtly with his servants. {105:26} He
sent Moses his servant, [And] Aaron whom he had chosen. {105:27} They set among
them his signs, And wonders in the land of Ham. {105:28} He sent darkness, and
made it dark; And they rebelled not against his words. {105:29} He turned their
waters into blood, And slew their fish. {105:30} Their land swarmed with frogs
In the chambers of their kings. {105:31} He spoke, and there came swarms of
flies, And lice in all their borders. {105:32} He gave them hail for rain,
[And] flaming fire in their land. {105:33} He smote their vines also and their
fig-trees, And brake the trees of their borders. {105:34} He spoke, and the
locust came, And the grasshopper, and that outside number, {105:35} And did eat
up every herb in their land, And did eat up the fruit of their ground. {105:36}
He smote also all the first-born in their land, The chief of all their
strength. {105:37} And he brought them forth with silver and gold; And there
was not one feeble person among his tribes. {105:38} Egypt was glad when they
departed; For the fear of them had fallen upon them. {105:39} He spread a cloud
for a covering, And fire to give light in the night. {105:40} They asked, and
he brought quails, And satisfied them with the bread of heaven. {105:41} He
opened the rock, and waters gushed out; They ran in the dry places [like] a
river. {105:42} For he remembered his holy word, [And] Abraham his servant.
{105:43} And he brought forth his people with joy, [And] his chosen with
singing. {105:44} And he gave them the lands of the nations; And they took the
labor of the peoples in possession: {105:45} That they might keep his statutes,
And observe his laws. Praise you Yahweh.
{O19)106} Psalms Chapter 106. {106:1}
Praise you Yahweh. Oh give thanks unto Yahweh; for he is good; For his
loving kindness [endures] forever. {106:2} Who can utter the mighty acts of Yahweh,
Or show forth all his praise? {106:3} Blessed are they that keep justice, And
he that does good works at all times. {106:4} Remember me, O Yahweh, with the
favor that you bear unto your people; Oh
visit me with your salvation, {106:5} That I may see the prosperity of your
chosen, That I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation, That I may glory
with your inheritance. {106:6} We have
sinned with our fathers, We have committed works against law, we have done
wickedly. {106:7} Our fathers understood not your wonders in Egypt; They
remembered not the multitude of your loving kindnesses, But were rebellious at
the sea, even at the Red Sea. {106:8} Nevertheless he saved them for his name's
sake, That he might make his mighty power to be known. {106:9} He rebuked the
Sea of Reeds also, and it was dried up: So he led them through the depths, as
through a wilderness. {106:10} And he saved them from the hand of him that
hated them, And redeemed them from the hand of the enemy. {106:11} And the
waters covered their adversaries; There was not one of them left. {106:12} Then
believed they his words; They sang his praise. {106:13} They soon forgot his
works; They waited not for his counsel, {106:14} But lusted exceedingly in the
wilderness, And tempted God in the desert. {106:15} And he gave them their
request, But sent leanness into their soul. {106:16} They envied Moses also in
the camp, [And] Aaron the Holy Person of Yahweh. {106:17} The earth opened and
swallowed up Dathan, And covered the company of Abiram. {106:18} And a fire was
kindled in their company; The flame burned up the wicked. {106:19} They made a
calf in Horeb, And worshipped a molten image. {106:20} Thus they changed their
glory For the likeness of an ox that eats grass. {106:21} They forgot God their
Savior, Who had done great things in Egypt, {106:22} Wondrous works in the land
of Ham, [And] terrible things by the Red Sea. {106:23} Therefore he said that
he would destroy them, Had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach,
To turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy [them]. {106:24} behold, they
despised the pleasant land, They believed not his word, {106:25} But murmured
in their tents, And heard not unto the voice of Yahweh. {106:26} Therefore he
swear unto them, That he would overthrow them in the wilderness, {106:27} And
that he would overthrow their seed among the nations, And scatter them in the
lands. {106:28} They joined themselves also unto Baal-peor, And ate the
sacrifices of the dead. {106:29} Thus they provoked him to anger with their
doings; And the plague brake in upon them. {106:30} Then stood up Phinehas, and
executed judgment; And so the plague was stayed. {106:31} And that was reckoned
unto him for lawful works, Unto all generations for evermore. {106:32} They
angered him also at the waters of Meribah, So that it went ill with Moses for
their sakes; {106:33} Because they were rebellious against his spirit, And he
spoke unadvisedly with his lips. {106:34} They did not destroy the peoples, As Yahweh
commanded them, {106:35} But mingled themselves with the nations, And learned
their works, {106:36} And served their idols, Which became a snare unto them.
{106:37} behold, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto demons,
{106:38} And shed innocent blood, Even the blood of their sons and of their
daughters, Whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan; And the land was
polluted with blood. {106:39} Thus were they defiled with their works, And
played the prostitute in their doings. {106:40} Therefore was the wrath of Yahweh
kindled against his people, And he abhorred his inheritance. {106:41} And he
gave them into the hand of the nations; And they that hated them ruled over them.
{106:42} Their enemies also oppressed them, And they were brought into
subjection under their hand. {106:43} Many times did he deliver them; But they
were rebellious in their counsel, And were brought low in their works against
law. {106:44} Nevertheless he regarded their distress, When he heard their cry:
{106:45} And he remembered for them his covenant, And repented according to the
multitude of his loving kindnesses. {106:46} He made them also to be pitied Of
all those that carried them captive. {106:47}
Save us, O Yahweh our God, And gather us from among the nations, To give thanks
unto your holy name, And to triumph in your praise. {106:48} Blessed be Yahweh, the God of
Israel, From everlasting even to everlasting. And let all the people say, Amen.
Praise you Yahweh.
{O19)107} Psalms Chapter 107. BOOK V
{107:1} O give thanks unto Yahweh; For he is good; For his loving
kindness [endures] for ever. {107:2} Let the redeemed of Yahweh say [so], Whom
he has redeemed from the hand of the adversary, {107:3} And gathered out of the
lands, From the east and from the west, From the north and from the south.
{107:4} They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way; They found no city of
habitation. {107:5} Hungry and thirsty, Their soul fainted in them. {107:6}
Then they cried unto Yahweh in their trouble, And he delivered them out of
their distresses, {107:7} He led them also by a straight way, That they might
go to a city of habitation. {107:8} Oh that men would praise Yahweh for his
loving kindness, And for his wonderful works to the children of men! {107:9}
For he satisfies the longing soul, And the hungry soul he fills with good. {107:10} Such as sat in darkness and in the
shadow of death, Being bound in affliction and iron, {107:11} Because they
rebelled against the words of God, And contemned the counsel of the Most High:
{107:12} Therefore he brought down their heart with labor; They fell down, and
there was none to help. {107:13} Then they cried unto Yahweh in their trouble,
And he saved them out of their distresses. {107:14} He brought them out of
darkness and the shadow of death, And brake their bonds in sunder. {107:15} Oh
that men would praise Yahweh for his loving kindness, And for his wonderful
works to the children of men! {107:16} For he has broken the gates of brass,
And cut the bars of iron in sunder.
{107:17} Fools because of their transgression of the law, And because of
their iniquities, are afflicted. {107:18} Their soul abhors all manner of food;
And they draw near unto the gates of death. {107:19} Then they cry unto Yahweh
in their trouble, And he saves them out of their distresses. {107:20} He sends
his word, and heals them, And delivers [them] from their destructions. {107:21}
Oh that men would praise Yahweh for his loving kindness, And for his wonderful
works to the children of men! {107:22} And let them offer the sacrifices of
thanksgiving, And declare his works with singing. {107:23} They that go down to the sea in
ships, That do business in great waters; {107:24} These see the works of Yahweh,
And his wonders in the deep. {107:25} For he commands, and raises the stormy
wind, Which lifts up the waves there. {107:26} They mount up to the heavens,
they go down again to the depths: Their soul melts away because of trouble.
{107:27} They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunk man, And are at their
wits' end. {107:28} Then they cry unto Yahweh in their trouble, And he brings
them out of their distresses. {107:29} He makes the storm a calm, So that the
waves of it are still. {107:30} Then are they glad because they are quiet; So
he brings them unto their desired haven. {107:31} Oh that men would praise Yahweh
for his loving kindness, And for his wonderful works to the children of men!
{107:32} Let them exalt him also in the Ekklesia of the people, And praise him
in the seat of the elders. {107:33} He
turns rivers into a wilderness, And water springs into a thirsty ground;
{107:34} A fruitful land into a salt desert, For the wickedness of them that
dwell therein. {107:35} He turns a wilderness into a pool of water, And a dry
land into water springs. {107:36} And there he makes the hungry to dwell, That
they may prepare a city of habitation, {107:37} And sow fields, and plant
vineyards, And get them fruits of increase. {107:38} He blesses them also, so
that they are multiplied greatly; And he suffers not their cattle to decrease.
{107:39} Again, they are diminished and bowed down Through oppression, trouble,
and sorrow. {107:40} He pours contempt upon princes, And causes them to wander
in the waste, where there is no way. {107:41} yet sets he the needy on high
from affliction, And makes[him] families like a flock. {107:42} The upright
shall see it, and be glad; And all works against law shall stop her mouth.
{107:43} Who so is wise will give heed to these things; And they will consider
the loving kindnesses of Yahweh.
{O19)108} Psalms Chapter 108. A Song, A Psalm of David. {108:1} My heart is fixed, O God; I will
sing, behold, I will sing praises, even with my glory. {108:2} Awake, psaltery
and harp: I myself will awake right early. {108:3} I will give thanks unto you,
O Yahweh, among the peoples; And I will sing praises unto you among the
nations. {108:4} For your loving kindness is great above the heavens; And your
truth [reach] unto the skies. {108:5} Be you exalted, O God, above the heavens,
And your glory above all the earth. {108:6} That your agape beloved may be
delivered, Save with your right hand, and answer us. {108:7} God has spoken in
his holiness: I will exult; I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of
Succoth. {108:8} Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the defense
of my head; Judah is my Scepter. {108:9} Moab is my wash pot; Upon Edom will I
cast my shoe; Over Philistia will I shout. {108:10} Who will bring me into the
fortified city? Who has led me unto Edom? {108:11} Have not you cast us off, O God? And you go
not forth, O God, with our hosts. {108:12} Give us help against the adversary;
For vain is the help of man. {108:13} Through God we shall do valiantly: For he
it is that will tread down our adversaries.
{O19)109} Psalms Chapter 109. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of
David. {109:1} Hold not your peace, O
God of my praise; {109:2} For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit
have they opened against me: They have spoken unto me with a lying tongue.
{109:3} They have compassed me about also with words of hatred, And fought
against me outside a cause. {109:4} For my agape love they are my adversaries:
But I [give myself unto] prayer. {109:5} And they have rewarded me evil for
good, And hatred for my agape love. {109:6} Set you a wicked man over him; And
let an adversary stand at his right hand. {109:7} When he is judged, let him
come forth guilty; And let his prayer be turned into sin. {109:8} Let his days
be few; [And] let another take his office. {109:9} Let his children be
fatherless, And his wife a widow. {109:10} Let his children be vagabonds, and
beg; And let them seek [their bread] out of their desolate places. {109:11} Let
the extortioner catch all that he has; And let strangers make spoil of his
labor. {109:12} Let there be none to extend kindness unto him; Neither let
there be any to have pity on his fatherless children. {109:13} Let his
posterity be cut off; In the generation following let their name be blotted
out. {109:14} Let the works against law of his fathers be remembered with Yahweh;
And let not the sin of his mother be blotted out. {109:15} Let them be before Yahweh
continually, That he may cut off the memory of them from the earth; {109:16}
Because he remembered not to show kindness, But persecuted the poor and needy
man, And the broken in heart, to slay [them]. {109:17} behold, he agape loved
cursing, and it came unto him; And he delighted not in blessing, and it was far
from him. {109:18} He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment,
And it came into his inward parts like water, And like oil into his bones.
{109:19} Let it be unto him as the raiment wherewith he covers himself, And for
the girdle wherewith he is girded continually. {109:20} This is the reward of
mine adversaries from Yahweh, And of them that speak evil against my soul.
{109:21} But deal you with me, O Yahweh the Lord, for your name's sake: Because
your loving kindness is good, deliver you me; {109:22} For I am poor and needy,
And my heart is wounded within me. {109:23} I am gone like the shadow when it
declines: I am tossed up and down as the locust. {109:24} My knees are weak
through fasting; And my flesh fails of fatness. {109:25} I am become also a
reproach unto them: When they see me, they shake their head. {109:26} Help me,
O Yahweh my God; Oh save me according to your loving kindness: {109:27} That
they may know that this is your hand; [That] you, Yahweh, have done it.
{109:28} Let them curse, but bless you: When they arise, they shall be put to
shame, But your servant shall rejoice. {109:29}
Let mine adversaries be clothed with dishonor, And let them cover
themselves with their own shame as with a robe. {109:30} I will give great
thanks unto Yahweh with my mouth; behold, I will praise him among the
multitude. {109:31} For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, To save
him from them that judge his soul.
{O19)110} Psalms Chapter 110. A Psalm of David. {110:1} Yahweh said unto my Lord, Sit you at
my right hand, Until I make your enemies your footstool. {110:2} Yahweh will
send forth the rod of your strength out of Zion: Rule you in the midst of your
enemies. {110:3} Your people offer themselves willingly In the day of your
power, in holy array: Out of the womb of the morning you have the dew of your
youth. {110:4} Yahweh has sworn, and will not repent: you are a priest for ever
After the order of Melchizedek. {110:5} The Lord at your right hand Will strike
through kings in the day of his wrath. {110:6} He will judge among the nations,
He will fill [the places] with dead bodies; He will strike through the head in
many countries. {110:7} He will drink of the brook in the way: Therefore will
he lift up the head.
{O19)111} Psalms Chapter 111. {111:1}
Praise you Yahweh. I will give thanks unto Yahweh with my whole heart,
In the council of the upright, and in the congregation. {111:2} The works of Yahweh
are great, Sought out of all them that have pleasure therein. {111:3} His work
is honor and majesty; And his works of benevolence endures for ever. {111:4} He
has made his wonderful works to be remembered: Yahweh is gracious and merciful.
{111:5} He has given food unto them that fear him: He will ever be mindful of
his covenant. {111:6} He has showed his people the power of his works, In
giving them the heritage of the nations. {111:7} The works of his hands are
truth and justice; All his precepts are sure. {111:8} They are established for
ever and ever; They are done in truth and uprightness. {111:9} He has sent
redemption unto his people; He has commanded his covenant for ever: Holy and
reverend is his name. {111:10} The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom; A
good understanding have all they that do [his commandments]: His praise endures
for ever.
{O19)112} Psalms Chapter 112. {112:1} Praise you Yahweh. Blessed is the
man that fears Yahweh, That delights greatly in his commandments. {112:2} His
seed shall be mighty upon earth: The generation of the upright shall be
blessed. {112:3} Wealth and riches are in his house; And his benevolence
endures for ever. {112:4} Unto the upright there arises light in the darkness:
[He is] gracious, and merciful, and righteous. {112:5} Well is it with the man
that deals graciously and lends; He shall maintain his cause in judgment.
{112:6} For he shall never be moved; The lawful worker shall be had in
everlasting remembrance. {112:7} He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: His
heart is fixed, trusting in Yahweh. {112:8} His heart is established, he shall
not be afraid, Until he see [his desire] upon his adversaries. {112:9} He has
dispersed, he has given to the needy; His lawful works endures for ever: His
horn shall be exalted with honor. {112:10} The wicked shall see it, and be
grieved; He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: The desire of the wicked
shall perish.
{O19)113} Psalms Chapter 113. {113:1} Praise you Yahweh. Praise, O you
servants of Yahweh, Praise the name of Yahweh. {113:2} Blessed be the name of Yahweh
From this time forth and for evermore. {113:3} From the rising of the sun unto
the going down of the same Yahweh's name is to be praised. {113:4} Yahweh is
high above all nations, And his glory above the heavens. {113:5} Who is like
unto Yahweh our God, That has his seat on high, {113:6} That humbles himself to
behold [The things that are] in heaven and in the earth? {113:7} He raises up
the poor out of the dust, And lifts the needy from the dunghill; {113:8} That
he may set him with princes, Even with the princes of his people. {113:9} He
makes the barren woman to keep house, [And to be] a joyful mother of children.
Praise you Yahweh.
O19)114 Psalms Chapter 114. {114:1} When Israel went forth out of
Egypt, The house of Jacob from a people of strange language; {114:2} Judah
became his sanctuary, Israel his dominion. {114:3} The sea saw it, and fled;
The Jordan was driven back. {114:4} The mountains skipped like rams, The little
hills like lambs. {114:5} What ails you, O you sea, that you flee? you Jordan,
that you turn back? {114:6} you mountains, that you skip like rams; you little
hills, like lambs? {114:7} Tremble, you earth, at the presence of the Lord, At
the presence of the God of Jacob, {114:8} Who turned the rock into a pool of
water, The flint into a fountain of waters.
{O19)115)
Psalms Chapter 115. {115:1}
Not unto us, O Yahweh, not unto us, But unto your name give glory, For your
loving kindness, and for your truth's sake. {115:2} Therefore should the
nations say, Where is now their God? {115:3} But our God is in the heavens: He
has done what ever he pleased. {115:4} Their idols are silver and gold, The
work of men's hands. {115:5} They have mouths, but they speak not; Eyes have
they, but they see not; {115:6} They have ears, but they hear not; Noses have
they, but they smell not; {115:7} They have hands, but they handle not; Feet
have they, but they walk not; Neither speak they through their throat. {115:8}
They that make them shall be like unto them; behold, every one that trusts in
them. {115:9} O Israel, trust you in Yahweh: He is their help and their shield.
{115:10} O house of Aaron, trust you in Yahweh: He is their help and their
shield. {115:11} you that fear Yahweh, trust in Yahweh: He is their help and
their shield. {115:12} Yahweh has been mindful of us; he will bless [us]: He
will bless the house of Israel; He will bless the house of Aaron. {115:13} He
will bless them that fear Yahweh, Both small and great. {115:14} Yahweh
increase you more and more, You and your children. {115:15} Blessed are you of Yahweh,
Who made heaven and earth. {115:16} The heavens are the heavens of Yahweh; But
the earth has he given to the children of men. {115:17} The dead praise not Yahweh,
Neither any that go down into silence; {115:18} But we will bless Yahweh From
this time forth and for evermore. Praise you Yahweh.
{O19)116}
Psalms Chapter 116. {116:1} I
love Yahweh, because he hears My voice and my supplications. {116:2} Because he
has inclined his ear unto me, Therefore will I call [upon him] as long as I
live. {116:3} The cords of death compassed me, And the pains of Sheol got hold
upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. {116:4} Then called I upon the name of Yahweh:
O Yahweh, I ask you, deliver my soul. {116:5} Gracious is Yahweh, and in works
is benvolent; behold, our God is
merciful. {116:6} Yahweh preserve the simple: I was brought low, and he saved
me. {116:7} Return unto your rest, O my soul; For Yahweh has dealt bountifully
with you. {116:8} For you have delivered my soul from death, Mine eyes from
tears, [And] my feet from falling. {116:9} I will walk before Yahweh In the
land of the living. {116:10} I believe, for I will speak: I was greatly
afflicted: {116:11} I said in my haste, All men are liars. {116:12} What shall
I render unto Yahweh For all his benefits toward me? {116:13} I will take the
cup of salvation, And call upon the name of Yahweh. {116:14} I will pay my vows
unto Yahweh, behold, in the presence of all his people. {116:15} Precious in
the sight of Yahweh Is the death of his Holy People. {116:16} O Yahweh, truly I
am your servant: I am your servant, the son of your handmaid; you have loosed
my bonds. {116:17} I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving, And will
call upon the name of Yahweh. {116:18} I will pay my vows unto Yahweh, behold,
in the presence of all his people, {116:19} In the courts of Yahweh's house, In
the midst of you, O Jerusalem. Praise you Yahweh.
{O19)117} Psalms Chapter 117. {117:1} O praise Yahweh, all you nations;
Laud him, all you peoples. {117:2} For his agape loving kindness is great
toward us; And the truth of Yahweh [endures] for ever. Praise you Yahweh.
{O19)118}
Psalms Chapter 118. {118:1} Oh
give thanks unto Yahweh; for he is good; For his agape loving kindness
[endures] for ever. {118:2} Let Israel now say, That his agape loving kindness
[endures] for ever. {118:3} Let the house of Aaron now say, That his agpae loving kindness [endures] for ever.
{118:4} Let them now that fear Yahweh say, That his agpae loving kindness
[endures] for ever. {118:5} Out of my distress I called upon Yahweh: Yahweh
answered me [and set me] in a large place. {118:6} Yahweh is on my side; I will
not fear: What can man do unto me? {118:7} Yahweh is on my side among them that
help me: Therefore shall I see [my desire] upon them that hate me. {118:8} It
is better to take refuge in Yahweh than to put confidence in man. {118:9} It is
better to take refuge in Yahweh than to put confidence in princes. {118:10} All
nations compassed me about: In the name of Yahweh I will cut them off. {118:11}
They compassed me about; behold, they compassed me about: In the name of Yahweh
I will cut them off. {118:12} They compassed me about like bees; They are
quenched as the fire of thorns: In the name of Yahweh I will cut them off.
{118:13} you did thrust sore at me that I might fall; But Yahweh helped me.
{118:14} Yahweh is my strength and song; And he is become my salvation.
{118:15} The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tents of the lawful
worker: The right hand of Yahweh does valiantly. {118:16} The right hand of Yahweh
is exalted: The right hand of Yahweh does valiantly. {118:17} I shall not die,
but live, And declare the works of Yahweh. {118:18} Yahweh has chastens me sore; But he has not
given me over unto death. {118:19} Open to me the gates of lawful works: I will
enter into them, I will give thanks unto Yahweh. {118:20} This is the gate of Yahweh;
The lawful worker shall enter into it. {118:21} I will give thanks unto you;
for you have answered me, And are become my salvation. {118:22} The stone which
the builders rejected Is become the head of the corner. {118:23} This is Yahweh's
doing; It is marvellous in our eyes. {118:24} This is the day which Yahweh has
made; We will rejoice and be glad in it. {118:25} Save now, we ask you, O Yahweh:
O Yahweh, we ask you, send now prosperity. {118:26} Blessed be he that comes in
the name of Yahweh: We have blessed you out of the house of Yahweh. {118:27} Yahweh
is God, and he has given us light: Bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the
horns of the altar. {118:28} you are my God, and I will give thanks unto you:
you are my God, I will exalt you. {118:29} Oh give thanks unto Yahweh; for he
is good; For his agape loving kindness [endures] for ever.
{O19)119} Psalms Chapter 119. ALEPH.
{119:1} Blessed are they that are perfect in the way, Who walk in the
law of Yahweh. {119:2} Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, That seek
him with the whole heart. {119:3} behold, they do no [illegal] works against
law; They walk in his ways. {119:4} you have commanded [us] your precepts, That
we should observe them diligently. {119:5} Oh that my ways were established To
observe your statutes! {119:6} Then shall I not be put to shame, When I have
respect unto all your commandments. {119:7} I will give thanks unto you with
uprightness of heart, When I learn your works of just judgments. {119:8} I will
observe your statutes: Oh forsake me not utterly. BETH.
{119:9} Wherewith shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed
[thereto] according to your word. {119:10} With my whole heart have I sought
you: Oh let me not wander from your commandments. {119:11} Your word have I
laid up in my heart, That I might not sin against you. {119:12} Blessed are
you, O Yahweh: Teach me your statutes. {119:13} With my lips have I declared
All the ordinances of your mouth. {119:14} I have rejoiced in the way of your
testimonies, As much as in all riches. {119:15} I will meditate on your precepts,
And have respect unto your ways. {119:16} I will delight myself in your
statutes: I will not forget your word.
GIMEL. {119:17} Deal bountifully
with your servant, that I may live; So will I observe your word. {119:18} Open
you mine eyes, that I may behold Wondrous things out of your law. {119:19} I am
a alien in the earth: Hide not your commandments from me. {119:20} My soul
breaks for the longing That it has unto your ordinances at all times. {119:21}
you have rebuked the proud that are cursed, That do wander from your
commandments. {119:22} Take away from me reproach and contempt; For I have kept
your testimonies. {119:23} Princes also sat and talked against me; [But] your
servant did meditate on your statutes. {119:24} Your testimonies also are my
delight [And] my counselors.
DALETH. {119:25} My soul cleaves
unto the dust: Quicken you me according to your word. {119:26} I declared my
ways, and you answered me: Teach me your statutes. {119:27} Make me to
understand the way of your precepts: So shall I meditate on your wondrous
works. {119:28} My soul melts for heaviness: Strengthen you me according unto
your word. {119:29} Remove from me the way of falsehood; And grant me your law
graciously. {119:30} I have chosen the way of faithfulness: your ordinances
have I set [before me]. {119:31} I cleave unto your testimonies: O Yahweh, put
me not to shame. {119:32} I will run the way of your commandments, When you
shall enlarge my heart. HE. {119:33} Teach me, O Yahweh, the way of your
statutes; And I shall keep it unto the end. {119:34} Give me understanding, and
I shall keep your law; behold, I shall observe it with my whole heart. {119:35}
Make me to go in the path of your commandments; For therein do I delight.
{119:36} Incline my heart unto your testimonies, And not to covetousness.
{119:37} Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity, And quicken me in your
ways. {119:38} Confirm unto your servant your word, Which [is in order] unto
the fear of you. {119:39} Turn away my reproach where I am afraid; For your
ordinances are good. {119:40} Behold, I have longed after your precepts:
Quicken me in [keeping] lawful your works .
VAV. {119:41} Let your loving
kindnesses also come unto me, O Yahweh, Even your salvation, according to your
word. {119:42} So shall I have an answer for him that reproaches me; For I
trust in your word. {119:43} And take not the word of truth utterly out of my
mouth; For I have hoped in your ordinances. {119:44} So shall I observe your
law continually For ever and ever. {119:45} And I shall walk at liberty; For I
have sought your precepts. {119:46} I will also speak of your testimonies
before kings, And shall not be put to shame. {119:47} And I will delight myself
in your commandments, Which I have agape loved. {119:48} I will lift up my
hands also unto your commandments, which I have
agape loved; And I will meditate on your statutes. ZAYIN.
{119:49} Remember the word unto your servant, Because you have made me
to hope. {119:50} This is my comfort in my affliction; For your word has
quickened me. {119:51} The proud have had me greatly in derision: [yet] have I
not swerved from your law. {119:52} I have remembered your ordinances of old, O
Yahweh, And have comforted myself. {119:53}
Hot indignation has taken hold upon me, Because of the wicked that
forsake your law. {119:54} Your statutes have been my songs In the house of my
pilgrimage. {119:55} I have remembered your name, O Yahweh, in the night, And
have observed your law. {119:56} This I have had, Because I have kept your
precepts. HHETH. {119:57}
Yahweh is my portion: I have said that I would observe your words.
{119:58} I entreated your favor with my whole heart: Be merciful unto me
according to your word. {119:59} I thought on my ways, And turned my feet unto
your testimonies. {119:60} I made haste, and delayed not, To observe your
commandments. {119:61} The cords of the wicked have wrapped me round; [But] I
have not forgotten your law. {119:62} At midnight I will rise to give thanks
unto you Because of your lawful works [in] ordinances. {119:63} I am a
companion of all them that fear you, And of them that observe your precepts.
{119:64} The earth, O Yahweh, is full of your loving kindness: Teach me your
statutes. TETH. {119:65} you have dealt well with your
servant, O Yahweh, according unto your word. {119:66} Teach me good judgment
and knowledge; For I have believed in your commandments. {119:67} Before I was
afflicted I went astray; But now I observe your word. {119:68} you are good,
and do good; Teach me your statutes. {119:69} The proud have forged a lie
against me: With my whole heart will I keep your precepts. {119:70} Their heart
is as fat as grease; But I delight in your law. {119:71} It is good for me that
I have been afflicted; That I may learn your statutes. {119:72} The law of your
mouth is better unto me Than thousands of gold and silver. YODH.
{119:73} Your hands have made me and fashioned me: Give me understanding,
that I may learn your commandments. {119:74} They that fear you shall see me
and be glad, Because I have hoped in your word. {119:75} I know, O Yahweh, that
your judgments are righteous, And that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.
{119:76} Let, I pray you, your loving kindness be for my comfort, According to
your word unto your servant. {119:77} Let your tender mercies come unto me,
that I may live; For your law is my delight. {119:78} Let the proud be put to
shame; For they have overthrown me wrongfully: [But] I will meditate on your
precepts. {119:79} Let those that fear you turn unto me; And they shall know
your testimonies. {119:80} Let my heart be perfect in your statutes, That I be
not put to shame. KAPH. {119:81} My soul faints for your salvation;
[But] I hope in your word. {119:82} Mine eyes fail for your word, While I say,
When will you comfort me? {119:83} For I am become like a wine-skin in the
smoke; yet do I not forget your statutes. {119:84} How many are the days of
your servant? When will you execute judgment on them that persecute me?
{119:85} The proud have dug pits for me, Who are not according to your law.
{119:86} All your commandments are faithful: They persecute me wrongfully; help
you me. {119:87} They had almost consumed me upon earth; But I forsook not your
precepts. {119:88} Quicken me after your loving kindness; So shall I observe
the testimony of your mouth.
LAMEDH. {119:89} For ever, O Yahweh,
Your word is settled in heaven. {119:90} Your faithfulness is unto all
generations: you have established the earth, and it abides. {119:91} They abide this day according to your
ordinances; For all things are your servants. {119:92} Unless your law had been
my delight, I should then have perished in mine affliction. {119:93} I will
never forget your precepts; For with them you have quickened me. {119:94} I am
your, save me; For I have sought your precepts. {119:95} The wicked have waited
for me, to destroy me; [But] I will consider your testimonies. MEM.
{119:96} I have seen an end of all perfection; [But] your commandment is
exceeding broad. {119:97} Oh how I agape love your law! It is my meditation all
the day. {119:98} Your commandments make
me wiser than mine enemies; For they are ever with me. {119:99} I have more
understanding than all my teachers; For your testimonies are my meditation.
{119:100} I understand more than the aged, Because I have kept your precepts.
{119:101} I have refrained my feet from every evil way, That I might observe
your word. {119:102} I have not turned aside from your ordinances; For you have
taught me. {119:103} How sweet are your words unto my taste! [behold, sweeter]
than honey to my mouth! {119:104} Through your precepts I get understanding:
Therefore I hate every false way.
NUN. {119:105} Your word is a
lamp unto my feet, And light unto my path. {119:106} I have sworn, and have
confirmed it, That I will observe your righteous ordinances. {119:107} I am
afflicted very much: Quicken me, O Yahweh, according unto your word. {119:108}
Accept, I ask you, the freewill-offerings of my mouth, O Yahweh, And teach me
your ordinances. {119:109} My soul is continually in my hand; yet do I not
forget your law. {119:110} The wicked have laid a snare for me; yet have I not
gone astray from your precepts. {119:111} Your testimonies have I taken as a
heritage for ever; For they are the rejoicing of my heart. {119:112} I have
inclined my heart to perform your statutes For ever, even unto the end. SAMEKH.
{119:113} I hate them that are of a double mind; But your law do I agape
love. {119:114} you are my hiding-place and my shield: I hope in your word.
{119:115} Depart from me, you evil-doers, That I may keep the commandments of
my God. {119:116} Uphold me according unto your word, that I may live; And let
me not be ashamed of my hope. {119:117} Hold you me up, and I shall be safe,
And shall have respect unto your statutes continually. {119:118} you have set
at nothing all them that err from your statutes; For their deceit is falsehood.
{119:119} you put away all the wicked of the earth like dross: Therefore I love
your testimonies. {119:120} My flesh trembles for fear of you; And I am afraid
of your judgments. AYIN. {119:121} I have done justice and
righteousness: Leave me not to mine oppressors. {119:122} Be assured for your
servant for good: Let not the proud oppress me. {119:123} Mine eyes fail for
your salvation, And for your righteous word. {119:124} Deal with your servant
according unto your loving kindness, And teach me your statutes. {119:125} I am
your servant; give me understanding, That I may know your testimonies.
{119:126} It is time for Yahweh to work; [For] they have made void your law.
{119:127} Therefore I agape love your
commandments Above gold, behold, above fine gold. {119:128} Therefore I esteem
all [your] precepts concerning all [things] to be right; [And] I hate every false
way. PE.
{119:129} Your testimonies are wonderful; Therefore does my soul keep
them. {119:130} The opening of your words gives light; It gives understanding
unto the simple. {119:131} I opened wide my mouth, and panted; For I longed for
your commandments. {119:132} Turn you unto me, and have mercy upon me, As you
use to do unto those that love your name. {119:133} Establish my footsteps in
your word; And let not any works against law have dominion over me. {119:134}
Redeem me from the oppression of man: So will I observe your precepts.
{119:135} Make your face to shine upon your servant; And teach me your
statutes. {119:136} Streams of water run down mine eyes, Because they observe
not your law. TSADHE. {119:137} Righteous are you, O Yahweh, And
upright are your judgments. {119:138} you have commanded your testimonies in
righteousness And very faithfulness. {119:139} My zeal has consumed me, Because
mine adversaries have forgotten your words. {119:140} Your word is very pure;
Therefore your servant loves it. {119:141} I am small and despised; [yet] do I
not forget your precepts. {119:142} Your righteousness is an everlasting
righteousness, And your law is truth. {119:143} Trouble and anguish have taken
hold on me; [yet] your commandments are my delight. {119:144} Your testimonies
are righteous for ever: Give me understanding, and I shall live. QOPH.
{119:145} I have called with my whole heart; answer me, O Yahweh: I will
keep your statutes. {119:146} I have called unto you; save me, And I shall
observe your testimonies. {119:147} I anticipated the dawning of the morning,
and cried: I hoped in your words. {119:148} Mine eyes anticipated the
night-watches, That I might meditate on your word. {119:149} Hear my voice
according unto your loving kindness: Quicken me, O Yahweh, according to your
ordinances. {119:150} They draw near that follow after wickedness; They are far
from your law. {119:151} you are near, O Yahweh; And all your commandments are
truth. {119:152} Of old have I known from your testimonies, That you have
founded them for ever. RESH. {119:153} Consider mine affliction, and
deliver me; For I do not forget your law. {119:154} Plead you my cause, and
redeem me: Quicken me according to your word. {119:155} Salvation is far from
the wicked; For they seek not your statutes. {119:156} Great are your tender
mercies, O Yahweh: Quicken me according to your ordinances. {119:157} Many are
my persecutors and mine adversaries; [yet] have I not swerved from your
testimonies. {119:158} I beheld the treacherous, and was grieved, Because they
observe not your word. {119:159} Consider how I love your precepts: Quicken me,
O Yahweh, according to your loving kindness. {119:160} The sum of your word is
truth; And every one of your righteous ordinances [endures] for ever. SHIN.
{119:161} Princes have persecuted me outside a cause; But my heart
stands in awe of your words. {119:162} I rejoice at your word, As one that
finds great spoil. {119:163} I hate and abhor falsehood; [But] your law do I
agape love. {119:164} Seven times a day do I praise you, Because of your
righteous ordinances. {119:165} Great peace have they that agape love your law;
And they have no occasion of stumbling. {119:166} I have hoped for your
salvation, O Yahweh, And have done your commandments. {119:167} My soul has
observed your testimonies; And I agape love them exceedingly. {119:168} I have
observed your precepts and your testimonies; For all my ways are before
you. TAV. {119:169} Let my cry come near before you, O Yahweh:
Give me understanding according to your word. {119:170} Let my supplication
come before you: Deliver me according to your word. {119:171} Let my lips utter
praise; For you teach me your statutes. {119:172} Let my tongue sing of your
word; For all your commandments are righteousness. {119:173} Let your hand be
ready to help me; For I have chosen your precepts. {119:174} I have longed for
your salvation, O Yahweh; And your law is my delight. {119:175} Let my soul
live, and it shall praise you; And let your ordinances help me. {119:176} I
have gone astray like a lost sheep; Seek your servant; For I do not forget your
commandments.
{O19)120} Psalms Chapter 120. A Song of Ascents. {120:1} In my distress I cried unto Yahweh,
And he answered me. {120:2} Deliver my soul, O Yahweh, from lying lips, [And]
from a deceitful tongue. {120:3} What shall be given unto you, and what shall
be done more unto you, you deceitful tongue? {120:4} Sharp arrows of the mighty, With coals of
juniper. {120:5} A curse is me, that I sojourn in Meshech, That I dwell among
the tents of Kedar! {120:6} My soul has long had her dwelling With him that
hates peace. {120:7} I am [for] peace: But when I speak, they are for war.
{O19)121} Psalms Chapter 121. A Song of Ascents. {121:1} I will lift up mine eyes unto the
mountains: From where shall my help come? {121:2} My help [comes] from Yahweh,
Who made heaven and earth. {121:3} He will not suffer your foot to be moved: He
that keeps you will not slumber. {121:4} Behold, he that keeps Israel Will
neither slumber nor sleep. {121:5} Yahweh is your keeper: Yahweh is your shade
upon your right hand. {121:6} The sun shall not smite you by day, Nor the moon
by night. {121:7} Yahweh will keep you from all evil; He will keep your soul.
{121:8} Yahweh will keep your going out and your coming in From this time forth
and for evermore.
{O19)122} Psalms Chapter 122. A Song of Ascents; of David. {122:1} I was glad when they said unto me,
Let us go unto the house of Yahweh. {122:2} Our feet are standing Within your
gates, O Jerusalem, {122:3} Jerusalem, that are built As a city that is compact
together; {122:4} Where the tribes go up, even the tribes of Yahweh, [For] an
ordinance for Israel, To give thanks unto the name of Yahweh. {122:5} For there
are set thrones for judgment, The thrones of the house of David. {122:6} Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: They shall
prosper that Agape love you. {122:7} Peace be within your walls, And prosperity
within your palaces. {122:8} For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now
say, Peace be within you. {122:9} For the sake of the house of Yahweh our God I
will seek your good.
{O19)123} Psalms Chapter 123 A Song of Ascents. {123:1} Unto you do I lift up mine eyes, O
you that sits in the heavens. {123:2} Behold, as the eyes of servants [look]
unto the hand of their master, As the eyes of a maid unto the hand of her
mistress; So our eyes [look] unto Yahweh our God, Until he have mercy upon us.
{123:3} Have mercy upon us, O Yahweh, have mercy upon us; For we are
exceedingly filled with contempt. {123:4} Our soul is exceedingly filled With
the scoffing of those that are at ease, And with the contempt of the proud.
{O19)124} Psalms Chapter 124. A Song of Ascents; of David. {124:1} If it had not been Yahweh who was on
our side, Let Israel now say, {124:2} If it had not been Yahweh who was on our
side, When men rose up against us; {124:3} Then they had swallowed us up alive,
When their wrath was kindled against us; {124:4} Then the waters had
overwhelmed us, The stream had gone over our soul; {124:5} Then the proud
waters had gone over our soul. {124:6} Blessed be Yahweh, Who has not given us
as a prey to their teeth. {124:7} Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the
snare of the fowlers: The snare is broken, and we are escaped. {124:8} Our help
is in the name of Yahweh, Who made heaven and earth.
{O19)125} Psalm Chapter 125. A Song of Ascents. {125:1} They that trust in Yahweh Are as
mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abides for ever. {125:2} As the
mountains are round about Jerusalem, So Yahweh is round about his people From
this time forth and for evermore. {125:3} For the [same] Scepterer of
wickedness shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; That the righteous [should]
put not forth their hands unto works against law. {125:4} Do good, O Yahweh,
unto those that are good, And to them that are upright in their hearts. {125:5}
But as for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them
forth with the workers of works against law. Peace be upon Israel.
{O19)126} Psalm Chapter 126. A Song of Ascents. {126:1} When Yahweh brought back those that
returned to Zion, We were like unto them that dream. {126:2} Then was our mouth
filled with laughter, And our tongue with singing: Then said they among the
nations, Yahweh has done great things for them. {126:3} Yahweh has done great
things for us, [Where] we are glad. {126:4} Turn again our captivity, O Yahweh,
As the streams in the South. {126:5} They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
{126:6} He that goes forth and weeps, bearing seed for sowing, shall doubtless
come again with joy, bringing his sheaves [with him].
{O19)127} Psalms Chapter 127. A Song of Ascents; of Solomon. {127:1} Except Yahweh build the house, They
labor in vain that build it: Except Yahweh keep the city, The watchman wakes
but in vain. {127:2} It is vain for you to rise up early, To take rest late, To
eat the bread of toil; [For] so he gives unto his agape beloved sleep. {127:3}
Lo, children are a heritage of Yahweh; [And] the fruit of the womb is [his]
reward. {127:4} As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, So are the children of
youth. {127:5} Happy is the man that has his quiver full of them: They shall
not be put to shame, When they speak with their enemies in the gate.
{O19)128} Psalms Chapter 128. A Song of Ascents. {128:1} Blessed is every one that fears Yahweh,
That walks in his ways. {128:2} For you shall eat the labor of your hands:
Happy shall you be, and it shall be well with you. {128:3} Your wife shall be
as a fruitful vine, In the innermost parts of your house; Your children like
olive plants, Round about your table. {128:4} Behold, thus shall the man be
blessed That fears Yahweh. {128:5} Yahweh bless you out of Zion: And see you the
good of Jerusalem all the days of your life. {128:6} behold, see you your
children's children. Peace be upon Israel.
{O19)129} Psalms Chapter 129 A Song of Ascents. {129:1}
Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth up, Let Israel now say,
{129:2} Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth up: yet they have not
prevailed against me. {129:3} The plowers plowed upon my back; They made long
their furrows. {129:4} Yahweh is righteous: He has cut asunder the cords of the
wicked. {129:5} Let them be put to shame and turned backward, All they that
hate Zion. {129:6} Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, Which withers
before it grows up; {129:7} Wherewith the reaper fills not his hand, Nor he
that binds sheaves his bosom. {129:8} Neither do they that go by say, The
blessing of Yahweh be upon you; We bless you in the name of Yahweh.
{O19)130} Psalms Chapter 130. A Song of Ascents. {130:1} Out of the depths have I cried unto
you, O Yahweh. {130:2} Lord, hear my voice: Let your ears be attentive To the
voice of my supplications. {130:3} If you, Yahweh, should mark iniquities, O
Lord, who could stand? {130:4} But there is forgiveness with you, That you may
be feared. {130:5} I wait for Yahweh, my soul does wait, And in his word do I hope.
{130:6} My soul [waits] for the Lord More than watchmen [wait] for the morning;
[behold, more than] watchmen for the morning. {130:7} O Israel, hope in Yahweh;
For with Yahweh there is Agape loving kindness, And with him is plenteous
redemption. {130:8} And he will redeem Israel From all his iniquities.
{O19)131} Psalms Chapter 131. A Song of Ascents; of David. {131:1} Yahweh, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty; Neither do I
exercise myself in great matters, Or in things too wonderful for me. {131:2}
Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul; Like a weaned child with his mother,
Like a weaned child is my soul within me. {131:3} O Israel, hope in Yahweh From
this time forth and for evermore.
{O19)132} Psalms Chapter 132. A Song of Ascents. {132:1} Yahweh, remember for David All his
affliction; {132:2} How he swore unto Yahweh, And vowed unto the Mighty One of
Jacob: {132:3} Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, Nor go
up into my bed; {132:4} I will not give sleep to mine eyes, Or slumber to mine
eyelids; {132:5} Until I find out a place for Yahweh, A tabernacle for the
Mighty One of Jacob. {132:6} Lo, we heard of it in Ephrathah: We found it in
the field of the wood. {132:7} We will go into his tabernacles; We will worship
at his footstool. {132:8} Arise, O Yahweh, into your resting-place; you, and
the ark of your strength. {132:9} Let your priest be clothed with
righteousness; And let your Holy People shout for joy. {132:10} For your
servant David's sake Turn not away the face of your anointed. {132:11} Yahweh
has sworn unto David in truth; He will not turn from it: Of the fruit of your
body will I set upon your throne. {132:12} If your children will keep my
covenant And my testimony that I shall teach them, Their children also shall
sit upon your throne for evermore. {132:13} For Yahweh has chosen Zion; He has
desired it for his habitation. {132:14} This is my resting-place for ever: Here
will I dwell; for I have desired it. {132:15} I will abundantly bless her
provision: I will satisfy her poor with bread. {132:16} Her priests also will I
clothe with salvation; And her Holy People shall shout aloud for joy. {132:17}
There will I make the horn of David to bud: I have ordained a lamp for mine
anointed. {132:18} His enemies will I clothe with shame; But upon himself shall
his crown flourish.
{O19)133} Psalm Chapter
133. A Song of Ascents; of David. {133:1} Behold, how good and how pleasant it
is For brethren to dwell together in unity! {133:2} It is like the precious oil
upon the head, That ran down upon the beard, Even Aaron's beard; That came down
upon the skirt of his garments; {133:3} Like the dew of Hermon, That comes down
upon the mountains of Zion: For there Yahweh commanded the blessing, Even life
for evermore.
{O19)134} Psalms Chapter 134. A Song of Ascents. {134:1} Behold, bless you Yahweh, all you
servants of Yahweh, That by night stand in the house of Yahweh. {134:2} Lift up
your hands to the sanctuary, And bless you Yahweh. {134:3} Yahweh bless you out
of Zion; Even he that made heaven and earth.
{O19)135} Psalms Chapter 135. {135:1} Praise you Yahweh. Praise you the
name of Yahweh; Praise [him], O you servants of Yahweh, {135:2} you that stand
in the house of Yahweh, In the courts of the house of our God. {135:3} Praise
you Yahweh; for Yahweh is good: Sing praises unto his name; for it is pleasant.
{135:4} For Yahweh has chosen Jacob unto himself, [And] Israel for his own
possession. {135:5} For I know that Yahweh is great, And that our Lord is above
all gods. {135:6} What ever Yahweh pleased, that has he done, In heaven and in
earth, in the seas and in all deeps; {135:7} Who causes the vapors to ascend
from the ends of the earth; Who makes lightning for the rain; Who brings forth
the wind out of his treasuries; {135:8} Who smote the first-born of Egypt, Both
of man and beast; {135:9} Who sent signs and wonders into the midst of you, O
Egypt, Upon Pharaoh, and upon all his servants; {135:10} Who smote many
nations, And slew mighty kings, {135:11} Sihon king of the Amorites, And Og
king of Bashan, And all the kingdoms of Canaan, {135:12} And gave their land
for a heritage, A heritage unto Israel his people. {135:13} Your name, O Yahweh,
[endures] for ever; Your memorial [name], O Yahweh, throughout all generations.
{135:14} For Yahweh will judge his people, And repent himself concerning his
servants. {135:15} The idols of the
nations are silver and gold, The work of men's hands. {135:16} They have
mouths, but they speak not; Eyes have they, but they see not; {135:17} They
have ears, but they hear not; Neither is there any breath in their mouths.
{135:18} They that make them shall be like unto them; behold, every one that
trusts in them. {135:19} O house of Israel, bless you Yahweh: O house of Aaron,
bless you Yahweh: {135:20} O house of Levi, bless you Yahweh: you that fear Yahweh,
bless you Yahweh. {135:21} Blessed be Yahweh out of Zion, Who dwells at
Jerusalem. Praise you Yahweh.
{O19)136} Psalms Chapter 136. {136:1} Oh give thanks unto Yahweh; for he
is good; For his agape loving kindness [endures] for ever. {136:2} Oh give
thanks unto the God of gods; For his agape loving kindness [endures] for ever.
{136:3} Oh give thanks unto the Lord of lords; For his agape loving kindness
[endures] for ever: {136:4} To him who alone does great wonders; For his agape
loving kindness [endures] for ever: {136:5} To him that by understanding made
the heavens; For his agape loving kindness [endures] for ever: {136:6} To him
that spread forth the earth above the waters; For his agape loving kindness
[endures] for ever: {136:7} To him that made great lights; For his agape loving
kindness [endures] for ever: {136:8} The sun to rule by day; For his agape
loving kindness [endures] for ever; {136:9} The moon and stars to rule by
night; For his agape loving kindness [endures] for ever: {136:10} To him that
smote Egypt in their first-born; For his agape loving kindness [endures] for
ever; {136:11} And brought out Israel from among them; For his agape loving
kindness [endures] for ever; {136:12} With a strong hand, and with an
outstretched arm; For his agape loving kindness [endures] for ever: {136:13} To
him that divided the Red Sea in sunder; For his agap loving kindness [endures]
for ever; {136:14} And made Israel to pass through the midst of it; For his
agape loving kindness [endures] for ever; {136:15} But overthrew Pharaoh and
his host in the Red Sea; For his agape loving kindness [endures] for ever:
{136:16} To him that led his people through the wilderness; For his agape
loving kindness [endures] for ever: {136:17} To him that smote great kings; For
his agape loving kindness [endures] for ever; {136:18} And slew famous kings;
For his agape loving kindness [endures] for ever: {136:19} Sihon king of the
Amorites; For his agape loving kindness [endures] forever; {136:20} And Og king
of Bashan; For his agape loving kindness [endures] for ever; {136:21} And gave
their land for a heritage; For his agape loving kindness [endures] for ever;
{136:22} Even a heritage unto Israel his servant; For his agape loving kindness
[endures] for ever: {136:23} Who remembered us in our low estate; For his agape
loving kindness [endures] for ever; {136:24} And has delivered us from our
adversaries; For his loving kindness [endures] for ever: {136:25} Who gives
food to all flesh; For his agape loving kindness [endures] for ever. {136:26}
Oh give thanks unto the God of heaven; For his agape loving kindness [endures]
for ever.
{O19)137} Psalms Chapter 137. {137:1} By the rivers of Babylon, There we
sat down, behold, we wept, When we remembered Zion. {137:2} Upon the willows in
the midst of it We hanged up our harps. {137:3} For there they that led us
captive required of us songs, And they that wasted us [required of us] mirth,
[saying], Sing us one of the songs of Zion. {137:4} How shall we sing Yahweh's
song In a foreign land? {137:5} If I forget you, O Jerusalem, Let my right hand
forget [her skill]. {137:6} Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, If I
remember you not; If I prefer not Jerusalem Above my chief joy. {137:7}
Remember, O Yahweh, against the children of Edom The day of Jerusalem; Who
said, Raise it, raise it, Even to the foundation there. {137:8} O daughter of
Babylon, that are to be destroyed, Happy shall he be, that rewards you As you
have served us. {137:9} Happy shall he be, that takes and dashes your little
ones Against the rock.
{O19)138} Psalms Chapter 138. A [Psalm] of David. {138:1} I will give you thanks with my whole
heart: Before the gods will I sing praises unto you. {138:2} I will worship
toward your holy temple, And give thanks unto your name for your agape loving
kindness and for your truth: For you have magnified your word above all your
name. {138:3} In the day that I called you answered me, you did encourage me
with strength in my soul. {138:4} All the kings of the earth shall give you
thanks, O Yahweh, For they have heard the words of your mouth. {138:5} behold,
they shall sing of the ways of Yahweh; For great is the glory of Yahweh.
{138:6} For though Yahweh is high, yet has he respect unto the lowly; But the
haughty he knows from afar. {138:7} though I walk in the midst of trouble, you
will revive me; you will stretch forth your hand against the wrath of mine enemies,
And your right hand will save me. {138:8} Yahweh will perfect that which
concerns me: Your agape loving kindness, O Yahweh, [endures] for ever; Forsake
not the works of your own hands.
{O19)139} Psalms Chapter 139. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. {139:1} O Yahweh, you have searched me, and
known [me]. {139:2} you know my down sitting and mine uprising; you understand
my thought afar off. {139:3} you search out my path and my lying down, And are
acquainted with all my ways. {139:4} For there is not a word in my tongue, But,
lo, O Yahweh, you know it altogether. {139:5} you have beset me behind and
before, And laid your hand upon me. {139:6} [Such] knowledge is too wonderful
for me; It is high, I cannot attain unto it. {139:7} Where shall I go from your
Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence? {139:8} If I ascend up into
heaven, you are there: If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there.
{139:9} If I take the wings of the morning, And dwell in the uttermost parts of
the sea; {139:10} Even there shall your hand lead me, And your right hand shall
hold me. {139:11} If I say, Surely the darkness shall overwhelm me, And the
light about me shall be night; {139:12} Even the darkness hides not from you,
But the night shines as the day: The darkness and the light are both alike [to
you]. {139:13} For you did form my inward parts: you did cover me in my
mother's womb. {139:14} I will give thanks unto you; for I am fearfully
and wonderfully made: Wonderful are
your works; And that my soul knows right well. {139:15} My frame was not hidden
from you, When I was made in secret, [And] curiously wrought in the lowe parts
of the earth. {139:16} your eyes did see mine unformed substance; And in your
book they were all written, [Even] the days that were ordained [for me], When
as yet there was none of them. {139:17} How precious also are your thoughts
unto me, O God! How great is the sum of them! {139:18} If I should count them,
they are more in number than the sand: When I awake, I am still with you.
{139:19} Surely you will slay the wicked, O God: Depart from me therefore, you
bloodthirsty men. {139:20} For they speak against you wickedly, And your
enemies take [your name] in vain. {139:21} Do not I hate them, O Yahweh, that
hate you? And am not I grieved with those that rise up against you? {139:22} I
hate them with perfect hatred: They are become mine enemies. {139:23} Search
me, O God, and know my heart: Try me, and know my thoughts; {139:24} And see if
there be any wicked way in me, And lead me in the way everlasting.
{O19)140} Psalms Chapter 140. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. {140:1} Deliver me, O Yahweh, from the evil
man; Preserve me from the violent man: {140:2} Who devise mischief in their
heart; Continually do they gather themselves together for war. {140:3} They
have sharpened their tongue like a serpent; Adders' poison is under their
lips. Selah {140:4} Keep me, O Yahweh,
from the hands of the wicked; Preserve me from the violent man: Who have
purposed to thrust aside my steps. {140:5} The proud have hid a snare for me,
and cords; They have spread a net by the wayside; They have set gins for
me. Selah {140:6} I said unto Yahweh,
you are my God: Give ear unto the voice of my supplications, O Yahweh. {140:7}
O Yahweh the Lord, the strength of my salvation, you have covered my head in
the day of battle. {140:8} Grant not, O Yahweh, the desires of the wicked;
Further not his evil device, [lest] they exalt themselves. Selah {140:9} As for the head of those
that compass me about, Let the mischief of their own lips cover them. {140:10}
Let burning coals fall upon them: Let them be cast into the fire, Into deep
pits, where they shall not rise. {140:11} An evil speaker shall not be
established in the earth: Evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
{140:12} I know that Yahweh will maintain the cause of the afflicted, And
justice for the needy. {140:13} Surely the righteous shall give thanks unto
your name: The upright shall dwell in your presence.
{O19)141} Psalms Chapter 141. A Psalm of David. {141:1} Yahweh, I have called upon you; make
haste unto me: Give ear unto my voice, when I call unto you. {141:2} Let my
prayer be set forth as incense before you; The lifting up of my hands as the
evening sacrifice. {141:3} Set a watch, O Yahweh, before my mouth; Keep the
door of my lips. {141:4} Incline not my heart to any evil thing, To practice
deeds of wickedness With men that work works against law: And let me not eat of
their dainties. {141:5} Let the righteous smite me, [it shall be] a kindness;
And let him reprove me, [it shall be as] oil upon the head; Let not my head
refuse it: For even in their wickedness shall my prayer continue. {141:6} Their
judges are thrown down by the sides of the rock; And they shall hear my words;
for they are sweet. {141:7} As when one plows and cleaves the earth, Our bones
are scattered at the mouth of Sheol. {141:8} For mine eyes are unto you, O Yahweh
the Lord: In you do I take refuge; leave not my soul destitute. {141:9} Keep me
from the snare which they have laid for me, And from the gins of the workers of
works against law. {141:10} Let the wicked fall into their own nets, Whilst
that I withal escape.
{O19)142} Psalms Chapter 142.
Maschil of David, when he was in the cave; a Prayer.
{142:1} I cry with my voice unto Yahweh; With my voice unto Yahweh do I
make supplication. {142:2} I pour out my complaint before him; I show before
him my trouble. {142:3} When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my
path. In the way wherein I walk Have they hidden a snare for me. {142:4} Look
on [my] right hand, and see; For there is no man that knows me: Refuge has
failed me; No man cares for my soul. {142:5} I cried unto you, O Yahweh; I
said, you are my refuge, My portion in the land of the living. {142:6} Attend
unto my cry; For I am brought very low: Deliver me from my persecutors; For
they are stronger than I. {142:7} Bring my soul out of prison, That I may give
thanks unto your name: The righteous shall compass me about; For you will deal
bountifully with me.
{O19)143} Psalms Chapter 143. A Psalm of David. {143:1} Hear my prayer, O Yahweh; give ear
to my supplications: In your faithfulness answer me, [and] in your
righteousness. {143:2} And enter not into judgment with your servant; For in
your sight no man living is righteous. {143:3} For the enemy has persecuted my
soul; He has smitten my life down to the ground: He has made me to dwell in
dark places, as those that have been long dead. {143:4} Therefore is my spirit
overwhelmed within me; My heart within me is desolate. {143:5} I remember the
days of old; I meditate on all your doings; I muse on the work of your hands.
{143:6} I spread forth my hands unto you: My soul [thirst] after you, as a
weary land. Selah {143:7} Make haste
to answer me, O Yahweh; my spirit fails: Hide not your face from me, Lest I
become like them that go down into the pit. {143:8} Cause me to hear your
loving kindness in the morning; For in you do I trust: Cause me to know the way
wherein I should walk; For I lift up my soul unto you. {143:9} Deliver me, O Yahweh,
from mine enemies: I flee unto you to hide me. {143:10} Teach me to do your
will; For you are my God: Your Spirit is good; Lead me in the land of uprightness.
{143:11} Quicken me, O Yahweh, for your name's sake: In your righteousness
bring my soul out of trouble. {143:12} And in your loving kindness cut off mine
enemies, And destroy all them that afflict my soul; For I am your servant.
{O19)144} Psalms Chapter 144. [A Psalm] of David. {144:1} Blessed be Yahweh my rock, Who
teaches my hands to war, [And] my fingers to fight: {144:2} My loving kindness,
and my fortress, My high tower, and my deliverer; My shield, and he in whom I
take refuge; Who subdues my people under me. {144:3} Yahweh, what is man, that
you takes knowledge of him? Or the son of man, that you make account of him?
{144:4} Man is like to vanity: His days are as a shadow that passes away.
{144:5} Bow your heavens, O Yahweh, and come down: Touch the mountains, and
they shall smoke. {144:6} Cast forth lightning, and scatter them; Send out your
arrows, and discomfit them. {144:7} Stretch forth your hand from above; Rescue
me, and deliver me out of great waters, Out of the hand of aliens; {144:8}
Whose mouth speaks deceit, And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
{144:9} I will sing a new song unto you, O God: Upon a psaltery of ten strings
will I sing praises unto you. {144:10} you are he that gives salvation unto
kings; Who rescues David his servant from the hurtful sword. {144:11} Rescue
me, and deliver me out of the hand of aliens, Whose mouth speaks deceit, And
whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
{144:12} When our sons shall be as plants grown up in their youth, And
our daughters as corner-stones hewn after the fashion of a palace; {144:13}
[When] our garners are full, affording all manner of store, [And] our sheep
bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our fields; {144:14} [When] our oxen
are well loaded; [When there is] no breaking in, and no going forth, And no
outcry in our streets: {144:15} Happy is the people that is in such a case;
[behold], happy is the people whose God is Yahweh.
{O19)145} Psalms Chapter 145. [A] [Psalm] [of] praise; of David.
{145:1} I will extol you, my God, O King; And I will bless your name for
ever and ever. {145:2} Every day will I bless you; And I will praise your name
for ever and ever. {145:3} Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised; And his
greatness is unreachable. {145:4} One generation shall laud your works to
another, And shall declare your mighty acts. {145:5} Of the glorious majesty of
your honor, And of your wondrous works, will I meditate. {145:6} And men shall
speak of the might of your terrible acts; And I will declare your greatness.
{145:7} They shall utter the memory of your great goodness, And shall sing of
your righteousness. {145:8} Yahweh is gracious, and merciful; Slow to anger,
and of great loving kindness. {145:9} Yahweh is good to all; And his tender
mercies are over all his works. {145:10} All your works shall give thanks unto
you, O Yahweh; And your Holy People shall bless you. {145:11} They shall speak
of the glory of your kingdom, And talk of your power; {145:12} To make known to
the sons of men his mighty acts, And the glory of the majesty of his kingdom.
{145:13} Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, And your dominion [endures]
throughout all generations. {145:14} Yahweh upholds all that fall, And raises
up all those that are bowed down. {145:15} The eyes of all wait for you; And
you give them their food in due season. {145:16} you open your hand, And
satisfies the desire of every living thing. {145:17} Yahweh is righteous in all
his ways, And gracious in all his works. {145:18} Yahweh is near unto all them
that call upon him, To all that call upon him in truth. {145:19} He will
fulfill the desire of them that fear him; He also will hear their cry and will
save them. {145:20} Yahweh preserves all them that Agape loves him; But all the
wicked will he destroy. {145:21} My mouth shall speak the praise of Yahweh; And
let all flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever.
{O19)146} Psalms Chapter Chapter 146. {146:1} Praise you Yahweh. Praise Yahweh, O
my soul. {146:2} While I live will I praise Yahweh: I will sing praises unto my
God while I have any being. {146:3} Put not your trust in princes, Nor in the
son of man, in whom there is no help. {146:4} His breath goes forth, he returns
to his earth; In that very day his thoughts perish. {146:5} Happy is he that
has the God of Jacob for his help, Whose hope is in Yahweh his God: {146:6} Who
made heaven and earth, The sea, and all that in them is; Who keeps truth for
ever; {146:7} Who executes justice for the oppressed; Who gives food to the
hungry. Yahweh looses the prisoners; {146:8} Yahweh opens[the eyes of] the
blind; Yahweh raises up them that are bowed down; Yahweh agape loves righteous;
{146:9} Yahweh preserves the aliens; He upholds the fatherless and widow; But
the way of the wicked he turns upside down. {146:10} Yahweh will reign for
ever, Your God, O Zion, unto all generations. Praise you Yahweh.
{O19)147}
Psalms Chapter 147. {147:1}
Praise you Yahweh; For it is good to sing praises unto our God; For it is
pleasant, [and] praise is comely. {147:2} Yahweh does build up Jerusalem; He
gathers together the outcasts of Israel. {147:3} He heals the broken in heart,
And binds up their wounds. {147:4} He counts the number of the stars; He calls
them all by [their] names. {147:5} Great is our Lord, and mighty in power; His
understanding is infinite. {147:6} Yahweh upholds the meek: He brings the
wicked down to the ground. {147:7} Sing unto Yahweh with thanksgiving; Sing
praises upon the harp unto our God, {147:8} Who covers the heavens with clouds,
Who prepares rain for the earth, Who makes grass to grow upon the mountains.
{147:9} He gives to the beast his food, [And] to the young ravens which cry.
{147:10} He delights not in the strength of the horse: He takes no pleasure in the
legs of a man. {147:11} Yahweh takes pleasure in them that fear him, In those
that hope in his loving kindness. {147:12} Praise Yahweh, O Jerusalem; Praise
your God, O Zion. {147:13} For he has strengthened the bars of your gates; He
has blessed your children within you. {147:14} He makes peace in your borders;
He fills you with the finest of the wheat. {147:15} He sends out his
commandment upon earth; His word runs very swiftly. {147:16} He gives snow like
wool; He scatters the hoar-frost like ashes. {147:17} He cast forth his ice
like morsels: Who can stand before his cold? {147:18} He sends out his word,
and melts them: He causes his wind to blow, and the waters flow. {147:19} He
shows his word unto Jacob, His statutes and his ordinances unto Israel. {147:20}
He has not dealt so with any nation; And as for his ordinances, they have not
known them. Praise you Yahweh.
{O19)148} Psalms Chapter 148. {148:1} Praise you Yahweh. Praise you Yahweh
from the heavens: Praise him in the heights. {148:2} Praise you him, all his
messengers: Praise you him, all his host. {148:3} Praise you him, sun and moon:
Praise him, all you stars of light. {148:4} Praise him, you heavens of heavens,
And you waters that are above the heavens. {148:5} Let them praise the name of Yahweh;
For he commanded, and they were created. {148:6} He has also established them
for ever and ever: He has made a decree which shall not pass away. {148:7}
Praise Yahweh from the earth, you sea-monsters, and all deeps. {148:8} Fire and
hail, snow and vapor; Stormy wind, fulfilling his word; {148:9} Mountains and
all hills; Fruitful trees and all cedars; {148:10} Beasts and all cattle;
Creeping things and flying birds; {148:11} Kings of the earth and all peoples;
Princes and all judges of the earth; {148:12} Both young men and virgins; Old
men and children: {148:13} Let them praise the name of Yahweh; For his name
alone is exalted; His glory is above the earth and the heavens. {148:14} And he
has lifted up the horn of his people, The praise of all his Holy People; Even
of the children of Israel, a people near unto him. Praise you Yahweh.
{O19)149} Psalms Chapter 149. {149:1} Praise you Yahweh. Sing unto Yahweh
a new song, And his praise in the Ekklesia of the Holy People. {149:2} Let
Israel rejoice in him that made him: Let the children of Zion be joyful in
their King. {149:3} Let them praise his name in the dance: Let them sing
praises unto him with timbrel and harp. {149:4} For Yahweh takes pleasure in
his people: He will beautify the meek with salvation. {149:5} Let the Holy
People exult in glory: Let them sing for joy upon their beds. {149:6} [Let] the
high praises of God [be] in their mouth, And a two-edged sword in their hand;
{149:7} To execute vengeance upon the nations, And punishments upon the
peoples; {149:8} To bind their kings with chains, And their nobles with fetters
of iron; {149:9} To execute upon them the judgment written: This honor have all
his Holy People. Praise you Yahweh.
{O19)150} Psalms Chapter 150. {150:1} Praise
you Yahweh. Praise God in his sanctuary: Praise him in the firmament of his
power. {150:2} Praise him for his mighty acts: Praise him according to his
excellent greatness. {150:3} Praise him with trumpet sound: Praise him with
psaltery and harp. {150:4} Praise him with timbrel and dance: Praise him with
stringed instruments and pipe. {150:5} Praise him with loud cymbals: Praise him
with high sounding cymbals. {150:6} Let everything that has breath praise Yahweh.
Praise you Yahweh.
{o20)1} Proverbs Chapter 1. {1:1}
The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel: {1:2} To know wisdom
and instruction; To discern the words of understanding; {1:3} To receive
instruction in wise dealing, In righteousness and justice and equity; {1:4} To
give prudence to the simple, To the young man knowledge and discretion: {1:5}
That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; And that the man of
understanding may attain unto sound counsels: {1:6} To understand a proverb,
and a figure, The words of the wise, and their dark sayings. {1:7} The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of
knowledge; [But] the foolish despise wisdom and instruction. {1:8} My son, hear
the instruction of your father, And forsake not the law of your mother: {1:9}
For they shall be a chaplet of grace unto your head, And chains about your
neck. {1:10} My son, if sinners entice you, Consent you not. {1:11} If they
say, Come with us, Let us lay wait for blood; Let us lurk in ambush for the
innocent outside cause; {1:12} Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, And
whole, as those that go down into the pit; {1:13} We shall find all precious
substance; We shall fill our houses with spoil; {1:14} you shall cast your lot
among us; We will all have one purse: {1:15} My son, walk not you in the way with
them; Refrain your foot from their path: {1:16} For their feet run to evil, And
they make haste to shed blood. {1:17} For in vain is the net spread In the
sight of any bird: {1:18} And these lay wait for their own blood; They lurk in
ambush for their own lives. {1:19} So are the ways of every one that is greedy
of gain; It takes away the life of the owners there. {1:20} Wisdom cries aloud in the street; She
utters her voice in the broad places; {1:21} She cries in the chief place of
concourse; At the entrance of the gates, In the city, she utters her words:
{1:22} How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? And scoffers
delight them in scoffing, And fools hate knowledge? {1:23} Turn you at my
reproof: Behold, I will pour out my spirit upon you; I will make known my words
unto you. {1:24} Because I have called, and you have refused; I have stretched
out my hand, and no man has regarded; {1:25} But you have set at nothing all my
counsel, And would none of my reproof: {1:26} I also will laugh in [the day of]
your calamity; I will mock when your fear comes; {1:27} When your fear comes as
a storm, And your calamity comes on as a whirlwind; When distress and anguish
come upon you. {1:28} Then will they call upon me, but I will not answer; They
will seek me diligently, but they shall not find me: {1:29} For that they hated
knowledge, And did not choose the fear of Yahweh: {1:30} They would none of my
counsel; They despised all my reproof. {1:31} Therefore shall they eat of the
fruit of their own way, And be filled with their own devices. {1:32} For the
backsliding of the simple shall slay them, And the careless ease of fools shall
destroy them. {1:33} But who so hears unto me shall dwell securely, And shall
be quiet outside fear of evil.
{O20)2} Proverbs Chapter Two.
{2:1} My son, if you will receive my words, And lay up my commandments with
you; {2:2} So as to incline your ear unto wisdom, And apply your heart to
understanding; {2:3} behold, if you cry after discernment, And lift up your
voice for understanding; {2:4} If you seek her as silver, And search for her as
for hid treasures: {2:5} Then shall you understand the fear of Yahweh, And find
the knowledge of God. {2:6} For Yahweh gives wisdom; Out of his mouth [comes]
knowledge and understanding: {2:7} He lays up sound wisdom for the upright; [He
is] a shield to them that walk in integrity; {2:8} That he may guard the paths
of justice, And preserve the way of his Holy People. {2:9} Then shall you
understand righteousness and justice, And equity, [behold], every good path.
{2:10} For wisdom shall enter into your heart, And knowledge shall be pleasant
unto your soul; {2:11} Discretion shall watch over you; Understanding shall
keep you: {2:12} To deliver you from the way of evil, From the men that speak
perverse things; {2:13} Who forsake the paths of uprightness, To walk in the
ways of darkness; {2:14} Who rejoice to do evil, And delight in the
perverseness of evil; {2:15} Who are crooked in their ways, And wayward in
their paths: {2:16} To deliver you from the strange woman, Even from the
foreigner that flatters with her words; {2:17} That forsakes the friend of her
youth, And forgets the covenant of her God: {2:18} For her house inclines unto
death, And her paths unto the dead; {2:19} None that go unto her return again,
Neither do they attain unto the paths of life: {2:20} That you may walk in the
way of good men, And keep the paths of the righteous. {2:21} For the upright
shall dwell in the land, And the perfect shall remain in it. {2:22} But the wicked
shall be cut off from the land, And the treacherous shall be rooted out of
it.
{O20)3} Porverbs Chapter Three. {3:1} My
son, forget not my law; But let your heart keep my commandments: {3:2} For
length of days, and years of life, And peace, will they add to you. {3:3} Let
not [agape] kindness and truth forsake you: Bind them about your neck; Write
them upon the tablet of your heart: {3:4} So shall you find favor and good
understanding In the sight of God and man. {3:5} Trust in Yahweh with all your
heart, And lean not upon your own understanding: {3:6} In all your ways
acknowledge him, And he will direct your paths. {3:7} Be not wise in your own
eyes; Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil: {3:8} It will be health to your navel,
And marrow to your bones. {3:9} Honor Yahweh with your substance, And with the
first-fruits of all your increase: {3:10} So shall your barns be filled with
plenty, And your vats shall overflow with new wine. {3:11} My son, despise not
the chastisement; of Yahweh; Neither be weary of his reproof: {3:12} For whom Yahweh
agape loves he reproves; Even as a father the son in whom he delight. {3:13} Happy is the man that finds wisdom,
And the man that gets understanding. {3:14} For the gaining of it is better
than the gaining of silver, And the profit of it than fine gold. {3:15} She is
more precious than rubies: And none of the things you Can desire are to be
compared unto her. {3:16} Length of days is in her right hand; In her left hand
are riches and honor. {3:17} Her ways are ways of pleasantness, And all her
paths are peace. {3:18} She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her:
And happy is every one that retains her. {3:19} Yahweh by wisdom founded the
earth; By understanding he established the heavens. {3:20} By his knowledge the
depths were broken up, And the skies drop down the dew. {3:21} My son, let them
not depart from your eyes; Keep sound wisdom and discretion: {3:22} So shall
they be life unto your soul, And grace to your neck. {3:23} Then shall you walk
in your way securely, And your foot shall not stumble. {3:24} When you lie
down, you shall not be afraid: behold, you shall lie down, and your sleep shall
be sweet. {3:25} Be not afraid of sudden fear, Neither of the desolation of the
wicked, when it comes: {3:26} For Yahweh will be your confidence, And will keep
your foot from being taken. {3:27}
Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, When it is in the power of your
hand to do it. {3:28} Say not unto your neighbor, Go, and come again, And
to-morrow I will give; When you have it by you. {3:29} Devise not evil against
your neighbor, Seeing he dwells securely by you. {3:30} Strive not with a man
outside cause, If he have done you no harm. {3:31} Envy you not the man of
violence, And choose none of his ways. {3:32} For the perverse is an
abomination to Yahweh; But his friendship is with the upright. {3:33} The curse
of Yahweh is in the house of the wicked; But he blesses the habitation of the
righteous. {3:34} Surely he scoffs at the scoffers; But he gives grace unto the
lowly. {3:35} The wise shall inherit glory; But shame shall be the promotion of
fools.
{O20)4} Proverbs Chapter 4. {4:1} Hear, [my] sons, the instruction of a
father, And attend to know understanding: {4:2} For I give you good
instructions; Forsake you not my law. {4:3} For I was a son unto my father,
Tender and only agape beloved in the
sight of my mother. {4:4} And he taught me, and said unto me: Let your heart
retain my words; Keep my commandments, and live; {4:5} Get wisdom, get
understanding; Forget not, neither decline from the words of my mouth; {4:6}
Forsake her not, and she will preserve you; Love her, and she will keep you.
{4:7} Wisdom [is] the principal thing; [therefore] get wisdom; behold, with all
your getting get understanding. {4:8} Exalt her, and she will promote you; She
will bring you to honor, when you do embrace her. {4:9} She will give to your
head a chaplet of grace; A crown of beauty will she deliver to you. {4:10} Hear, O my son, and receive my
sayings; And the years of your life shall be many. {4:11} I have taught you in
the way of wisdom; I have led you in paths of uprightness. {4:12} When you go,
your steps shall not be straitened; And if you run, you shall not stumble.
{4:13} Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: Keep her; for she is your
life. {4:14} Enter not into the path of the wicked, And walk not in the way of
evil men. {4:15} Avoid it, pass not by it; Turn from it, and pass on. {4:16}
For they sleep not, except they do evil; And their sleep is taken away, unless
they cause some to fall. {4:17} For they eat the bread of wickedness, And drink
the wine of violence. {4:18} But the path of the righteous is as the dawning
light, That shines more and more unto the perfect day. {4:19} The way of the
wicked is as darkness: They know not at what they stumble. {4:20} My son, attend to my words; Incline
your ear unto my sayings. {4:21} Let them not depart from your eyes; Keep them
in the midst of your heart. {4:22} For they are life unto those that find them,
And health to all their flesh. {4:23} Keep your heart with all diligence; For
out of it are the issues of life. {4:24} Put away from you a wayward mouth, And
perverse lips put far from you. {4:25} Let your eyes look right on, And let
your eyelids look straight before you. {4:26} Make level the path of your feet,
And let all your ways be established. {4:27} Turn not to the right hand nor to
the left: Remove your foot from evil.
{o20)5} Proverbs Chapter 5. {5:1} My son,
attend unto my wisdom; Incline your ear to my understanding: {5:2} That you may
preserve discretion, And that your lips may keep knowledge. {5:3} For the lips
of a strange woman drop honey, And her mouth is smoother than oil: {5:4} But in
the end she is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a two-edged sword. {5:5} Her feet
go down to death; Her steps take hold on Sheol; {5:6} So that she finds not the
level path of life: Her ways are unstable, [and] she knows[it] not. {5:7} Now therefore, [my] sons, hear unto me,
And depart not from the words of my mouth. {5:8} Remove your way far from her,
And come not near the door of her house; {5:9} Lest you give your honor unto
others, And your years unto the cruel; {5:10} Lest strangers be filled with
your strength, And your labors [be] in the house of an alien, {5:11} And you
grieve at your latter end, When your flesh and your body are consumed, {5:12}
And say, How have I hated instruction, And my heart despised reproof; {5:13}
Neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, Nor inclined mine ear to them
that instructed me! {5:14} I was well-near in all evil In the midst of the
assembly and congregation. {5:15} Drink
waters out of your own cistern, And running waters out of your own well. {5:16}
Should your springs be dispersed abroad, And streams of water in the streets?
{5:17} Let them be for yourself alone, And not for strangers with you. {5:18}
Let your fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of your youth. {5:19}
[As] a loving hind and a pleasant doe, Let her breasts satisfy you at all
times; And be you ravished always with her love. {5:20} For why should you, my
son, be ravished with a strange woman, And embrace the bosom of a foreigner?
{5:21} For the ways of man are before the eyes of Yahweh; And he makes level
all his paths. {5:22} His own iniquities shall take the wicked, And he shall be
held with the cords of his sin. {5:23} He shall die for lack of instruction;
And in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
{o20)6} Proverbs Chapter 6. {6:1} My son,
if you are become a guarentee for your neighbor, If you have stricken your
hands for a stranger; {6:2} you are snared with the words of your mouth, you
are taken with the words of your mouth. {6:3} Do this now, my son, and deliver
yourself, Seeing you are come into the hand of your neighbor: Go, humble
yourself, and importune your neighbor; {6:4} Give not sleep to your eyes, Nor
slumber to your eyelids; {6:5} Deliver yourself as a roe from the hand [of the
hunter], And as a bird from the hand of the fowler. {6:6} Go to the ant, you sluggard; Consider
her ways, and be wise: {6:7} Which having no chief, Overseer, or ruler, {6:8}
Provides her bread in the summer, And gathers her food in the harvest. {6:9}
How long will you sleep, O sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?
{6:10} [yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to
sleep: {6:11} So shall your poverty come as a robber, And your want as an armed
man. {6:12} A worthless person, a man of works against law, Is he that walks
with a perverse mouth; {6:13} That winks with his eyes, that speaks with his
feet, That makes signs with his fingers; {6:14} In whose heart is perverseness,
Who devises evil continually, Who sows discord. {6:15} Therefore shall his
calamity come suddenly; On a sudden shall he be broken, and that outside
remedy. {6:16} There are six things which Yahweh hates; behold, seven which are
an abomination unto him: {6:17} Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, And hands that
shed innocent blood; {6:18} A heart that devises wicked purposes, Feet that are
swift in running to mischief, {6:19} A false witness that utters lies, And he
that sows discord among brethren. {6:20}
My son, keep the commandment of your father, And forsake not the law of your
mother: {6:21} Bind them continually upon your heart; Tie them about your neck.
{6:22} When you walk, it shall lead you; When you sleep, it shall watch over
you; And when you awake, it shall talk with you. {6:23} For the commandment is
a lamp; and the law is light; And reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
{6:24} To keep you from the evil woman, From the flattery of the foreigner's
tongue. {6:25} Lust not after her beauty in your heart; Neither let her take
you with her eyelids. {6:26} For on account of a prostitute [a man is brought]
to a piece of bread; And the adulteress hunts for the precious life. {6:27} Can
a man take fire in his bosom, And his clothes not be burned? {6:28} Or can one
walk upon hot coals, And his feet not be scorched? {6:29} So he that goes in to
his neighbor's wife; Anyone who touches her shall not be unpunished. {6:30} Men
do not despise a thief, if he steal To satisfy himself when he is hungry:
{6:31} But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; He shall give all the
substance of his house. {6:32} He that commits adultery with a woman is void of
understanding: He does it who would destroy his own soul. {6:33} Wounds and
dishonor shall he get; And his reproach shall not be wiped away. {6:34} For
jealousy is the rage of a man; And he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
{6:35} He will not regard any ransom; Neither will he rest content, though you
give many gifts.
{o20)7} Proverbs Chapter Seven. {7:1} My son, keep my
words, And lay up my commandments with you. {7:2} Keep my commandments and
live; And my law as the apple of your eye. {7:3} Bind them upon your fingers;
Write them upon the tablet of your heart. {7:4} Say unto wisdom, you are my
sister; And call understanding [your] kinswoman: {7:5} That they may keep you
from the strange woman, From the foreigner that flatters with her words. {7:6}
For at the window of my house I looked forth through my lattice; {7:7} And I
beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, A young man void of
understanding, {7:8} Passing through the street near her corner; And he went
the way to her house, {7:9} In the twilight, in the evening of the day, In the
middle of the night and in the darkness. {7:10} And, behold, there met him a
woman With the attire of a prostitute, and wily of heart. {7:11} She is
clamorous and willful; Her feet abide not in her house: {7:12} Now she is in
the streets, now in the broad places, And lies in wait at every corner. {7:13}
So she caught him, and kissed him, [And] with an impudent face she said unto
him: {7:14} Sacrifices of peace-offerings are with me; This day have I paid my
vows. {7:15} Therefore came I forth to meet you, Diligently to seek your face,
and I have found you. {7:16} I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry,
With striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt. {7:17} I have perfumed my bed With
myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. {7:18} Come, let us take our fill of love until the
morning; Let us solace ourselves with loves. {7:19} For the man is not at home;
He is gone a long journey: {7:20} He has taken a bag of money with him; He will
come home at the full moon. {7:21} With her much fair speech she causes him to
yield; With the flattering of her lips she forces him along. {7:22} He goes
after her immediately, As an ox goes to the slaughter, Or as [one in] fetters
to the correction of the fool; {7:23} Till an arrow strike through his liver;
As a bird hurries to the snare, And knows not that it is for his life. {7:24}
Now therefore, [my] sons, hear unto me, And attend to the words of my mouth.
{7:25} Let not your heart decline to her ways; Go not astray in her paths.
{7:26} For she has cast down many wounded: behold, all her slain are a mighty
host. {7:27} Her house is the way to Sheol, Going down to the chambers of
death.
{o20)8} Proverbs Chapter
Eight. {8:1} Does not wisdom cry, And understanding put forth her voice? {8:2}
On the top of high places by the way, Where the paths meet, she stands; {8:3}
Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, At the coming in at the doors, she
cries aloud: {8:4} Unto you, O men, I call; And my voice is to the sons of men.
{8:5} O you simple, understand prudence; And, you fools, be of an understanding
heart. {8:6} Hear, for I will speak excellent things; And the opening of my
lips shall be right things. {8:7} For my mouth shall utter truth; And
wickedness is an abomination to my lips. {8:8} All the words of my mouth are in
righteousness; There is nothing crooked or perverse in them. {8:9} They are all
plain to him that understands, And right to them that find knowledge. {8:10}
Receive my instruction, and not silver; And knowledge rather than choice gold.
{8:11} For wisdom is better than rubies; And all the things that may be desired
are not to be compared unto it. {8:12} I
wisdom have made prudence my dwelling, And find out knowledge [and] discretion.
{8:13} The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil: Pride, and arrogance, and the evil
way, And the perverse mouth, do I hate. {8:14} Counsel is mine, and sound
knowledge: I am understanding; I have might. {8:15} By me kings reign, And
princes decree justice. {8:16} By me princes rule, And nobles, [even] all the
judges of the earth. {8:17} I agape love them that agape love me; And those
that seek me diligently shall find me. {8:18} Riches and honor are with me;
[behold], durable wealth and righteousness. {8:19} My fruit is better than gold,
behold, than fine gold; And my revenue than choice silver. {8:20} I walk in the
way of righteousness, In the midst of the paths of justice; {8:21} That I may
cause those that agape love me to inherit substance, And that I may fill their
treasuries. {8:22} Yahweh possessed me
in the beginning of his way, Before his works of old. {8:23} I was set up from
everlasting, from the beginning, Before the earth was. {8:24} When there were
no depths, I was brought forth, When there were no fountains abounding with water.
{8:25} Before the mountains were settled, Before the hills was I brought forth;
{8:26} While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, Nor the
beginning of the dust of the world. {8:27} When he established the heavens, I
was there: When he set a circle upon the face of the deep, {8:28} When he made
firm the skies above, When the fountains of the deep became strong, {8:29} When
he gave to the sea its bound, That the waters should not transgress his
commandment, When he marked out the foundations of the earth; {8:30} Then I was
by him, [as] a master workman; And I was daily [his] delight, Rejoicing always
before him, {8:31} Rejoicing in his habitable earth; And my delight was with
the sons of men. {8:32} Now therefore,
[my] sons, hear unto me; For blessed are they that keep my ways. {8:33} Hear
instruction, and be wise, And refuse it not. {8:34} Blessed is the man that
hears me, Watching daily at my gates, Waiting at the posts of my doors. {8:35}
For who so finds me finds life, And shall obtain favor of Yahweh. {8:36} But he
that sins against me wrongs his own soul: All they that hate me agape love
death.
{o20)9} Proverbs chapter Nine.
{9:1} Wisdom has built her house; She has hewn out her seven pillars: {9:2} She
has killed her beasts; She has mingled her wine; She has also furnished her
table: {9:3} She has sent forth her maidens; She cries upon the highest places
of the city: {9:4} Who so is simple, let him turn in here: As for him that is
void of understanding, she said to him, {9:5} Come, eat you of my bread, And
drink of the wine which I have mingled. {9:6} Leave off, you simple ones, and
live; And walk in the way of understanding.
{9:7} He that corrects a scoffer get to himself reviling; And he that
reproves a wicked man [gets] himself a blot. {9:8} Reprove not a scoffer, lest
he hate you: Reprove a wise man, and he will agape love you. {9:9} Give
[instruction] to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: Teach a righteous man,
and he will increase in learning. {9:10} The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of
wisdom; And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. {9:11} For by me
your days shall be multiplied, And the years of your life shall be increased.
{9:12} If you are wise, you are wise for yourself; And if you scoff, you alone
shall bear it. {9:13} The foolish woman
is clamorous; [She is] simple, and [a] know-nothing. {9:14} And she sits the
door of her house, On a seat in the high places of the city, {9:15} To call to
them that pass by, Who go right on their ways: {9:16} Who so is simple, let him
turn in here; And as for him that is void of understanding, she said to him,
{9:17} Stolen waters are sweet, And bread [eaten] in secret is pleasant. {9:18}
But he knows not that the dead are there; That her guests are in the depths of
Sheol.
{o20)10} Proverbs Chapter Ten. {10:1} The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; But a
foolish son is the heaviness of his mother. {10:2} Treasures of wickedness
profit nothing; But righteousness delivers from death. {10:3} Yahweh will not
suffer the soul of the righteous to famish; But he thrust away the desire of
the wicked. {10:4} He becomes poor that works with a slack hand; But the hand
of the diligent makes rich. {10:5} He that gathers in summer is a wise son;
[But] he that sleeps in harvest is a son that causes shame. {10:6} Blessings
are upon the head of the righteous; But violence covers the mouth of the
wicked. {10:7} The memory of the righteous is blessed; But the name of the
wicked shall rot. {10:8} The wise in heart will receive commandments; But a
prating fool shall fall. {10:9} He that walks uprightly walks surely; But he
that perverts his ways shall be known. {10:10} He that winks with the eye
causes sorrow; But a prating fool shall fall. {10:11} The mouth of the righteous
is a fountain of life; But violence covers the mouth of the wicked. {10:12}
Hatred stirs up strife; But love covers all transgression of the law. {10:13}
In the lips of him that has discernment wisdom is found; But a rod is for the
back of him that is void of understanding. {10:14} Wise men lay up knowledge;
But the mouth of the foolish is a present destruction. {10:15} The rich man's
wealth is his strong city: The destruction of the poor is their poverty.
{10:16} The labor of the righteous [tends] to life; The increase of the wicked,
to sin. {10:17} He is in the way of life that heeds correction; But he that
forsakes reproof errs. {10:18} He that hides hatred is of lying lips; And he
that utters a slander is a fool. {10:19} In the multitude of words there wants
not transgression of the law; But he that refrains his lips does wisely.
{10:20} The tongue of the righteous is [as] choice silver: The heart of the
wicked is little worth. {10:21} The lips of the righteous feed many; But the
foolish die for lack of understanding. {10:22} The blessing of Yahweh, it makes
rich; And he adds no sorrow there with. {10:23} It is as sport to a fool to do
wickedness; And [so is] wisdom to a man of understanding. {10:24} The fear of
the wicked, it shall come upon him; And the desire of the righteous shall be
granted. {10:25} When the whirlwind passes, the wicked is no more; But the
righteous is an everlasting foundation. {10:26} As vinegar to the teeth, and as
smoke to the eyes, So is the sluggard to them that send him. {10:27} The fear
of Yahweh prolongs days; But the years of the wicked shall be shortened.
{10:28} The hope of the righteous [shall be] gladness; But the expectation of
the wicked shall perish. {10:29} The way of Yahweh is a stronghold to the
upright; But it is a destruction to the workers of works against law. {10:30}
The righteous shall never be removed; But the wicked shall not dwell in the
land. {10:31} The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom; But the perverse
tongue shall be cut off. {10:32} The lips of the righteous know what is
acceptable; But the mouth of the wicked [speaks] perverseness.
{o20)11}
Proverbs Chapter Eleven. {11:1} A false scale is an abomination to Yahweh;
But a just weight is his delight. {11:2} When pride comes, then comes shame;
But with the lowly is wisdom. {11:3} The integrity of the upright shall guide
them; But the perverseness of the treacherous shall destroy them. {11:4} Riches
profit not in the day of wrath; But righteousness delivers from death. {11:5}
The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way; But the wicked shall
fall by his own wickedness. {11:6} The righteousness of the upright shall
deliver them; But the treacherous shall be taken in their own works against law.
{11:7} When a wicked man dies, [his] expectation shall perish; And the hope of
works against law perishes. {11:8} The righteous is delivered out of trouble,
And the wicked comes in his stead. {11:9} With his mouth the godless man
destroys his neighbor; But through knowledge shall the righteous be delivered.
{11:10} When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices; And when the
wicked perish, there is shouting. {11:11} By the blessing of the upright the
city is exalted; But it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked. {11:12} He
that despises his neighbor is void of wisdom; But a man of understanding holds
his peace. {11:13} He that goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets; But he
that is of a faithful spirit conceals the matter. {11:14} Where no wise
guidance is, the people fall; But in the multitude of counselors there is
safety. {11:15} He that is a guarentee for a stranger shall suffer for it; But
he that hates to be a gruantee [for another] is secure. {11:16} A gracious
woman obtains honor; And violent men obtain riches. {11:17} The merciful man
does good to his own soul; But he that is cruel troubles his own flesh. {11:18}
The wicked earns deceitful wages; But he that sows righteousness [has] a sure
reward. {11:19} He that is steadfast in righteousness [shall attain] unto life;
And he that pursues evil [does it] to his own death. {11:20} They that are
perverse in heart are an abomination to Yahweh; But such as are perfect in
[their] way are his delight. {11:21} [Though] hand [join] in hand, the evil man
shall not be unpunished; But the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.
{11:22} [As] a ring of gold in a swine's snout, [So is] a beautiful woman that
is outside discretion. {11:23} The desire of the righteous is only good; [But]
the expectation of the wicked is wrath. {11:24} There is that scatters, and
increases yet more; And there is that withholds more than is meet, but [it
tends] only to want. {11:25} The benevolent soul shall be made fat; And he that
waters shall be watered also himself. {11:26} He that withholds grain, the people
shall curse him; But blessing shall be upon the head of him that sells it.
{11:27} He that diligently seeks good seeks favor; But he that searches after
evil, it shall come unto him. {11:28} He that trusts in his riches shall fall;
But the righteous shall flourish as the green leaf. {11:29} He that troubles
his own house shall inherit the wind; And the foolish shall be servant to the
wise of heart. {11:30} The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; And he
that is wise wins souls. {11:31} Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in
the earth: How much more the wicked and the sinner!
{o20)12} Proverbs Chapter Twelve. {12:1}
Who so agape loves correction [agape] loves knowledge; But he that hates
reproof is brutish. {12:2} A good man shall obtain favor of Yahweh; But a man
of wicked devices will he condemn. {12:3} A man shall not be established by
wickedness; But the root of the righteous shall not be moved. {12:4} A worthy
woman is the crown of her husband; But she that makes ashamed is as rottenness
in his bones. {12:5} The thoughts of the righteous are just; [But] the counsels
of the wicked are deceit. {12:6} The words of the wicked are of lying in wait
for blood; But the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. {12:7} The wicked
are overthrown, and are not; But the house of the righteous shall stand. {12:8}
A man shall be commended according to his wisdom; But he that is of a perverse
heart shall be despised. {12:9} Better is he that is lightly esteemed, and has
a servant, Than he that honors himself, and lacks bread. {12:10} A righteous
man regards the life of his beast; But the tender mercies of the wicked are
cruel. {12:11} He that tills his land shall have plenty of bread; But he that
follows after vain [persons] is void of understanding. {12:12} The wicked
desires the net of evil men; But the root of the righteous yields [fruit].
{12:13} In the transgression of the law of the lips is a snare to the evil man;
But the righteous shall come out of trouble. {12:14} A man shall be satisfied
with good by the fruit of his mouth; And the doings of a man's hands shall be
rendered unto him. {12:15} The way of a fool is right in his own eyes; But he
that is wise hear unto counsel. {12:16} A fool's vexation is presently known;
But a prudent man conceals shame. {12:17} He that utters truth shows forth
righteousness; But a false witness, deceit. {12:18} There is [he] that speaks
rashly like the piercing of a sword; But the tongue of the wise is health.
{12:19} The lip of truth shall be established for ever; But a lying tongue is
but for a moment. {12:20} Deceit is in the heart of them that devise evil; But
to the counselors of peace is joy. {12:21} There shall no mischief happen to
the righteous; But the wicked shall be filled with evil. {12:22} Lying lips are
an abomination to Yahweh; But they that deal truly are his delight. {12:23} A
prudent man conceals knowledge; But the heart of fools proclaims foolishness.
{12:24} The hand of the diligent shall bear rule; But the slothful shall be put
under task work. {12:25} Heaviness in the heart of a man makes it stoop; But a
good word makes it glad. {12:26} The righteous is a guide to his neighbor; But
the way of the wicked causes them to err. {12:27} The slothful man roast not
that which he took in hunting; But the precious substance of men [is to] the
diligent. {12:28} In the way of righteousness is life; And in the pathway of it
there is no death.
{o20)13}
Proverbs Chapter Thirteen. {13:1} A wise
son [hears] his father's instruction; But a scoffer hears not rebuke. {13:2} A
man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth; But the soul of the treacherous
[shall eat] violence. {13:3} He that guards his mouth keeps his life; [But] he
that opens wide his lips shall have destruction. {13:4} The soul of the
sluggard desires, and has nothing; But the soul of the diligent shall be made
fat. {13:5} A righteous man hates lying; But a wicked man is loathsome, and
comes to shame. {13:6} Righteousness guards him that is upright in the way; But
wickedness over throws the sinner. {13:7} There is that makes himself rich, yet
has nothing: There is that makes himself poor, yet has great wealth. {13:8} The
ransom of a man's life is his riches; But the poor hears no threatening. {13:9}
The light of the righteous rejoices; But the lamp of the wicked shall be put
out. {13:10} By pride comes only contention; But with the well-advised is
wisdom. {13:11} Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished; But he that
gathers by labor shall have increase. {13:12} Hope deferred makes the heart
sick; But when the desire comes, it is a tree of life. {13:13} Who so despises
the word [of Yahweh] brings destruction on himself; But he that fears the
commandment shall be rewarded. {13:14} The law of the wise is a fountain of
life, That one may depart from the snares of death. {13:15} Good understanding
gives favor; But the way of the transgressor is hard. {13:16} Every prudent man
works with knowledge; But a fool flaunts [his] folly. {13:17} A wicked
messenger falls into evil; But a faithful ambassador is health. {13:18} Poverty
and shame [shall be to] him that refuses correction; But he that regards
reproof shall be honored. {13:19} The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul;
But it is an abomination to fools to depart from evil. {13:20} Walk with wise
men, and you shall be wise; But the companion of fools shall suffer for it.
{13:21} Evil pursues sinners; But the righteous shall be recompensed with good.
{13:22} A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children; And the
wealth of the sinner is laid up for the righteous. {13:23} Much food [is in]
the tillage of the poor; But there is that is destroyed by reason of injustice.
{13:24} He that spares his rod hates his son; But he that agape loves him
[will] chasten him at times. {13:25} The righteous eat to the satisfying of his
soul; But the belly of the wicked shall want.
{o20)14}
Proverbs Chapter Fourteen. {14:1} Every wise woman builds her house; But
the foolish plucks it down with her own hands. {14:2} He that walks in his
uprightness fears Yahweh; But he that is perverse in his ways despises him.
{14:3} In the mouth of the foolish is a rod for [his] pride; But the lips of
the wise shall preserve them. {14:4} Where no oxen are, the crib is clean; But
much increase is by the strength of the ox. {14:5} A faithful witness will not
lie; But a false witness utters lies. {14:6} A scoffer seeks wisdom, and [finds
it] not; But knowledge is easy unto him that has understanding. {14:7} Go into
the presence of a foolish man, And you shall not perceive [in him] the lips of
knowledge. {14:8} The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way; But the
folly of fools is deceit. {14:9} A trespass-offering mocks fools; But among the
upright there is good will. {14:10} The heart knows its own bitterness; And a stranger
does not intermeddle with its joy. {14:11} The house of the wicked shall be
overthrown; But the tent of the upright shall flourish. {14:12} There is a way
which seems right unto a man; But the end of it are the ways of death. {14:13}
Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; And the end of mirth is heaviness.
{14:14} The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways; And a good
man [shall be satisfied] from himself. {14:15} The simple believes every word;
But the prudent man looks well to his going. {14:16} A wise man fears, and
departs from evil; But the fool bears himself insolently, and is confident.
{14:17} He that is quick [to become] angry will deal foolishly; And a man of
wicked devices is hated. {14:18} The simple inherit folly; But the prudent are
crowned with knowledge. {14:19} The evil bow down before the good; And the
wicked, at the gates of the righteous. {14:20} The poor is hated even of his
own neighbor; But the rich has many friends. {14:21} He that despises his
neighbor sins; But he that has pity on the poor, happy is he. {14:22} Do they
not err that devise evil? But mercy and truth [shall be to] them that devise
good. {14:23} In all labor there is profit; But the talk of the lips [tends]
only to extreme poverty. {14:24} The crown of the wise is their riches; [But]
the folly of fools is [only] folly. {14:25} A true witness delivers souls; But
he that utters lies [causes] deceit. {14:26} In the fear of Yahweh is strong
confidence; And his children shall have a place of refuge. {14:27} The fear of Yahweh
is a fountain of life, That one may depart from the snares of death. {14:28} In
the multitude of people is the king's glory; But in the want of people is the
destruction of the prince. {14:29} He that is slow to anger is of great understanding;
But he that is heavy of spirit exalts folly. {14:30} A tranquil heart is the
life of the flesh; But envy is the rottenness of the bones. {14:31} He that
oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker; But he that has mercy on the needy
honors him. {14:32} The wicked is thrust down in his evil-doing; But the
righteous has a refuge in his death. {14:33} Wisdom rests in the heart of him
that has understanding; But [that which is] in the inward part of fools is made
known. {14:34} Righteousness exalts a nation; But sin is a reproach to any
people. {14:35} The king's favor is toward a servant that deals wisely; But his
wrath will be [against] him that causes shame.
{o20)15} Proverbs Chapter Fifteen. {15:1} A
soft answer turns away wrath; But a grievous word stirs up anger. {15:2} The
tongue of the wise utters knowledge aright; But the mouth of fools pours out
folly. {15:3} The eyes of Yahweh are in every place, Keeping watch upon the
evil and the good. {15:4} A gentle tongue is a tree of life; But perverseness
therein is a breaking of the spirit. {15:5} A fool despise his father's
correction; But he that regards reproof gets prudence. {15:6} In the house of
the righteous is much treasure; But in the revenues of the wicked is trouble.
{15:7} The lips of the wise disperse knowledge; But the heart of the foolish
[does] not so. {15:8} The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh;
But the prayer of the upright is his delight. {15:9} The way of the wicked is
an abomination to Yahweh; But he agape loves him that follows after
righteousness. {15:10} There is grievous correction for him that forsakes the
way; [And] he that hates reproof shall die. {15:11} Sheol and Abaddon are
before Yahweh: How much more then the hearts of the children of men! {15:12} A scoffer
agape loves not to be reproved; He will not go unto the wise. {15:13} A young
man's heart makes a cheerful countenance; But by sorrow of heart the spirit is
broken. {15:14} The heart of him that has understanding seeks knowledge; But
the mouth of fools feeds on folly. {15:15} All the days of the afflicted are
evil; But he that is of a cheerful heart [has] a continual feast. {15:16}
Better is little, with the fear of Yahweh, Than great treasure and trouble
with. {15:17} Better is a meal of herbs, where agape love is, Than a stalled ox
and hatred with. {15:18} A wrathful man stirs up contention; But he that is
slow to anger appeases strife. {15:19} The way of the sluggard is as a hedge of
thorns; But the path of the upright is made a highway. {15:20} A wise son makes
a extreme poverty man father; But a foolish man despise his mother. {15:21}
Folly is joy to him that is void of wisdom; But a man of understanding makes
straight his going. {15:22} Where there is no counsel, purposes are
disappointed; But in the multitude of counselors they are established. {15:23}
A man has joy in the answer of his mouth; And a word in due season, how good is
it! {15:24} To the wise the way of life [goes] upward, That he may depart from
Sheol beneath. {15:25} Yahweh will root up the house of the proud; But he will
establish the border of the widow. {15:26} Evil devices are an abomination to Yahweh;
But pleasant words [are] pure. {15:27} He that is greedy of gain troubles his
own house; But he that hates bribes shall live. {15:28} The heart of the
righteous studies to answer; But the mouth of the wicked pours out evil things.
{15:29} Yahweh is far from the wicked; But he hears the prayer of the
righteous. {15:30} The light of the eyes rejoices the heart; [And] good tidings
make the bones fat. {15:31} The ear that hear to the reproof of life shall
abide among the wise. {15:32} He that refuses correction despise his own soul;
But he that hear to reproof gets understanding. {15:33} The fear of Yahweh is
the instruction of wisdom; And before honor [goes] humility.
{o20)16} Porverbs Sixteen. {16:1} The
plans of the heart belong to man; But the answer of the tongue is from Yahweh.
{16:2} All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; But Yahweh weighs the
spirits. {16:3} Commit your works unto Yahweh, And your purposes shall be
established. {16:4} Yahweh has made everything for its own end; behold, even
the wicked for the day of evil. {16:5} Every one that is proud in heart is an
abomination to Yahweh: [though] hand [join] in hand, he shall not be
unpunished. {16:6} By mercy and truth works against law is atoned for; And by
the fear of Yahweh men depart from evil. {16:7} When a man's ways please Yahweh,
He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him. {16:8} Better is a little,
with righteousness, Than great revenues with injustice. {16:9} A man's heart
devises his way; But Yahweh directs his steps. {16:10} A divine sentence is in
the lips of the king; His mouth shall not transgress in judgment. {16:11} A
just balance and scales are Yahweh's; All the weights of the bag are his work.
{16:12} It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness; For the throne is
established by righteousness. {16:13} Righteous lips are the delight of kings;
And they agape love him that speaks right. {16:14} The wrath of a king is [as]
messengers of death; But a wise man will pacify it. {16:15} In the light of the
king's countenance is life; And his favor is as a cloud of the latter rain.
{16:16} How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! behold, to get
understanding is rather to be chosen than silver. {16:17} The highway of the
upright is to depart from evil: He that keeps his way preserves his soul.
{16:18} Pride [goes] before destruction, And a haughty spirit before a fall.
{16:19} Better it is to be of a lowly spirit with the poor, Than to divide the
spoil with the proud. {16:20} He that gives heed unto the word shall find good;
And who so trusts in Yahweh, happy is he. {16:21} The wise in heart shall be
called prudent; And the sweetness of the lips increases learning. {16:22}
Understanding is a well-spring of life unto him that has it; But the correction
of fools is [their] folly. {16:23} The heart of the wise instructs his mouth,
And adds learning to his lips. {16:24} Pleasant words are [as] a honeycomb,
Sweet to the soul, and health to the bones. {16:25} There is a way which seems
right unto a man, But the end of it are the ways of death. {16:26} The appetite
of the laboring man labors for him; For his mouth urges him [thereto]. {16:27}
A worthless man devises mischief; And in his lips there is as a scorching fire.
{16:28} A perverse man scatters abroad strife; And a whisperer separates chief
friends. {16:29} A man of violence entices his neighbor, And leads him in a way
that is not good. {16:30} He that shuts his eyes, [it is] to devise perverse
things: He that compress his lips brings evil to pass. {16:31} The hoary head
is a crown of glory; It shall be found in the way of righteousness. {16:32} He
that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; And he that rules his spirit,
than he that takes a city. {16:33} The lot is cast into the lap; But the whole
disposing of it is of Yahweh.
O20)17} Proverbs Chapter Seventeen. {17:1}
Better is a dry morsel, and quietness with, Than a house full of feasting with
strife. {17:2} A servant that deals wisely shall have rule over a son that
causes shame, And shall have part in the inheritance among the brethren. {17:3}
The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold; But Yahweh tries the
hearts. {17:4} An evil-doer gives heed to wicked lips; [And] a liar gives ear
to a mischievous tongue. {17:5} Who so mocks the poor reproaches his Maker;
[And] he that is [made] glad at calamity shall not be unpunished. {17:6}
Children's children are the crown of old men; And the glory of children are
their fathers. {17:7} Excellent speech becomes not a fool; Much less do lying
lips a prince. {17:8} A bribe is [as] a precious stone in the eyes of him that
has it; Where so ever it turns, it prospers. {17:9} He that covers
transgression of the law seeks love; But he that harps on a matter separates
chief friends. {17:10} A rebuke enters deeper into one that has understanding
Than a hundred stripes into a fool. {17:11} An evil man seeks only rebellion;
Therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him. {17:12} Let a bear
robbed of her whelps meet a man, Rather than a fool in his folly. {17:13} Who
so rewards evil for good, Evil shall not depart from his house. {17:14} The
beginning of strife is [as] when one lets out water: Therefore leave off
contention, before there is quarrelling. {17:15} He that justifies the wicked,
and he that condemns the righteous,
Both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh. {17:16} Therefore is there a
price in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, Seeing he has no understanding?
{17:17} A friend loves at all times; And a brother is born for adversity.
{17:18} A man void of understanding strike hands, And becomes a guarentee in
the presence of his neighbor. {17:19} He loves transgression of the law that
loves strife: He that raises high his gate seeks destruction. {17:20} He that
has a wayward heart finds no good; And he that has a perverse tongue falls into
mischief. {17:21} He that begets a fool [does it] to his sorrow; And the father
of a fool has no joy. {17:22} A cheerful heart is a good medicine; But a broken
spirit dries up the bones. {17:23} A wicked man receives a bribe out of the
bosom, To pervert the ways of justice. {17:24} Wisdom is before the face of him
that has understanding; But the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.
{17:25} A foolish son is a grief to his father, And bitterness to her that bare
him. {17:26} Also to punish the righteous is not good, [Nor] to smite the noble
for [their] uprightness. {17:27} He that spares his words has knowledge; And he
that is of a cool spirit is a man of understanding. {17:28} Even a fool, when
he holds his peace, is counted wise; When he shuts his lips, he is [esteemed
as] prudent.
{o20)18} Proverbs Chapter Eighteen. {18:1}
He that separates himself seeks [his own] desire, And rage against all sound
wisdom. {18:2} A fool has no delight in understanding, But only that his heart
may reveal itself. {18:3} When the wicked comes, there comes also contempt, And
with ignominy [comes] reproach. {18:4} The words of a man's mouth are [as] deep
waters; The wellspring of wisdom is [as] a flowing brook. {18:5} To respect the
person of the wicked is not good, [Nor] to turn aside the righteous in
judgment. {18:6} A fool's lips enter into contention, And his mouth calls for
stripes. {18:7} A fool's mouth is his destruction, And his lips are the snare
of his soul. {18:8} The words of a whisperer are as dainty foor] morsels, And
they go down into the innermost parts. {18:9} He also that is slack in his work
Is brother to him that is a destroyer. {18:10} The name of Yahweh is a strong
tower; The righteous runs into it, and is safe. {18:11} The rich man's wealth
is his strong city, And as a high wall in his own imagination. {18:12} Before
destruction the heart of man [that] is haughty; And before honor [goes]
humility. {18:13} He that gives answer before he hears, It is folly and shame
unto him. {18:14} The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; But a broken
spirit who can bear? {18:15} The heart of the prudent gets knowledge; And the
ear of the wise seeks knowledge. {18:16} A man's gift makes room for him, And
brings him before great men. {18:17} He that pleads his cause first [seems]
just; But his neighbor comes and searches him out. {18:18} The lot causes
contentions to cease, And parts between the mighty. {18:19} A brother offended
[is harder to be won] than a strong city; And [such] contentions are like the
bars of a castle. {18:20} A man's belly shall be filled with the fruit of his
mouth; With the increase of his lips shall he be satisfied. {18:21} Death and
life are in the power of the tongue; And they that love it shall eat the fruit
there. {18:22} Who so finds a wife finds a good thing, And obtains favor of Yahweh.
{18:23} The poor uses entreaties; But the rich answers roughly. {18:24} He that
makes many friends [does it] to his own destruction; But there is a friend that
sticks closer than a brother.
{o20)19} Proverbs Chapter Nineteen.
{19:1} Better is the poor that walks in his integrity Than he that is perverse
in his lips and is a fool. {19:2} Also, that the soul be outside knowledge is
not good; And he that hurries with his feet sins. {19:3} The foolishness of man
subverts his way; And his heart frets against Yahweh. {19:4} Wealth adds many
friends; But the poor is separated from his friend. {19:5} A false witness
shall not be unpunished; And he that utters lies shall not escape. {19:6} Many
will entreat the favor of the liberal man; And every man is a friend to him
that gives gifts. {19:7} All the brethren of the poor do hate him: How much
more do his friends go far from him! He pursues [them with] words, [but] they
are gone. {19:8} He that gets wisdom agape loves his own soul: He that keeps
understanding shall find good. {19:9} A false witness shall not be unpunished;
And he that utters lies shall perish. {19:10} Delicate living is not seemly for
a fool; Much less for a servant to have rule over princes. {19:11} The
discretion of a man makes him slow to anger; And it is his glory to pass over a
transgression of the law. {19:12} The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion;
But his favor is as dew upon the grass. {19:13} A foolish son is the calamity
of his father; And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping. {19:14}
House and riches are an inheritance from fathers; But a prudent wife is from Yahweh.
{19:15} Slothfullness cast into a deep sleep; And the idle soul shall suffer
hunger. {19:16} He that keeps the commandment keeps his soul; [But] he that is
careless of his ways shall die. {19:17} He that has pity upon the poor lends
unto Yahweh, And his good deed will he pay him again. {19:18} Chasten your son,
seeing there is hope; and set not your heart on his destruction. {19:19} A man
of great wrath shall bear the penalty; For if you deliver [him], you must do it
yet again. {19:20} Hear counsel, and receive instruction, That you may be wise
in your latter end. {19:21} There are many devices in a man's heart; But the
counsel of Yahweh, that shall stand. {19:22} That which makes a man to be
desired is his kindness; And a poor man is better than a liar. {19:23} The fear
of Yahweh [tends] to life; And he [that has it] shall abide satisfied; He shall
not be visited with evil. {19:24} The sluggard buries his hand in the dish, And
will not so much as bring it to his mouth again. {19:25} Smite a scoffer, and
the simple will learn prudence; And reprove one that has understanding, [and]
he will understand knowledge. {19:26} He that does violence to his father, and
chases away his mother, Is a son that causes shame and brings reproach. {19:27}
Cease, my son, to hear instruction [Only] to err from the words of knowledge.
{19:28} A worthless witness mocks at justice; And the mouth of the wicked
swallows works against law. {19:29} Judgments are prepared for scoffers, And
stripes for the back of fools.
{o20)20}
Proverbs Chapter Twenty. {20:1} Wine is a mocker, strong drink a
brawler; And anyone who errs thereby is not wise. {20:2} The terror of a king
is as the roaring of a lion: He that provokes him to anger sins [against] his
own life. {20:3} It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife; But every
fool will be quarrelling. {20:4} The sluggard will not plow by reason of the
winter; Therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing. {20:5} Counsel in
the heart of man is [like] deep water; But a man of understanding will draw it
out. {20:6} Most men will proclaim every one his own kindness; But a faithful
man who can find? {20:7} A righteous man that walks in his integrity, Blessed
are his children after him. {20:8} A king that sits on the throne of judgment
Scatters away all evil with his eyes. {20:9} Who can say, I have made my heart
clean, I am pure from my sin? {20:10} Diverse weights, and diverse measures,
Both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh. {20:11} Even a child makes
himself known by his doings, Whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.
{20:12} The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, Yahweh has made even both of them.
{20:13} Aape Love [does] not sleep, lest you come to poverty; Open your eyes,
[and] you shall be satisfied with bread. {20:14} It is bad, it is bad, said the
buyer; But when he is gone his way, then he boasts. {20:15} There is gold, and
abundance of rubies; But the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel. {20:16}
Take his garment that is a guarentee for a stranger; And hold him in pledge
[that is a guarentee] for foreigners. {20:17} Bread of falsehood is sweet to a
man; But afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel. {20:18} Every
purpose is established by counsel; And by wise guidance make you war. {20:19}
He that goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets; Therefore company not with
him that opens wide his lips. {20:20} Who so curses his father or his mother,
His lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness. {20:21} An inheritance [may
be] gotten hurriedly at the beginning; But the end of it shall not be blessed.
{20:22} Say not you, I will recompense evil: Wait for Yahweh, and he will save
you. {20:23} Diverse weights are an abomination to Yahweh; And a false balance
is not good. {20:24} A man's goings are of Yahweh; How then can man understand
his way? {20:25} It is a snare to a man rashly to say, [It is] holy, And after
vows to make inquiry. {20:26} A wise king winnows the wicked, And brings the
[threshing] -wheel over them. {20:27} The spirit of man is the lamp of Yahweh,
Searching all his innermost parts. {20:28} Kindness and truth preserve the
king; And his throne is upheld by kindness. {20:29} The glory of young men is
their strength; And the beauty of old men is the hoary head. {20:30} Stripes
that wound cleanse away evil; And strokes [reach] the innermost parts.
{o20)21} Proverbs Chapter TwentyOne. {21:1} The king's heart is in the hand of Yahweh
as the water courses: He turns it whether so ever he will. {21:2} Every way of
a man is right in his own eyes; But Yahweh weighs the hearts. {21:3} To do
righteousness and justice Is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice. {21:4} A
high look, and a proud heart, [Even] the lamp of the wicked, is sin. {21:5} The
thoughts of the diligent [tend] only to plenteousness; But every one that is
hasty [hurries] only to want. {21:6} The getting of treasures by a lying tongue
Is a vapor driven to and fro by them that seek death. {21:7} The violence of
the wicked shall sweep them away, Because they refuse to do justice. {21:8} The
way of him that is laden with guilt is exceeding crooked; But as for the pure,
his work is right. {21:9} It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop,
Than with a contentious woman in a wide house. {21:10} The soul of the wicked
desires evil: His neighbor finds no favor in his eyes. {21:11} When the scoffer
is punished, the simple is made wise; And when the wise is instructed, he
receives knowledge. {21:12} The righteous man considers the house of the
wicked, [How] the wicked are overthrown to [their] ruin. {21:13} Who so stops
his ears at the cry of the poor, He also shall cry, but shall not be heard.
{21:14} A gift in secret pacifies anger; And a present in the bosom, strong
wrath. {21:15} It is joy to the righteous to do justice; But it is a
destruction to the workers of works against law. {21:16} The man that wanders
out of the way of understanding shall rest in the assembly of the dead. {21:17}
He that agape loves pleasure shall be a poor man: He that agape loves wine and
oil shall not be rich. {21:18} The wicked is a ransom for the righteous; And
the treacherous [comes] in the stead of the upright. {21:19} It is better to
dwell in a desert land, Than with a contentious and fretful woman. {21:20}
There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise; But a foolish
man swallows it up. {21:21} He that follows after righteousness and kindness
finds life, righteousness, and honor. {21:22} A wise man scales the city of the
mighty, And brings down the strength of the confidence there. {21:23} Who so
keeps his mouth and his tongue Keeps his soul from troubles. {21:24} The proud
and haughty man, scoffer is his name; He works in the arrogance of pride.
{21:25} The desire of the sluggard kills him; For his hands refuse to labor.
{21:26} There is that covets greedily all the day long; But the righteous gives
and withholds not. {21:27} The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination: How
much more, when he brings it with a wicked mind! {21:28} A false witness shall
perish; But the man that hears shall speak so as to endure. {21:29} A wicked
man hardens his face; But as for the upright, he establishes his ways. {21:30}
There is no wisdom nor understanding Nor counsel against Yahweh. {21:31} The
horse is prepared against the day of battle; But victory is of Yahweh.
{o20)22} Proverbs Chapter TwentyTwo. {22:1} A [good] name is rather to be chosen
than great riches, [And] loving favor rather than silver and gold. {22:2} The
rich and the poor meet together: Yahweh is the maker of them all. {22:3} A
prudent man sees the evil, and hides himself; But the simple pass on, and
suffer for it. {22:4} The reward of humility [and] the fear of Yahweh [Is]
riches, and honor, and life. {22:5} Thorns [and] snares are in the way of the
perverse: He that keeps his soul shall be far from them. {22:6} Train up a
child in the way he should go, And even when he is old he will not depart from
it. {22:7} The rich rules over the poor; And the borrower is servant to the
lender. {22:8} He that sows works against law shall reap calamity; And the rod
of his wrath shall fail. {22:9} He that has a bountiful eye shall be blessed;
For he gives of his bread to the poor. {22:10} Cast out the scoffer, and
contention will go out; behold, strife and ignominy will cease. {22:11} He that
agape loves pureness of heart, [For] the grace of his lips the king will be his
friend. {22:12} The eyes of Yahweh preserve [him that has] knowledge; But he
over throws the words of the treacherous man. {22:13} The sluggard said, There
is a lion outside: I shall be slain in the streets. {22:14} The mouth of
strange women is a deep pit: He that is abhorred of Yahweh shall fall therein.
{22:15} Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; [But] the rod of
correction shall drive it far from him. {22:16} He that oppresses the poor to
increase his [gain], [And] he that gives to the rich, [shall come] only to
want. {22:17} Incline your ear, and hear
the words of the wise, And apply your heart unto my knowledge. {22:18} For it
is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you, If they be established
together upon your lips. {22:19} That your trust may be in Yahweh, I have made
[them] known to you this day, even to you. {22:20} Have not I written unto you
excellent things Of counsels and knowledge, {22:21} To make you know the
certainty of the words of truth, That you may carry back words of truth to them
that send you? {22:22} Rob not the poor, because he is poor; Neither oppress
the afflicted in the gate: {22:23} For Yahweh will plead their cause, And
despoil of life those that despoil them. {22:24} Make no friendship with a man
that is given to anger; And with a wrathful man you shall not go: {22:25} Lest
you learn this ways, And get a snare to your soul. {22:26} Be you not one of
them that strike hands, [Or] of them that are sureties for debts. {22:27} If
you have not wherewith to pay, Why should he take away your bed from under you?
{22:28} Remove not the ancient landmark, Which your fathers have set. {22:29}
Sees you a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; He shall
not stand before mean men.
{o20)23} Proverbs Chapter TwentyThree.
{23:1} When you sits to eat with a ruler, Consider diligently him that is
before you; {23:2} And put a knife to your throat, If you be a man given to
appetite. {23:3} Be not desirous of his dainties; Seeing they are deceitful
food. {23:4} Weary not yourself to be rich; Cease from your own wisdom. {23:5}
Will you set your eyes upon that which is not? For [riches] certainly make
themselves wings, Like an eagle that flies toward heaven. {23:6} Eat you not
the bread of him that has an evil eye, Neither desire you his dainties: {23:7}
For as he thinks within himself, so is he: Eat and drink, said he to you; But
his heart is not with you. {23:8} The morsel which you have eaten shall you
vomit up, And lose your sweet words. {23:9} Speak not in the hearing of a fool;
For he will despise the wisdom of your words. {23:10} Remove not the ancient
landmark; And enter not into the fields of the fatherless: {23:11} For their
Redeemer is strong; He will plead their cause against you. {23:12} Apply your
heart unto instruction, And your ears to the words of knowledge. {23:13} Withhold
not correction from the child; [For] if you beat him with the rod, he will not
die. {23:14} you shall beat him with the rod, And shall deliver his soul from
Sheol. {23:15} My son, if your heart be wise, My heart will be glad, even mine:
{23:16} behold, my heart will rejoice, When your lips speak right things.
{23:17} Let not your heart envy sinners; But [be you] in the fear of Yahweh all
the day long: {23:18} For surely there is a reward; And your hope shall not be
cut off. {23:19} Hear you, my son, and be wise, And guide your heart in the
way. {23:20} Be not among winebibbers, Among gluttonous eaters of flesh:
{23:21} For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; And drowsiness
will clothe [a man] with rags. {23:22} Hear unto your father that begot you,
And despise not your mother when she is old. {23:23} Buy the truth, and sell it
not; [behold], wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. {23:24} The father
of the righteous will greatly rejoice; And he that begets a wise child will
have joy of him. {23:25} Let your father and your mother be glad, And let her
that bare you rejoice. {23:26} My son, give me your heart; And let your eyes
delight in my ways. {23:27} For a prostitute is a deep ditch; And a foreign
woman is a narrow pit. {23:28} behold, she lies in wait as a robber, And
increases the treacherous among men. {23:29} Who has curse? who has sorrow? who
has contentions? Who has complaining? who has wounds outside cause? Who has
redness of eyes? {23:30} They that tarry long at the wine; They that go to seek
out mixed wine. {23:31} Look not you upon the wine when it is red, When it
sparkles in the cup, When it goes down smoothly: {23:32} At the last it bit
like a serpent, And stings like an adder. {23:33} your eyes shall behold
strange things, And your heart shall utter perverse things. {23:34} behold, you
shall be as he that lies down in the midst of the sea, Or as he that lies upon
the top of a mast. {23:35} They have stricken me, [shall you say], and I was
not hurt; They have beaten me, and I felt it not: When shall I awake? I will
seek it yet again.
{o20)24} Proverbs Chapter TwentyFour. {24:1}
Be not you envious against evil men; Neither desire to be with them: {24:2} For
their heart studies oppression, And their lips talk of mischief. {24:3} Through
wisdom is a house built; And by understanding it is established; {24:4} And by
knowledge are the chambers filled With all precious and pleasant riches. {24:5}
A wise man is strong; behold, a man of knowledge increases might {24:6} For by wise guidance you shall make
your war; And in the multitude of counselors there is safety. {24:7} Wisdom is
too high for a fool: He opens not his mouth in the gate. {24:8} He that devises
to do evil, Men shall call him a mischief-maker. {24:9} The thought of foolishness
is sin; And the scoffer is an abomination to men. {24:10} If you faint in the
day of adversity, Your strength is small. {24:11} Deliver them that are carried
away unto death, And those that are ready to be slain see that you hold back.
{24:12} If you say, Behold, we knew not this; Does not he that weighs the
hearts consider it? And he that keeps your soul, does not he know it? And shall
not he render to every man according to his work? {24:13} My son, eat you
honey, for it is good; And the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to
your taste: {24:14} So shall you know wisdom to be unto your soul; If you have
found it, then shall there be a reward, And your hope shall not be cut off.
{24:15} Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous;
Destroy not his resting-place: {24:16} For a righteous man falls seven times,
and rises up again; But the wicked are overthrown by calamity. {24:17} Rejoice
not when your enemy falls, And let not your heart be glad when he is
overthrown; {24:18} Lest Yahweh see it, and it displease him, And he turn away
his wrath from him. {24:19} Fret not yourself because of evil-doers; Neither be
you envious at the wicked: {24:20} For there shall be no reward to the evil
man; The lamp of the wicked shall be put out. {24:21} My son, fear you Yahweh
and the king; [And] company not with them that are given to change: {24:22} For
their calamity shall rise suddenly; And the destruction from them both, who
knows it?
{24:23} These also are [sayings] of the
wise. To have respect of persons in
judgment is not good. {24:24} He that said unto the wicked, you are righteous;
Peoples shall curse him, nations shall abhor him: {24:25} But to them that
rebuke [him] shall be delight, And a good blessing shall come upon them.
{24:26} He kisses the lips Who gives a right answer. {24:27} Prepare your work
outside, And make it ready for you in the field; And afterwards build your
house. {24:28} Be not a witness against your neighbor outside cause; And
deceive not with your lips. {24:29} Say not, I will do so to him as he has done
to me; I will render to the man according to his work. {24:30} I went by the
field of the sluggard, And by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;
{24:31} And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, The face of it was covered
with nettles, And the stone wall of it was broken down. {24:32} Then I beheld,
and considered well; I saw, and received instruction: {24:33} [yet] a little
sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep; {24:34} So
shall your poverty come as a robber, And your want as an armed man.
{O20)25} Proverbs Chapter TwentyFive. {25:1} These also are proverbs of Solomon,
which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out. {25:2} It is the glory of God to conceal a
thing; But the glory of kings is to search out a matter. {25:3} As the heavens
for height, and the earth for depth, So the heart of kings is unreachable.
{25:4} Take away the dross from the silver, And there comes forth a vessel for
the refiner: {25:5} Take away the wicked [from] before the king, And his throne
shall be established in righteousness. {25:6} Put not yourself forward in the
presence of the king, And stand not in the place of great men: {25:7} For
better is it that it be said unto you, Come up here, Than that you should be
put lower in the presence of the prince, Whom your eyes have seen. {25:8} Go
not forth in a hurry to strive, Lest [you know not] what to do in the end
there, When your neighbor has put you to shame. {25:9} Debate your cause with
your neighbor [himself], And disclose not the secret of another; {25:10} Lest
he that hears it revile you, And your infamy turn not away. {25:11} A word
fitly spoken Is [like] apples of gold in network of silver. {25:12} [As] an
ear-ring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, [So is] a wise reprover upon an
obedient ear. {25:13} As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, [So is] a
faithful messenger to them that send him; For he refreshes the soul of his
masters. {25:14} [As] clouds and wind outside rain, [So is] he that boasts
himself of his gifts falsely. {25:15} By long forbearing is a ruler persuaded,
And a soft tongue breaks the bone. {25:16} Have you found honey? eat so much as
is sufficient for you, Lest you be filled with, and vomit it. {25:17} Let your
foot be seldom in your neighbor's house, Lest he be weary of you, and hate you.
{25:18} A man that bears false witness against his neighbor Is a maul, and a
sword, and a sharp arrow. {25:19} Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble
Is [like] a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint. {25:20} [As] one that takes
off a garment in cold weather, [and as]
vinegar upon soda, So is he that sings songs to a heavy heart. {25:21}
If your enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; And if he be thirsty, give him
water to drink: {25:22} For you will heap coals of fire upon his head, And Yahweh
will reward you. {25:23} The north wind brings forth rain: So does a
backbiting tongue an angry countenance.
{25:24} It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, Than with a
contentious woman in a wide house. {25:25} [As] cold waters to a thirsty soul,
So is good news from a far country. {25:26} [As] a troubled fountain, and a
corrupted spring, [So is] a righteous man that gives way before the wicked.
{25:27} It is not good to eat much honey: So [for men] to search out their own
glory is grievous. {25:28} He whose spirit is outside restraint Is [like] a
city that is broken down and outside walls.
{O20)26} Proverbs Chapter 26. {26:1} As snow in summer, and as rain in
harvest, So honor is not seemly for a fool. {26:2} As the sparrow in her
wandering, as the swallow in her flying, So the curse that is causeless alights
not. {26:3} A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, And a rod for the back
of fools. {26:4} Answer not a fool according to his folly, Lest you also be
like unto him. {26:5} Answer a fool according to his folly, Lest he be wise in
his own conceit. {26:6} He that sends a message by the hand of a fool Cuts off
[his own] feet, [and] drinks in damage. {26:7} The legs of the lame hang loose:
So is a parable in the mouth of fools. {26:8} As one that binds a stone in a
sling, So is he that gives honor to a fool. {26:9} [As] a thorn that goes up
into the hand of a drunkard, So is a parable in the mouth of fools. {26:10}
[As] an archer that wounds all, So is he that hires a fool and he that hires
them that pass by. {26:11} As a dog that returns to his vomit, [So is] a fool
that repeats his folly. {26:12} Sees you a man wise in his own conceit? There
is more hope of a fool than of him. {26:13} The sluggard said, There is a lion
in the way; A lion is in the streets. {26:14} [As] the door turns upon its
hinges, So does the sluggard upon his bed. {26:15} The sluggard buries his hand
in the dish; It wearies him to bring it again to his mouth. {26:16} The
sluggard is wiser in his own conceit Than seven men that can render a reason.
{26:17} He that passes by, [and] vexes himself with strife belonging not to
him, Is [like] one that takes a dog by the ears. {26:18} As a madman who cast
firebrands, Arrows, and death, {26:19} So is the man that deceives his
neighbor, And said, Am not I in sport? {26:20} For lack of wood the fire goes
out; And where there is no whisperer, contention ceases. {26:21} [As] coals are
to hot embers, and wood to fire, So is a contentious man to inflame strife.
{26:22} The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, And they go down into
the innermost parts. {26:23} Fervent lips and a wicked heart Are [like] an
earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross. {26:24} He that hates dissembles with his lips; But he lays up
deceit within him: {26:25} When he speaks fair, believe him not; For there are
seven abominations in his heart: {26:26} though [his] hatred cover itself with
guile, His wickedness shall be openly showed before the assembly. {26:27} Who
so digs a pit shall fall therein; And he that rolls a stone, it shall return
upon him. {26:28} A lying tongue hates those whom it has wounded; And a
flattering mouth works ruin.
{o20)27} Proverbs Chapter TwentySeven.
{27:1} Boast not yourself of tomorrow; For you know not what a day may bring
forth. {27:2} Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; A stranger,
and not your own lips. {27:3} A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; But a
fool's vexation is heavier than they both. {27:4} Wrath is cruel, and anger is
overwhelming; But who is able to stand before jealousy? {27:5} Better is open
rebuke Than love that is hidden. {27:6} Faithful are the wounds of a friend;
But the kisses of an enemy are profuse. {27:7} The full soul loathes a
honeycomb; But to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet. {27:8} As a bird
that wanders from her nest, So is a man that wanders from his place. {27:9} Oil
and perfume rejoice the heart; So does the sweetness of a man's friend [that
comes] of hearty counsel. {27:10} your own friend, and your father's friend,
forsake not; And go not to your brother's house in the day of your calamity:
Better is a neighbor that is near than a brother far off. {27:11} My son, be
wise, and make my heart glad, That I may answer him that reproaches me. {27:12}
A prudent man sees the evil, [and] hides himself; [But] the simple pass on,
[and] suffer for it. {27:13} Take his garment that is guarentee for a stranger;
And hold him in pledge [that is a guarentee] for a foreign woman. {27:14} He
that blesses his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, It
shall be counted a curse to him. {27:15} A continual dropping in a very rainy
day And a contentious woman are alike: {27:16} He that would restrain her
restrains the wind; And his right hand encounters oil. {27:17} Iron sharpens
iron; So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend. {27:18} Who so keeps the
fig-tree shall eat the fruit there; And he that regards his master shall be
honored. {27:19} As in water face [answers] to face, So the heart of man to
man. {27:20} Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; And the eyes of man are
never satisfied. {27:21} The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold;
And a man is [tried] by his praise. {27:22} though you should pulverise a fool
in a mortar with a pestle along
[like] with bruised grain, yet his foolishness will not depart from him. {27:23} Be you diligent to know the state of
your flocks, [And] look well to your herds: {27:24} For riches are not for
ever: And does the crown endure unto all generations? {27:25} The hay is
carried, and the tender grass shows itself, And the herbs of the mountains are
gathered in. {27:26} The lambs are for your clothing, And the goats are the
price of the field; {27:27} And [there will be] goats' milk enough for your
food, for the food of your household, And maintenance for your maidens.
{o20)28} Proverbs Chapter TwentyEight.
{28:1} The wicked flee when no man pursues; But the righteous are bold as a
lion. {28:2} For the transgression of the law of a land many are the princes
there; But by men of understanding [and] knowledge the state [there] shall be
prolonged. {28:3} A needy man that oppresses the poor Is [like] a sweeping rain
which leaves no food. {28:4} They that forsake the law praise the wicked; But
such as keep the law contend with them. {28:5} Evil men understand not justice;
But they that seek Yahweh understand all things. {28:6} Better is the poor that
walks in his integrity, Than he that is perverse in [his] ways, though he be
rich. {28:7} Who so keeps the law is a wise son; But he that is a companion of
gluttons shames his father. {28:8} He that augments his substance by interest
and increase, gathers it for him that has pity on the poor. {28:9} He that
turns away his ear from hearing the law, Even his prayer is an abomination.
{28:10} Who so causes the upright to go astray in an evil way, He shall fall
himself into his own pit; But the perfect shall inherit good. {28:11} The rich
man is wise in his own conceit; But the poor that has understanding searches
him out. {28:12} When the righteous triumph, there is great glory; But when the
wicked rise, men hide themselves. {28:13} He that covers his transgression of
the law shall not prosper: But who so confesses and forsakes them shall obtain
mercy. {28:14} Happy is the man that fears always; But he that hardens his
heart shall fall into mischief. {28:15} [As] a roaring lion, and a ranging
bear, [So is] a wicked ruler over a poor people. {28:16} The prince that lacks
understanding is also a great oppressor; [But] he that hates covetousness shall
prolong his days. {28:17} A man that is laden with the blood of any person
shall flee unto the pit; let no man stay him. {28:18} Who so walks uprightly
shall be delivered; But he that is perverse in [his] ways shall fall at once.
{28:19} He that tills his land shall have plenty of bread; But he that follows
after vain [persons] shall have poverty enough. {28:20} A faithful man shall
abound with blessings; But he that makes haste to be rich shall not be
unpunished. {28:21} To have respect of persons is not good; Neither that a man
should transgress the law for a piece of bread. {28:22} he that has an evil eye
hurries after riches, And knows not that want shall come upon him. {28:23} He
that rebukes a man shall afterward find more favor Than he that flatters with
the tongue. {28:24} Who so robs his father or his mother, and said, It is no transgression of the law, The same is the
companion of a destroyer. {28:25} He that is of a greedy spirit stirs up
strife; But he that puts his trust in Yahweh shall be made fat. {28:26} He that
trusts in his own heart is a fool; But who so walks wisely, he shall be
delivered. {28:27} He that gives unto the poor shall not lack; But he that
hides his eyes shall have many a curse. {28:28} When the wicked rise, men hide
themselves; But when they perish, the righteous increase.
{o20)29} Proverbs Chapter TwentyNine.
{29:1} He that being often reproved hardens his neck shall suddenly be
destroyed, and that outside remedy. {29:2} When the righteous are increased,
the people rejoice; But when a wicked man bears rule, the people sigh. {29:3}
Who so loves wisdom rejoices his father; But he that keeps company with prostitutes
wastes [his] substance. {29:4} The king by justice establishes the land; But he
that exacts gifts over throws it. {29:5} A man that flatters his neighbor
spreads a net for his steps. {29:6} In the transgression of the law of an evil
man there is a snare; But the righteous does sing and rejoice. {29:7} The
righteous takes knowledge of the cause of the poor; The wicked has not
understanding to know [it]. {29:8} Scoffers set a city in a flame; But wise men
turn away wrath. {29:9} If a wise man has a controversy with a foolish man,
Whether he be angry or laugh, there will be no rest. {29:10} The bloodthirsty
hate him that is perfect; And as for the upright, they seek his life. {29:11} A
fool utters all his anger; But a wise man keeps it back and cools it. {29:12}
If a ruler listens to lies, All his servants are wicked. {29:13} The poor man
and the oppressor meet together; Yahweh lightens the eyes of them both. {29:14}
The king that faithfully judges the poor, His throne shall be established for
ever. {29:15} The rod and reproof give wisdom; But a child left to himself
causes shame to his mother. {29:16} When the wicked are increased,
transgression of the law increases; But the righteous shall look upon their
fall. {29:17} Correct your son, and he will give you rest; behold, he will give
delight unto your soul. {29:18} Where there is no vision, the people cast off
restraint; But he that keeps the law, happy is he. {29:19} A servant will not
be corrected by words; For though he understand, he will not give heed. {29:20}
Sees you a man that is hasty in his words? There is more hope of a fool than of
him. {29:21} He that delicately brings up his servant from a child shall have
him become a son at the last. {29:22} An angry man stirs up strife, And a
wrathful man abounds in transgression of the law. {29:23} A man's pride shall
bring him low; But he that is of a lowly spirit shall obtain honor. {29:24} Who
so is partner with a thief hates his own soul; He hears the adjuration and
utters nothing. {29:25} The fear of man brings a snare; But who so puts his
trust in Yahweh shall be safe. {29:26} Many seek the ruler's favor; But a man's
judgment [comes] from Yahweh. {29:27} An unjust man is an abomination to the
righteous; And he that is upright in the way is an abomination to the
wicked.
{O20)30} Proverbs Chapter
Thirty. {30:1} The words of Agur the
son of Jakeh; The oracle. The man said
unto Ithiel, unto Ithiel and Ucal: {30:2} Surely I am more brutish than any
man, And have not the understanding of a man; {30:3} And I have not learned
wisdom, Neither have I the knowledge of the Holy One. {30:4} Who has ascended
up into heaven, and descended? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has
bound the waters in his garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth?
What is his name, and what is his son's name, if you know? {30:5} Every word of God is tried: He is a
shield unto them that take refuge in him. {30:6} Add you not unto his words, Lest
he reprove you, and you be found a liar.
{30:7} Two things have I asked of you; Deny me [them] not before I die:
{30:8} Remove far from me falsehood and lies; Give me neither poverty nor
riches; Feed me with the food that is needful for me: {30:9} Lest I be full,
and deny [you], and say, Who is Yahweh? Or lest I be poor, and steal, And use
profanely the name of my God. {30:10}
Slander not a servant unto his master, Lest he curse you, and you be held
guilty. {30:11} There is a generation that curse their father, And bless not
their mother. {30:12} There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes,
And [yet] are not washed from their filthiness. {30:13} There is a generation,
oh how lofty are their eyes! And their eyelids are lifted up. {30:14} There is
a generation whose teeth are [as] swords, and their jaw teeth [as] knives, To devour the poor
from off the earth, and the needy from among men. {30:15} The horseleech has two daughters,
[crying], Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied,
[behold], four that say not, Enough: {30:16} Sheol; and the barren womb; The
earth that is not satisfied with water; And the fire that said not, Enough.
{30:17} The eye that mocks at his father, And despise to obey his mother, The
ravens of the valley shall pick it out, And the young eagles shall eat it. {30:18} There are three things which are too
wonderful for me, behold, four which I know not: {30:19} The way of an eagle in
the air; The way of a serpent upon a rock; The way of a ship in the midst of
the sea; And the way of a man with a maiden. {30:20} So is the way of an
adulterous woman; She eats, and wipes her mouth, And said, I have done no
wickedness. {30:21} For three things the
earth does tremble, And for four, [which] it cannot bear: {30:22} For a servant
when he is king; And a fool when he is filled with food; {30:23} For an odious
woman when she is married; And a handmaid that is heir to her mistress. {30:24} There are four things which are
little upon the earth, But they are exceeding wise: {30:25} The ants are a
people not strong, yet they provide their food in the summer; {30:26} The
conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks; {30:27}
The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands; {30:28} The
lizard takes hold with her hands, yet is she in kings' palaces. {30:29} There are three things which are
stately in their march, behold, four which are stately in going: {30:30} The
lion, which is mightiest among beasts, And turns not away for any; {30:31} The
greyhound; the he-goat also; And the king against whom there is no rising up.
{30:32} If you have done foolishly in lifting up yourself, Or if you have evil
thoughts, [Lay] your hand upon your mouth. {30:33} For the churning of milk
brings forth butter, And the wringing of the nose brings forth blood; So the
forcing of wrath brings forth strife.
{O20)31} Proverbs Chapter 31.
{31:1} The words of king Lemuel; the oracle which his mother taught
him. {31:2} What, my son? and what, O
son of my womb? And what, O son of my vows? {31:3} Give not your strength unto
women, Nor your ways to that which destroys kings. {31:4} It is not for kings,
O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; Nor for princes [to say], Where is
strong drink? {31:5} Lest they drink, and forget the law, And pervert the
justice [due] to any that is afflicted. {31:6} Give strong drink unto him that
is ready to perish, And wine unto the bitter in soul: {31:7} Let him drink, and
forget his poverty, And remember his misery no more. {31:8} Open your mouth for
the dumb, In the cause of all such as are left desolate. {31:9} Open your
mouth, judge righteously, And minister justice to the poor and needy. {31:10} A worthy woman who can find? For her
price is far above rubies. {31:11} The heart of her husband trusts in her, And
he shall have no lack of gain. {31:12} She does him good and not evil All the
days of her life. {31:13} She seeks wool and flax, And works willingly with her
hands. {31:14} She is like the merchant-ships; She brings her bread from afar.
{31:15} She rises also while it is yet night, And gives food to her household,
And their task to her maidens. {31:16} She considers a field, and buys it; With
the fruit of her hands she plants a vineyard. {31:17} She girds her loins with
strength, And makes strong her arms. {31:18} She perceives that her merchandise
is profitable: Her lamp goes not out by night. {31:19} She lays her hands to
the distaff, And her hands hold the spindle. {31:20} She stretches out her hand
to the poor; behold, she reaches forth her hands to the needy. {31:21} She is
not afraid of the snow for her household; For all her household are clothed
with scarlet. {31:22} She makes for herself carpets of tapestry; Her clothing
is fine linen and purple. {31:23} Her husband is known in the gates, When he sits
among the elders of the land. {31:24} She makes linen garments and sells them,
And delivers girdles unto the merchant. {31:25} Strength and dignity are her
clothing; And she laughs at the time to come. {31:26} She opens her mouth with
wisdom; And the law of kindness is on her tongue. {31:27} She looks well to the
ways of her household, And eats not the bread of idleness. {31:28} Her children
rise up, and call her blessed; Her husband [also], and he praises her,
[saying]: {31:29} Many daughters have done worthily, But you excel them all.
{31:30} Grace is deceitful, and beauty is vain; [But] a woman that fears Yahweh,
she shall be praised. {31:31} Give her of the fruit of her hands; And let her
works praise her in the gates.
{O21)1} Ecclesiastes Chapter One. The book of Ecclesiastes or, "The book
of the Ekkleser" or the Preacher Cohelief of the Ekklesia of God. {1:1} The words of the [Ekklesia] Preacher,
the son of David, king in Jerusalem. {1:2} Vanity of vanities, said the [Ekkklesia}
Preacher; vanity of vanities, all is vanity. {1:3} What profit has man of all
his labor wherein he labors under the sun? {1:4} One generation goes, and
another generation comes; but the earth abides for ever. {1:5} The sun also
arises, and the sun goes down, and hurries to its place where it arises. {1:6}
The wind goes toward the south, and turns about unto the north; it turns about
continually in its course, and the wind returns again to its circuits. {1:7}
All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full; unto the place where
the rivers go, there they go again. {1:8} All things are full of weariness; man
cannot utter [it]: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled
with hearing. {1:9} That which has been is that which shall be; and that which
has been done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the
sun. {1:10} Is there a thing where it may be said, See, this is new? it has
been long ago, in the ages which were before us. {1:11} There is no remembrance
of the former [generations]; neither shall there be any remembrance of the
latter [generations] that are to come, among those that shall come after.
{1:12} I the {Ekklesia] Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem. {1:13} And
I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is
done under heaven: it is a sore travail that God has given to the sons of men
to be exercised with. {1:14} I have seen all the works that are done under the
sun; and, behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind. {1:15} That which is
crooked cannot be made straight; and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
{1:16} I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I have gotten me great
wisdom above all that were before me in Jerusalem; behold, my heart has had
great experience of wisdom and knowledge. {1:17} And I applied my heart to know
wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also was a
striving after wind. {1:18} For in much wisdom is much grief; and he that
increases knowledge increases sorrow.
{O21)2} Ecclesiastes Chapter One.
{2:1} I said in my heart, Come now, I will prove you with mirth;
therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also was vanity. {2:2} I said of
laughter, It is mad; and of mirth, What does it? {2:3} I searched in my heart
how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding [me] with wisdom, and how
to lay hold on folly, till I might see what it was good for the sons of men
that they should do under heaven all the days of their life. {2:4} I made me great
works; I built me houses; I planted me vineyards; {2:5} I made me gardens and
parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit; {2:6} I made me pools
of water, to water there from the forest where trees were reared; {2:7} I
bought men-servants and maid-servants, and had servants born in my house; also
I had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all that were before me in
Jerusalem; {2:8} I gathered me also silver and gold, and the treasure of kings
and of the provinces; I got me men-singers and women-singers, and the delights
of the sons of men, musical instruments, and that of all sorts. {2:9} So I was
great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my
wisdom remained with me. {2:10} And what ever mine eyes desired I kept not from
them; I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced because of
all my labor; and this was my portion from all my labor. {2:11} Then I looked
on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored
to do; and, behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was no
profit under the sun. {2:12} And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness,
and folly: for what [can] the man [do] that comes after the king? [even] that
which has been done long ago. {2:13} Then I saw that wisdom excels folly, as
far as light excelled darkness. {2:14} The wise man's eyes are in his head, and
the fool walks in darkness: and yet I perceived that one event happens to them
all. {2:15} Then said I in my heart, As it happens to the fool, so will it
happen even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then said I in my heart, that
this also is vanity. {2:16} For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is
no remembrance for ever; seeing that in the days to come all will have been
long forgotten. And how does the wise man die even as the fool! {2:17} So I
hated life, because the work that is wrought under the sun was grievous unto
me; for all is vanity and a striving after wind. {2:18} And I hated all my
labor wherein I labored under the sun, seeing that I must leave it unto the man
that shall be after me. {2:19} And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a
fool? yet will he have rule over all my labor wherein I have labored, and
wherein I have showed myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity. {2:20}
Therefore I turned about to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor
wherein I had labored under the sun. {2:21} For there is a man whose labor is
with wisdom, and with knowledge, and with skillfullness; yet to a man that has
not labored therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and
a great evil. {2:22} For what has a man of all his labor, and of the striving
of his heart, wherein he labors under the sun? {2:23} For all his days are [but]
sorrows, and his travail is grief; behold, even in the night his heart takes no
rest. This also is vanity. {2:24} There is nothing better for a man [than] that
he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I
saw, that it is from the hand of God. {2:25} For who can eat, or who can have
enjoyment, more than I? {2:26} For to the man that pleases him [God] gives
wisdom, and knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather
and to heap up, that he may give to him that pleases God. This also is vanity
and a striving after wind.
{O21)3} Ecclesiastes Chapter Three. {3:1} For everything there is a season, and
a time for every purpose under heaven: {3:2} a time to be born, and a time to
die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; {3:3} a
time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
{3:4} a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to grieve, and a time to
dance; {3:5} a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; {3:6} a time to seek,
and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; {3:7} a time to
rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; {3:8} a
time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace. {3:9}
What profit has he that works in that wherein he labors? {3:10} I have seen the
travail which God has given to the sons of men to be exercised with. {3:11} He
has made everything beautiful in its time: also he has set eternity in their
heart, yet so that man cannot find out the work that God has done from the
beginning even to the end. {3:12} I know that there is nothing better for them,
than to rejoice, and to do good so long as they live. {3:13} And also that
every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor, is the gift of
God. {3:14} I know that, what ever God does, it shall be for ever: nothing can
be put to it, nor anything taken from it; and God has done it, that men should
fear before him. {3:15} That which is has been long ago; and that which is to
be has long ago been: and God seeks again that which is passed away. {3:16} And
furthermore I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was
there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there. {3:17} I
said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a
time there for every purpose and for every work. {3:18} I said in my heart, [It
is] because of the sons of men, that God may prove them, and that they may see
that they themselves are [but as] beasts. {3:19} For that which befall the sons
of men befalls beasts; even one thing befalls them: as the one dies, so dies
the other; behold, they have all one breath; and man has no preeminence above
the beasts: for all is vanity. {3:20} All go unto one place; all are of the
dust, and all turn to dust again. {3:21} Who knows the spirit of man, whether
it goes upward, and the spirit of the beast, whether it goes downward to the
earth? {3:22} Therefore I saw that there is nothing better, than that a man
should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him
[back] to see what shall be after him?
{O21)4} Ecclesiastes Chapter Four. {4:1} Then I returned and saw all the
oppressions that are done under the sun: and, behold, the tears of such as were
oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there
was power; but they had no comforter. {4:2} Therefore I praised the dead that
have been long dead more than the living that are yet alive; {4:3} behold,
better than them both [did I esteem] him that has not yet been, who has not
seen the evil work that is done under the sun. {4:4} Then I saw all labor and
every skilful work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbor. This also is
vanity and a striving after wind. {4:5} The fool folds his hands together, and
eats his own flesh. {4:6} Better is a handful, with quietness, than two
handfuls with labor and striving after wind. {4:7} Then I returned and saw
vanity under the sun. {4:8} There is one that is alone, and he has not a
second; behold, he has neither son nor brother; yet is there no end of all his
labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with riches. For whom then, [said he], do
I labor, and deprive my soul of good? This also is vanity, behold, it is a sore
travail. {4:9} Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for
their labor. {4:10} For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but a
curse to him that is alone when he falls, and has not another to lift him up.
{4:11} Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one be
warm [alone]? {4:12} And if a man prevail against him that is alone, two shall
withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken. {4:13} Better is a
poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king, who knows not how to receive
admonition any more. {4:14} For out of prison he came forth to be king; behold,
even in his kingdom he was born poor. {4:15} I saw all the living that walk
under the sun, that they were with the youth, the second, that stood up in his
stead. {4:16} There was no end of all the people, even of all them over whom he
was: yet they that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is
vanity and a striving after wind.
{O21)5}
Ecclesiastes Chapter Five.
{5:1} Keep your foot when you go to the house of God; for to draw near
to hear is better than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they know not that
they do evil. {5:2} Be not rash with your mouth, and let not your heart be
hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and you upon earth:
therefore let your words be few. {5:3} For a dream comes with a multitude of
business, and a fool's voice with a multitude of words. {5:4} When you vow a
vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools: pay that
which you vow. {5:5} Better is it that you should not vow, than that you should
vow and not pay. {5:6} Suffer not your mouth to cause your flesh to sin;
neither say you before the messenger, that is was an error: Therefore should
God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands? {5:7} For in
the multitude of dreams there are vanities, and in many words: but fear you
God. {5:8} If you sees the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away
of justice and righteousness in a province, marvel not at the matter: for one
higher than the high regards; and there are higher than they. {5:9} Furthermore
the profit of the earth is for all: the king [himself] is served by the field.
{5:10} He that agape loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he
that agape loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity. {5:11} When
goods increase, they are increased that eat them; and what advantage is there
to the owner there, save the beholding [of them] with his eyes? {5:12} The
sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much; but the
fullness of the rich will not suffer him to sleep. {5:13} There is a grievous
evil which I have seen under the sun, [namely], riches kept by the owner of it
to his hurt: {5:14} and those riches perish by evil adventure; and if he has
begotten a son, there is nothing in his hand. {5:15} As he came forth from his
mother's womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for
his labor, which he may carry away in his hand. {5:16} And this also is a
grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit
has he that he labors for the wind? {5:17} All his days also he eats in
darkness, and he is sore vexed, and has sickness and wrath. {5:18} Behold, that
which I have seen to be good and to be comely is for one to eat and to drink,
and to enjoy good in all his labor, wherein he labors under the sun, all the
days of his life which God has given him: for this is his portion. {5:19} Every
man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to
eat there, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor-this is the
gift of God. {5:20} For he shall not much remember the days of his life;
because God answers [him] in the joy of his heart.
{O21)6} Ecclesiastes Chapter Six. {6:1} There is an evil which I have seen
under the sun, and it is heavy upon men: {6:2} a man to whom God gives riches,
wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he
desires, yet God gives him not power to eat there, but an alien eats it; this
is vanity, and it is an evil disease. {6:3} If a man beget a hundred children,
and live many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul be
not filled with good, and furthermore he have no burial; I say, that an
untimely birth is better than he: {6:4} for it comes in vanity, and departs in
darkness, and the name of it is covered with darkness; {6:5} furthermore it has
not seen the sun nor known it; this has rest rather than the other: {6:6}
behold, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet enjoy no good, do
not all go to one place? {6:7} All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet
the appetite is not filled. {6:8} For what advantage has the wise more than the
fool? [or] what has the poor man, that knows how to walk before the living?
{6:9} Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this
also is vanity and a striving after wind. {6:10} What ever has been, the name
of it was given long ago; and it is know what man is; neither can he contend
with him that is mightier than he. {6:11} Seeing there are many things that
increase vanity, what is man the better? {6:12} For who knows what is good for
man in [his] life, all the days of his vain life which he spends as a shadow?
for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
{O21)7} Ecclesiastes Chapter Seven. {7:1} A [good] name is better than precious
oil; and the day of death, than the day of one's birth. {7:2} It is better to
go to the house of grievingthan to go to the house of feasting: for that is the
end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart. {7:3} Sorrow is better
than laughter; for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made glad.
{7:4} The heart of the wise is in the house of grieveing; but the heart of
fools is in the house of mirth. {7:5} It is better to hear the rebuke of the
wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools. {7:6} For as the crackling of
thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity. {7:7}
Surely extortion makes the wise man foolish; and a bribe destroys the
understanding. {7:8} Better is the end of a thing than the beginning there; [and]
the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit. {7:9} Be not hasty in
your spirit to be angry; for anger rests in the bosom of fools. {7:10} Say not
you, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for you do
not inquire wisely concerning this. {7:11} Wisdom is as good as an inheritance;
behold, more excellent is it for them that see the sun. {7:12} For wisdom is a
defense, even as money is a defense; but the excellency of knowledge is, that
wisdom preserves the life of him that has it. {7:13} Consider the work of God:
for who can make that straight, which he has made crooked? {7:14} In the day of
prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; behold, God has
made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find
out anything [that shall be] after him. {7:15} All this have I seen in my days
of vanity: there is a righteous man that perishes in his righteousness, and
there is a wicked man that prolongs[his life] in his evil-doing. {7:16} Be not
righteous overmuch; neither make yourself over wise: why should you destroy
yourself? {7:17} Be not overmuch wicked, neither be you foolish: why should you
die before your time? {7:18} It is good that you should take hold of this;
behold, also from that withdraw not your hand: for he that fears God shall come
forth from them all. {7:19} Wisdom is a strength to the wise man more than ten
rulers that are in a city. {7:20} Surely there is not a righteous man upon
earth, that does good, and sins not. {7:21} Also take not heed unto all words
that are spoken, lest you hear your servant a curse you; {7:22} for oftentimes
also your own heart knows that you yourself likewise have A cursed others.
{7:23} All this have I proved in wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far
from me. {7:24} That which is, is far off and exceeding deep; who can find it
out? {7:25} I turned about, and my heart [was set] to know and to search out,
and to seek wisdom and the reason [of things], and to know that wickedness is
folly, and that foolishness is madness. {7:26} And I find more bitter than
death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, [and] whose hands are bands:
who so pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
{7:27} Behold, this have I found, said the [Ekklesia] Preacher, [laying] one
thing to another, to find out the account; {7:28} which my soul still seeks,
but I have not found: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among
all those have I not found. {7:29} Behold, this only have I found: that God
made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
{O21)8} Ecclesiastes Chapter Eight. {8:1} Who is as the wise man? and who knows
the interpretation of a thing? A man's wisdom makes his face to shine, and the
hardness of his face is changed. {8:2} I [counsel you], Keep the king's
command, and that in regard of the oath of God. {8:3} Be not hasty to go out of
his presence; persist not in an evil thing: for he does what ever pleases him.
{8:4} For the king's word [has] power; and who may say unto him, What do you?
{8:5} Who so keeps the commandment shall know no evil thing; and a wise man's
heart discerns time and judgment: {8:6} for to every purpose there is a time
and judgment; because the misery of man is great upon him: {8:7} for he knows
not that which shall be; for who can tell him how it shall be? {8:8} There is
no man that has power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither has he
power over the day of death; and there is no discharge in war: neither shall wickedness
deliver him that is given to it. {8:9} All this have I seen, and applied my
heart unto every work that is done under the sun: [there is] a time wherein one
man has power over another to his hurt. {8:10} So I saw the wicked buried, and
they came [to the grave]; and they that had done right went away from the holy
place, and were forgotten in the city: this also is vanity. {8:11} Because
sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of
the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. {8:12} though a sinner do evil
a hundred times, and prolong his [days], yet surely I know that it shall be
well with them that fear God, that fear before him: {8:13} but it shall not be
well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong [his] days, [which are] as a
shadow; because he fears not before God. {8:14} There is a vanity which is done
upon the earth, that there are righteous men unto whom it happens according to
the work of the wicked; again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according
to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity. {8:15} Then I
commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat,
and to drink, and to be joyful: for that shall abide with him in his labor
[all] the days of his life which God has given him under the sun. {8:16} When I
applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the
earth (for also there is that neither day nor night sees sleep with his eyes),
{8:17} then I beheld all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work
that is done under the sun: because however much a man labor to seek it out,
yet he shall not find it; behold furthermore, though a wise man think to know
it, yet shall he not be able to find it.
{O21)9} Ecclesiastes Chapter Nine.
{9:1} For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that
the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether
it be love or hatred, man knows it not; all is before them. {9:2} All things
come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to
the good and to the clean and to the unclean; to him that sacrifice and to him
that sacrifice not; as is the good, so is the sinner; [and] he that swears, as
he that fears an oath. {9:3} This is an evil in all that is done under the sun,
that there is one event unto all: behold also, the heart of the sons of men is
full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that
[they go] to the dead. {9:4} For to him that is joined with all the living
there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion. {9:5} For the
living know that they shall die: but the dead know not anything, neither have
they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. {9:6} As well
their love, as their hatred and their envy, is perished long ago; neither have
they any more a portion for ever in anything that is done under the sun. {9:7}
Go your way, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart;
for God has already accepted your works. {9:8} Let your garments be always
white; and let not your head lack oil. {9:9} Live joyfully with the wife whom
you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the
sun, all your days of vanity: for that is your portion in life, and in your
labor wherein you labor under the sun. {9:10} What ever your hand finds to do,
do [it] with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor
wisdom, in Sheol, where you go. {9:11} I returned, and saw under the sun, that the
race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to
the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of
skill; but time and chance happens to them all. {9:12} For man also knows not
his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that
are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time,
when it falls suddenly upon them. {9:13} I have also seen wisdom under the sun
on this wise, and it seemed great unto me: {9:14} There was a little city, and
few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and
built great bulwarks against it. {9:15} Now there was found in it a poor wise
man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same
poor man. {9:16} Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the
poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard. {9:17} The words of
the wise heard in quiet are better than the cry of him that rules among fools.
{9:18} Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner destroys much
good.
{O21)10} Ecclesiastes Chapter
Ten. {10:1} Dead flies cause the oil
of the perfumer to send forth an evil odor; [so] does a little folly outweigh
wisdom and honor. {10:2} A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's
heart at his left. {10:3} behold also, when the fool walks by the way, his
understanding fails him, and he said to every one [that] he is a fool. {10:4}
If the spirit of the ruler rise up against you, leave not your place; for
gentleness pacifies great offences. {10:5} There is an evil which I have seen
under the sun, as it were an error which proceeds from the ruler: {10:6} folly
is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in a low place. {10:7} I have seen servants
upon horses, and princes walking like servants upon the earth. {10:8} He that
digs a pit shall fall into it; and who so breaks through a wall, a serpent
shall bite him. {10:9} Who so hews out stones shall be hurt with; [and] he that
cleaves wood is endangered thereby. {10:10} If the iron be blunt, and one do
not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable
to direct. {10:11} If the serpent bite before it is charmed, then is there no
advantage in the charmer. {10:12} The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious;
but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself. {10:13} The beginning of the
words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end of his talk is mischievous
madness. {10:14} A fool also multiplies words: [yet] man knows not what shall
be; and that which shall be after him, who can tell him? {10:15} The labor of
fools wearies every one of them; for he knows not how to go to the city.
{10:16} A curse to you, O land, when your king is a child, and your princes eat
in the morning! {10:17} Happy are you, O land, when your king is the son of
nobles, and your princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for
drunkness! {10:18} By slothfullness the roof sinks in; and through idleness of
the hands the house leaks. {10:19} A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes
glad the life; and money answers all things. {10:20} Revile not the king, no,
not in your thought; and revile not the rich in your bedchamber: for a bird of
the heavens shall carry the voice, and that which has wings shall tell the
matter.
{O21)11} Ecclesiastes Chapter
Elevin. {11:1} Cast your bread upon
the waters; for you shall find it after many days. {11:2} Give a portion to
seven, behold, even unto eight; for you know not what evil shall be upon the
earth. {11:3} If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the
earth; and if a tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place
where the tree falls, there shall it be. {11:4} He that observes the wind shall
not sow; and he that regards the clouds shall not reap. {11:5} As you know not
what is the way of the wind, [nor] how the bones [do grow] in the womb of her
that is with child; even so you know not the work of God who does all. {11:6}
In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening withhold not your hand; for
you know not which shall prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both
shall be alike good. {11:7} Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it
is for the eyes to behold the sun. {11:8} behold, if a man live many years, let
him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they
shall be many. All that comes is vanity. {11:9} Rejoice, O young man, in your
youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the
ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know you, that for all
these things God will bring you into judgment. {11:10} Therefore remove sorrow
from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh; for youth and the dawn of
life are vanity.
{O21)12} Ecclesiastes Chapter
Twelve. {12:1} Remember also your
Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years
draw near, when you shall say, I have no pleasure in them; {12:2} before the
sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars, are darkened, and the clouds
return after the rain; {12:3} in the day when the keepers of the house shall
tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease
because they are few, and those that look out of the windows shall be darkened,
{12:4} and the doors shall be shut in the street; when the sound of the
grinding is low, and one shall rise up at the voice of a bird, and all the
daughters of music shall be brought low; {12:5} behold, they shall be afraid of
[that which is] high, and terrors [shall be] in the way; and the almond-tree
shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail;
because man goes to his everlasting home, and the grieveers go about the
streets: {12:6} before the silver cord is loosed, or the golden bowl is broken,
or the pitcher is broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern,
{12:7} and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns unto
God who gave it. {12:8} Vanity of vanities, said the [Ekklesia] Preacher; all
is vanity. {12:9} And further, because the [Ekklesia] Preacher was wise, he
still taught the people knowledge; behold, he pondered, and sought out, [and]
set in order many proverbs. {12:10} The [Ekklesia] Preacher sought to find out
acceptable words, and that which was written uprightly, [even] words of truth.
{12:11} The words of the wise are as goads; and as nails well fastened are [the
words of] the masters of Ekklesia, [which] are given from one shepherd. {12:12}
And furthermore, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end;
and much study is a weariness of the flesh. {12:13} [This is] the end of the
matter; all has been heard: fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is
the whole [duty] of man. {12:14} For God will bring every work into judgment,
with every hidden thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
{O22)1} Song of Songs Chapter
One. Ekklesia of Christ the Ekklesia Bible translation is separating self
totally and separate from paganism established by the Catholic church in the
canon of the Bible. "Song of
Songs" a book of fiction and fable together place together with holy books
of the Bible. Song of songs is at the first made to be in this canon of
the Bible by the Catholic Church and is borrowed from the Jews Talmud as
"Holy Canon."
Song of Songs is presented here only for
deliberation by the entire Ekklesia for validity to be counted together as
"holy" with what is the sacred scriptures. Song of Song is defiantly not any part of the
Cannon for the New Testament Holy People. This song of Songs was never ever
placed together in any part as holy Scripture of the Israelites or the Jews.
It was not until the second
century this Song of songs was accepted into the canon of the Talmud of the
apostate Jews that in their Talmud they accept all kinds of paganism as a
novelty among Jewish "sacred writings." There are also other books in
this so call "Canon of the Catholic Church" established for Catholics
(that also accepts all kinds of paganism). The Ekklesia of Christ must not
follow any part of paganism of the Catholic church. To remove this from the
canon of the Bible must be deliberated by the entire council of the Ekklesia
and then remove to make holy all scripture from this canon of the Ekklesia
Bible. The Ekklesia Bible must be made altogether holy and separate. I suggest
to the Ekklesia if some wants to read Song of Songs let them find it some where
else and not mixed together with the holy scriptures.
Song of Songs 1. {1:1} The Song of songs, which is Solomon's. {1:2} Let him kiss me with the kisses of his
mouth; For your love is better than
wine. {1:3} your oils have a goodly fragrance; Your name is [as] oil poured
forth; Therefore do the virgins agape love you. {1:4} Draw me; we will run
after you: The king has brought me into his chambers; We will be glad and
rejoice in you; We will make mention of your agape love more than of wine:
Rightly do they agape love you. {1:5} I am black, but comely, Oh you daughters
of Jerusalem, As the tents of Kedar, As the curtains of Solomon. {1:6} Look not
upon me, because I am swarthy, Because the sun has scorched me. My mother's
sons were incensed against me; They made me keeper of the vineyards; [But] mine
own vineyard have I not kept. {1:7} Tell me, O you whom my soul agape loves,
Where you feed [your flock], Where you make [it] to rest at noon: For why
should I be as one that is veiled Beside the flocks of your companions? {1:8} If you know not, O you fairest among
women, Go your way forth by the footsteps of the flock, And feed your kids
beside the shepherds' tents. {1:9} I
have compared you, O my love, To a steed in Pharaoh's chariots. {1:10} Your
cheeks are comely with plaits [of hair], Your neck with strings of jewels. {1:11}
We will make you plaits of gold With studs of silver. {1:12} While the king sat
at his table, My spikenard sent forth its fragrance. {1:13} My beloved is unto
me [as] a bundle of myrrh, That lies between my breasts. {1:14} My beloved is
unto me [as] a cluster of henna-flowers In the vineyards of En-gedi. {1:15} Behold, you are fair, my love; Behold
you are fair; your eyes are [as] doves.
{1:16} Behold, you are fair, my beloved, behold, pleasant: Also our
couch is green. {1:17} The beams of our house are cedars, [And] our rafters are
firs.
{O22)2} Song of Songs Chapter
Two. {2:1} I am a rose of Sharon, A lily of the valleys. {2:2} As a lily among thorns, So is my love
among the daughters. {2:3} As the
apple-tree among the trees of the wood, So is my beloved among the sons. I sat
down under his shadow with great delight, And his fruit was sweet to my taste.
{2:4} He brought me to the banqueting-house, And his banner over me was agape
love. {2:5} Stay you me with raisins, refresh me with apples; For I am sick
from agape love. {2:6} His left hand [is] under my head, And his right hand
does embrace me. {2:7} I adjure you, O
daughters of Jerusalem, By the roes, or by the hinds of the field, That you
stir not up, nor awake [my] agape love, Until he please. {2:8} The voice of my beloved! behold, he
comes, Leaping upon the mountains, Skipping upon the hills. {2:9} My beloved is
like a roe or a young hare: Behold, he stands behind our wall; He looks in at
the windows; He glances through the lattice.
{2:10} My beloved spoke, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair
one, and come away. {2:11} For, lo, the winter is past; The rain is over and
gone; {2:12} The flowers appear on the earth; The time of the singing [of
birds] is come, And the voice of the turtle-dove is heard in our land; {2:13} The
fig-tree ripened her green figs, And the vines are in blossom; They give forth
their fragrance. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away. {2:14} O my dove,
that are in the clefts of the rock, In the covert of the steep place, Let me
see your countenance, Let me hear your voice; For sweet is your voice, and your
countenance is comely. {2:15} Take us
the foxes, the little foxes, That spoil the vineyards; For our vineyards are in
blossom. {2:16} My beloved is mine, and I am his: He feeds [his flock] among the
lilies. {2:17} Until the day be cool, and the shadows flee away, Turn, my
beloved, and be you like a roe or a young hare Upon the mountains of
Bether.
{O22)3} Song of Songs Chapter Three. {3:1} By
night on my bed I sought him whom my soul agape loves: I sought him, but I
found him not. {3:2} [I said], I will rise now, and go about the city; In the
streets and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul agape loves: I
sought him, but I found him not. {3:3} The watchmen that go about the city found
me; [To whom I said], Saw you him whom my soul agape loves? {3:4} It was but a
little that I passed from them, When I found him whom my soul agape loves: I
held him, and would not let him go, Until I had brought him into my mother's
house, And into the chamber of her that conceived me. {3:5} I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,
By the roes, or by the hinds of the field, That you stir not up, nor awake [my]
agape love, Until he please. {3:6} Who
is this that comes up from the wilderness Like pillars of smoke, Perfumed with
myrrh and frankincense, With all powders of the merchant? {3:7} Behold, it is
the litter of Solomon; Threescore mighty men are about it, Of the mighty men of
Israel. {3:8} They all handle the sword, [and] are expert in war: Every man has
his sword upon his thigh, Because of fear in the night. {3:9} King Solomon made
himself a palanquin Of the wood of Lebanon. {3:10} He made the pillars of it of
silver, The bottom of it of gold, the seat of it of purple, The midst of it
being paved with agape love, From the daughters of Jerusalem. {3:11} Go forth,
O you daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon, With the crown wherewith his
mother has crowned him In the day of his espousals, And in the day of the
gladness of his heart.
{O22)4} Song of Songs Chapter Four. {4:1}
Behold, you are fair, my love; behold, you are fair; your eyes are [as] doves
behind your veil. Your hair is as a flock of goats, That lie along the side of
mount Gilead. {4:2} Your teeth are like a flock [of ewes] that are [newly]
shorn, Which are come up from the washing, Where every one has twins, And none
is bereaved among them. {4:3} Your lips are like a thread of scarlet, And your
mouth is comely. Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate Behind your
veil. {4:4} Your neck is like the tower of David built for an armory, Whereon
there hang a thousand bucklers, All the shields of the mighty men. {4:5} Your
two breasts are like two fawns That are twins of a roe, Which feed among the
lilies. {4:6} Until the day be cool, and
the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, And to the hill
of frankincense. {4:7} you are all fair,
my love; And there is no spot in you. {4:8} Come with me from Lebanon, [my]
bride, With me from Lebanon: Look from the top of Amana, From the top of Senir
and Hermon, From the lions' dens, From the mountains of the leopards. {4:9} you
have ravished my heart, my sister, [my] bride; you have ravished my heart with
one of your eyes, With one chain of your neck. {4:10} How fair is your love, my
sister, [my] bride! How much better is your love than wine! And the fragrance
of your oils than all manner of spices! {4:11} Your lips, O [my] bride, drop
[as] the honeycomb: Honey and milk are under your tongue; And the smell of your
garments is like the smell of Lebanon. {4:12} A garden shut up is my sister,
[my] bride; A spring shut up, a fountain sealed. {4:13} Your shoots are an
orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits; Henna with spikenard plants,
{4:14} Spikenard and saffron, Calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of
frankincense; Myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices. {4:15} [you are] a
fountain of gardens, A well of living waters, And flowing streams from
Lebanon. {4:16} Awake, O north wind; and
come, you south; Blow upon my garden, that the spices of it may flow out. Let
my beloved come into his garden, And eat his precious fruits. {O22)5} Song of Songs Chapter Five. {5:1} I
am come into my garden, my sister, [my] bride: I have gathered my myrrh with my
spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my
milk. Eat, O friends; Drink, behold, drink abundantly, O beloved. {5:2} I was asleep, but my heart waked: It is
the voice of my beloved that knocks, [saying], Open to me, my sister, my love,
my dove, my undefiled; For my head is filled with dew, My locks with the drops
of the night. {5:3} I have put off my garment; how shall I put it on? I have
washed my feet; how shall I defile them? {5:4} My beloved put in his hand by
the hole [of the door], And my heart was moved for him. {5:5} I rose up to open
to my beloved; And my hands drop with myrrh, And my fingers with liquid myrrh,
Upon the handles of the bolt. {5:6} I opened to my beloved; But my beloved had
withdrawn himself, [and] was gone. My soul had failed me when he spoke: I
sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.
{5:7} The watchmen that go about the city found me, They smote me, they wounded
me; The keepers of the walls took away my mantle from me. {5:8} I adjure you, O
daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my agape beloved, That you tell him, that I
am sick from agape love. {5:9} What is
your beloved more than [another] beloved, O you fairest among women? What is
your beloved more than [another] beloved, That you do so adjure us? {5:10} My Agape beloved is white and ruddy,
The chief among ten thousand. {5:11} His head is [as] the most fine gold; His
locks are bushy, [and] black as a raven. {5:12} His eyes are like doves beside the
water-brooks, Washed with milk, [and] fitly set. {5:13} His cheeks are as a bed
of spices, [As] banks of sweet herbs: His lips are [as] lilies, dropping liquid
myrrh. {5:14} His hands are [as] rings of gold set with beryl: His body is [as]
ivory work overlaid [with] sapphires. {5:15} His legs are [as] pillars of
marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: His aspect is like Lebanon, excellent as
the cedars. {5:16} His mouth is most sweet; behold, he is altogether lovely.
This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem. {O22)6} Song of Songs Chapter Six. {6:1}
Where is your beloved gone, O you fairest among women? Where has your beloved
turned him, That we may seek him with you?
{6:2} My beloved is gone down to his garden, To the beds of spices, To
feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies. {6:3} I am my beloved's, and my
beloved is mine; He feeds [his flock] among the lilies, {6:4} you are fair, O my love, as Tirzah,
Comely as Jerusalem, Terrible as an army with banners. {6:5} Turn away your
eyes from me, For they have overcome me. Your hair is as a flock of goats, That
lie along the side of Gilead. {6:6} Your teeth are like a flock of ewes, Which
are come up from the washing; Where every one has twins, And none is bereaved
among them. {6:7} Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate Behind your
veil. {6:8} There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, And virgins
outside number. {6:9} My dove, my undefiled, is [but] one; She is the only one
of her mother; She is the choice one of her that bare her. The daughters saw
her, and called her blessed; [behold], the queens and the concubines, and they
praised her. {6:10} Who is she that
looks forth as the morning, Fair as the moon, Clear as the sun, Terrible as an
army with banners? {6:11} I went down
into the garden of nuts, To see the green plants of the valley, To see whether
the vine budded, [And] the pomegranates were in flower. {6:12} Before I was
aware, my soul set me [Among] the chariots of my princely people. {6:13} Return, return, O Shulammite; Return,
return, that we may look upon you. Why will you look upon the Shulammite, As
upon the dance of Mahanaim?
O22)7} Song of Songs Chapter Seven.
{7:1} How beautiful are your feet in sandals, O prince's daughter! Your rounded
thighs are like jewels, The work of the hands of a skilful workman. {7:2} Your
body is [like] a round goblet, [Wherein] no mingled wine is wanting: Your waist
is [like] a heap of wheat Set about with lilies. {7:3} Your two breasts are
like two fawns That are twins of a roe. {7:4} Your neck is like the tower of
ivory; your eyes [as] the pools in Heshbon, By the gate of Bath-rabbim; Your
nose is like the tower of Lebanon Which looks toward Damascus. {7:5} Your head
upon you is like Carmel, And the hair of your head like purple; The king is held
captive in the tresses [there]. {7:6} How fair and how pleasant are you, O
agape love, for delights! {7:7} This your stature is like to a palm-tree, And
your breasts to its clusters. {7:8} I said, I will climb up into the palm-tree,
I will take hold of the branches there: Let your breasts be as clusters of the
vine, And the smell of your breath like apples, {7:9} And your mouth like the
best wine, That goes down smoothly for my beloved, Gliding through the lips of
those that are asleep. {7:10} I am my
beloved's; And his desire is toward me. {7:11} Come, my beloved, let us go
forth into the field; Let us lodge in the villages. {7:12} Let us get up early
to the vineyards; Let us see whether the vine has budded, [And] its blossom is
open, [And] the pomegranates are in flower: There will I give you my love.
{7:13} The mandrakes give forth fragrance; And at our doors are all manner of
precious fruits, new and old, Which I have laid up for you, O my beloved.
{O22)8}
Song of Songs Chapter Eight. {8:1} Oh that you were as my brother, That
sucked the breasts of my mother! [When] I should find you outside, I would kiss
you; behold, and none would despise me. {8:2} I would lead you, [and] bring you
into my mother's house, Who would instruct me; I would cause you to drink of
spiced wine, Of the juice of my pomegranate. {8:3} His left hand [should be]
under my head, And his right hand should embrace me. {8:4} I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,
That you stir not up, nor awake [my] agape love, Until he please. {8:5} Who is this that comes up from the
wilderness, Leaning upon her beloved?
Under the apple-tree I awakened you: There your mother was in travail
with you, There was she in travail that brought you forth. {8:6} Set me as a seal upon your heart, As a
seal upon your arm: For agape love is strong as death; Jealousy is cruel as
Sheol; The flashes of it are flashes of fire, A very flame of Yahweh. {8:7}
Many waters cannot quench agape love, Neither can floods drown it: If a man
would give all the substance of his house for agape love, He would utterly be
contemned. {8:8} We have a little
sister, And she has no breasts: What shall we do for our sister In the day when
she shall be spoken for? {8:9} If she be
a wall, We will build upon her a turret of silver: And if she be a door, We
will enclose her with boards of cedar.
{8:10} I am a wall, and my breasts like the towers [there] Then was I in
his eyes as one that found peace. {8:11} Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon;
He let out the vineyard unto keepers; Every one for the fruit of it was to
bring a thousand [pieces] of silver. {8:12} My vineyard, which is mine, is
before me: you, O Solomon, shall have the thousand, And those that keep the
fruit of it two hundred. {8:13} you that
dwell in the gardens, The companions hear for your voice: Cause me to hear
it. {8:14} Make haste, my beloved, And
be you like to a roe or to a young hare Upon the mountains of spices.
{O23)1} Isaiah Chapter One. The Book of the Prophet Isaiah. {1:1} The vision of Isaiah the son of
Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah,
Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. {1:2} Hear, O heavens, and give
ear, O earth; for Yahweh has spoken: I have nourished and brought up children,
and they have rebelled against me. {1:3} The ox knows his owner, and the donkey
his master's crib; [but] Israel does not know, my people does not consider.
{1:4} Ah sinful nation, a people laden with works against law, a seed of
evil-doers, children that deal corruptly! they have forsaken Yahweh, they have
despised the Holy One of Israel, they are estranged [and gone] backward. {1:5}
Why will you be still stricken, that you revolt more and more? the whole head
is sick, and the whole heart faint. {1:6} From the sole of the foot even unto
the head there is no soundness in it; [but] wounds, and bruises, and fresh
stripes: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with
oil. {1:7} Your country is desolate; your cities are burned with fire; your
land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown
by strangers. {1:8} And the daughter of Zion is left as a booth in a vineyard,
as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city. {1:9} Except Yahweh of
hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, we
should have been like unto Gomorrah. {1:10} Hear the word of Yahweh, you rulers
of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah. {1:11} What
unto me is the multitude of your sacrifices? said Yahweh: I have had enough of
the burnt-offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in
the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he-goats. {1:12} When you come to
appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts?
{1:13} Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; new
moon and Sabbath, the calling of assemblies,- I cannot away with works against
law and the solemn meeting. {1:14} Your new moons and your appointed feasts my
soul hates; they are a trouble unto me; I am weary of bearing them. {1:15} And
when you spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you; behold, when
you make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. {1:16}
Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine
eyes; cease to do evil; {1:17} learn to do well; seek justice, relieve the
oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. {1:18} Come now, and let
us reason together, said Yahweh: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be
as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
{1:19} If you be willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land:
{1:20} but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword; for
the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it. {1:21} How is the faithful city become a prostitute!
she that was full of justice! righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.
{1:22} Your silver is become dross, your wine mixed with water. {1:23} Your
princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves; every one agape loves
bribes, and follows after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither does
the cause of the widow come unto them. {1:24} Therefore said the Lord, Yahweh
of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and
avenge me of mine enemies; {1:25} and I will turn my hand upon you, and
thoroughly purge away your dross, and will take away all your tin; {1:26} and I
will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning:
afterward you shall be called The city of righteousness, a faithful town.
{1:27} Zion shall be redeemed with justice, and her converts with
righteousness. {1:28} But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be
together, and they that forsake Yahweh shall be consumed. {1:29} For they shall
be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired, and you shall be confounded for
the gardens that you have chosen. {1:30} For you shall be as an oak whose leaf
fades, and as a garden that has no water. {1:31} And the strong shall be as
tow, and his work as a spark; and they shall both burn together, and none shall
quench them.
{O23)2} Isaiah Chapter Two. {2:1} The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz
saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. {2:2} And it shall come to pass in the
latter days, that the mountain of Yahweh's house shall be established on the
top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations
shall flow unto it. {2:3} And many peoples shall go and say, Come you, and let
us go up to the mountain of Yahweh, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he
will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall
go forth the law, and the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem. {2:4} And he will
judge between the nations, and will decide concerning many peoples; and they
shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks;
nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any
more. {2:5} O house of Jacob, come you, and let us walk in the light of Yahweh.
{2:6} For you have forsaken your people the house of Jacob, because they are
filled [with customs] from the east, and [are] soothsayers like the
Philistines, and they strike hands with the children of foreigners. {2:7} And
their land is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their
treasures; their land also is full of horses, neither is there any end of their
chariots. {2:8} Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of
their own hands, that which their own fingers have made. {2:9} And the mean man
is bowed down, and the great man is brought low: therefore forgive them not.
{2:10} Enter into the rock, and hide you in the dust, from before the terror of
Yahweh, and from the glory of his majesty. {2:11} The lofty looks of man shall
be brought low, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and Yahweh
alone shall be exalted in that day. {2:12} For there shall be a day of Yahweh
of hosts upon all that is proud and haughty, and upon all that is lifted up;
and it shall be brought low; {2:13} and upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that
are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan, {2:14} and upon all
the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up, {2:15} and upon
every lofty tower, and upon every fortified wall, {2:16} and upon all the ships
of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant imagery. {2:17} And the loftiness of man
shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low; and Yahweh
alone shall be exalted in that day. {2:18} And the idols shall utterly pass
away. {2:19} And men shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes
of the earth, from before the terror of Yahweh, and from the glory of his
majesty, when he arises to shake mightily the earth. {2:20} In that day men
shall cast away their idols of silver, and their idols of gold, which have been
made for them to worship, to the moles and to the bats; {2:21} to go into the
caverns of the rocks, and into the clefts of the ragged rocks, from before the
terror of Yahweh, and from the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake
mightily the earth. {2:22} Cease you from man, whose breath is in his nostrils;
for wherein is he to be accounted of?
{O23)3} Isaiah Chapter Three. {3:1} For, behold, the Lord, Yahweh of
hosts, does take away from Jerusalem and from Judah stay and staff, the whole
stay of bread, and the whole stay of water; {3:2} the mighty man, and the man
of war; the judge, and the prophet, and the diviner, and the elder; {3:3} the
captain of fifty, and the honorable man, and the counselor, and the expert
craftsman, and the skilful enchanter. {3:4} And I will give children to be
their princes, and babes shall rule over them. {3:5} And the people shall be
oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbor: the child shall
behave himself proudly against the old man, and the base against the honorable.
{3:6} When a man shall take hold of his brother in the house of his father,
[saying], you have clothing, be you our ruler, and let this ruin be under your
hand; {3:7} in that day shall he lift up [his voice], saying, I will not be a
healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: you shall not make me
ruler of the people. {3:8} For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen;
because their tongue and their doings are against Yahweh, to provoke the eyes
of his glory. {3:9} The show of their countenance does witness against them;
and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. A curse unto their soul!
for they have done evil unto themselves. {3:10} Say you of the righteous, that
[it shall be] well [with him]; for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
{3:11} A curse unto the wicked! [it shall be] ill [with him]; for what his
hands have done shall be done unto him. {3:12} As for my people, children are
their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they that lead you
cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths. {3:13} Yahweh stands up to
contend, and stands to judge the peoples. {3:14} Yahweh will enter into
judgment with the elders of his people, and the princes there: It is you that
have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses: {3:15}
what mean you that you crush my people, and grind the face of the poor? said
the Lord, Yahweh of hosts. {3:16} Furthermore Yahweh said, Because the
daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks and wanton
eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet;
{3:17} therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the
daughters of Zion, and Yahweh will lay bare their secret parts. {3:18} In that
day the Lord will take away the beauty of their anklets, and the cauls, and the
crescents; {3:19} the pendants, and the bracelets, and the mufflers; {3:20} the
head tires, and the ankle chains, and the sashes, and the perfume-boxes, and
the amulets; {3:21} the rings, and the nose-jewels; {3:22} the festival robes,
and the mantles, and the shawls, and the satchels; {3:23} the hand-mirrors, and
the fine linen, and the turbans, and the veils. {3:24} And it shall come to
pass, that instead of sweet spices there shall be rottenness; and instead of a
girdle, a rope; and instead of well set hair, baldness; and instead of a robe,
a girding of sackcloth; branding instead of beauty. {3:25} Your men shall fall
by the sword, and your mighty in the war. {3:26} And her gates shall lament and
grieve; and she shall be desolate and sit upon the ground.
{O23)4} Isaiah Chapter Four. {4:1} And seven women shall take hold of
one man in that day, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own
apparel: only let us be called by your name; take you away our reproach. {4:2}
In that day shall the branch of Yahweh be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit
of the land shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel.
{4:3} And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that
remains in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written
among the living in Jerusalem; {4:4} when the Lord shall have washed away the
filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem
from the midst there, by the spirit of justice, and by the spirit of burning.
{4:5} And Yahweh will create over the whole habitation of mount Zion, and over
her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by
night; for over all the glory [shall be spread] a covering. {4:6} And there
shall be a pavilion for a shade in the day-time from the heat, and for a refuge
and for a covert from storm and from rain.
{o23)5} Isaiah Chapter Five. {5:1} Let me sing for my Agape well beloved a song of my agape beloved touching
his vineyard. My well agape beloved had a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
{5:2} and he dug it, and gathered out the stones there, and planted it with the
choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also hewed out a
winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it
brought forth wild grapes. {5:3} And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of
Judah, judge, I pray you, between me and my vineyard. {5:4} What could have
been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Therefore, when I
looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes? {5:5}
And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the
hedge there, and it shall be eaten up; I will break down the wall there, and it
shall be trodden down: {5:6} and I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned
nor hoed; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the
clouds that they rain no rain upon it. {5:7} For the vineyard of Yahweh of
hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his agape pleasant plant:
and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but,
behold, a cry. {5:8} A curse unto them that join house to house, that lay field
to field, till there be no room, and you be made to dwell alone in the midst of
the land! {5:9} In mine ears [said] Yahweh of hosts, Of a truth many houses
shall be desolate, even great and fair, outside inhabitant. {5:10} For ten
acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield [but]
an ephah. {5:11} A curse unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they
may follow strong drink; that tarry late into the night, till wine inflame
them! {5:12} And the harp and the lute, the tabret and the pipe, and wine, are
[in] their feasts; but they regard not the work of Yahweh, neither have they
considered the operation of his hands. {5:13} Therefore my people are gone into
captivity for lack of knowledge; and their honorable men are famished, and
their multitude are parched with thirst. {5:14} Therefore Sheol has enlarged
its desire, and opened its mouth outside measure; and their glory, and their
multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoices among them, descend [into it].
{5:15} And the mean man is bowed down, and the great man is humbled, and the
eyes of the lofty are humbled: {5:16} but Yahweh of hosts is exalted in
justice, and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness. {5:17} Then shall
the lambs feed as in their pasture, and the waste places of the fat ones shall
wanderers eat. {5:18} A curse unto them that draw works against law with cords
of falsehood, and sin as it were with a cart rope; {5:19} that say, Let him
make speed, let him hurry his work, that we may see it; and let the counsel of
the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know it! {5:20} A curse
unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and
light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! {5:21} A
curse unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own
sight! {5:22} A curse unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of
strength to mingle strong drink; {5:23} that justify the wicked for a bribe,
and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him! {5:24} Therefore as
the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as the dry grass sinks down in the
flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as
dust; because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of hosts, and despised the
word of the Holy One of Israel. {5:25} Therefore is the anger of Yahweh kindled
against his people, and he has stretched forth his hand against them, and has
smitten them; and the mountains tremble, and their dead bodies are as refuse in
the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his
hand is stretched out still. {5:26} And he will lift up an ensign to the nations
from far, and will hiss for them from the end of the earth; and, behold, they
shall come with speed swiftly. {5:27} None shall be weary nor stumble among
them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be
loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken: {5:28} whose arrows are
sharp, and all their bows bent; their horses' hoofs shall be accounted as
flint, and their wheels as a whirlwind: {5:29} their roaring shall be like a
lioness, they shall roar like young lions; behold, they shall roar, and lay
hold of the prey, and carry it away safe, and there shall be none to deliver.
{5:30} And they shall roar against them in that day like the roaring of the
sea: and if one look unto the land, behold, darkness [and] distress; and the
light is darkened in the clouds there.
{o23)6} Isaiah Chapter Six. {6:1} In the year that king Uzziah died I
saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled
the temple. {6:2} Above him stood the seraphim: each one had six wings; with
twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain
he did fly. {6:3} And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is Yahweh
of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory. {6:4} And the foundations of
the thresholds shook at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled
with smoke. {6:5} Then said I, A curse is me! for I am undone; because I am a
man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for
mine eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of hosts. {6:6} Then flew one of the
seraphim unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the
tongs from off the altar: {6:7} and he touched my mouth with it, and said, Lo,
this has touched your lips; and your works against law is taken away, and your
sin forgiven. {6:8} And I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I
send, and who will go for us? Then I said, Here am I; send me. {6:9} And he
said, Go, and tell this people, Hear you indeed, but understand not; and see
you indeed, but perceive not. {6:10} Make the heart of this people fat, and
make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they sea with their eyes, and
hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn again, and be
healed. {6:11} Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until cities be
waste outside inhabitant, and houses outside man, and the land become utterly
waste, {6:12} and Yahweh have removed men far away, and the forsaken places be
many in the midst of the land. {6:13} And if there be yet a tenth in it, it
also shall in turn be eaten up: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose stock
remains, when they are felled; so the holy seed is the stock there.
{O23)7} Isaiah Chapter Seven. {7:1} And it came to pass in the days of
Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king
of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem
to war against it, but could not prevail against it. {7:2} And it was told the
house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart
trembled, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest tremble with
the wind. {7:3} Then said Yahweh unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, you,
and Shear-jashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, in the
highway of the fuller's field; {7:4} and say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet;
fear not, neither let your heart be faint, because of these two tails of
smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of
Remaliah. {7:5} Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have purposed
evil against you, saying, {7:6} Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let
us make a breach therein for us, and set up a king in the midst of it, even the
son of Tabeel; {7:7} thus said the Lord Yahweh, It shall not stand, neither
shall it come to pass. {7:8} For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of
Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken
in pieces, so that is shall not be a people: {7:9} and the head of Ephraim is
Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If you will not believe,
surely you shall not be established. {7:10} And Yahweh spoke again unto Ahaz,
saying, {7:11} Ask you a sign of Yahweh your God; ask it either in the depth,
or in the height above. {7:12} But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I
tempt Yahweh. {7:13} And he said, Hear you now, O house of David: Is it a small
thing for you to weary men, that you will weary my God also? {7:14} Therefore
the Lord himself will give you a sign: behold, a virgin shall conceive, and
bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. {7:15} Butter and honey shall he
eat, when he knows to refuse the evil, and choose the good. {7:16} For before
the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land whose
two kings you abhor shall be forsaken. {7:17} Yahweh will bring upon you, and
upon your people, and upon your father's house, days that have not come, from
the day that Ephraim departed from Judah-[even] the king of Assyria. {7:18} And
it shall come to pass in that day, that Yahweh will hiss for the fly that is in
the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land
of Assyria. {7:19} And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the
desolate valleys, and in the clefts of the rocks, and upon all thorn-hedges,
and upon all pastures. {7:20} In that day will the Lord shave with a razor that
is hired in the parts beyond the River, [even] with the king of Assyria, the head
and the hair of the feet; and it shall also consume the beard. {7:21} And it
shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall keep alive a young cow, and
two sheep; {7:22} and it shall come to pass, that because of the abundance of
milk which they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall
every one eat that is left in the midst of the land. {7:23} And it shall come
to pass in that day, that every place, where there were a thousand vines at a
thousand silver coins, shall be for briers and thorns. {7:24} With arrows and
with bow shall one come there, because all the land shall be briers and thorns.
{7:25} And all the hills that were dug with the mattock, you shall not come
there for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be for the sending forth of
oxen, and for the treading of sheep.
{O23)8} Isaiah Chapter Eight. {8:1} And Yahweh said unto me, Take you a
great tablet, and write upon it with the pen of a man, For
Maher-shalal-hash-baz; {8:2} and I will take unto me faithful witnesses to
record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah. {8:3} And I
went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. Then said Yahweh
unto me, Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz ("swift is booty, speedy is
prey"). {8:4} For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father,
and, My mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be
carried away before the king of Assyria. {8:5} And Yahweh spoke unto me yet
again, saying, {8:6} Forasmuch as this people have refused the waters of
Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son; {8:7} now
therefore, behold, the Lord brings up upon them the waters of the River, strong
and many, [even] the king of Assyria and all his glory: and it shall come up over
all its channels, and go over all its banks; {8:8} and it shall sweep onward
into Judah; it shall overflow and pass through; it shall reach even to the
neck; and the stretching out of its wings shall fill the breadth of your land,
O Immanuel. {8:9} Make an uproar, O you peoples, and be broken in pieces; and
give ear, all you of far countries: gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces;
gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces. {8:10} Take counsel together, and it
shall be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is
with us. {8:11} For Yahweh spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed
me not to walk in the way of this people, saying, {8:12} Say you not, A
conspiracy, concerning all where this people shall say, A conspiracy; neither
fear you their fear, nor be in dread [there]. {8:13} Yahweh of hosts, him shall
you sanctify; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread. {8:14} And
he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of
offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the
inhabitants of Jerusalem. {8:15} And many shall stumble thereon, and fall, and
be broken, and be snared, and be taken. {8:16} Bind you up the testimony, seal
the law among my disciples. {8:17} And I will wait for Yahweh, that hides his
face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him. {8:18} Behold, I and the
children whom Yahweh has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from Yahweh
of hosts, who dwells in mount Zion. {8:19} And when they shall say unto you,
Seek unto them that have familiar spirits and unto the wizards, that chirp and
that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? on behalf of the living
[should they seek] unto the dead? {8:20} To the law and to the testimony! if
they speak not according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.
{8:21} And they shall pass through it, sore distressed and hungry; and it shall
come to pass that, when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and A
curse by their king and by their God, and turn their faces upward: {8:22} and
they shall look unto the earth, and behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of
anguish; and into thick darkness [they shall be] driven away.
{O23)9} Isaiah Chapter Nine. {9:1} But there shall be no gloom to her
that was in anguish. In the former time he brought into contempt the land of
Zebulun and the land of Naphtali; but in the latter time has he made it
glorious, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations. {9:2}
The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwelt in
the land of the shadow of death, upon them has the light shined. {9:3} you have
multiplied the nation, you have increased their joy: they joy before you
according to the joy in harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.
{9:4} For the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his
oppressor, you have broken as in the day of Midian. {9:5} For all the armor of
the armed man in the tumult, and the garments rolled in blood, shall be for
burning, for fuel of fire. {9:6} For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is
given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be
called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
{9:7} Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end,
upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold
it with justice and with righteousness from here on even for ever. The zeal of Yahweh
of hosts will perform this. {9:8} The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it has
lighted upon Israel. {9:9} And all the people shall know, [even] Ephraim and
the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in pride and in stoutness of heart, {9:10}
The bricks are fallen, but we will build with hewn stone; the sycamores are cut
down, but we will put cedars in their place. {9:11} Therefore Yahweh will set
up on high against him the adversaries of Rezin, and will stir up his enemies,
{9:12} the Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour
Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand
is stretched out still. {9:13} yet the people have not turned unto him that
smote them, neither have they sought Yahweh of hosts. {9:14} Therefore Yahweh
will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm-branch and rush, in one day.
{9:15} The elder and the honorable man, he is the head; and the prophet that
teaches lies, he is the tail. {9:16} For they that lead this people cause them
to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed. {9:17} Therefore the Lord
will not rejoice over their young men, neither will he have compassion on their
fatherless and widows; for every one is profane and an evil-doer, and every
mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is
stretched out still. {9:18} For wickedness burns as the fire; it devours the
briers and thorns; behold, it kindles in the thickets of the forest, and they
roll upward in a column of smoke. {9:19} Through the wrath of Yahweh of hosts
is the land burnt up; and the people are as the fuel of fire: no man spares his
brother. {9:20} And one shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he
shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every
man the flesh of his own arm: {9:21} Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh;
and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned
away, but his hand is stretched out still.
{O23)10} Isaiah Chapter Ten. {10:1} A curse unto them that decree
unrighteous decrees, and to the writers that write perverseness; {10:2} to turn
aside the needy from justice, and to rob the poor of my people of their right,
that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their
prey! {10:3} And what will you do in the day of visitation, and in the
desolation which shall come from far? to whom will you flee for help? and where
will you leave your glory? {10:4} They shall only bow down under the prisoners,
and shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but
his hand is stretched out still. {10:5} Ho Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, the
staff in whose hand is mine indignation! {10:6} I will send him against a
profane nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to
take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of
the streets. {10:7} Howbeit he means not so, neither does his heart think so;
but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off nations not a few. {10:8} For
he said, Are not my princes all of them kings? {10:9} Is not Calno as
Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus? {10:10} As my
hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, whose graven images did excel them of
Jerusalem and of Samaria; {10:11} shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and
her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols? {10:12} Therefore it shall come to
pass, that, when the Lord has performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on
Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria,
and the glory of his high looks. {10:13} For he has said, By the strength of my
hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I have understanding: and I have
removed the bounds of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures, and like a
valiant man I have brought down them that sit [on thrones]: {10:14} and my hand
has found as a nest the riches of the peoples; and as one gathers eggs that are
forsaken, have I gathered all the earth: and there was none that moved the
wing, or that opened the mouth, or chirped. {10:15} shall the axe boast itself
against him that hews with? shall the saw magnify itself against him that
wields it? as if a rod should wield them that lift it up, [or] as if a staff
should lift up [him that is] not wood. {10:16} Therefore will the Lord, Yahweh
of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory there shall be
kindled a burning like the burning of fire. {10:17} And the light of Israel
will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it will burn and devour
his thorns and his briers in one day. {10:18} And he will consume the glory of
his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and it shall be as
when a standard-bearer faints. {10:19} And the remnant of the trees of his
forest shall be few, so that a child may write them. {10:20} And it shall come
to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and they that are escaped of
the house of Jacob, shall no more again lean upon him that smote them, but
shall lean upon Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. {10:21} A remnant
shall return, [even] the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God. {10:22} For
though your people, Israel, be as the sand of the sea, [only] a remnant of them
shall return: a destruction [is] determined, overflowing with righteousness.
{10:23} For a full end, and that determined, will the Lord, Yahweh of hosts,
make in the midst of all the earth. {10:24} Therefore thus said the Lord, Yahweh
of hosts, O my people that dwell in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian, though
he smite you with the rod, and lift up his staff against you, after the manner
of Egypt. {10:25} For yet a very little while, and the indignation [against
you] shall be accomplished, and mine anger [shall be directed] to his destruction.
{10:26} And Yahweh of hosts will stir up against him a scourge, as in the
slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and his rod will be over the sea, and
he will lift it up after the manner of Egypt. {10:27} And it shall come to pass
in that day, that his burden shall depart from off your shoulder, and his yoke
from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed by reason of fatness.
{10:28} He is come to Aiath, he is passed through Migron; at Michmash he lays
up his baggage; {10:29} they are gone over the pass; they have taken up their
lodging at Geba; Ramah trembles; Gibeah of Saul is fled. {10:30} Cry aloud with
your voice, O daughter of Gallim! hear, O Laishah! O you poor Anathoth! {10:31}
Madmenah is a fugitive; the inhabitants of Gebim flee for safety. {10:32} This
very day shall he halt at Nob: he shakes his hand at the mount of the daughter
of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem. {10:33} Behold, the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, will
lop the boughs with terror: and the high of stature shall be hewn down, and the
lofty shall be brought low. {10:34} And he will cut down the thickets of the
forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.
{O23)11} Isaiah Chapter Elevin. {11:1} And there shall come forth a shoot
out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots shall bear fruit.
{11:2} And the Spirit of Yahweh shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and
understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of
the fear of Yahweh. {11:3} And his delight shall be in the fear of Yahweh; and
he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither decide after the
hearing of his ears; {11:4} but with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and
decide with equity for the meek of the earth; and he shall smite the earth with
the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
{11:5} And righteousness shall be the girdle of his waist, and faithfulness the
girdle of his loins. {11:6} And the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the
leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the
fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. {11:7} And the cow and
the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion
shall eat straw like the ox. {11:8} And the sucking child shall play on the
hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder's den.
{11:9} They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth
shall be full of the knowledge of Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea. {11:10}
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the root of Jesse, that stands for
an ensign of the peoples, unto him shall the nations seek; and his
resting-place shall be glorious. {11:11} And it shall come to pass in that day,
that the Lord will set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of
his people, that shall remain, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros,
and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the
islands of the sea. {11:12} And he will set up an ensign for the nations, and
will assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of
Judah from the four corners of the earth. {11:13} The envy also of Ephraim
shall depart, and they that vex Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy
Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim. {11:14} And they shall fly down upon
the shoulder of the Philistines on the west; together shall they despoil the
children of the east: they shall put forth their hand upon Edom and Moab; and
the children of Ammon shall obey them. {11:15} And Yahweh will utterly destroy
the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his scorching wind will he wave his
hand over the River, and will smite it into seven streams, and cause men to
march over dry shod. {11:16} And there shall be a highway for the remnant of
his people, that shall remain, from Assyria; like as there was for Israel in
the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.
{O23)12} Isaiah Chapter Twelve. {12:1} And in that day you shall say, I
will give thanks unto you, O Yahweh; for though you was angry with me, your
anger is turned away and you comforts me. {12:2} Behold, God is my salvation; I
will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yahweh, [even] Yahweh, is my strength
and song; and he is become my salvation. {12:3} Therefore with joy shall you
draw water out of the wells of salvation. {12:4} And in that day shall you say,
Give thanks unto Yahweh, call upon his name, declare his doings among the
peoples, make mention that his name is exalted. {12:5} Sing unto Yahweh; for he
has done excellent things: let this be known in all the earth. {12:6} Cry aloud
and shout, you inhabitant of Zion; for great in the midst of you is the Holy
One of Israel.
{O23)13} Isaiah Chapter Thirteen. {13:1} The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah
the son of Amoz did see. {13:2} Set you up an ensign upon the bare mountain,
lift up the voice unto them, wave the hand, that they may go into the gates of
the nobles. {13:3} I have commanded my consecrated ones, behold, I have called
my mighty men for mine anger, even my proudly exulting ones. {13:4} The noise
of a multitude in the mountains, as of a great people! the noise of a tumult of
the kingdoms of the nations gathered together! Yahweh of hosts is mustering the
host for the battle. {13:5} They come from a far country, from the uttermost
part of heaven, even Yahweh, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the
whole land. {13:6} Wail you; for the day of Yahweh is at hand; as destruction
from the Almighty shall it come. {13:7} Therefore shall all hands be feeble,
and every heart of man shall melt: {13:8} and they shall be dismayed; pangs and
sorrows shall take hold [of them]; they shall be in pain as a woman in travail:
they shall look in amazement one at another; their faces [shall be] faces of
flame. {13:9} Behold, the day of Yahweh comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce
anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy the sinners of it out of
it. {13:10} For the stars of heaven and the constellations of it shall not give
their light; the sun shall be darkened in its going forth, and the moon shall
not cause its light to shine. {13:11} And I will punish the world for [their]
evil, and the wicked for their works against law: and I will cause the
arrogance of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the
terrible. {13:12} I will make a man more rare than fine gold, even a man than
the pure gold of Ophir. {13:13} Therefore I will make the heavens to tremble,
and the earth shall be shaken out of its place, in the wrath of Yahweh of
hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger. {13:14} And it shall come to pass,
that as the chased roe, and as sheep that no man gathers, they shall turn every
man to his own people, and shall flee every man to his own land. {13:15} Every
one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is taken shall
fall by the sword. {13:16} Their infants also shall be dashed in pieces before
their eyes; their houses shall be rifled, and their wives ravished. {13:17}
Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not regard silver, and
as for gold, they shall not delight in it. {13:18} And [their] bows shall dash
the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb;
their eye shall not spare children. {13:19} And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms,
the beauty of the Chaldeans' pride, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and
Gomorrah. {13:20} It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in
from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there;
neither shall shepherds make their flocks to lie down there. {13:21} But wild
beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful
creatures; and ostriches shall dwell there, and wild goats shall dance there.
{13:22} And wolves shall cry in their castles, and jackals in the pleasant
palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
{O23)14} Isaiah Chapter Fourteen. {14:1} For Yahweh will have compassion on
Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the
alien shall join himself with them, and they shall cleave to the house of
Jacob. {14:2} And the peoples shall take them, and bring them to their place;
and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of Yahweh for servants
and for handmaids: and they shall take them captive whose captives they were;
and they shall rule over their oppressors. {14:3} And it shall come to pass in
the day that Yahweh shall give you rest from your sorrow, and from your
trouble, and from the hard service wherein you was made to serve, {14:4} that
you shall take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, How has
the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased! {14:5} Yahweh has broken the
staff of the wicked, the Scepterer of the rulers; {14:6} that smote the peoples
in wrath with a continual stroke, that ruled the nations in anger, with a
persecution that none restrained. {14:7} The whole earth is at rest, [and] is
quiet: they break forth into singing. {14:8} behold, the fir-trees rejoice at
you, [and] the cedars of Lebanon, [saying], Since you are laid low, no hewer is
come up against us. {14:9} Sheol from beneath is moved for you to meet you at
your coming; it stirs up the dead for you, even all the chief ones of the
earth; it has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
{14:10} All they shall answer and say unto you, are you also become weak as we?
are you become like unto us? {14:11} Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, [and]
the noise of your viols: the worm is spread under you, and worms cover you.
{14:12} How are you fallen from heaven, O day-star, son of the morning! how are
you cut down to the ground, that did lay low the nations! {14:13} And you said
in your heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the
stars of God; and I will sit upon the mount of congregation, in the uttermost
parts of the north; {14:14} I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I
will make myself like the Most High. {14:15} yet you shall be brought down to
Sheol, to the uttermost parts of the pit. {14:16} They that see you shall gaze
at you, they shall consider you, [saying], Is this the man that made the earth
to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; {14:17} that made the world as a
wilderness, and overthrew the cities there; that let not loose his prisoners to
their home? {14:18} All the kings of the nations, all of them, sleep in glory,
every one in his own house. {14:19} But you are cast forth away from your
sepulcher like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, that are thrust
through with the sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a dead body
trodden under foot. {14:20} you shall not be joined with them in burial,
because you have destroyed your land, you have slain your people; the seed of
evil-doers shall not be named for ever. {14:21} Prepare you slaughter for his
children for the works against law of their fathers, that they rise not up, and
possess the earth, and fill the face of the world with cities. {14:22} And I
will rise up against them, said Yahweh of hosts, and cut off from Babylon name
and remnant, and son and son's son, said Yahweh. {14:23} I will also make it a
possession for the porcupine, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the
besom of destruction, said Yahweh of hosts. {14:24} Yahweh of hosts has sworn,
saying, Surely, as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have
purposed, so shall it stand: {14:25} that I will break the Assyrian in my land,
and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off
them, and his burden depart from off their shoulder. {14:26} This is the
purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth; and this is the hand that is
stretched out upon all the nations. {14:27} For Yahweh of hosts has purposed,
and who shall annul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it
back? {14:28} In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden. {14:29} Rejoice
not, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod that smote you is broken; for out
of the serpent's root shall come forth an adder, and his fruit shall be a fiery
flying serpent. {14:30} And the first-born of the poor shall feed, and the
needy shall lie down in safety; and I will kill your root with famine, and your
remnant shall be slain. {14:31} Howl, O gate; cry, O city; you are melted away,
O Philistia, all of you; for there comes a smoke out of the north, and there is
no straggler in his ranks. {14:32} What then shall one answer the messengers of
the nation? That Yahweh has founded Zion, and in her shall the afflicted of his
people take refuge.
{O23)15} Isaiah Chapter Fifteen. {15:1} The burden of Moab. For in a night
Ar of Moab is laid waste, [and] brought to nothing; for in a night Kir of Moab
is laid waste, [and] brought to nothing. {15:2} They are gone up to Bayith, and
to Dibon, to the high places, to weep: Moab wails over Nebo, and over Medeba;
on all their heads is baldness, every beard is cut off. {15:3} In their streets
they gird themselves with sackcloth; on their housetops, and in their broad
places, every one wails, weeping abundantly. {15:4} And Heshbon cries out, and
Elealeh; their voice is heard even unto Jahaz: therefore the armed men of Moab
cry aloud; his soul trembles within him. {15:5} My heart cries out for Moab;
her nobles [flee] unto Zoar, to Eglath-shelishi-yah: for by the ascent of
Luhith with weeping they go up; for in the way of Horonaim they raise up a cry
of destruction. {15:6} For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate; for the
grass is withered away, the tender grass fails, there is no green thing. {15:7}
Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up,
shall they carry away over the brook of the willows. {15:8} For the cry is gone
round about the borders of Moab; the wailing of it unto Eglaim, and the wailing
of it unto Beer-elim. {15:9} For the waters of Dimon are full of blood; for I
will bring yet more upon Dimon, a lion upon them of Moab that escape, and upon
the remnant of the land.
{O23)16} Isaiah Chapter Sixteen. {16:1} Send you the lambs for the ruler of
the land from Selah to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.
{16:2} For it shall be that, as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so shall
the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon. {16:3} Give counsel,
execute justice; make your shade as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide
the outcasts; betray not the fugitive. {16:4} Let mine outcasts dwell with you;
as for Moab, be you a covert to him from the face of the destroyer. For the
extortioner is brought to nothing, destruction ceases, the oppressors are
consumed out of the land. {16:5} And a throne shall be established in loving
kindness; and one shall sit thereon in truth, in the tent of David, judging,
and seeking justice, and swift to do righteousness. {16:6} We have heard of the
pride of Moab, [that] he is very proud; even of his arrogance, and his pride,
and his wrath; his boastings are nothing. {16:7} Therefore shall Moab wail for
Moab, every one shall wail: for the raisin-cakes of Kir-haressets shall you grieve,
utterly stricken. {16:8} For the fields of Heshbon languish, [and] the vine of
Sibmah; the lords of the nations have broken down the choice branches there,
which reached even unto Jazer, which wandered into the wilderness; its shoots
were spread abroad, they passed over the sea. {16:9} Therefore I will weep with
the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah; I will water you with my tears, O
Heshbon, and Elealeh: for upon your summer fruits and upon your harvest the
[battle] shout is fallen. {16:10} And gladness is taken away, and joy out of
the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither
joyful noise: no treader shall tread out wine in the presses; I have made the
[vintage] shout to cease. {16:11} Therefore my heart sounds like a harp for
Moab, and mine inward parts for Kir-heres. {16:12} And it shall come to pass,
when Moab presents himself, when he wearies himself upon the high place, and
shall come to his sanctuary to pray, that he shall not prevail. {16:13} This is
the word that Yahweh spoke concerning Moab in time past. {16:14} But now Yahweh
has spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of a hireling, the glory
of Moab shall be brought into contempt, with all his great multitude; and the
remnant shall be very small and of no account.
{O23)17} Isaiah Chapter Seventeen. {17:1} The burden of Damascus. Behold,
Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
{17:2} The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they shall be for flocks, which shall
lie down, and none shall make them afraid. {17:3} And the fortress shall cease
from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria; they
shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, said Yahweh of hosts. {17:4}
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the glory of Jacob shall be made
thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean. {17:5} And it shall be as
when the harvestman gathers the standing grain, and his arm reaps the ears;
behold, it shall be as when one gleans ears in the valley of Rephaim. {17:6}
yet there shall be left therein gleanings, as the shaking of an olive-tree, two
or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost
branches of a fruitful tree, said Yahweh, the God of Israel. {17:7} In that day
shall men look unto their Maker, and their eyes shall have respect to the Holy
One of Israel. {17:8} And they shall not look to the altars, the work of their
hands; neither shall they have respect to that which their fingers have made,
either the Asherim, or the sun-images. {17:9} In that day shall their strong
cities be as the forsaken places in the wood and on the mountain top, which
were forsaken from before the children of Israel; and it shall be a desolation.
{17:10} For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not been
mindful of the rock of your strength; therefore you plant pleasant plants, and
set it with strange slips. {17:11} In the day of your planting you hedge it in,
and in the morning you make your seed to blossom; but the harvest flees away in
the day of grief and of desperate sorrow. {17:12} Ah, the uproar of many
peoples, that roar like the roaring of the seas; and the rushing of nations,
that rush like the rushing of mighty waters! {17:13} The nations shall rush like
the rushing of many waters: but he shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far
off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and
like the whirling dust before the storm. {17:14} At eventide, behold, terror;
[and] before the morning they are not. This is the portion of them that despoil
us, and the lot of them that rob us.
{O23)18} Isaiah Chapter Eighteen. {18:1} Ah, the land of the rustling of
wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia; {18:2} that sends ambassadors by
the sea, even in vessels of papyrus upon the waters, [saying], Go, you swift
messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people terrible from their
beginning onward, a nation of continued waiting out and treaded down, whose
land the rivers divide! {18:3} All you inhabitants of the world, and you
dwellers on the earth, when an ensign is lifted up on the mountains, see you;
and when the trumpet is blown, hear you. {18:4} For thus has Yahweh said unto
me, I will be still, and I will behold in my dwelling-place, like clear heat in
sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest. {18:5} For before the
harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he
will cut off the sprigs with pruning-hooks, and the spreading branches will he
take away [and] cut down. {18:6} They shall be left together unto the ravenous
birds of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth; and the ravenous birds
shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.
{18:7} In that time shall a present be brought unto Yahweh of hosts [from] a
people tall and smooth, even from a people terrible from their beginning
onward, a nation continued waiting and treaded down, whose land the rivers
divide, to the place of the name of Yahweh of hosts, the mount Zion.
{O23)19} Isaiah Chapter Nineteen. {19:1} The burden of Egypt. Behold, Yahweh
rides upon a swift cloud, and comes unto Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall
tremble at his presence; and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.
{19:2} And I will stir up the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall
fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbor; city
against city, [and] kingdom against kingdom. {19:3} And the spirit of Egypt
shall fail in the midst of it; and I will destroy the counsel there: and they
shall seek unto the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar
spirits, and to the wizards. {19:4} And I will give over the Egyptians into the
hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, said the Lord, Yahweh
of hosts. {19:5} And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be
wasted and become dry. {19:6} And the rivers shall become foul; the streams of
Egypt shall be diminished and dried up; the reeds and flags shall wither away.
{19:7} The meadows by the Nile, by the brink of the Nile, and all the sown
fields of the Nile, shall become dry, be driven away, and be no more. {19:8}
And the fishers shall lament, and all they that cast angle into the Nile shall
grieve, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish. {19:9}
Furthermore they that work in combed flax, and they that weave white cloth,
shall be confounded. {19:10} And the pillars [of Egypt] shall be broken in
pieces; all they that work for hire [shall be] grieved in soul. {19:11} The
princes of Zoan are utterly foolish; the counsel of the wisest counselors of
Pharaoh is become brutish: how say you unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise,
the son of ancient kings? {19:12} Where then are your wise men? and let them
tell you now; and let them know what Yahweh of hosts has purposed concerning
Egypt. {19:13} The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Memphis are
deceived; they have caused Egypt to go astray, that are the corner-stone of her
tribes. {19:14} Yahweh has mingled a spirit of perverseness in the midst of
her; and they have caused Egypt to go astray in every work there, as a drunk
man staggers in his vomit. {19:15} Neither shall there be for Egypt any work,
which head or tail, palm-branch or rush, may do. {19:16} In that day shall the
Egyptians be like unto women; and they shall tremble and fear because of the
shaking of the hand of Yahweh of hosts, which he shakes over them. {19:17} And
the land of Judah shall become a terror unto Egypt; every one to whom mention
is made there shall be afraid, because of the purpose of Yahweh of hosts, which
he purposes against it. {19:18} In that day there shall be five cities in the
land of Egypt that speak the language of Canaan, and swear to Yahweh of hosts;
one shall be called The city of destruction. {19:19} In that day shall there be
an altar to Yahweh in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the
border of it to Yahweh. {19:20} And it shall be for a sign and for a witness
unto Yahweh of hosts in the land of Egypt; for they shall cry unto Yahweh
because of oppressors, and he will send them a savior, and a defender, and he
will deliver them. {19:21} And Yahweh shall be known to Egypt, and the
Egyptians shall know Yahweh in that day; behold, they shall worship with
sacrifice and oblation, and shall vow a vow unto Yahweh, and shall perform it.
{19:22} And Yahweh will smite Egypt, smiting and healing; and they shall return
unto Yahweh, and he will be entreated of them, and will heal them. {19:23} In
that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian
shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria; and the Egyptians shall
worship with the Assyrians. {19:24} In that day shall Israel be the third with
Egypt and with Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth; {19:25} for that Yahweh
of hosts has blessed them, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the
work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.
{O23)20} Isaiah Chapter Twenty. {20:1} In the year that Tarean came unto
Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod
and took it; {20:2} at that time Yahweh spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz,
saying, Go, and loose the sackcloth from off your loins, and put your shoe from
off your foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot. {20:3} And Yahweh
said, Like as my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot three years for a
sign and a wonder concerning Egypt and concerning Ethiopia; {20:4} so shall the
king of Assyria lead away the captives of Egypt, and the exiles of Ethiopia,
young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of
Egypt. {20:5} And they shall be dismayed and confounded, because of Ethiopia
their expectation, and of Egypt their glory. {20:6} And the inhabitant of this
coast-land shall say in that day, Behold, such is our expectation, where we
fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and we, how shall we
escape?
{O23)21} Isaiah Chapter TwentyOne. {21:1} The burden of the wilderness of the
sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it comes from the wilderness,
from a terrible land. {21:2} A grievous vision is declared unto me; the
treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, O Elam;
besiege, O Media; all the sighing of it have I made to cease. {21:3} Therefore
are my loins filled with anguish; pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs
of a woman in travail: I am pained so that I cannot hear; I am dismayed so that
I cannot see. {21:4} My heart flutters, horror has affrighted me; the twilight
that I desired has been turned into trembling unto me. {21:5} They prepare the
table, they set the watch, they eat, they drink: rise up, you princes, anoint
the shield. {21:6} For thus has the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman: let
him declare what he sees: {21:7} and when he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a
troop of asses, a troop of camels, he shall hear diligently with much heed.
{21:8} And he cried as a lion: O Lord, I stand continually upon the watch-tower
in the day-time, and am set in my ward whole nights; {21:9} and, behold, here
comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs. And he answered and said, Fallen,
fallen is Babylon; and all the graven images of her gods are broken unto the
ground. {21:10} O you my threshing, and the grain of my floor! that which I
have heard from Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you.
{21:11} The burden of Dumah. One calls unto me out of Seir, Watchman, what of
the night? Watchman, what of the night? {21:12} The watchman said, The morning
comes, and also the night: if you will inquire, inquire you: turn you, come.
{21:13} The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall you lodge, O you
caravans of Dedanites. {21:14} Unto him that was thirsty they brought water;
the inhabitants of the land of Tema did meet the fugitives with their bread.
{21:15} For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the
bent bow, and from the grievousness of war. {21:16} For thus has the Lord said
unto me, Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, all the glory of
Kedar shall fail; {21:17} and the residue of the number of the archers, the
mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be few; for Yahweh, the God of
Israel, has spoken it.
{O23)22} Isaiah Chapter TwentyTwo. {22:1} The burden of the valley of vision.
What ails you now, that you are wholly gone up to the housetops? {22:2} O you
that are full of shoutings, a tumultuous city, a joyous town; your slain are not
slain with the sword, neither are they dead in battle. {22:3} All your rulers
fled away together, they were bound by the archers; all that were found of you
were bound together; they fled afar off. {22:4} Therefore said I, Look away
from me, I will weep bitterly; labor not to comfort me for the destruction of
the daughter of my people. {22:5} For it is a day of discomfiture, and of
treading down, and of perplexity, from the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, in the valley
of vision; a breaking down of the walls, and a crying to the mountains. {22:6}
And Elam bare the quiver, with chariots of men [and] horsemen; and Kir
uncovered the shield. {22:7} And it came to pass, that your choicest valleys
were full of chariots, and the horsemen set themselves in array at the gate.
{22:8} And he took away the covering of Judah; and you did look in that day to
the armor in the house of the forest. {22:9} And you saw the breaches of the
city of David, that they were many; and you gathered together the waters of the
lower pool; {22:10} and you numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and you brake
down the houses to fortify the wall; {22:11} you made also a reservoir between
the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you looked not unto him that
had done this, neither had you respect unto him that purposed it long ago.
{22:12} And in that day did the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, call to weeping, and to
grieveing, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: {22:13} and behold,
joy and gladness, slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking
wine: let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we shall die. {22:14} And Yahweh of
hosts revealed himself in mine ears, Surely this works against law shall not be
forgiven you till you die, said the Lord, Yahweh of hosts. {22:15} Thus said
the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, Go, get you unto this treasurer, even unto Shebna,
who is over the house, [and say], {22:16} What do you here? and whom has you
here, that you have hewed you out here a sepulcher? hewing him out a sepulcher
on high, graving a habitation for himself in the rock! {22:17} Behold, Yahweh,
like a [strong] man, will hurl you away violently; behold, he will wrap you up
closely. {22:18} He will surely wind you round and round, [and toss you] like a
ball into a large country; there shall you die, and there shall be the chariots
of your glory, you shame of your lord's house. {22:19} And I will thrust you
from your office; and from your station shall you be pulled down. {22:20} And
it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son
of Hilkiah: {22:21} and I will cloth him with your robe, and strengthen him
with your girdle, and I will commit your government into his hand; and he shall
be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah. {22:22}
And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; and he shall
open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open. {22:23} And
I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a throne of
glory to his father's house. {22:24} And they shall hang upon him all the glory
of his father's house, the offspring and the issue, every small vessel, from
the cups even to all the flagons. {22:25} In that day, said Yahweh of hosts,
shall the nail that was fastened in a sure place give way; and it shall be hewn
down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off; for Yahweh
has spoken it.
{O23)23} Isaiah Chapter Twentythree. {23:1} The burden of Tyre. Howl, you ships of
Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from
the land of Kittim it is revealed to them. {23:2} Be still, you inhabitants of
the coast, you whom the merchants of Sidon, that pass over the sea, have
replenished. {23:3} And on great waters the seed of the Shihor, the harvest of
the Nile, was her revenue; and she was the mare of nations. {23:4} Be you
ashamed, O Sidon; for the sea has spoken, the stronghold of the sea, saying, I
have not travailed, nor brought forth, neither have I nourished young men, nor
brought up virgins. {23:5} When the report comes to Egypt, they shall be sorely
pained at the report of Tyre. {23:6} Pass you over to Tarshish; wail, you
inhabitants of the coast. {23:7} Is this your joyous [city], whose antiquity is
of ancient days, whose feet carried her afar off to sojourn? {23:8} Who has
purposed this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose merchants are
princes, whose traffickers are the honorable of the earth? {23:9} Yahweh of
hosts has purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt
all the honorable of the earth. {23:10} Pass through your land as the Nile, O
daughter of Tarshish; there is no restraint any more. {23:11} He has stretched
out his hand over the sea, he has shaken the kingdoms: Yahweh has given
commandment concerning Canaan, to destroy the strongholds there. {23:12} And he
said, you shall no more rejoice, O you oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon:
arise, pass over to Kittim; even there shall you have no rest. {23:13} Behold,
the land of the Chaldeans: this people was not; the Assyrian founded it for
them that dwell in the wilderness; they set up their towers; they overthrew the
palaces there; they made it a ruin. {23:14} Howl, you ships of Tarshish; for
your stronghold is laid waste. {23:15} And it shall come to pass in that day,
that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king:
after the end of seventy years it shall be unto Tyre as in the song of the prostitute.
{23:16} Take a harp, go about the city, you prostitute that have been forgotten;
make sweet melody, sing many songs, that you may be remembered. {23:17} And it
shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that Yahweh will visit Tyre,
and she shall return to her hire, and shall play the prostitute with all the
kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth. {23:18} And her merchandise
and her hire shall be holiness to Yahweh: it shall not be treasured nor laid
up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before Yahweh, to eat
sufficiently, and for durable clothing.
{O23)24} Isaiah Chapter TwentyFour. {24:1} Behold, Yahweh makes the earth
empty, and makes it waste, and turns it upside down, and scatters abroad the
inhabitants there. {24:2} And it shall be, as with the people, so with the
priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her
mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the creditor, so with
the debtor; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest to
him. {24:3} The earth shall be utterly emptied, and utterly laid waste; for Yahweh
has spoken this word. {24:4} The earth grieves and fades away, the world
languishes and fades away, the lofty people of the earth do languish. {24:5}
The earth also is polluted under the inhabitants there; because they have
transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant.
{24:6} Therefore has the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein
are found guilty: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few
men left. {24:7} The new wine grieves, the vine languishes, all the
merry-hearted do sigh. {24:8} The mirth of tabrets ceases, the noise of them
that rejoice ends, the joy of the harp ceases. {24:9} They shall not drink wine
with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it. {24:10} The
waste city is broken down; every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
{24:11} There is a crying in the streets because of the wine; all joy is
darkened, the mirth of the land is gone. {24:12} In the city is left
desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction. {24:13} For thus shall it
be in the midst of the earth among the peoples, as the shaking of an
olive-tree, as the gleanings when the vintage is done. {24:14} These shall lift
up their voice, they shall shout; for the majesty of Yahweh they cry aloud from
the sea. {24:15} Therefore glorify you Yahweh in the east, even the name of Yahweh,
the God of Israel, in the isles of the sea. {24:16} From the uttermost part of
the earth have we heard songs: Glory to the righteous. But I said, I pine away,
I pine away, a curse is me! the treacherous have dealt treacherously; behold,
the treacherous have dealt very treacherously. {24:17} Fear, and the pit, and
the snare, are upon you, O inhabitant of the earth. {24:18} And it shall come
to pass, that he who flees from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit;
and he that comes up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare:
for the windows on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble. {24:19}
The earth is utterly broken, the earth is rent asunder, the earth is shaken
violently. {24:20} The earth shall stagger like a drunk man, and shall sway to
and fro like a hammock; and the transgression of the law of it shall be heavy
upon it, and it shall fall, and not rise again. {24:21} And it shall come to
pass in that day, that Yahweh will punish the host of the high ones on high,
and the kings of the earth upon the earth. {24:22} And they shall be gathered
together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the
prison; and after many days shall they be visited. {24:23} Then the moon shall
be confounded, and the sun ashamed; for Yahweh of hosts will reign in mount
Zion, and in Jerusalem; and before his elders shall be glory. {O23)25} Isaiah Chapter TwentyFive.
{25:1} O Yahweh, you are my God; I will exalt you, I will praise your
name; for you have done wonderful things, [even] counsels of old, in
faithfulness [and] truth. {25:2} For you have made of a city a heap, of a fortified
city a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.
{25:3} Therefore shall a strong people glorify you; a city of terrible nations
shall fear you. {25:4} For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold
to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat,
when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall. {25:5} As
the heat in a dry place will you bring down the noise of strangers; as the heat
by the shade of a cloud, the song of the terrible ones shall be brought low.
{25:6} And in this mountain will Yahweh of hosts make unto all peoples a feast
of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of
wines on the lees well refined. {25:7} And he will destroy in this mountain the
face of the covering that covers all peoples, and the veil that is spread over
all nations. {25:8} He has swallowed up death for ever; and the Lord Yahweh
will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the reproach of his people will he
take away from off all the earth: for Yahweh has spoken it. {25:9} And it shall
be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will
save us: this is Yahweh; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in
his salvation. {25:10} For in this mountain will the hand of Yahweh rest; and
Moab shall be trodden down in his place, even as straw is trodden down in the
water of the dung-hill. {25:11} And he shall spread forth his hands in the
midst there, as he that swims spreads forth [his hands] to swim; but [Yahweh]
will lay low his pride together with the craft of his hands. {25:12} And the
high fortress of your walls has he brought down, laid low, and brought to the
ground, even to the dust.
{O23)26} Isaiah Chapter TwentySix. {26:1} In that day shall this song be sung
in the land of Judah: we have a strong city; salvation will he appoint for
walls and bulwarks. {26:2} Open you the gates, that the righteous nation which
keeps faith may enter in. {26:3} you will keep [him] in perfect peace, [whose]
mind [is] stayed [on you]; because he trusts in you. {26:4} Trust you in Yahweh
for ever; for in Yahweh, [even] Yahweh, is an everlasting rock. {26:5} For he
has brought down them that dwell on high, the lofty city: he lays it low, he
lays it low even to the ground; he brings it even to the dust. {26:6} The foot
shall tread it down; even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.
{26:7} The way of the just is uprightness: you that are upright do direct the
path of the just. {26:8} behold, in the way of your judgments, O Yahweh, have
we waited for you; to your name, even to your memorial [name], is the desire of
our soul. {26:9} With my soul have I desired you in the night; behold, with my
spirit within me will I seek you earnestly: for when your judgments are in the
earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness. {26:10} Let favor be
showed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness; in the land of
uprightness will he deal wrongfully, and will not behold the majesty of Yahweh.
{26:11} Yahweh, your hand is lifted up, yet they see not: but they shall see
[your] zeal for the people, and be put to shame; behold, fire shall devour your
adversaries. {26:12} Yahweh, you will ordain peace for us; for you have also
wrought all our works for us. {26:13} O Yahweh our God, other lords besides you
have had dominion over us; but by you only will we make mention of your name.
{26:14} [They are] dead, they shall not live; [they are] deceased, they shall
not rise: therefore have you visited and destroyed them, and made all
remembrance of them to perish. {26:15} you have increased the nation, O Yahweh,
you have increased the nation; you are glorified; you have enlarged all the
borders of the land. {26:16} Yahweh, in trouble have they visited you; they
poured out a prayer [when] your chastening was upon them. {26:17} Like as a
woman with child, that draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain and
cries out in her pangs; so we have been before you, O Yahweh. {26:18} We have
been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind;
we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants
of the world fallen. {26:19} Your dead shall live; my dead bodies shall arise.
Awake and sing, you that dwell in the dust; for your dew is [as] the dew of
herbs, and the earth shall cast forth the dead. {26:20} Come, my people, enter
you into your chambers, and shut your doors about you: hide yourself for a
little moment, until the indignation be overpass. {26:21} For, behold, Yahweh
comes forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their
works against law: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more
cover her slain.
{O23)27} Isaiah Chapter TwentySeven. {27:1} In that day Yahweh with his hard and
great and strong sword will punish leviathan the swift serpent, and leviathan
the crooked serpent; and he will slay the monster that is in the sea. {27:2} In
that day: A vineyard of wine, sing you unto it. {27:3} I Yahweh am its keeper;
I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.
{27:4} Wrath is not in me: would that the briers and thorns were against me in
battle! I would march upon them, I would burn them together. {27:5} Or else let
him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; [behold], let him
make peace with me. {27:6} In days to come shall Jacob take root; Israel shall
blossom and bud; and they shall fill the face of the world with fruit. {27:7}
Has he smitten them as he smote those that smote them? or are they slain
according to the slaughter of them that were slain by them? {27:8} In measure,
when you send them away, you do contend with them; he has removed [them] with
his rough blast in the day of the east wind. {27:9} Therefore by this shall the
works against law of Jacob be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking
away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are
beaten in sunder, [so that] the Asherim and the sun-images shall rise no more.
{27:10} For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken,
like the wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down,
and consume the branches there. {27:11} When the boughs of it are withered,
they shall be broken off; the women shall come, and set them on fire; for it is
a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have
compassion upon them, and he that formed them will show them no favor. {27:12}
And it shall come to pass in that day, that Yahweh will beat off [his fruit]
from the flood of the River unto the brook of Egypt; and you shall be gathered
one by one, O you children of Israel. {27:13} And it shall come to pass in that
day, that a great trumpet shall be blown; and they shall come that were ready
to perish in the land of Assyria, and they that were outcasts in the land of
Egypt; and they shall worship Yahweh in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.
{O23)28} Isaiah Chapter TwentyEight. {28:1} A curse to the crown of pride of the
drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is
on the head of the fat valley of them that are overcome with wine! {28:2}
Behold, the Lord has a mighty and strong one; as a tempest of hail, a
destroying storm, as a tempest of mighty waters overflowing, will he cast down
to the earth with the hand. {28:3} The crown of pride of the drunkards of
Ephraim shall be trodden under foot: {28:4} and the fading flower of his
glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be as the
first-ripe fig before the summer; which when he that looks upon it sees, while
it is yet in his hand he eats it up. {28:5} In that day will Yahweh of hosts
become a crown of glory, and a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his
people; {28:6} and a spirit of justice to him that sit-in judgment, and
strength to them that turn back the battle at the gate. {28:7} And even these
reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel
with strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they stagger with strong
drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment. {28:8} For all tables are
full of vomit [and] filthiness, [so that there is] no place [clean]. {28:9}
Whom will he teach knowledge? and whom will he make to understand the message?
them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts? {28:10} For it
is precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line;
here a little, there a little. {28:11} No, but by [men of] strange lips and
with another tongue will he speak to this people; {28:12} to whom he said, This
is the rest, give you rest to him that is weary; and this is the refreshing:
yet they would not hear. {28:13} Therefore shall the word of Yahweh be unto
them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon
line; here a little, there a little; that they may go, and fall backward, and
be broken, and snared, and taken. {28:14} Therefore hear the word of Yahweh,
you scoffers, that rule this people that is in Jerusalem: {28:15} Because you
have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol are we at
agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come
unto us; for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid
ourselves: {28:16} therefore thus said the Lord Yahweh, Behold, I lay in Zion
for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner -[stone] of sure
foundation: he that believes shall not be in haste. {28:17} And I will make
justice the line, and righteousness the plummet; and the hail shall sweep away
the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding-place. {28:18} And
your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol shall
not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then you shall be
trodden down by it. {28:19} As often as it passes through, it shall take you;
for morning by morning shall it pass through, by day and by night: and it shall
be nothing but terror to understand the message. {28:20} For the bed is shorter
than that a man can stretch himself on it; and the covering narrower than that
he can wrap himself in it. {28:21} For Yahweh will rise up as in mount Perazim,
he will be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon; that he may do his work, his
strange work, and bring to pass his act, his strange act. {28:22} Now therefore
be you not scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for a decree of
destruction have I heard from the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, upon the whole earth.
{28:23} Give you ear, and hear my voice; hear, and hear my speech. {28:24} Does
he that plows to sow plow continually? does he [continually] open and harrow
his ground? {28:25} When he has leveled the face there, does he not cast abroad
the fitches, and scatter the cumin, and put in the wheat in rows, and the
barley in the appointed place, and the spelt in the border there? {28:26} For
his God does instruct him aright, [and] does teach him. {28:27} For the fitches
are not threshed with a sharp [threshing] instrument, neither is a cart wheel
turned about upon the cumin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and
the cumin with a rod. {28:28} Bread [grain] is ground; for he will not be
always threshing it: and though the wheel of his care and his horses scatter
it, he does not grind it. {28:29} This also comes forth from Yahweh of hosts,
who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.
{O23)29} Isaiah Chapter TwentyNine. {29:1} Ho Ariel, Ariel, the city where
David encamped! add you year to year; let the feasts come round: {29:2} then will
I distress Ariel, and there shall be grievingand lamentation; and she shall be
unto me as Ariel. {29:3} And I will encamp against you round about, and will
lay siege against you with posted troops, and I will raise siege works against
you. {29:4} And you shall be brought down, and shall speak out of the ground,
and your speech shall be low out of the dust; and your voice shall be as of one
that has a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and your speech shall whisper
out of the dust. {29:5} But the multitude of your foes shall be like small
dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones as chaff that passes away: behold,
it shall be in an instant suddenly. {29:6} She shall be visited of Yahweh of
hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with whirlwind and
tempest, and the flame of a devouring fire. {29:7} And the multitude of all the
nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her
stronghold, and that distress her, shall be as a dream, a vision of the night.
{29:8} And it shall be as when a hungry man dreams, and, behold, he eats; but
he awakes, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreams, and, behold,
he drinks; but he awakes, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul has appetite:
so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.
{29:9} Tarry you and wonder; take your pleasure and be blind: they are drunk,
but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink. {29:10} For Yahweh
has poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the
prophets; and your heads, the seers, has he covered. {29:11} And all vision is
become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one
that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray you; and he said, I cannot, for it
is sealed: {29:12} and the book is delivered to him that is not learned,
saying, Read this, I pray you; and he said, I am not learned. {29:13} And the
Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near [unto me], and with their mouth
and with their lips to honor me, but have removed their heart far from me, and
their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught [them]; {29:14}
therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people,
even a marvellous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men shall
perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid. {29:15} A
curse unto them that hide deep their counsel from Yahweh, and whose works are
in the dark, and that say, Who sees us? and who knows us? {29:16} you turn
things upside down! shall the potter be esteemed as clay; that the thing made
should say of him that made it, He made me not; or the thing formed say of him
that formed it, He has no understanding? {29:17} Is it not yet a very little
while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful
field shall be esteemed as a forest? {29:18} And in that day shall the deaf
hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of
obscurity and out of darkness. {29:19} The meek also shall increase their joy
in Yahweh, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
{29:20} For the terrible one is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and
all they that watch for works against law are cut off; {29:21} that make a man
an offender in [his] cause, and lay a snare for him that reproves in the gate,
and turn aside the just with a thing of nothing. {29:22} Therefore thus said Yahweh,
who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob: Jacob shall not now be
ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale. {29:23} But when he sees his
children, the work of my hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my
name; behold, they shall sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall stand in awe
of the God of Israel. {29:24} They also that err in spirit shall come to
understanding, and they that murmur shall receive instruction.
{O23)30} Isaiah Chapter Thirty. {30:1} A curse to the rebellious children,
said Yahweh, that take counsel, but not of me; and that make a league, but not
of my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin, {30:2} that set out to go down into
Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength
of Pharaoh, and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt! {30:3} Therefore shall
the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt
your confusion. {30:4} For their princes are at Zoan, and their ambassadors are
come to Hanes. {30:5} They shall all be ashamed because of a people that cannot
profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
{30:6} The burden of the beasts of the South. Through the land of trouble and
anguish, from where come the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying
serpent, they carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their
treasures upon the humps of camels, to a people that shall not profit [them].
{30:7} For Egypt helps in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I called her
Rahab that sits still. {30:8} Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and
inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the [set] day to come [worship] for
ever and ever. {30:9} For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children
that will not hear the law of Yahweh; {30:10} that say to the seers, See not;
and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth
things, prophesy deceits, {30:11} get you out of the way, turn aside out of the
path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us. {30:12} Therefore
thus said the Holy One of Israel, Because you despise this word, and trust in
oppression and perverseness, and rely thereon; {30:13} therefore this works against
law shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall,
whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant. {30:14} And he shall break it as a
potter's vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces outside sparing; so that there
shall not be found among the pieces of it a shard wherewith to take fire from
the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern. {30:15} For thus said the
Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, In returning and rest shall you be saved;
in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength. And you would not:
{30:16} but you said, No, for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall you
flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be
swift. {30:17} One thousand [shall flee] at the threat of one; at the threat of
five shall you flee: till you be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain,
and as an ensign on a hill. {30:18} And therefore will Yahweh wait, that he may
be gracious unto you; and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy
upon you: for Yahweh is a God of justice; blessed are all they that wait for
him. {30:19} For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem; you shall weep no
more; he will surely be gracious unto you at the voice of your cry; when he
shall hear, he will answer you. {30:20} And though the Lord give you the bread
of adversity and the water of affliction, yet shall not your teachers be hidden
anymore, but your eyes shall see your teachers; {30:21} and your ears shall
hear a word behind you, saying, This is the way, walk you in it; when you turn
to the right hand, and when you turn to the left. {30:22} And you shall defile
the overlaying of your graven images of silver, and the plating of your molten
images of gold: you shall cast them away as an unclean thing; you shall say
unto it, Get you from here. {30:23} And he will give the rain for your seed,
wherewith you shall sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground,
and it shall be fat and plenteous. In that day shall your cattle feed in large
pastures; {30:24} the oxen likewise and the young asses that till the ground
shall eat savory provender, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with
the fork. {30:25} And there shall be upon every lofty mountain, and upon every
high hill, brooks [and] streams of waters, in the day of the great slaughter,
when the towers fall. {30:26} Furthermore the light of the moon shall be as the
light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of
seven days, in the day that Yahweh binds up the hurt of his people, and heals
the stroke of their wound. {30:27} Behold, the name of Yahweh comes from far,
burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke: his lips are full of
indignation, and his tongue is as a devouring fire; {30:28} and his breath is
as an overflowing stream, that reaches even unto the neck, to sift the nations
with the sieve of destruction: and a bridle that causes to err [shall be] in
the jaws of the peoples. {30:29} you shall have a [moving ] song as in the night when a holy [Passover] supper is
observed; and [with] gladness of heart,
as when one goes with a pipe to come into the mountain [fortress] of Yahweh,
to the Petra of Israel. {30:30} And Yahweh
will cause his glorious voice to be heard, and will show the lighting down of
his arm, with the indignation of [his] anger, and the flame of a devouring
fire, with a blast, and tempest, and hailstones. {30:31} For through the voice
of Yahweh shall the Assyrian be dismayed; with his rod will he smite [him].
{30:32} And every stroke of the appointed staff, which Yahweh shall lay upon
him, shall be with [the sound of] tabrets and harps; and in battles with the
brandishing [of his arm] will he fight with them. {30:33} For a Topheth is
prepared of old; behold, for the king it is made ready; he has made it deep and
large; the pile of it is fire and much wood; the breath of Yahweh, like a
stream of brimstone, does kindle it.
{O23)31} Isaiah Chapter ThirtyOne. {31:1} A curse to them that go down to
Egypt for help, and rely on horses, and trust in chariots because they are
many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but they look not unto the
Holy One of Israel, neither seek Yahweh! {31:2} yet he also is wise, and will
bring evil, and will not call back his words, but will arise against the house
of the evil-doers, and against the help of them that work works against law.
{31:3} Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not
spirit: and when Yahweh shall stretch out his hand, both he that helps shall
stumble, and he that is helped shall fall, and they all shall be consumed
together. {31:4} For thus said Yahweh unto me, As the lion and the young lion
growling over his prey, if a multitude of shepherds be called forth against
him, will not be dismayed at their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of
them: so will Yahweh of hosts come down to fight upon mount Zion, and upon the
hill there. {31:5} As birds hovering, so will Yahweh of hosts protect
Jerusalem; he will protect and deliver [it], he will pass over and preserve
[it]. {31:6} Turn you unto him from whom you have deeply revolted, O children
of Israel. {31:7} For in that day they shall cast away every man his idols of
silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a
sin. {31:8} And the Assyrian shall fall by the sword, not of man; and the
sword, not of men, shall devour him; and he shall flee from the sword, and his
young men shall become subject to task work. {31:9} And his rock shall pass
away by reason of terror, and his princes shall be dismayed at the ensign, said
Yahweh, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.
{O23)32} Isaiah Chapter ThirtyTwo. {32:1} Behold, a king shall reign in
righteousness, and princes shall rule in justice. {32:2} And a man shall be as
a hiding-place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest, as streams of
water in a dry place, as the shade of a great rock in a weary land. {32:3} And
the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear
shall hear. {32:4} And the heart of the rash shall understand knowledge, and
the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly. {32:5} The fool
shall be no more called noble, nor the churl said to be bountiful. {32:6} For
the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work works against law, to
practice profaneness, and to utter error against Yahweh, to make empty the soul
of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail. {32:7} And the
instruments of the churl are evil: he devises wicked devices to destroy the
meek with lying words, even when the needy speaks right. {32:8} But the noble
devises noble things; and in noble things shall he continue. {32:9} Rise up,
you women that are at ease, [and] hear my voice; you careless daughters, give
ear unto my speech. {32:10} For days beyond a year shall you be troubled, you
careless women; for the vintage shall fail, the ingathering shall not come.
{32:11} Tremble, you women that are at ease; be troubled, you careless ones;
strip you, and make you bare, and gird [sackcloth] upon your loins. {32:12}
They shall smite upon the breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful
vine. {32:13} Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers;
behold, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city. {32:14} For the palace
shall be forsaken; the populous city shall be deserted; the hill and the
watch-tower shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of
flocks; {32:15} until the Spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the
wilderness become a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be esteemed as a
forest. {32:16} Then justice shall dwell in the wilderness; and righteousness
shall abide in the fruitful field. {32:17} And the work of righteousness shall
be peace; and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence for ever.
{32:18} And my people shall abide in a peaceable habitation, and in safe
dwellings, and in quiet resting-places. {32:19} But it shall hail in the
downfall of the forest; and the city shall be utterly laid low. {32:20} Blessed
are you that sow beside all waters, that send forth the feet of the ox and the donkey.
{O23)33}
Isaiah Chapter ThirtyThree. {33:1}
A curse to you that destroy, and you was not destroyed; and deal treacherously,
and they dealt not treacherously with you! When you have ceased to destroy, you
shall be destroyed; and when you have made an end of dealing treacherously,
they shall deal treacherously with you. {33:2} O Yahweh, be gracious unto us;
we have waited for you: be you our arm every morning, our salvation also in the
time of trouble. {33:3} At the noise of the tumult the peoples are fled; at the
lifting up of yourself the nations are scattered. {33:4} And your spoil shall
be gathered as the caterpillar gathers: as locusts leap shall men leap upon it.
{33:5} Yahweh is exalted; for he dwells on high: he has filled Zion with
justice and righteousness. {33:6} And there shall be stability in your times,
abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge: the fear of Yahweh is your
treasure. {33:7} Behold, their valiant ones cry outside; the ambassadors of
peace weep bitterly. {33:8} The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceases:
[the enemy] has broken the covenant, he has despised the cities, he regards not
man. {33:9} The land grieves and languish; Lebanon is confounded and withers
away; Sharon is like a desert; and Bashan and Carmel shake off [their leaves].
{33:10} Now will I arise, said Yahweh; now will I lift up myself; now will I be
exalted. {33:11} you shall conceive chaff, you shall bring forth stubble: your
breath is a fire that shall devour you. {33:12} And the peoples shall be as the
burnings of lime, as thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire. {33:13}
Hear, you that are far off, what I have done; and, you that are near,
acknowledge my might. {33:14} The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling has
seized the godless ones: Who among us can dwell with the devouring fire? who among
us can dwell with everlasting burnings? {33:15} He that walks righteously, and
speaks uprightly; he that despises the gain of oppressions, that shakes his
hands from taking a bribe, that stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts
his eyes from looking upon evil: {33:16} He shall dwell on high; his place of
defense shall be the munitions of rocks; his bread shall be given [him]; his
waters shall be sure. {33:17} your eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they
shall behold a land that reaches afar. {33:18} Your heart shall muse on the
terror: Where is he that counted, where is he that weighed [the tribute]? where
is he that counted the towers? {33:19} you shall not see the fierce people, a
people of a deep speech that you Can not comprehend, of a strange tongue that
you Can not understand. {33:20} Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities:
your eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tent that shall not be
removed, the stakes where shall never be plucked up, neither shall any of the
cords of it be broken. {33:21} But there Yahweh will be with us in majesty, a
place of broad rivers and streams, wherein shall go no galley with oars,
neither shall gallant ship pass thereby. {33:22} For Yahweh is our judge, Yahweh
is our lawgiver, Yahweh is our king; he will save us. {33:23} Your tacklings
are loosed; they could not strengthen the foot of their mast, they could not
spread the sail: then was the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame took the
prey. {33:24} And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that
dwell therein shall be forgiven their works against law.
{o23)34} Isaiah Chapter ThirtyFour. {34:1} Come near, you nations, to hear; and
hear, you peoples: let the earth hear, and the fullness there; the world, and
all things that come forth from it. {34:2} For Yahweh has indignation against
all the nations, and wrath against all their host: he has utterly destroyed
them, he has delivered them to the slaughter. {34:3} Their slain also shall be
cast out, and the stench of their dead bodies shall come up; and the mountains
shall be melted with their blood. {34:4} And all the host of heaven shall be
dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll; and all their
host shall fade away, as the leaf fades from off the vine, and as a fading
[leaf] from the fig-tree. {34:5} For my sword has drunk its fill in heaven:
behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and upon the people of my curse, to
judgment. {34:6} The sword of Yahweh is filled with blood, it is made fat with
fatness, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of
rams; for Yahweh has a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land
of Edom. {34:7} And the wild-oxen shall come down with them, and the bullocks
with the bulls: and their land shall be drunk with blood, and their dust made
fat with fatness. {34:8} For Yahweh has a day of vengeance, a year of
recompense for the cause of Zion. {34:9} And the streams of [Edom] shall be
turned into pitch, and the dust of it into brimstone, and the land of it shall
become burning pitch. {34:10} It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke
of it shall go up for ever; from generation to generation it shall lie waste;
none shall pass through it for ever and ever. {34:11} But the pelican and the
porcupine shall possess it; and the owl and the raven shall dwell therein: and
he will stretch over it the line of confusion, and the plummet of emptiness.
{34:12} They shall call the nobles of it to the kingdom, but none shall be
there; and all its princes shall be nothing. {34:13} And thorns shall come up
in its palaces, nettles and thistles in the fortresses there; and it shall be a
habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches. {34:14} And the wild beasts of
the desert shall meet with the wolves, and the wild goat shall cry to his
fellow; behold, the night-monster shall settle there, and shall find her a
place of rest. {34:15} There shall the dare-snake make her nest, and lay, and
hatch, and gather under her shade; behold, there shall the kites be gathered,
every one with her mate. {34:16} Seek you out of the book of Yahweh, and read:
no one of these shall be missing, none shall want her mate; for my mouth, it
has commanded, and his Spirit, it has gathered them. {34:17} And he has cast
the lot for them, and his hand has divided it unto them by line: they shall
possess it for ever; from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.
{O23)35} Isaiah Chapter ThirtyFive. {35:1} The wilderness and the dry land
shall be glad; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. {35:2} It
shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing; the glory of
Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon: they shall
see the glory of Yahweh, the excellency of our God. {35:3} Strengthen you the
weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. {35:4} Say to them that are of a
fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come [with]
vengeance, [with] the recompense of God; he will come and save you. {35:5} Then
the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be
unstopped. {35:6} Then shall the lame man leap as a hare, and the tongue of the
dumb shall sing; for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in
the desert. {35:7} And the glowing sand shall become a pool, and the thirsty
ground springs of water: in the habitation of jackals, where they lay, shall be
grass with reeds and rushes. {35:8} And a highway shall be there, and a way,
and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it;
but it shall be for [the redeemed]: the wayfaring men, behold fools, shall not
err [therein]. {35:9} No lion shall be there, nor shall any ravenous beast go
up thereon; they shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk [there]:
{35:10} and the ransomed of Yahweh shall return, and come with singing unto
Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads: they shall obtain gladness
and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
{O23)36}
Isaiah Chapter ThirtySix36. {36:1} Now
it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king
of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them.
{36:2} And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto
king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool
in the highway of the fuller's field. {36:3} Then came forth unto him Eliakim
the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and
Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder. {36:4} And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say
you now to Hezekiah, Thus said the great king, the king of Assyria, What
confidence is this wherein you trusts? {36:5} I say, [your] counsel and
strength for the war are but vain words: now on whom do you trust, that you have
rebelled against me? {36:6} Behold, you trusts upon the staff of this bruised
reed, even upon Egypt, whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and
pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust on him. {36:7} But if
you say unto me, We trust in Yahweh our God: is not that he, whose high places
and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to
Jerusalem, you shall worship before this altar? {36:8} Now therefore, I pray
you, give pledges to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two
thousand horses, if you be able on your part to set riders upon them. {36:9}
How then Can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's
servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen? {36:10}
And am I now come up outside Yahweh against this land to destroy it? Yahweh
said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy it. {36:11} Then said
Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray you, unto your
servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and speak not to us in
the Jews' language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall. {36:12} But
Rabshakeh said, Has my master sent me to your master, and to you, to speak
these words? [has he] not [sent me] to the men that sit upon the wall, to eat
their own dung, and to drink their own water with you? {36:13} Then Rabshakeh
stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and said, Hear you
the words of the great king, the king of Assyria. {36:14} Thus said the king,
Let not Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver you: {36:15}
neither let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, Yahweh will surely
deliver us; this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.
{36:16} Hear not to Hezekiah: for thus said the king of Assyria, Make your
peace with me, and come out to me; and eat you every one of his vine, and every
one of his fig-tree, and drink you every one the waters of his own cistern;
{36:17} until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of
grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards. {36:18} Beware lest Hezekiah
persuade you, saying, Yahweh will deliver us. Has any of the gods of the
nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria? {36:19}
Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim? and
have they delivered Samaria out of my hand? {36:20} Who are they among all the
gods of these countries, that have delivered their country out of my hand, that
Yahweh should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand? {36:21} But they held their
peace, and answered him not a word; for the king's commandment was, saying,
Answer him not. {36:22} Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, that was over the
household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to
Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.
{O23)37} Isaiah Chapter ThirtySeven. {37:1} And it came to pass, when king
Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with
sackcloth, and went into the house of Yahweh. {37:2} And he sent Eliakim, who
was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests,
covered with sackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz. {37:3} And
they said unto him, Thus said Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of
rebuke, and of contumely; for the children are come to the birth, and there is
not strength to bring forth. {37:4} It may be Yahweh your God will hear the
words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the
living God, and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard:
Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left. {37:5} So the
servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah. {37:6} And Isaiah said unto them,
Thus shall you say to your master, Thus said Yahweh, Be not afraid of the words
that you have heard, wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have
blasphemed me. {37:7} Behold, I will put a spirit in him, and he shall hear
tidings, and shall return unto his own land; and I will cause him to fall by
the sword in his own land. {37:8} So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of
Assyria warring against Libnah; for he had heard that he was departed from
Lachish. {37:9} And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He is
come out to fight against you. And when he heard it, he sent messengers to
Hezekiah, saying, {37:10} Thus shall you speak to Hezekiah king of Judah,
saying, Let not your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, Jerusalem shall
not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria. {37:11} Behold, you have
heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them
utterly: and shall you be delivered? {37:12} Have the gods of the nations
delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph,
and the children of Eden that were in Telassar? {37:13} Where is the king of
Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena,
and Ivvah? {37:14} And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the
messengers, and read it; and Hezekiah went up unto the house of Yahweh, and
spread it before Yahweh. {37:15} And Hezekiah prayed unto Yahweh, saying,
{37:16} O Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, that sits [above] the cherubim,
you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have
made heaven and earth. {37:17} Incline your ear, O Yahweh, and hear; open your
eyes, O Yahweh, and see; and hear all the words of Sennacherib, who has sent to
defy the living God. {37:18} Of a truth, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have laid
waste all the countries, and their land, {37:19} and have cast their gods into
the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone;
therefore they have destroyed them. {37:20} Now therefore, O Yahweh our God,
save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you are
Yahweh, even you only. {37:21} Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah,
saying, Thus said Yahweh, the God of Israel, Whereas you have prayed to me
against Sennacherib king of Assyria, {37:22} this is the word which Yahweh has
spoken concerning him: The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and laughed
you to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you. {37:23}
Whom have you defied and blasphemed? and against whom have you exalted your
voice and lifted up your eyes on high? [even] against the Holy One of Israel.
{37:24} By your servants have you defied the Lord, and have said, With the
multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the
innermost parts of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars there, and the
choice fir-trees there; and I will enter into its highest of height, the forest of its fruitful field;
{37:25} I have dug and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up
all the rivers of Egypt. {37:26} Have you not heard how I have done it long
ago, and formed it of ancient times? now have I brought it to pass, that it
should be your to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps. {37:27}
Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and
confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the
grass on the housetops, and as a field [of grain] before it is grown up.
{37:28} But I know your sitting down, and your going out, and your coming in,
and your raging against me. {37:29} Because of your raging against me, and
because your arrogance is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook
in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way
by which you came. {37:30} And this shall be the sign unto you: you shall eat
this year that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs
of the same; and in the third year sow you, and reap, and plant vineyards, and
eat the fruit there. {37:31} And the remnant that is escaped of the house of
Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward. {37:32} For out of
Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and out of mount Zion they that shall
escape. The zeal of Yahweh of hosts will perform this. {37:33} Therefore thus
said Yahweh concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come unto this city,
nor shoot an arrow there, neither shall he come before it with shield, nor cast
up a mound against it. {37:34} By the way that he came, by the same shall he
return, and he shall not come unto this city, said Yahweh. {37:35} For I will
defend this city to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David's
sake. {37:36} And the messenger of Yahweh went forth, and smote in the camp of
the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand; and when men arose
early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies. {37:37} So
Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at
Nineveh. {37:38} And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of
Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the
sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esar-haddon his son
reigned in his stead.
{O23)38} Isaiah Chapter ThirtyEight. {38:1} In those days was Hezekiah sick unto
death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him,
Thus said Yahweh, Set your house in order; for you shall die, and not live.
{38:2} Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto Yahweh,
{38:3} and said, Remember now, O Yahweh, I ask you, how I have walked before
you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your
sight. And Hezekiah wept sore. {38:4} Then came the word of Yahweh to Isaiah,
saying, {38:5} Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus said Yahweh, the God of David your
father, I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears: behold, I will add
unto your days fifteen years. {38:6} And I will deliver you and this city out
of the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city. {38:7} And
this shall be the sign unto you from Yahweh, that Yahweh will do this thing
that he has spoken: {38:8} behold, I will cause the shadow on the steps, which
is gone down on the dial of Ahaz with the sun, to return backward ten steps. So
the sun returned ten steps on the dial whereon it was gone down. {38:9} The writing of Hezekiah king of
Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness. {38:10} I
said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates of Sheol: I am
deprived of the residue of my years. {38:11} I said, I shall not see Yahweh,
[even] Yahweh in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the
inhabitants of the world. {38:12} My dwelling is removed, and is carried away
from me as a shepherd's tent: I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life; he will
cut me off from the loom: From day even to night will you make an end of me.
{38:13} I quieted [myself] until morning; as a lion, so he breaks all my bones:
From day even to night will you make an end of me. {38:14} Like a swallow [or]
a crane, so did I chatter; I did moan as a dove; mine eyes fail [with looking]
upward: O Lord, I am oppressed, be you my guarentee. {38:15} What shall I say?
he has both spoken unto me, and himself has done it: I shall go softly all my
years because of the bitterness of my soul. {38:16} O Lord, by these things men
live; And wholly therein is the life of my spirit: Therefore recover you me,
and make me to live. {38:17} Behold, [it was] for [my] peace [that] I had great
bitterness: But you have in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; For you have cast all my sins
behind your back. {38:18} For Sheol cannot praise you, death cannot celebrate
you: They that go down into the pit cannot hope for your truth. {38:19} The
living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do this day: The father to the
children shall make known your truth. {38:20} Yahweh is [ready] to save me:
Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments All the days of our
life in the house of Yahweh. {38:21}
Now Isaiah had said, Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a plaster
upon the boil, and he shall recover. {38:22} Hezekiah also had said, What is
the sign that I shall go up to the house of Yahweh?
{O23)39} Isaiah Chapter ThirtyNine. {39:1} At that time Marduk-Baladan the son of Baladan, king of
Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah; for he heard that he had been
sick, and was recovered. {39:2} And Hezekiah was glad of them, and showed them
the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and
the precious oil, and all the house of his armor, and all that was found in his
treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that
Hezekiah showed them not. {39:3} Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king
Hezekiah, and said unto him, What said these men? and from where came they unto
you? And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country unto me, even from
Babylon. {39:4} Then said he, What have they seen in your house? And Hezekiah
answered, All that is in my house have they seen: there is nothing among my
treasures that I have not showed them. {39:5} Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah,
Hear the word of Yahweh of hosts: {39:6} Behold, the days are coming, when all
that is in your house, and that which your fathers have laid up in store until
this day, shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, said Yahweh.
{39:7} And of your sons that shall issue from you, whom you shall beget, shall
they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.
{39:8} Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, Good is the word of Yahweh which you
have spoken. He said furthermore, For there shall be peace and truth in my days.
{O23)40} Isaiah Chapter Forty. {40:1} Comfort you, comfort you my people,
said your God. {40:2} Speak you comfortably to Jerusalem; and cry unto her,
that her warfare is accomplished, that her works against law is pardoned, that
she has received of Yahweh's hand double for all her sins. {40:3} The voice of
one that cries, Prepare you in the wilderness the way of Yahweh; make level in
the desert a highway for our God. {40:4} Every valley shall be exalted, and
every mountain and hill shall be made low; and the uneven shall be made level,
and the rough places a plain: {40:5} and the glory of Yahweh shall be revealed,
and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.
{40:6} The voice of one saying, Cry. And one said, What shall I cry? All flesh
is grass, and all the goodliness of it is as the flower of the field. {40:7}
The grass withers, the flower fades, because the breath of Yahweh blows upon
it; surely the people is grass. {40:8} The grass withers, the flower fades; but
the word of our God shall stand forever. {40:9} O you that tell good tidings to
Zion, get you up on a high mountain; O you that tell good tidings to Jerusalem,
lift up your voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the
cities of Judah, Behold, your God! {40:10} Behold, the Lord Yahweh will come as
a mighty one, and his arm will rule for him: Behold, his reward is with him,
and his recompense before him. {40:11} He will feed his flock like a shepherd,
he will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom, [and] will
gently lead those that have their young. {40:12} Who has measured the waters in
the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended
the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and
the hills in a balance? {40:13} Who has directed the Spirit of Yahweh, or being
his counselor has taught him? {40:14} With whom took he counsel, and who
instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him
knowledge, and showed to him the way of understanding? {40:15} Behold, the
nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are accounted as the small dust of the
balance: Behold, he takes up the isles as a very little thing. {40:16} And
Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts of it sufficient for a
burnt-offering. {40:17} All the nations are as nothing before him; they are
accounted by him as less than nothing, and vanity. {40:18} To whom then will
you liken God? or what likeness will you compare unto him? {40:19} The image, a
workman has cast [it], and the goldsmith overlay it with gold, and cast [for
it] silver chains. {40:20} He that is too impoverished for [such] an oblation
choose a tree that will not rot; he seeks unto him a skilful workman to set up
a graven image, that shall not be moved. {40:21} Have you not known? have yet
not heard? has it not been told you from the beginning? have you not understood
from the foundations of the earth? {40:22} [It is] he that sits above the
circle of the earth, and the inhabitants of it are as grasshoppers; that
stretches out the heavens as a curtain, and spreads them out as a tent to dwell
in; {40:23} that brings princes to nothing; that makes the judges of the earth
as vanity. {40:24} behold, they have not been planted; behold, they have not
been sown; behold, their stock has not taken root in the earth: furthermore he
blows upon them, and they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.
{40:25} To whom then will you liken me, that I should be equal [to him]? said
the Holy One. {40:26} Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these,
that brings out their host by number; he calls them all by name; by the
greatness of his might, and for that he is strong in power, not one is lacking.
{40:27} Why say you, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, My way is hid from Yahweh,
and the justice [due] to me is passed away from my God? {40:28} Have you not
known? have you not heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends
of the earth, faints not, neither is weary; there is no searching of his
understanding. {40:29} He gives power to the faint; and to him that has no
might he increases strength. {40:30} Even the young shall faint and be weary,
and the young men shall utterly fall: {40:31} but they that wait for Yahweh
shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they
shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.
{O23)41} Isaiah Chapter FortyOne. {41:1} Keep silence before me, O islands;
and let the peoples renew their strength: let them come near; then let them
speak; let us come near together to judgment. {41:2} Who has raised up one from
the east, whom he calls in righteousness to his foot? he gives nations before
him, and makes him rule over kings; he gives them as the dust to his sword, as
the driven stubble to his bow. {41:3} He pursues them, and passes on safely,
even by a way that he had not gone with his feet. {41:4} Who has wrought and
done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I, Yahweh, the first, and
with the last, I am he. {41:5} The isles have seen, and fear; the ends of the
earth tremble; they draw near, and come. {41:6} They help every one his
neighbor; and [every one] said to his brother, Be of good courage. {41:7} So
the carpenter encourages the goldsmith, [and] he that smoothes with the hammer
him that smites anvil, saying of the soldering, It is good; and he fastens it
with nails, that it should not be moved. {41:8} But you, Israel, my servant,
Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend, {41:9} you whom I have
taken hold of from the ends of the earth, and called from the corners there,
and said unto you, you are my servant, I have chosen you and not cast you away;
{41:10} Fear you not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I
will strengthen you; behold, I will help you; behold, I will uphold you with
the right hand of my righteousness. {41:11} Behold, all they that are incensed
against you shall be put to shame and confounded: they that strive with you
shall be as nothing, and shall perish. {41:12} you shall seek them, and shall
not find them, even them that contend with you: they that war against you shall
be as nothing, and as a thing of nothing. {41:13} For I, Yahweh your God, will
hold your right hand, saying unto you, Fear not; I will help you. {41:14} Fear
not, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel; I will help you, said Yahweh, and
your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel. {41:15} Behold, I have made you [to
be] a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth; you shall thresh the
mountains, and beat them small, and shall make the hills as chaff. {41:16} you
shall winnow them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall
scatter them; and you shall rejoice in Yahweh, you shall glory in the Holy One
of Israel. {41:17} The poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their
tongue fails for thirst; I, Yahweh, will answer them, I, the God of Israel,
will not forsake them. {41:18} I will open rivers on the bare heights, and
fountains in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness a pool of
water, and the dry land springs of water. {41:19} I will put in the wilderness
the cedar, the acacia, and the myrtle, and the oil-tree; I will set in the
desert the fir-tree, the pine, and the box-tree together: {41:20} that they may
see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of Yahweh
has done this, and the Holy One of Israel has created it. {41:21} Produce your
cause, said Yahweh; bring forth your strong reasons, said the King of Jacob.
{41:22} Let them bring forth, and declare unto us what shall happen: declare
you the former things, what they are, that we may consider them, and know the
latter end of them; or show us things to come. {41:23} Declare the things that
are to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods: behold, do good, or
do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together. {41:24} Behold, you
are of nothing, and your work is of nothing; an abomination is he that chooses
you. {41:25} I have raised up one from the north, and he is come; from the
rising of the sun one that calls upon my name: and he shall come upon rulers as
upon mortar, and as the potter treads clay. {41:26} Who has declared it from
the beginning, that we may know? and beforetime, that we may say, [He is] right?
behold, there is none that declares, behold, there is none that shows, behold,
there is none that hears your words. {41:27} [I am the] first [that said] unto
Zion, Behold, behold them; and I will give to Jerusalem one that brings good
tidings. {41:28} And when I look, there is no man: even among them there is no
counselor, that, when I ask of them, can answer a word. {41:29} Behold, all of
them, their works are vanity [and] nothing; their molten images are wind and
confusion.
{O23)42} Isaiah Chapter FortyTwo. {42:1} Behold, my servant, whom I uphold;
my chosen, in whom my soul delights: I have put my Spirit upon him; he will
bring forth justice to the Gentiles. {42:2} He will not cry, nor lift up his
voice, nor cause it to be heard in the street. {42:3} A bruised reed will he
not break, and a dimly burning wick will he not quench: he will bring forth
justice in truth. {42:4} He will not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set
justice in the earth; and the isles shall wait for his law. {42:5} Thus said
God Yahweh, he that created the heavens, and stretched them forth; he that
spread abroad the earth and that which comes out of it; he that gives breath
unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein: {42:6} I, Yahweh,
have called you in righteousness, and will hold your hand, and will keep you,
and give you for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles; {42:7}
to open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, and them
that sit in darkness out of the prison-house. {42:8} I am Yahweh, that is my
name; and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise unto graven
images. {42:9} Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I
declare; before they spring forth I tell you of them. {42:10} Sing unto Yahweh
a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth; you that go down to the
sea, and all that is therein, the isles, and the inhabitants there. {42:11} Let
the wilderness and the cities of it lift up [their voice], the villages that Kedar
does inhabit; let the inhabitants of Sela sing, let them shout from the top of
the mountains. {42:12} Let them give glory unto Yahweh, and declare his praise
in the islands. {42:13} Yahweh will go forth as a mighty man; he will stir up
[his] zeal like a man of war: he will cry, behold, he will shout aloud; he will
do mightily against his enemies. {42:14} I have long time held my peace; I have
been still, and refrained myself: [now] will I cry out like a travailing woman;
I will gasp and pant together. {42:15} I will lay waste mountains and hills,
and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and will dry up
the pools. {42:16} And I will bring the blind by a way that they know not; in
paths that they know not will I lead them; I will make darkness light before
them, and crooked places straight. These things will I do, and I will not
forsake them. {42:17} They shall be turned back, they shall be utterly put to
shame, that trust in graven images, that say unto molten images, you are our gods.
{42:18} Hear, you deaf; and look, you blind, that you may see. {42:19} Who is
blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I send? who is blind as he
that is at peace [with me], and blind as Yahweh's servant? {42:20} you see many
things, but you observe not; his ears are open, but he hears not. {42:21} It
pleased Yahweh, for his righteousness' sake, to magnify the law, and make it
honorable. {42:22} But this is a people robbed and plundered; they are all of
them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison-houses: they are for a prey,
and none delivers; for a spoil, and none said, Restore. {42:23} Who is there
among you that will give ear to this? that will hear and hear for the time to
come? {42:24} Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not Yahweh?
he against whom we have sinned, and in whose ways they would not walk, neither
were they obedient unto his law. {42:25} Therefore he poured upon him the
fierceness of his anger, and the strength of battle; and it set him on fire round
about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.
{O23)43} Isaiah Chapter FortyThree. {43:1} But now thus said Yahweh that
created you, O Jacob, and he that formed you, O Israel: Fear not, for I have
redeemed you; I have called you by your name, you are mine. {43:2} When you
pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall
not overflow you: when you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned,
neither shall the flame kindle upon you. {43:3} For I am Yahweh your God, the
Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I have given Egypt as your ransom, Ethiopia
and Seba in your stead. {43:4} Since you have been precious in my sight, [and]
honorable, and I have agape loved you; therefore will I give men in your stead,
and peoples instead of your life. {43:5} Fear not; for I am with you: I will
bring your seed from the east, and gather you from the west; {43:6} I will say
to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back; bring my sons from far,
and my daughters from the end of the earth; {43:7} every one that is called by
my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, behold, whom
I have made. {43:8} Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf
that have ears. {43:9} Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the
peoples be assembled: who among them can declare this, and show us former
things? let them bring their witnesses, that they may be justified; or let them
hear, and say, It is truth. {43:10} you are my witnesses, said Yahweh, and my
servant whom I have chosen; that you may know and believe me, and understand
that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after
me. {43:11} I, even I, am Yahweh; and besides me there is no savior. {43:12} I
have declared, and I have saved, and I have showed; and there was no strange
[god] among you: therefore you are my witnesses, said Yahweh, and I am God.
{43:13} behold, since the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver
out of my hand: I will work, and who can hinder it? {43:14} Thus said Yahweh,
your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: For your sake I have sent to Babylon,
and I will bring down all of them as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the
ships of their rejoicing. {43:15} I am Yahweh, your Holy One, the Creator of
Israel, your King. {43:16} Thus said Yahweh, who makes a way in the sea, and a
path in the mighty waters; {43:17} who brings forth the chariot and horse, the
army and the mighty man (they lie down together, they shall not rise; they are
extinct, they are quenched as a wick): {43:18} Remember you not the former
things, neither consider the things of old. {43:19} Behold, I will do a new
thing; now shall it spring forth; shall you not know it? I will even make a way
in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert. {43:20} The beasts of the field
shall honor me, the jackals and the ostriches; because I give waters in the
wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen,
{43:21} the people which I formed for myself, that they might set forth my
praise. {43:22} yet you have not called upon me, O Jacob; but you have been
weary of me, O Israel. {43:23} you have not brought me of your sheep for
burnt-offerings; neither have you honored me with your sacrifices. I have not
burdened you with offerings, nor wearied you with frankincense. {43:24} you
have bought me no sweet cane with money, neither have you filled me with the
fat of your sacrifices; but you have burdened me with your sins, you have
wearied me with your iniquities. {43:25} I, even I, am he that blots out your
transgression of the law for mine own sake; and I will not remember your sins.
{43:26} Put me in remembrance; let us plead together: set you forth [your
cause], that you may be justified. {43:27} Your first father sinned, and your
teachers have transgressed against me. {43:28} Therefore I will profane the
princes of the sanctuary; and I will make Jacob a curse, and Israel a
reviling.
{O23)44} Isaiah Chapter FortyFour. {44:1} yet now hear, O Jacob my servant,
and Israel, who I have chosen: {44:2} Thus said Yahweh that made you, and
formed you from the womb, who will help you: Fear not, O Jacob my servant; and
you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen. {44:3} For I will pour water upon him that
is thirsty, and streams upon the dry ground; I will pour my Spirit upon your
seed, and my blessing upon your offspring: {44:4} and they shall spring up
among the grass, as willows by the watercourses. {44:5} One shall say, I am Yahweh's;
and another shall call [himself] by the name of Jacob; and another shall
subscribe with his hand unto Yahweh, and surname [himself] by the name of
Israel. {44:6} Thus said Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh
of hosts: I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.
{44:7} And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in order for
me, since I established the ancient people? and the things that are coming, and
that shall come to pass, let them declare. {44:8} Fear you not, neither be afraid:
have I not declared unto you of old, and showed it? and you are my witnesses.
Is there a God besides me? behold, there is no Rock; I know not any. {44:9}
They that fashion a graven image are all of them vanity; and the things that
they delight in shall not profit; and their own witnesses see not, nor know:
that they may be put to shame. {44:10} Who has fashioned a god, or molten an
image that is profitable for nothing? {44:11} Behold, all his fellows shall be
put to shame; and the workmen, they are of men: let them all be gathered
together, let them stand up; they shall fear, they shall be put to shame
together. {44:12} The smith [makes] an axe, and works in the coals, and
fashions it with hammers, and works it with his strong arm: behold, he is hungry,
and his strength fails; he drinks no water, and is faint. {44:13} The carpenter
stretches out a line; he marks it out with a pencil; he shapes it with planes,
and he marks it out with the compasses, and shapes it after the figure of a
man, according to the beauty of a man, to dwell in a house. {44:14} He hews him
down cedars, and takes the holm-tree and the oak, and strengthens for himself
one among the trees of the forest: he plants a fir-tree, and the rain does
nourish it. {44:15} Then shall it be for a man to burn; and he takes there, and
warms himself; behold, he kindles it, and bakes bread: behold, he makes a god,
and worships it; he makes it a graven image, and falls down thereto. {44:16} He
burns a part of it in the fire; with part of it he eats flesh; he roasts a
roast, and is satisfied; behold, he warms himself, and said, Aha, I am warm, I
have seen the fire. {44:17} And the residue of it he makes a god, even his
graven image; he falls down unto it and worships, and prays unto it, and says,
Deliver me; for you are my god. {44:18} They know not, neither do they
consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts,
that they cannot understand. {44:19} And none calls to mind, neither is there
knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire;
behold, also I have baked bread upon the coals there; I have roasted flesh and
eaten it: and shall I make the residue of it an abomination? shall I fall down
to the stock of a tree? {44:20} He feeds on ashes; a deceived heart has turned
him aside; and he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my
right hand? {44:21} Remember these things, O Jacob, and Israel; for you are my
servant: I have formed you; you are my servant: O Israel, you shall not be
forgotten of me. {44:22} I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your
transgression of the law, and, as a cloud, your sins: return unto me; for I
have redeemed you. {44:23} Sing, O you heavens, for Yahweh has done it; shout,
you lower parts of the earth; break forth into singing, you mountains, O
forest, and every tree therein: for Yahweh has redeemed Jacob, and will glorify
himself in Israel. {44:24} Thus said Yahweh, your Redeemer, and he that formed
you from the womb: I am Yahweh, that makes all things; that stretches forth the
heavens alone; that spreads abroad the earth (who is with me?); {44:25} that
frustrates the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad; that turns wise men
backward, and makes their knowledge foolish; {44:26} that confirms the word of
his servant, and performs the counsel of his messengers; that said of
Jerusalem, She shall be inhabited; and of the cities of Judah, They shall be
built, and I will raise up the waste places there; {44:27} that said to the
deep, Be dry, and I will dry up your rivers; {44:28} That said of Cyrus, [He
is] my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure, even saying of Jerusalem,
She shall be built; and of the temple, Your foundation shall be laid.
{O23)45} Isaiah Chapter FortyFive. {45:1} Thus said Yahweh to his anointed, to
Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him, and I will
loose the loins of kings; to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not
be shut: {45:2} I will go before you, and make the rough places smooth; I will
break in pieces the doors of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron; {45:3}
and I will give you the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret
places, that you ma know that it is I, Yahweh, who call you by your name, even
the God of Israel. {45:4} For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel my chosen, I
have called you by your name: I have surnamed you, though you have not known
me. {45:5} I am Yahweh, and there is none else; besides me there is no God. I
will gird you, though you have not known me; {45:6} that they may know from the
rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none besides me: I am Yahweh,
and there is none else. {45:7} I form the light, and made the dark; I make
peace, and create evil. I am Yahweh, that does all these things. {45:8} Distil,
you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the
earth open, that it may bring forth salvation, and let it cause righteousness
to spring up together; I, Yahweh, have created it. {45:9} A curse unto him that
strives with his Maker! a potsherd among the potsherds of the earth! shall the
clay say to him that fashions it, What makes you? or your work, He has no
hands? {45:10} A curse unto him that said unto a father, What begets you? or to
a woman, With what travails you? {45:11} Thus said Yahweh, the Holy One of
Israel, and his Maker: Ask me of the things that are to come; concerning my
sons, and concerning the work of my hands, command you me. {45:12} I have made
the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the
heavens; and all their host have I commanded. {45:13} I have raised him up in
righteousness, and I will make straight all his ways: he shall build my city,
and he shall let my exiles go free, not for price nor reward, said Yahweh of hosts.
{45:14} Thus said Yahweh, The labor of Egypt, and the merchandise of Ethiopia,
and the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over unto you, and they shall be
your: they shall go after you, in chains they shall come over; and they shall
fall down unto you, they shall make supplication unto you, [saying], Surely God
is in you; and there is none else, there is no God. {45:15} Verily you are a
God that hides yourself, O God of Israel, the Savior. {45:16} They shall be put
to shame, behold, confounded, all of them; they shall go into confusion
together that are makers of idols. {45:17} [But] Israel shall be saved by Yahweh
with an everlasting salvation: you shall not be put to shame nor confounded
world outside end. {45:18} For thus said Yahweh that created the heavens, the
God that formed the earth and made it, that established it and created it not a
waste, that formed it to be inhabited: I am Yahweh; and there is none else.
{45:19} I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness; I said
not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek you me in vain: I, Yahweh, speak
righteousness, I declare things that are right. {45:20} Assemble yourselves and
come; draw near together, you that are escaped of the nations: they have no
knowledge that carry the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that
cannot save. {45:21} Declare you, and bring [it] forth; behold, let them take
counsel together: who has showed this from ancient time? who has declared it of
old? have not I, Yahweh? and there is no God else besides me, a just God and a
Savior; there is none besides me. {45:22} Look unto me, and be you saved, all
the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is none else. {45:23} By myself
have I sworn, the word is gone forth from my mouth [in] righteousness, and shall
not return, that unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.
{45:24} Only in Yahweh, it is said of me, is righteousness and strength; even
to him shall men come; and all they that were incensed against him shall be put
to shame. {45:25} In Yahweh shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and
shall glory.
{O23)46} Isaiah Chapter FortySix. {46:1} Bel bows down, Nebo stoops; their
idols are upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: the things that you carried
about are made a load, a burden to the weary [beast]. {46:2} They stoop, they
bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone
into captivity. {46:3} Hear unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of
the house of Israel, that have been borne [by me] from their birth, that have
been carried from the womb; {46:4} and even to old age I am he, and even to
hoar hairs will I carry [you]; I have made, and I will bear; behold, I will
carry, and will deliver. {46:5} To whom will you like me, and make me equal, and
compare me, that we may be like? {46:6} Such as lavish gold out of the bag, and
weigh silver in the balance, they hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god; they
fall down, behold, they worship. {46:7} They bear it upon the shoulder, they
carry it, and set it in its place, and it stands, from its place shall it not
remove: behold, one may cry unto it, yet can it not answer, nor save him out of
his trouble. {46:8} Remember this, and show yourselves men; bring it again to
mind, O you transgressors. {46:9} Remember the former things of old: for I am
God, and there is none else; [I am] God, and there is none like me; {46:10}
declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are
not [yet] done; saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure;
{46:11} calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man of my counsel from a far
country; behold, I have spoken, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed,
I will also do it. {46:12} Hear unto me, you stout-hearted, that are far from righteousness:
{46:13} I bring near my righteousness, it shall not be far off, and my
salvation shall not tarry; and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my
glory.
{O23)47} Chapter FortySeven. {47:1} Come down, and sit in the dust, O
virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground outside a throne, O daughter of
the Chaldeans: for you shall no more be called tender and delicate. {47:2} Take
the millstones, and grind meal; remove your veil, strip off the train, uncover
the leg, pass through the rivers. {47:3} Your nakedness shall be uncovered,
behold, your shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and will spare no man.
{47:4} Our Redeemer, Yahweh of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel.
{47:5} Sit you silent, and get you into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans;
for you shall no more be called The mistress of kingdoms. {47:6} I was wroth
with my people, I profaned mine inheritance, and gave them into your hand: you
did show them no mercy; upon the aged have you very heavily laid your yoke. {47:7}
And you said, I shall be mistress for ever; so that you did not lay these
things to your heart, neither did remember the latter end there. {47:8} Now
therefore hear this, you that are given to pleasures, that sits securely, that
says in your heart, I am, and there is none else besides me; I shall not sit as
a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children: {47:9} but these two things
shall come to you in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood;
in their full measure shall they come upon you, in the multitude of your
sorceries, and the great abundance of your enchantments. {47:10} For you have
trusted in your wickedness; you have said, None sees me; your wisdom and your
knowledge, it has perverted you, and you have said in your heart, I am, and
there is none else besides me. {47:11} Therefore shall evil come upon you; you
shall not know the dawning there: and mischief shall fall upon you; you shall
not be able to put it away: and desolation shall come upon you suddenly, which
you know not. {47:12} Stand now with your enchantments, and with the multitude
of your sorceries, wherein you have labored from your yet; if so be you shall
be able to profit, if so be you may prevail. {47:13} you are wearied in the
multitude of your counsels: let now the astrologers, the star-gazers, the moon
prognosticators, stand up, and save you from the things that shall come upon
you. {47:14} Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they
shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: it shall not be a
coal to warm at, nor a fire to sit before. {47:15} Thus shall the things be
unto you wherein you have labored: they that have trafficked with you from your
youth shall wander every one to his quarter; there shall be none to save you.
{O23)48}
Isaiah Chapter FortyEight. {48:1} Hear
you this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and are come
forth out of the waters of Judah; who swear by the name of Yahweh, and make
mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness {48:2}
(for they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of
Israel; Yahweh of hosts is his name): {48:3} I have declared the former things
from of old; behold, they went forth out of my mouth, and I showed them:
suddenly I did them, and they came to pass. {48:4} Because I knew that you are
obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow brass; {48:5}
therefore I have declared it to you from of old; before it came to pass I
showed it you; lest you should say, Mine idol has done them, and my graven
image, and my molten image, has commanded them. {48:6} you have heard it;
behold all this; and you, will you not declare it? I have showed you new things
from this time, even hidden things, which you have not known. {48:7} They are
created now, and not from of old; and before this day you heard them not; lest
you should say, Behold, I knew them. {48:8} behold, you heard not; behold, you
knew not; behold, from of old your ear was not opened: for I knew that you did
deal very treacherously, and was called a transgressor from the womb. {48:9}
For my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain
for you, that I cut you not off. {48:10} Behold, I have refined you, but not as
silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction. {48:11} For mine own
sake, for mine own sake, will I do it; for how should [my name] be profaned?
and my glory will I not give to another. {48:12} Hear unto me, O Jacob, and
Israel my called: I am he; I am the first, I also am the last. {48:13} behold,
my hand has laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand has spread out
the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together. {48:14} Assemble
yourselves, all you, and hear; who among them has declared these things? He
whom Yahweh agape loves shall perform his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm
[shall be on] the Chaldeans. {48:15} I, even I, have spoken; behold, I have
called him; I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous. {48:16}
Come you near unto me, hear you this; from the beginning I have not spoken in
secret; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord Yahweh has sent
me, and his Spirit. {48:17} Thus said Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of
Israel: I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the
way that you should go. {48:18} Oh that you had heard my commandments! then had
your peace been as a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea:
{48:19} your seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of your bowels
like the grains there: his name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before
me. {48:20} Go you forth from Babylon, flee you from the Chaldeans; with a
voice of singing declare you, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth:
say you, Yahweh has redeemed his servant Jacob. {48:21} And they thirsted not
when he led them through the deserts; he caused the waters to flow out of the
rock for them; he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out. {48:22} There
is no peace, said Yahweh, to the wicked.
{O23)49} Isaiah Chapter FortyNine. {49:1} Listen, O isles, unto me; and hear,
you peoples, from far: Yahweh has called me from the womb; from the bowels of
my mother has he made mention of my name: {49:2} and he has made my mouth like
a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand has he hid me: and he has made me a
polished shaft; in his quiver has he kept me close: {49:3} and he said unto me,
you are my servant; Israel, in whom I will be glorified. {49:4} But I said, I
have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet
surely the justice [due] to me is with Yahweh, and my recompense with my God.
{49:5} And now said Yahweh that formed me from the womb to be his servant, to
bring Jacob again to him, and that Israel be gathered unto him (for I am
honorable in the eyes of Yahweh, and my God is become my strength); {49:6}
behold, he said, It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise
up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also
give you for a light to the Gentiles, that you may be my salvation unto the end
of the earth. {49:7} Thus said Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, [and] his Holy
One, to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhorred, to a servant of
rulers: Kings shall see and arise; princes, and they shall worship; because of Yahweh
that is faithful, [even] the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you. {49:8}
Thus said Yahweh, In an acceptable time have I answered you, and in a day of
salvation have I helped you; and I will preserve you, and give you for a
covenant of the people, to raise up the land, to make them inherit the desolate
heritages: {49:9} saying to them that are bound, Go forth; to them that are in
darkness, Show yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and on all bare heights
shall be their pasture. {49:10} They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall
the heat nor sun smite them: for he that has mercy on them will lead them, even
by springs of water will he guide them. {49:11} And I will make all my
mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted. {49:12} Lo, these shall come
from far; and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the
land of Sinim. {49:13} Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth
into singing, O mountains: for Yahweh has comforted his people, and will have
compassion upon his afflicted. {49:14} But Zion said, Yahweh has forsaken me,
and the Lord has forgotten me. {49:15} Can a woman forget her sucking child,
that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? behold, these may
forget, yet will not I forget you. {49:16} Behold, I have graven you upon the
palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me. {49:17} Your children
make haste; your destroyers and they that made you waste shall go forth from
you. {49:18} Lift up your eyes round about, and behold: all these gather
themselves together, and come to you. As I live, said Yahweh, you shall surely
clothe you with them all as with an ornament, and gird yourself with them, like
a bride. {49:19} For, as for your waste and your desolate places, and your land
that has been destroyed, surely now shall you be too strait for the
inhabitants, and they that swallowed you up shall be far away. {49:20} The
children of your bereavement shall yet say in your ears, The place is too
strait for me; give place to me that I may dwell. {49:21} Then shall you say in
your heart, Who has begotten me these, seeing I have been bereaved of my
children, and am solitary, an exile, and wandering to and fro? and who has
brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where were they? {49:22}
Thus said the Lord Yahweh, Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and
set up my ensign to the peoples; and they shall bring your sons in their bosom,
and your daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders. {49:23} And kings
shall be your nursing fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers: they
shall bow down to you with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of your
feet; and you shall know that I am Yahweh; and they that wait for me shall not
be put to shame. {49:24} shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful
captives be delivered? {49:25} But thus said Yahweh, Even the captives of the
mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered;
for I will contend with him that contends with you, and I will save your
children. {49:26} And I will feed them that oppress you with their own flesh;
and they shall be drunk with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh
shall know that I, Yahweh, am your Savior, and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of
Jacob.
{O23)50} Isaiah Chapter Ffty. {50:1} Thus said Yahweh, Where is the bill
of your mother's divorcement, wherewith I have put her away? or which of my
creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities were you
sold, and for your transgression of the law was your mother put away. {50:2}
Therefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to
answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power
to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a
wilderness: their fish stink, because there is no water, and die for thirst.
{50:3} I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
{50:4} The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of them that are taught, that I
may know how to sustain with words him that is weary: he wakes morning by
morning, he wakes mine ear to hear as they that are taught. {50:5} The Lord Yahweh
has opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away backward.
{50:6} I gave my back to those who beat me, and my cheeks to them that plucked
off the hair; I hid not my face from shame and spitting. {50:7} For the Lord Yahweh
will help me; therefore have I not been confounded: therefore have I set my
face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be put to shame. {50:8} He is
near that justifies me; who will content with me? let us stand up together: who
is mine adversary? let him come near to me. {50:9} Behold, the Lord Yahweh will
help me; who is he that shall condemn me? behold, all they shall wax old as a
garment, the moth shall eat them up. {50:10} Who is among you that fears Yahweh,
that obeys the voice of his servant? he that walks in darkness, and has no
light, let him trust in the name of Yahweh, and rely upon his God. {50:11}
Behold, all you that kindle a fire, that gird yourselves about with firebrands;
walk you in the flame of your fire, and among the brands that you have kindled.
This shall you have of my hand; you shall lie down in sorrow.
{O23)51} Isaiah Chapter FiftyOne. {51:1} Hear to me, you that follow after
righteousness, you that seek Yahweh: look unto the rock where you were hewn,
and to the hold of the pit where you were dug. {51:2} Look unto Abraham your
father, and unto Sarah that bare you; for when he was but one I called him, and
I blessed him, and made him many. {51:3} For Yahweh has comforted Zion; he has
comforted all her waste places, and has made her wilderness like Eden, and her
desert like the garden of Yahweh; joy and gladness shall be found therein,
thanksgiving, and the voice of melody. {51:4} Attend unto me, O my people; and
give ear unto me, O my nation: for a law shall go forth from me, and I will
establish my justice for a light of the peoples. {51:5} My righteousness is
near, my salvation is gone forth, and mine arms shall judge the peoples; the
isles shall wait for me, and on mine arm shall they trust. {51:6} Lift up your
eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath; for the heavens shall
vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment; and they
that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for
ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished. {51:7} Hear unto me, you
that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear you not the
reproach of men, neither be you dismayed at their reviling. {51:8} For the moth
shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool; but my
righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation unto all generations. {51:9}
Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of Yahweh; awake, as in the days of old,
the generations of ancient times. Is it not you that did cut Rahab in pieces,
that did pierce the monster? {51:10} Is it not you that dried up the sea, the
waters of the great deep; that made the depths of the sea a way for the
redeemed to pass over? {51:11} And the ransomed of Yahweh shall return, and
come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads:
they shall obtain gladness and joy; [and] sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
{51:12} I, even I, am he that comforts you: who are you, that you are afraid of
man that shall die, and of the son of man that shall be made as grass; {51:13} and
have forgotten Yahweh your Maker, that stretched forth the heavens, and laid
the foundations of the earth; and fear continually all the day because of the
fury of the oppressor, when he make-ready to destroy? and where is the fury of
the oppressor? {51:14} The captive exile shall speedily be loosed; and he shall
not die [and go down] into the pit, neither shall his bread fail. {51:15} For I
am Yahweh your God, who stirs up the sea, so that the waves of it roars: Yahweh
of hosts is his name. {51:16} And I have put my words in your mouth, and have
covered you in the shadow of my hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the
foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, you are my people. {51:17} Awake,
awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, that have drunk at the hand of Yahweh the cup of
his wrath; you have drunk the bowl of the cup of staggering, and drained it.
{51:18} There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she has brought
forth; neither is there any that takes her by the hand among all the sons that
she has brought up. {51:19} These two things are befallen you, who shall bemoan
you? desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword; how shall I
comfort you? {51:20} Your sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the
streets, as an antelope in a net; they are full of the wrath of Yahweh, the
rebuke of your God. {51:21} Therefore hear now this, you afflicted, and drunk,
but now with wine: {51:22} Thus said your Lord Yahweh, and your God that pleads
the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of
staggering, even the bowl of the cup of my wrath; you shall no more drink it
again: {51:23} and I will put it into the hand of them that afflict you, that
have said to your soul, Bow down, that we may go over; and you have laid your
back as the ground, and as the street, to them that go over.
{O23)52} Isaiah Chapter FiftyTwo. {52:1} Awake, awake, put on your strength,
O Zion; put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for from
here on there shall no more come into you the uncircumcised and the unclean.
{52:2} Shake yourself from the dust; arise, sit [on your throne], O Jerusalem:
loose yourself from the bonds of your neck, O captive daughter of Zion. {52:3}
For thus said Yahweh, you were sold for nothing; and you shall be redeemed
outside money. {52:4} For thus said the Lord Yahweh, My people went down at the
first into Egypt to sojourn there: and the Assyrian has oppressed them outside
cause. {52:5} Now therefore, what do I here, said Yahweh, seeing that my people
is taken away for nothing? they that rule over them do howl, said Yahweh, and
my name continually all the day is blasphemed. {52:6} Therefore my people shall
know my name: therefore [they shall know] in that day that I am he that does
speak; behold, it is I. {52:7} How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of
him that brings good tidings, that publishes peace, that brings good tidings of
good, that publishes salvation, that said unto Zion, Your God reigns! {52:8}
The voice of your watchmen! they lift up the voice, together do they sing; for
they shall see eye to eye, when Yahweh returns to Zion. {52:9} Break forth into
joy, sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem; for Yahweh has comforted his
people, he has redeemed Jerusalem. {52:10} Yahweh has made bare his holy arm in
the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth have seen the
salvation of our God. {52:11} Depart you, depart you, go you out from there,
touch no unclean thing; go you out of the midst of her; cleanse yourselves, you
that bear the vessels of Yahweh. {52:12} For you shall not go out in haste,
neither shall you go by flight: for Yahweh will go before you; and the God of
Israel will be your rearward.
{O23)53} Isaiah Chapter FiftyThree, {53:1} Behold, my servant shall deal wisely,
he shall be exalted and lifted up, and shall be very high. {53:2} Like as many
were astonished at you (his visage was so marred more than any man, and his
form more than the sons of men), {53:3} so shall he sprinkle many nations; kings
shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall
they see; and that which they had not heard shall they understand. {53:4} Who has believed our message? and
to whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed? {53:5} For he grew up before him
as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he has no form nor
comeliness; and when we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
{53:6} He was despised, and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted
with grief: and as one from whom men hide their face he was despised; and we
esteemed him not. {53:7} Surely he has borne our grief's, and carried our
sorrows; yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. {53:8}
But he was wounded for our transgression of the law, he was bruised for our
iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we
are healed. {53:9} All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one
to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the works against law of us all.
{53:10} He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he opened not his mouth; as
a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is
dumb, so he opened not his mouth. {53:11} By oppression and judgment he was
taken away; and as for his generation, who [among them] considered that he was
cut off out of the land of the living for the transgression of the law of my
people to whom the stroke [was due]? {53:12} And they made his grave with the
wicked, and with a rich man in his death; although he had done no violence,
neither was any deceit in his mouth. {53:13} yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise
him; he has put him to grief: when you shall make his soul an offering for sin,
he shall see [his] seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of Yahweh
shall prosper in his hand. {53:14} He shall see of the travail of his soul,
[and] shall be satisfied: by the knowledge of himself shall my righteous
servant justify many; and he shall bear their iniquities. {53:15} Therefore will
I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the
strong; because he poured out his soul unto death, and was numbered with the
transgressors: yet he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the
transgressors.
{O23)54} Isaiah Chapter FiftyFour. {54:1} Sing, O barren, you that did not
bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, you that did not travail with
child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the
married wife, said Yahweh. {54:2} Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them
stretch forth the curtains of your habitations; spare not: lengthen your cords,
and strengthen your stakes. {54:3} For you shall spread aboard on the right
hand and on the left; and your seed shall possess the nations, and make the
desolate cities to be inhabited. {54:4} Fear not; for you shall not be ashamed:
neither be you confounded; for you shall not be put to shame: for you shall
forget the shame of your youth; and the reproach of your widowhood shall you
remember no more. {54:5} For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of hosts is his
name: and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; the God of the whole earth
shall he be called. {54:6} For Yahweh has called you as a wife forsaken and
grieved in spirit, even a wife of youth, when she is cast off, said your God.
{54:7} For a small moment have I forsaken you; but with great mercies will I
gather you. {54:8} In overflowing wrath I hid my face from you for a moment;
but with everlasting loving kindness will I have mercy on you, said Yahweh your
Redeemer. {54:9} For this is [as] the waters of Noah unto me; for as I have
sworn that the waters of Noah shall no more go over the earth, so have I sworn
that I will not be wroth with you, nor rebuke you. {54:10} For the mountains
may depart, and the hills be removed; but my loving kindness shall not depart
from you, neither shall my covenant of peace be removed, said Yahweh that has
mercy on you. {54:11} O you afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted,
behold, I will set your stones in fair colors, and lay your foundations with
sapphires. {54:12} And I will make your pinnacles of rubies, and your gates of
carbuncles, and all your border of precious stones. {54:13} And all your
children shall be taught of Yahweh; and great shall be the peace of your
children. {54:14} In righteousness shall you be established: you shall be far
from oppression, for you shall not fear; and from terror, for it shall not come
near you. {54:15} Behold, they may gather together, but not by me: anyone who
shall gather together against you shall fall because of you. {54:16} Behold, I
have created the smith that blows the fire of coals, and brings forth a weapon
for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy. {54:17} No weapon that
is formed against you shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against
you in judgment you shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of Yahweh,
and their righteousness which is of me, said Yahweh.
{O23)55} Isaiah Chapter FiftyFive. {55:1} Ho, every one that thirst, come you
to the waters, and he that has no money; come you, buy, and eat; behold, come,
buy wine and milk outside money and outside price. {55:2} Therefore do you
spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which
satisfies not? hear diligently unto me, and eat you that which is good, and let
your soul delight itself in fatness. {55:3} Incline your ear, and come unto me;
hear, and your soul shall live: and I will make an everlasting covenant with you,
even the sure mercies of David. {55:4} Behold, I have given him for a witness
to the peoples, a leader and commander to the peoples. {55:5} Behold, you shall
call a nation that you knows not; and a nation that knew not you shall run unto
you, because of Yahweh your God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he has
glorified you. {55:6} Seek you Yahweh while he may be found; call you upon him
while he is near: {55:7} let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous
man his thoughts; and let him return unto Yahweh, and he will have mercy upon
him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. {55:8} For my thoughts are
not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, said Yahweh. {55:9} For as
the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways,
and my thoughts than your thoughts. {55:10} For as the rain comes down and the
snow from heaven, and returns not there, but waters the earth, and makes it
bring forth and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater;
{55:11} so shall my word be that goes forth out of my mouth: it shall not
return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall
prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. {55:12} For you shall go out with joy,
and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth
before you into singing; and all the trees of the fields shall clap their
hands. {55:13} Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir-tree; and instead of
the brier shall come up the myrtle-tree: and it shall be to Yahweh for a name,
for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
{O23)56} Isaiah Chapter FiftySix. {56:1} Thus said Yahweh, Keep you justice,
and do righteousness; for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to
be revealed. {56:2} Blessed is the man that does this, and the son of man that
holds it fast; that keeps the Sabbath from profaning it, and keeps his hand
from doing any evil. {56:3} Neither let the foreigner, that has joined himself
to Yahweh, speak, saying, Yahweh will surely separate me from his people;
neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree. {56:4} For thus said Yahweh
of the eunuchs that keep my Sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and
hold fast my covenant: {56:5} Unto them will I give in my house and within my
walls a memorial and a name better than of sons and of daughters; I will give
them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off. {56:6} Also the foreigners
that join themselves to Yahweh, to minister unto him, and to agape love the
name of Yahweh, to be his servants, every one that keeps the Sabbath from
profaning it, and holds fast my covenant; {56:7} even them will I bring to my
holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their
burnt-offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for my
house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples. {56:8} The Lord Yahweh,
who gathers the outcasts of Israel, said, yet will I gather [others] to him,
besides his own that are gathered. {56:9} All you beasts of the field, come to
devour, [behold], all you beasts in the forest. {56:10} His watchmen are blind,
they are all outside knowledge; they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark;
dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber. {56:11} behold, the dogs are greedy,
they can never have enough; and these are shepherds that cannot understand:
they have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every
quarter. {56:12} Come you, [say they], I will fetch wine, and we will fill
ourselves with strong drink; and to-morrow shall be as this day, [a day] great
beyond measure.
{O23)57} Isaiah Chapter FiftySeven. {57:1} The righteous perishes, and no man
lays it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the
righteous is taken away from the evil [to come]. {57:2} He enters into peace;
they rest in their beds, each one that walks in his uprightness. {57:3} But
draw near here, you sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the prostitute.
{57:4} Against whom do you sport yourselves? against whom make you a wide
mouth, and put out the tongue? are you not children of transgression of the
law, a seed of falsehood, {57:5} you that inflame yourselves among the oaks,
under every green tree; that slay the children in the valleys, under the clefts
of the rocks? {57:6} Among the smooth [stones] of the valley is your portion;
they, they are your lot; even to them have you poured a drink-offering, you
have offered an oblation. shall I be appeased for these things? {57:7} Upon a
high and lofty mountain have you set your bed; there you also went up to offer
sacrifice. {57:8} And behind the doors and the posts have you set up your
memorial: for you have uncovered [yourself] to another than me, and are gone
up; you have enlarged your bed, and made you a covenant with them: you agape
love their bed where you saw it. {57:9} And you went to the king with oil, and
did increase your perfumes, and did send your ambassadors far off, and did
debase yourself even unto Sheol. {57:10} you was wearied with the length of
your way; yet you did not say, It is in vain: you did find a quickening of your
strength; therefore you was not faint. {57:11} And of whom have you been afraid
and in fear, that you lie, and have not remembered me, nor laid it to your
heart? have not I held my peace even of long time, and you fear me not? {57:12}
I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, they shall not profit
you. {57:13} When you cries, let them that you have gathered deliver you; but
the wind shall take them, a breath shall carry them all away: but he that takes
refuge in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain.
{57:14} And he will say, Cast you up, cast you up, prepare the way, take up the
stumbling-block out of the way of my people. {57:15} For thus said the high and
lofty One that inhabit eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and
holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive
the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite. {57:16} For
I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth; for the spirit
would faint before me, and the souls that I have made. {57:17} For the works against
law of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him; I hid [my face] and was
wroth; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart. {57:18} I have seen
his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto
him and to his grieveers. {57:19} I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace,
to him that is far off and to him that is near, said Yahweh; and I will heal
him. {57:20} But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it cannot rest, and
its waters cast up mire and dirt. {57:21} There is no peace, said my God, to
the wicked.
{O23)58} Isaiah Chapter FiftyEight. {58:1} Cry aloud, spare not, lift up your
voice like a trumpet, and declare unto my people their transgression of the
law, and to the house of Jacob their sins. {58:2} yet they seek me daily, and
delight to know my ways: as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the
ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to
draw near unto God. {58:3} Therefore have we fasted, [say they], and you sees
not? [Therefore] have we afflicted our soul, and you takes no knowledge?
Behold, in the day of your fast you find [your own] pleasure, and exact all
your labors. {58:4} Behold, you fast for strife and contention, and to smite
with the fist of wickedness: you fast not this day so as to make your voice to
be heard on high. {58:5} Is such the fast that I have chosen? the day for a man
to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a rush, and to spread
sackcloth and ashes under him? will you call this a fast, and an acceptable day
to Yahweh? {58:6} Is not this the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds
of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free,
and that you break every yoke? {58:7} Is it not to deal your bread to the
hungry, and that you bring the poor that are cast out to your house? when you
sees the naked, that you cover him; and that you hide not yourself from your
own flesh? {58:8} Then shall your light break forth as the morning, and your
healing shall spring forth speedily; and your righteousness shall go before
you; the glory of Yahweh shall by your rearward. {58:9} Then shall you call,
and Yahweh will answer; you shall cry, and he will say, Here I am. If you take
away from the midst of you the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and
speaking wickedly; {58:10} and if you draw out your soul to the hungry, and
satisfy the afflicted soul: then shall your light rise in darkness, and your
obscurity be as the noonday; {58:11} and Yahweh will guide you continually, and
satisfy your soul in dry places, and make strong your bones; and you shall be
like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
{58:12} And they that shall be of you shall build the old waste places; you
shall raise up the foundations of many generations; and you shall be called The
repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in. {58:13} If you turn
away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day; and
call the Sabbath a delight, [and] the holy of Yahweh honorable; and shall honor
it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking [your
own] words: {58:14} then shall you delight yourself in Yahweh; and I will make
you to ride upon the high places of the earth; and I will feed you with the
heritage of Jacob your father: for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.
{O23)59} Isaiah FiftyNine. {59:1} Behold, Yahweh's hand is not
shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:
{59:2} but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your
sins have hid his face from you, so that he will not hear. {59:3} For your
hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with works against law; your
lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness. {59:4} None strives in
righteousness, and none pleads in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies;
they conceive mischief, and bring forth works against law. {59:5} They hatch
adders' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eats of their eggs dies; and
that which is crushed breaks out into a viper. {59:6} Their webs shall not
become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their
works are works of works against law, and the act of violence is in their
hands. {59:7} Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent
blood: their thoughts are thoughts of works against law; desolation and
destruction are in their paths. {59:8} The way of peace they know not; and
there is no justice in their goings: they have made them crooked paths; anyone
who goes therein does not know peace. {59:9} Therefore is justice far from us,
neither does righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold,
darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity. {59:10} We grope for the
wall like the blind; behold, we grope as they that have no eyes: we stumble at
noonday as in the twilight; among them that are lusty we are as dead men.
{59:11} We roar all like bears, and moan sore like doves: we look for justice,
but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us. {59:12} For our of
the laws are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us; for our
transgression of the law are with us, and as for our iniquities, we know them:
{59:13} transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning away from following our
God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart
words of falsehood. {59:14} And justice is turned away backward, and
righteousness stands afar off; for truth is fallen in the street, and
uprightness cannot enter. {59:15} behold, truth is lacking; and he that departs
from evil makes himself a prey. And Yahweh saw it, and it displeased him that
there was no justice. {59:16} And he saw that there was no man, and wondered
that there was no intercessor: therefore his own arm brought salvation unto
him; and his righteousness, it upheld him. {59:17} And he put on righteousness
as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on
garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a mantle. {59:18}
According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, wrath to his adversaries,
recompense to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompense. {59:19} So
shall they fear the name of Yahweh from the west, and his glory from the rising
of the sun; for he will come as a rushing stream, which the breath of Yahweh
drives. {59:20} And a Redeemer will come to Zion, and unto them that turn from
transgression of the law in Jacob, said Yahweh. {59:21} And as for me, this is
my covenant with them, said Yahweh: my Spirit that is upon you, and my words
which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of
the mouth of your seed, nor out of the mouth of your seed's seed, said Yahweh,
from here on and for ever.
{O23)60} Isaiah Chapter Sixty. {60:1} Arise, shine; for your light is
come, and the glory of Yahweh is risen upon you. {60:2} For, behold, darkness
shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the peoples; but Yahweh will arise
upon you, and his glory shall be seen upon you. {60:3} And nations shall come
to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising. {60:4} Lift up your
eyes round about, and see: they all gather themselves together, they come to
you; your sons shall come from far, and your daughters shall be carried in the
arms. {60:5} Then you shall see and be radiant, and your heart shall thrill and
be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be turned unto you, the
wealth of the nations shall come unto you. {60:6} The multitude of camels shall
cover you, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come;
they shall bring gold and frankincense, and shall proclaim the praises of Yahweh.
{60:7} All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto you, the rams of
Nebaioth shall minister unto you; they shall come up with acceptance on mine
altar; and I will glorify the house of my glory. {60:8} Who are these that fly
as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows? {60:9} Surely the isles shall
wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring your sons from far,
their silver and their gold with them, for the name of Yahweh your God, and for
the Holy One of Israel, because he has glorified you. {60:10} And foreigners
shall build up your walls, and their kings shall minister unto you: for in my
wrath I smote you, but in my favor have I had mercy on you. {60:11} Your gates also
shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may
bring unto you the wealth of the nations, and their kings led captive. {60:12}
For that nation and kingdom that will not serve you shall perish; behold, those
nations shall be utterly wasted. {60:13} The glory of Lebanon shall come unto
you, the fir-tree, the pine, and the box-tree together, to beautify the place
of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious. {60:14} And the
sons of them that afflicted you shall come bending unto you; and all they that
despised you shall bow themselves down at the soles of your feet; and they
shall call you The city of Yahweh, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel. {60:15}
Whereas you have been forsaken and hated, so that no man passed through you, I
will make you an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations. {60:16} you
shall also suck the milk of the nations, and shall suck the breast of kings;
and you shall know that I, Yahweh, am your Savior, and your Redeemer, the
Mighty One of Jacob. {60:17} For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will
bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron. I will also make your
officers peace, and your exactors righteousness. {60:18} Violence shall no more
be heard in your land, desolation nor destruction within your borders; but you
shall call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise. {60:19} The sun shall
be no more your light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light
unto you: but Yahweh will be unto you an everlasting light, and your God your
glory. {60:20} Your sun shall no more go down, neither shall your moon withdraw
itself; for Yahweh will be your everlasting light, and the days of your
grievingshall be ended. {60:21} Your people also shall be all righteous; they
shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my
hands, that I may be glorified. {60:22} The little one shall become a thousand,
and the small one a strong nation; I, Yahweh, will hasten it in its time.
{O23)61}
Isaiah Chapter SixyOne. {61:1}
The Spirit of the Lord Yahweh is upon me; because Yahweh has anointed me to
preach good tidings unto the meek; he has sent me to bind up the
broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening [of the
prison] to them that are bound; {61:2} to proclaim the year of Yahweh's favor,
and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that grieve; {61:3} to
appoint unto them that grieve in Zion, to give unto them a garland for ashes,
the oil of joy for grieveing, the garment of praise for the spirit of
heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh,
that he may be glorified. {61:4} And they shall build the old wastes, they
shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities,
the desolations of many generations. {61:5} And strangers shall stand and feed
your flocks, and foreigners shall be your plowmen and your vine-dressers.
{61:6} But you shall be named the priests of Yahweh; men shall call you the
ministers of our God: you shall eat the wealth of the nations, and in their
glory shall you boast yourselves. {61:7} Instead of your shame [you shall have]
double; and instead of dishonor they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore
in their land they shall possess double; everlasting joy shall be unto them.
{61:8} For I, Yahweh, agape loves justice, I hate robbery with works against
law; and I will give them their recompense in truth, and I will make an
everlasting covenant with them. {61:9} And their seed shall be known among the
nations, and their offspring among the peoples; all that see them shall
acknowledge them, that they are the seed which Yahweh has blessed. {61:10} I
will greatly rejoice in Yahweh, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he has
clothed me with the garments of salvation, he has covered me with the robe of
righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride
adorns herself with her jewels. {61:11} For as the earth brings forth its bud,
and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the
Lord Yahweh will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the
nations.
{O23)62} Isaiah Chapter SixtyOne. {62:1} For Zion's sake will I not hold my
peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until her righteousness go
forth as brightness, and her salvation as a lamp that burns. {62:2} And the
nations shall see your righteousness, and all kings your glory, and you shall
be called by a new name, which the mouth of Yahweh shall name. {62:3} you shall
also be a crown of beauty in the hand of Yahweh, and a royal diadem in the hand
of your God. {62:4} you shall no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall your
land any more be termed Desolate: but you shall be called Hephzi-bah, and your
land Beulah; for Yahweh delights in you, and your land shall be married. {62:5}
For as a young man marries a virgin, so shall your sons marry you; and as the
bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you. {62:6}
I have set watchmen upon your walls, O Jerusalem; they shall never hold their
peace day nor night: you that are Yahweh's remembrances, take you no rest,
{62:7} and give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a
praise in the earth. {62:8} Yahweh has sworn by his right hand, and by the arm
of his strength, Surely I will no more give your grain to be food for your
enemies; and foreigners shall not drink your new wine, for which you have
labored: {62:9} but they that have garnered it shall eat it, and praise Yahweh;
and they that have gathered it shall drink it in the courts of my sanctuary.
{62:10} Go through, go through the gates; prepare you the way of the people;
cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up an ensign for the
peoples. {62:11} Behold, Yahweh has proclaimed unto the end of the earth, Say
you to the daughter of Zion, Behold, your salvation comes; behold, his reward
is with him, and his recompense before him. {62:12} And they shall call them
The holy people, The redeemed of Yahweh: and you shall be called Sought out, A
city not forsaken.
{O23)63} Isaiah Chapter SixtyThree. {63:1} Who is this that comes from Edom,
with colored garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel,
marching in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness,
mighty to save. {63:2} Therefore are you red in your apparel, and your garments
like him that treads in the wine vat? {63:3} I have trodden the winepress
alone; and of the peoples there was no man with me: behold, I trod them in mine
anger, and trampled them in my wrath; and their lifeblood is sprinkled upon my
garments, and I have stained all my raiment. {63:4} For the day of vengeance
was in my heart, and the year of my redeemed is come. {63:5} And I looked, and
there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore
mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my wrath, it upheld me. {63:6} And
I trod down the peoples in mine anger, and made them drunk in my wrath, and I
poured out their lifeblood on the earth. {63:7} I will make mention of the
loving kindnesses of Yahweh, [and] the praises of Yahweh, according to all that
Yahweh has bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel,
which he has bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the
multitude of his loving kindnesses. {63:8} For he said, Surely, they are my
people, children that will not deal falsely: so he was their Savior. {63:9} In
all their affliction he was afflicted, and the messenger of his presence saved
them: in his agape love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and
carried them all the days of old. {63:10} But they rebelled, and grieved his
holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, [and] himself fought
against them. {63:11} Then he remembered the days of old, Moses [and] his
people, [saying], Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the
shepherds of his flock? where is he that put his holy Spirit in the midst of
them? {63:12} that caused his glorious arm to go at the right hand of Moses?
that divided the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name?
{63:13} that led them through the depths, as a horse in the wilderness, so that
they stumbled not? {63:14} As the cattle that go down into the valley, the
Spirit of Yahweh caused them to rest; so did you lead your people, to make
yourself a glorious name. {63:15} Look down from heaven, and behold from the
habitation of your holiness and of your glory: where are your zeal and your
mighty acts? the yearning of your heart and your compassions are restrained
toward me. {63:16} For you are our Father, though Abraham knows us not, and Israel does not acknowledge us:
you, O Yahweh, are our Father; our Redeemer from everlasting is your name.
{63:17} O Yahweh, why do you make us to err from your ways, and hardened our
heart from your fear? Return for your servants' sake, the tribes of your
inheritance. {63:18} Your holy people possessed [it] but a little while: our
adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary. {63:19} We are become as they
over whom you never barest rule, as they that were not called by your name.
{O23)64} Isaiah Chapter SixtyFour. {64:1} Oh that you would rend the heavens,
that you would come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence,
{64:2} as when fire kindles the brushwood, [and] the fire causes the waters to
boil; to make your name known to your adversaries, that the nations may tremble
at your presence! {64:3} When you did terrible things which we looked not for,
you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence. {64:4} For from of old
men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither has the eye seen a God
besides you, who works for him that waits for him. {64:5} you meet him that
rejoices and works righteousness, those that remember you in your ways: behold,
you was angry, and we sinned: in them [have we been] of long time; and shall we
be saved? {64:6} But we are all as
an unclean thing, and all our good works
are as filthy rags; and we all do fade
as a leaf; and our wicked works against law, like the wind, [our works of
filthy rags] have taken us away. . {64:7} And there is none that calls upon
your name, that stirs up himself to take hold of you; for you have hid your
face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities. {64:8} But now,
O Yahweh, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all
are the work of your hand. {64:9} Be not wroth very sore, O Yahweh, neither
remember works against law for ever: behold, look, we ask you, we are all your
people. {64:10} Your holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is become a
wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. {64:11} Our holy and our beautiful house,
where our fathers praised you, is burned with fire; and all our pleasant places
are laid waste. {64:12} Will you refrain yourself for these things, O Yahweh?
will you hold your peace, and afflict us very sore?
{O23)65} Isaiah Chapter SixtyFive. {65:1} I am inquired of by them that asked
not [for me]; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold
me, unto a nation that was not called by my name. {65:2} I have spread out my
hands all the day unto a rebellious people, that walk in a way that is not
good, after their own thoughts; {65:3} a people that provoke me to my face
continually, sacrificing in gardens, and burning incense upon bricks; {65:4}
that sit among the graves, and lodge in the secret places; that eat swine's
flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels; {65:5} that say,
Stand by yourself, come not near to me, for I am holier than you. These are a
smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all the day. {65:6} Behold, it is written
before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, behold, I will
recompense into their bosom, {65:7} your own iniquities, and the iniquities of
your fathers together, said Yahweh, that have burned incense upon the
mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills; therefore will I first measure
their work into their bosom. {65:8} Thus said Yahweh, As the new wine is found in
the cluster, and one said, Destroy it not, for a blessing is in it: so will I
do for my servants' sake, that I may not destroy them all. {65:9} And I will
bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains;
and my chosen shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there. {65:10} And
Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for herds to
lie down in, for my people that have sought me. {65:11} But you that forsake Yahweh,
that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for Fortune, and that fill
up mingled wine unto Destiny; {65:12} I will destine you to the sword, and you
shall all bow down to the slaughter; because when I called, you did not answer;
when I spoke, you did not hear; but you did that which was evil in mine eyes,
and chose that wherein I delighted not. {65:13} Therefore thus said the Lord Yahweh,
Behold, my servants shall eat, but you shall be hungry; behold, my servants
shall drink, but you shall be thirsty; behold, my servants shall rejoice, but
you shall be put to shame; {65:14} behold, my servants shall sing for joy of
heart, but you shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall wail for vexation of
spirit. {65:15} And you shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen; and
the Lord Yahweh will slay you; and he will call his servants by another name:
{65:16} so that he who blesses himself in the earth shall bless himself in the
God of truth; and he that swears in the earth shall swear by the God of truth;
because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from mine
eyes. {65:17} For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former
things shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. {65:18} But be you glad and
rejoice for ever in that which I create; for, behold, I create Jerusalem a
rejoicing, and her people a joy. {65:19} And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and
joy in my people; and there shall be heard in her no more the voice of weeping
and the voice of crying. {65:20} There shall be no more there an infant of days,
nor an old man that has not filled his days; for the child shall die a hundred
years old, and the sinner being a hundred years old shall be acursed. {65:21}
And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards,
and eat the fruit of them. {65:22} They shall not build, and another inhabit;
they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree shall be the
days of my people, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
{65:23} They shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth for calamity; for they
are the seed of the blessed of Yahweh, and their offspring with them. {65:24}
And it shall come to pass that, before they call, I will answer; and while they
are yet speaking, I will hear. {65:25} The wolf and the lamb shall feed
together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox; and dust shall be the
serpent's food. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, said Yahweh.
{O23)66} Isaiah Chapter SixtySix. {66:1} Thus said Yahweh, Heaven is my throne,
and the earth is my footstool: what manner of house will you build unto me? and
what place shall be my rest? {66:2} For all these things has my hand made, and
[so] all these things came to be, said Yahweh: but to this man will I look,
even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and that trembles at my
word. {66:3} He that kills an ox is as he that slays a man; he that sacrifices
lamb, as he that breaks a dog's neck; he that offers an oblation, [as he that
offers] swine's blood; he that burns frankincense, as he that blesses an idol.
behold, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their
abominations: {66:4} I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their
fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spoke, they did
not hear: but they did that which was evil in mine eyes, and chose that wherein
I delighted not. {66:5} Hear the word of Yahweh, you that tremble at his word:
Your brethren that hate you, that cast you out for my name's sake, have said,
Let Yahweh be glorified, that we may see your joy; but it is they that shall be
put to shame. {66:6} A voice of tumult from the city, a voice from the temple,
a voice of Yahweh that reindeers recompense to his enemies. {66:7} Before she
travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a
man-child. {66:8} Who has heard such a thing? who has seen such things? shall a
land be born in one day? shall a nation be brought forth at once? for as soon
as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children. {66:9} shall I bring to the
birth, and not cause to bring forth? said Yahweh: shall I that cause to bring
forth shut [the womb]? said your God. {66:10} Rejoice you with Jerusalem, and
be glad for her, all you that agape love her: rejoice for joy with her, all you
that grieve over her; {66:11} that you may suck and be satisfied with the
breasts of her consolations; that you may milk out, and be delighted with the
abundance of her glory. {66:12} For thus said Yahweh, Behold, I will extend
peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing
stream: and you shall suck [there]; you shall be borne upon the side, and shall
be dandled upon the knees. {66:13} As one whom his mother comforts, so will I
comfort you; and you shall be comforted in Jerusalem. {66:14} And you shall see
[it], and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like the
tender grass: and the hand of Yahweh shall be known toward his servants; and he
will have indignation against his enemies. {66:15} For, behold, Yahweh will
come with fire, and his chariots shall be like the whirlwind; to render his
anger with fierceness, and his rebuke with flames of fire. {66:16} For by fire
will Yahweh execute judgment, and by his sword, upon all flesh; and the slain
of Yahweh shall be many. {66:17} They that sanctify themselves and purify
themselves [to go] unto the gardens, behind one in the midst, eating swine's
flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, they shall come to an end together,
said Yahweh. {66:18} For I [know] their works and their thoughts: [the time]
comes, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and
shall see my glory. {66:19} And I will set a sign among them, and I will send
such as escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw
the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the isles afar off, that have not heard my
fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the
nations. {66:20} And they shall bring all your brethren out of all the nations
for an oblation unto Yahweh, upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and
upon mules, and upon dromedaries, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, said Yahweh,
as the children of Israel bring their oblation in a clean vessel into the house
of Yahweh. {66:21} And of them also will I take for priests [and] for Levites,
said Yahweh. {66:22} For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will
make, shall remain before me, said Yahweh, so shall your seed and your name
remain. {66:23} And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another,
and from one Sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me,
said Yahweh. {66:24} And they shall go forth, and look upon the dead bodies of
the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die,
neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all
flesh.
{O24)1}
Jeremiah Chapter One. {1:1} The
words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in Anathoth in
the land of Benjamin: {1:2} to whom the word of Yahweh came in the days of
Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.
{1:3} It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah,
unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, king of
Judah, unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth moon. {1:4} Now
the word of Yahweh came unto me, saying, {1:5} Before I formed you in the belly
I knew you, and before you came forth out of the womb I sanctified you; I have
appointed you a prophet unto the nations. {1:6} Then said I, Ah, Lord Yahweh!
behold, I know not how to speak; for I am a child. {1:7} But Yahweh said unto
me, Say not, I am a child; for to whom so ever I shall send you then you shall
go, and what ever I shall command you then you shall speak. {1:8} Be not afraid
because of them; for I am with you to deliver you, said Yahweh. {1:9} Then Yahweh
put forth his hand, and touched my mouth; and Yahweh said unto me, Behold, I
have put my words in your mouth: {1:10} see, I have this day set you over the
nations and over the kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy and
to overthrow, to build and to plant. {1:11} Furthermore the word of Yahweh came
unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what sees you? And I said, I see a rod of an
almond-tree. {1:12} Then said Yahweh unto me, you have well seen: for I watch
over my word to perform it. {1:13} And the word of Yahweh came unto me the
second time, saying, What sees you? And I said, I see a boiling caldron; and
the face of it is from the north. {1:14} Then Yahweh said unto me, Out of the
north evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land. {1:15} For,
lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, said Yahweh; and
they shall come, and they shall set every one his throne at the entrance of the
gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls of it round about, and against
all the cities of Judah. {1:16} And I will utter my judgments against them
touching all their wickedness, in that they have forsaken me, and have burned
incense unto other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands. {1:17}
you therefore gird up your loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I
command you: be not dismayed at them, lest I dismay you before them. {1:18}
For, behold, I have made you this day a fortified city, and an iron pillar, and
brazen walls, against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the
princes there, against the priests there, and against the people of the land.
{1:19} And they shall fight against you; but they shall not prevail against
you: for I am with you, said Yahweh, to deliver you.
{O24)2} Jeremiah Chapter Chapter Two. {2:1} And the word of Yahweh came to me,
saying, {2:2} Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus said Yahweh, I
remember for you the kindness of your youth, the agape love of your espousals;
how you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown. {2:3}
Israel [was] holiness unto Yahweh, the first-fruits of his increase: all that
devour him shall be held guilty; evil shall come upon them, said Yahweh. {2:4}
Hear you the word of Yahweh, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the
house of Israel: {2:5} thus said Yahweh, What [illegal] works against law have
your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after
vanity, and are become vain? {2:6} Neither said they, Where is Yahweh that
brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness,
through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the
shadow of death, through a land that none passed through, and where no man
dwelt? {2:7} And I brought you into a plentiful land, to eat the fruit of it
and the goodness there; but when you entered, you defiled my land, and made my
heritage an abomination. {2:8} The priests said not, Where is Yahweh? and they
that handle the law knew me not: the rulers also transgressed against me, and
the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.
{2:9} Therefore I will yet contend with you, said Yahweh, and with your
children's children will I contend. {2:10} For pass over to the isles of
Kittim, and see; and send unto Kedar, and consider diligently; and see if there
has been such a thing. {2:11} Has a nation changed [its] gods, which yet are no
gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.
{2:12} Be astonished, O you heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be you
very desolate, said Yahweh. {2:13} For my people have committed two evils: they
have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns,
broken cisterns, that can hold no water. {2:14} Is Israel a servant? is he a
home-born [slave]? why is he become a prey? {2:15} The young lions have roared
upon him, and yelled; and they have made his land waste: his cities are burned
up, outside inhabitant. {2:16} The children also of Memphis and Tahpanhes have
broken the crown of your head. {2:17} Have you not procured this unto yourself,
in that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, when he led you by the way? {2:18}
And now what have you to do in the way to Egypt, to drink the waters of the
Shihor? or what have you to do in the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of
the River? {2:19} your own wickedness shall correct you, and your backslidings
shall reprove you: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a
bitter, that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, and that my fear is not in you,
said the Lord, Yahweh of hosts. {2:20} For of old time I have broken your yoke,
and burst your bonds; and you said, I will not serve; for upon every high hill
and under every green tree you did bow yourself, playing the prostitute. {2:21}
yet I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then are you
turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine unto me? {2:22} For
though you wash you with lye, and take you much soap, yet your works against
law is marked before me, said the Lord Yahweh. {2:23} How Can you say, I am not
defiled, I have not gone after the Baalim? see your way in the valley, know
what you have done: [you are] a swift dromedary traversing her ways; {2:24} a
wild donkey used to the wilderness, that snuffs up the wind in her desire; in
her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary
themselves; in her moon they shall find her. {2:25} Withhold your foot from
being unshod, and your throat from thirst: but you said, It is in vain; no, for
I have agape loved strangers, and after them will I go. {2:26} As the thief is
ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings,
their princes, and their priests, and their prophets; {2:27} who say to a
stock, you are my father; and to a stone, you have brought me forth: for they
have turned their back unto me, and not their face; but in the time of their
trouble they will say, Arise, and save us. {2:28} But where are your gods that
you have made you? let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your
trouble: for according to the number of your cities are your gods, O Judah.
{2:29} Therefore will you contend with me? you all have transgressed against
me, said Yahweh. {2:30} In vain have I smitten your children; they received no
correction: your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
{2:31} O generation, see you the word of Yahweh. Have I been a wilderness unto
Israel? or a land of thick darkness? Therefore say my people, We are broken
loose; we will come no more unto you? {2:32} Can a virgin forget her ornaments,
or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days outside number.
{2:33} How trimmest you your way to seek agape love! therefore even the wicked
women have you taught your ways. {2:34} Also in your skirts is found the blood
of the souls of the innocent poor: you did not find them breaking in; but it is
because of all these things. {2:35} yet you said, I am innocent; surely his
anger is turned away from me. Behold, I will enter into judgment with you,
because you say, I have not sinned. {2:36} Why gad you about so much to change
your way? you shall be ashamed of Egypt also, as you was ashamed of Assyria.
{2:37} From there also shall you go forth, with your hands upon your head: for Yahweh
has rejected those in whom you trust, and you shall not prosper with them.
{O24)3} Jeremiah Chapter Three. {3:1} They say, If a man put away his wife,
and she go from him, and become another man's, will he return unto her again?
will not that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the prostitute with
many lovers; yet return again to me, said Yahweh. {3:2} Lift up your eyes unto
the bare heights, and see; where have you not been lain with? By the ways have
you sat for them, as an Arabian in the wilderness; and you have polluted the
land with your prostitutions and with your wickedness. {3:3} Therefore the showers
have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; yet you have a prostitute's
forehead, you refuses to be ashamed. {3:4} Will you not from this time cry unto
me, My Father, you are the guide of my youth? {3:5} Will he retain [his anger]
for ever? will he keep it to the end? Behold, you have spoken and have done
evil things, and have had your way. {3:6} Furthermore Yahweh said unto me in
the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has
done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and
there has played the prostitute. {3:7} And I said after she had done all these
things, She will return unto me; but she returned not: and her treacherous
sister Judah saw it. {3:8} And I saw, when, for this very cause that
backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a
bill of divorcement, yet treacherous Judah her sister feared not; but she also
went and played the prostitute. {3:9} And it came to pass through the lightness
of her prostitution, that the land was polluted, and she committed adultery
with stones and with stocks. {3:10} And yet for all this her treacherous sister
Judah has not returned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, said Yahweh.
{3:11} And Yahweh said unto me, Backsliding Israel has showed herself more
righteous than treacherous Judah. {3:12} Go, and proclaim these words toward
the north, and say, Return, you backsliding Israel, said Yahweh; I will not
look in anger upon you; for I am merciful, said Yahweh, I will not keep [anger]
for ever. {3:13} Only acknowledge your works against law, that you have
transgressed against Yahweh your God, and have scattered your ways to the
strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed my voice, said Yahweh.
{3:14} Return, O backsliding children, said Yahweh; for I am a husband unto
you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring
you to Zion: {3:15} and I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who
shall feed you with knowledge and understanding. {3:16} And it shall come to
pass, when you are multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, said Yahweh,
they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of Yahweh; neither shall it
come to mind; neither shall they remember it; neither shall they miss it;
neither shall it be made any more. {3:17} At that time they shall call Jerusalem
the throne of Yahweh; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the
name of Yahweh, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the
stubbornness of their evil heart. {3:18} In those days the house of Judah shall
walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of
the north to the land that I gave for an inheritance unto your fathers. {3:19}
But I said, How I will put you among the children, and give you a pleasant
land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of the nations! and I said, you shall call
me My Father, and shall not turn away from following me. {3:20} Surely as a
wife treacherously departs from her husband, so have you dealt treacherously
with me, O house of Israel, said Yahweh. {3:21} A voice is heard upon the bare
heights, the weeping [and] the supplications of the children of Israel; because
they have perverted their way, they have forgotten Yahweh their God. {3:22}
Return, you backsliding children, I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we are
come unto you; for you are Yahweh our God. {3:23} Truly in vain is [the help
that is looked for] from the hills, the tumult on the mountains: truly in Yahweh
our God is the salvation of Israel. {3:24} But the shameful thing has devoured
the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their
sons and their daughters. {3:25} Let us lie down in our shame, and let our
confusion cover us; for we have sinned against Yahweh our God, we and our
fathers, from our youth even unto this day; and we have not obeyed the voice of
Yahweh our God.
{O24)4} Jeremiah Chapter Four. {4:1} If you will return, O Israel, said Yahweh,
if you will return unto me, and if you will put away your abominations out of
my sight; then shall you not be removed; {4:2} and you shall swear, As Yahweh
lives, in truth, in justice, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless
themselves in him, and in him shall they glory. {4:3} For thus said Yahweh to
the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not
among thorns. {4:4} Circumcise yourselves to Yahweh, and take away the
foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my
wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can quench it, because of the
evil of your doings. {4:5} Declare you in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and
say, Blow you the trumpet in the land: cry aloud and say, Assemble yourselves,
and let us go into the fortified cities. {4:6} Set up a standard toward Zion:
flee for safety, stay not; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great
destruction. {4:7} A lion is gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of
nations; he is on his way, he is gone forth from his place, to make your land
desolate, that your cities be laid waste, outside inhabitant. {4:8} For this
gird you with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of Yahweh is not
turned back from us. {4:9} And it shall come to pass at that day, said Yahweh,
that the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the
priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder. {4:10} Then said I,
Ah, Lord Yahweh! surely you have greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem,
saying, you shall have peace; whereas the sword reaches unto the life. {4:11}
At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A hot wind from
the bare heights in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to
winnow, nor to cleanse; {4:12} a full wind from these shall come for me: now
will I also utter judgments against them. {4:13} Behold, he shall come up as
clouds, and his chariots [shall be] as the whirlwind: his horses are swifter
than eagles. A curse unto us! for we are ruined. {4:14} O Jerusalem, wash your
heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts
lodge within you? {4:15} For a voice declares from Dan, and publishes evil from
the hills of Ephraim: {4:16} make you mention to the nations; behold, publish
against Jerusalem, [that] watchers come from a far country, and give out their
voice against the cities of Judah. {4:17} As keepers of a field are they
against her round about, because she has been rebellious against me, said Yahweh.
{4:18} Your way and your doings have procured these things unto you; this is
your wickedness; for it is bitter, for it reaches unto your heart. {4:19} My
anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart; my heart is disquieted in
me; I cannot hold my peace; because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the
trumpet, the alarm of war. {4:20} Destruction upon destruction is cried; for
the whole land is laid waste: suddenly are my tents destroyed, [and] my
curtains in a moment. {4:21} How long shall I see the standard, and hear the
sound of the trumpet? {4:22} For my people are foolish, they know me not; they
are silly children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil,
but to do good they have no knowledge. {4:23} I beheld the earth, and, lo, it
was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light. {4:24} I beheld the
mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved to and fro. {4:25} I
beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled.
{4:26} I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful field was a wilderness, and all the
cities of it were broken down at the presence of Yahweh, [and] before his
fierce anger. {4:27} For thus said Yahweh, The whole land shall be a
desolation; yet will I not make a full end. {4:28} For this shall the earth
grieve, and the heavens above be black; because I have spoken it, I have
purposed it, and I have not repented, neither will I turn back from it. {4:29}
Every city flees for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they go into the
thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city is forsaken, and not a man
dwells therein. {4:30} And you, when you are made desolate, what will you do?
Though you clothe yourself with scarlet, though you deck you with ornaments of
gold, though you enlarge your eyes with paint, in vain do you make yourself
fair; [your] lovers despise you, they seek your life. {4:31} For I have heard a
voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her that brings forth her
first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that gasps for breath, that
spreads her hands, [saying], A curse is me now! for my soul faints before the
murderers.
{o24)5} Jeremiah Chapter Five. {5:1} Run you to and fro through the
streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places there,
if you can find a man, if there be any that does justly, that seeks truth; and
I will pardon her. {5:2} And though they say, As Yahweh lives; surely they
swear falsely. {5:3} O Yahweh, do not your eyes look upon truth? you have
stricken them, but they were not grieved; you have consumed them, but they have
refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock;
they have refused to return. {5:4} Then I said, Surely these are poor; they are
foolish; for they know not the way of Yahweh, nor the law of their God: {5:5} I
will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they know the way
of Yahweh, and the law of their God. But these with one accord have broken the
yoke, and burst the bonds. {5:6} Therefore a lion out of the forest shall slay
them, a wolf of the evenings shall destroy them, a leopard shall watch against
their cities; every one that goes out there shall be torn in pieces; because
their transgression of the law are many, [and] their backslidings are increased.
{5:7} How can I pardon you? your children have forsaken me, and sworn by them
that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and
assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes' houses. {5:8} They were as
fed horses roaming at large; every one neighed after his neighbor's wife. {5:9}
shall I not visit for these things? said Yahweh; and shall not my soul be
avenged on such a nation as this? {5:10} Go you up upon her walls, and destroy;
but make not a full end: take away her branches; for they are not Yahweh's.
{5:11} For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very
treacherously against me, said Yahweh. {5:12} They have denied Yahweh, and
said, It is not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword
nor famine: {5:13} and the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in
them: thus shall it be done unto them. {5:14} Therefore thus said Yahweh, the
God of hosts, Because you speak this word, behold, I will make my words in your
mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them. {5:15} Lo, I will
bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, said Yahweh: it is a
mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you know not,
neither understands what they say. {5:16} Their quiver is an open sepulcher,
they are all mighty men. {5:17} And they shall eat up your harvest, and your
bread, [which] your sons and your daughters should eat; they shall eat up your
flocks and your herds; they shall eat up your vines and your fig-trees; they
shall beat down your fortified cities, wherein you trust, with the sword.
{5:18} But even in those days, said Yahweh, I will not make a full end with
you. {5:19} And it shall come to pass, when you shall say, Therefore has Yahweh
our God done all these things unto us? then shall you say unto them, Like as
you have forsaken me, and served foreign gods in your land, so shall you serve
strangers in a land that is not yours. {5:20} Declare you this in the house of
Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying, {5:21} Hear now this, O foolish people,
and outside understanding; that have eyes, and see not; that have ears, and
hear not: {5:22} Fear you not me? said Yahweh: will you not tremble at my
presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual
decree, that it cannot pass it? and though the waves of it toss themselves, yet
can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it. {5:23}
But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.
{5:24} Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear Yahweh our God, that
gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season; that preserves unto
us the appointed solar sevens of the harvest. {5:25} Your iniquities have
turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good from you. {5:26} For
among my people are found wicked men: they watch, as fowlers lie in wait; they
set a trap, they catch men. {5:27} As a cage is full of birds, so are their
houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxed rich. {5:28}
They are waxed fat, they shine: behold, they overpass in deeds of wickedness;
they plead not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper;
and the right of the needy do they not judge. {5:29} shall I not visit for
these things? said Yahweh; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as
this? {5:30} A wonderful and horrible thing is come to pass in the land: {5:31}
the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my
people agape love to have it so: and what will you do in the end there?
{O24)6} Jeremiah Chapter Six. {6:1} Flee for safety, you children of
Benjamin, out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and
raise up a signal on Beth-haccherem; for evil looks forth from the north, and a
great destruction. {6:2} The comely and delicate one, the daughter of Zion,
will I cut off. {6:3} Shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they
shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in
his place. {6:4} Prepare you war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon.
A curse unto us! for the day declines, for the shadows of the evening are
stretched out. {6:5} Arise, and let us go up by night, and let us destroy her
palaces. {6:6} For thus has Yahweh of hosts said, Hew you down trees, and cast
up a mound against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly
oppression in the midst of her. {6:7} As a well cast forth its waters, so she
cast forth her wickedness: violence and destruction is heard in her; before me
continually is sickness and wounds. {6:8} Be you instructed, O Jerusalem, lest
my soul be alienated from you; lest I make you a desolation, a land not
inhabited. {6:9} Thus said Yahweh of hosts, They shall thoroughly glean the
remnant of Israel as a vine: turn again your hand as a grape-gatherer into the
baskets. {6:10} To whom shall I speak and testify, that they may hear? behold,
their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hear: behold, the word of Yahweh is
become unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it. {6:11} Therefore I am
full of the wrath of Yahweh; I am weary with holding in: pour it out upon the
children in the street, and upon the assembly of young men together; for even
the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of
days. {6:12} And their houses shall be turned unto others, their fields and
their wives together; for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of
the land, said Yahweh. {6:13} For from the least of them even unto the greatest
of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the
priest every one deals falsely. {6:14} They have healed also the hurt of my
people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace. {6:15} Were they
ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed,
neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall; at
the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, said Yahweh. {6:16} Thus
said Yahweh, Stand you in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where is
the good way; and walk therein, and you shall find rest for your souls: but
they said, We will not walk [therein]. {6:17} And I set watchmen over you,
[saying], Hear to the sound of the trumpet; but they said, We will not hear.
{6:18} Therefore hear, you nations, and know, O congregation, what is among
them. {6:19} Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even
the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not heard unto my words; and as
for my law, they have rejected it. {6:20} To what purpose comes there to me
frankincense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your
burnt-offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing unto me.
{6:21} Therefore thus said Yahweh, Behold, I will lay stumbling-blocks before
this people; and the fathers and the sons together shall stumble against them;
the neighbor and his friend shall perish. {6:22} Thus said Yahweh, Behold, a
people comes from the north country; and a great nation shall be stirred up
from the uttermost parts of the earth. {6:23} They lay hold on bow and spear;
they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roar like the sea, and they ride
upon horses, every one set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, O
daughter of Zion. {6:24} We have heard the report there; our hands wax feeble:
anguish has taken hold of us, [and] pangs as of a woman in travail. {6:25} Go
not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy,
[and] terror, are on every side. {6:26} O daughter of my people, gird you with
sackcloth, and wallow yourself in ashes: make you grieveing, as for an only
son, most bitter lamentation; for the destroyer shall suddenly come upon us.
{6:27} I have made you a trier [and] a fortress among my people; that you may
know and try their way. {6:28} They are all grievous rebels, going about with
slanders; they are brass and iron: they all of them deal corruptly. {6:29} The
bellows blow fiercely; the lead is consumed of the fire: in vain do they go on
refining; for the wicked are not plucked away. {6:30} Refuse silver shall men
call them, because Yahweh has rejected them.
{O24)7} Jeremiah Chapter Seven. {7:1} The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh,
saying, {7:2} Stand in the gate of Yahweh's house, and proclaim there this
word, and say, Hear the word of Yahweh, all you of Judah, that enter in at
these gates to worship Yahweh. {7:3} Thus said Yahweh of hosts, the God of
Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this
place. {7:4} Trust you not in lying words, saying, The temple of Yahweh, the
temple of Yahweh, the temple of Yahweh, are these. {7:5} For if you thoroughly
amend your ways and your doings; if you thoroughly execute justice between a
man and his neighbor; {7:6} if you oppress not the alien, the fatherless, and
the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other
gods to your own hurt: {7:7} then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in
the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even for evermore. {7:8}
Behold, you trust in lying words, that cannot profit. {7:9} Will you steal,
murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and
walk after other gods that you have not known, {7:10} and come and stand before
me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered; that
you may do all these abominations? {7:11} Is this house, which is called by my
name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it,
said Yahweh. {7:12} But go you now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I
caused my name to dwell at the first, and see what I did to it for the
wickedness of my people Israel. {7:13} And now, because you have done all these
works, said Yahweh, and I spoke unto you, rising up early and speaking, but you
heard not; and I called you, but you answered not: {7:14} therefore will I do
unto the house which is called by my name, wherein you trust, and unto the
place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh. {7:15} And I
will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the
whole seed of Ephraim. {7:16} Therefore pray not you for this people, neither
lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me; for I will
not hear you. {7:17} Sees you not what they do in the cities of Judah and in
the streets of Jerusalem? {7:18} The children gather wood, and the fathers
kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of
heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke
me to anger. {7:19} Do they provoke me to anger? said Yahweh; [do they] not
[provoke] themselves, to the confusion of their own faces? {7:20} Therefore
thus said the Lord Yahweh: Behold, mine anger and my wrath shall be poured out
upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and
upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.
{7:21} Thus said Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: Add your burnt-offerings
unto your sacrifices, and eat you flesh. {7:22} For I spoke not unto your
fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of
Egypt, concerning burnt-offerings or sacrifices: {7:23} but this thing I commanded
them, saying, Hear unto my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my
people; and walk you in all the way that I command you, that it may be well
with you. {7:24} But they heard not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in
[their own] counsels [and] in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went
backward, and not forward. {7:25} Since the day that your fathers came forth
out of the land of Egypt unto this day, I have sent unto you all my servants
the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them: {7:26} yet they heard not
unto me, nor inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff: they did worse than
their fathers. {7:27} And you shall speak all these words unto them; but they
will not hear to you: you shall also call unto them; but they will not answer
you. {7:28} And you shall say unto them, This is the nation that has not heard
the voice of Yahweh their God, nor received instruction: truth is perished, and
is cut off from their mouth. {7:29} Cut off your hair, [O Jerusalem], and cast
it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights; for Yahweh has rejected
and forsaken the generation of his wrath. {7:30} For the children of Judah have
done that which is evil in my sight, said Yahweh: they have set their
abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it. {7:31} And
they have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son
of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I
commanded not, neither came it into my mind. {7:32} Therefore, behold, the days
come, said Yahweh, that it shall no more be called Topheth, nor The valley of
the son of Hinnom, but The valley of Slaughter: for they shall bury in Topheth,
till there be no place [to bury]. {7:33} And the dead bodies of this people shall
be food for the birds of the heavens, and for the beasts of the earth; and none
shall frighten them away. {7:34} Then will I cause to cease from the cities of
Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth and the voice of
gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land
shall become a waste.
{O24)8} Jeremiah Chapter Eight. {8:1} At that time, said Yahweh, they shall
bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and
the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves; {8:2} and they shall spread them
before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, which they have agape
loved, and which they have served, and after which they have walked, and which
they have sought, and which they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered,
nor be buried, they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth. {8:3} And
death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue that remain of this
evil family, that remain in all the places where I have driven them, said Yahweh
of hosts. {8:4} Furthermore you shall say unto them, Thus said Yahweh: shall
men fall, and not rise up again? shall one turn away, and not return? {8:5} Why
then is this people of Jerusalem slide back by a perpetual backsliding? they
hold fast deceit, they refuse to return. {8:6} I heard and heard, but they
spoke not aright: no man repents him of his wickedness, saying, What have I
done? every one turns to his course, as a horse that rushes headlong in the
battle. {8:7} behold, the stork in the heavens knows her appointed times; and
the turtle-dove and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming;
but my people know not the law of Yahweh. {8:8} How do you say, We are wise,
and the law of Yahweh is with us? But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has
wrought falsely. {8:9} The wise men are put to shame, they are dismayed and
taken: lo, they have rejected the word of Yahweh; and what manner of wisdom is
in them? {8:10} Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields
to them that shall possess them: for every one from the least even unto the
greatest is given to covetousness; from the prophet even unto the priest every
one deals falsely. {8:11} And they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my
people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace. {8:12} Were they
ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed,
neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall; in
the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, said Yahweh. {8:13} I
will utterly consume them, said Yahweh: there shall be no grapes on the vine,
nor figs on the fig-tree, and the leaf shall fade; and [the things that] I have
given them shall pass away from them. {8:14} Why do we sit still? assemble
yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent
there; for Yahweh our God has put us to silence, and given us water of gall to
drink, because we have sinned against Yahweh. {8:15} We looked for peace, but
no good came; [and] for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay! {8:16} The
snorting of his horses is heard from Dan: at the sound of the neighing of his
strong ones the whole land trembles; for they are come, and have devoured the
land and all that is in it; the city and those that dwell therein. {8:17} For,
behold, I will send serpents, adders, among you, which will not be charmed; and
they shall bite you, said Yahweh. {8:18} Oh that I could comfort myself against
sorrow! my heart is faint within me. {8:19} Behold, the voice of the cry of the
daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: is not Yahweh in Zion?
is not her King in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven
images, and with foreign vanities? {8:20} The harvest is past, the summer is
ended, and we are not saved. {8:21} For the hurt of the daughter of my people
am I hurt: I grieve; dismay has taken hold on me. {8:22} Is there no balm in Gilead?
is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my
people recovered?
{O24)9}
Jeremiah Chapter Nine. {9:1} Oh that
my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day
and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! {9:2} Oh that I had in
the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people,
and go from them! for they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
{9:3} And they bend their tongue, [as it were] their bow, for falsehood; and
they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from
evil to evil, and they know not me, said Yahweh. {9:4} Take you heed every one
of his neighbor, and trust you not in any brother; for every brother will
utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders. {9:5} And
they will deceive every one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they
have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves to commit works against
law. {9:6} Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they
refuse to know me, said Yahweh. {9:7} Therefore thus said Yahweh of hosts,
Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how [else] should I do, because of
the daughter of my people? {9:8} Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks
deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart
he lays wait for him. {9:9} shall I not visit them for these things? said Yahweh;
shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? {9:10} For the mountains
will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness a
lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none passes through; neither
can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the birds of the heavens and the beasts
are fled, they are gone. {9:11} And I will make Jerusalem heaps, a
dwelling-place of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation,
outside inhabitant. {9:12} Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and
[who is] he to whom the mouth of Yahweh has spoken, that he may declare it?
Therefore is the land perished and burned up like a wilderness, so that none
passes through? {9:13} And Yahweh said, Because they have forsaken my law which
I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein, {9:14}
but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the
Baalim, which their fathers taught them; {9:15} therefore thus said Yahweh of
hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood,
and give them water of gall to drink. {9:16} I will scatter them also among the
nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I will send the
sword after them, till I have consumed them. {9:17} Thus said Yahweh of hosts,
Consider you, and call for the grievingwomen, that they may come; and send for
the skilful women, that they may come: {9:18} and let them make haste, and take
up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids
gush out with waters. {9:19} For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How
are we ruined! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land,
because they have cast down our dwellings. {9:20} yet hear the word of Yahweh,
O you women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; and teach your
daughters wailing, and every one her neighbor lamentation. {9:21} For death is
come up into our windows, it is entered into our palaces; to cut off the
children from outside, [and] the young men from the streets. {9:22} Speak, Thus
said Yahweh, The dead bodies of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and
as the handful after the harvestman; and none shall gather [them]. {9:23} Thus
said Yahweh, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty
man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches; {9:24} but
let him that glories glory in this, that he has understanding, and knows me,
that I am Yahweh who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness, in
the earth: for in these things I delight, said Yahweh. {9:25} Behold, the days
come, said Yahweh, that I will punish all them that are circumcised in [their]
uncircumcision: {9:26} Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon,
and Moab, and all that have the corners [of their hair] cut off, that dwell in
the wilderness; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of
Israel are uncircumcised in heart.
{O24)10}
Jeremiah Chapter Ten. {10:1} Hear you
the word which Yahweh speaks unto you, O house of Israel: {10:2} thus said Yahweh,
Learn not the way of the nations, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven;
for the nations are dismayed at them. {10:3} For the customs of the peoples are
vanity; for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the
workman with the axe. {10:4} They deck it with silver and with gold; they
fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. {10:5} They are like a
palm-tree, of turned work, and speak not: they must needs be borne, because
they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither is it
in them to do good. {10:6} There is none like unto you, O Yahweh; you are
great, and your name is great in might. {10:7} Who should not fear you, O King
of the nations? for to you does it appertain; forasmuch as among all the wise
men of the nations, and in all their royal estate, there is none like unto you.
{10:8} But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it
is but a stock. {10:9} There is silver beaten into plates, which is brought
from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the craftsman and of the hands
of the goldsmith; blue and purple for their clothing; they are all the work of
skilful men. {10:10} But Yahweh is the true God; he is the living God, and an
everlasting King: at his wrath the earth trembles, and the nations are not able
to abide his indignation. {10:11} Thus shall you say unto them, The gods that
have not made the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the earth, and
from under the heavens. {10:12} He has made the earth by his power, he has
established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched
out the heavens: {10:13} when he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters
in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth;
he makes lightning for the rain, and brings forth the wind out of his
treasuries. {10:14} Every man is become brutish [and is] outside knowledge;
every goldsmith is put to shame by his graven image; for his molten image is
falsehood, and there is no breath in them. {10:15} They are vanity, a work of
delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish. {10:16} The
portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the former of all things; and
Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: Yahweh of hosts is his name. {10:17}
Gather up your wares out of the land, O you that abides in the siege. {10:18}
For thus said Yahweh, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at
this time, and will distress them, that they may feel [it]. {10:19} A curse is
me because of my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is [my]
grief, and I must bear it. {10:20} My tent is destroyed, and all my cords are
broken: my children are gone forth from me, and they are not: there is none to
spread my tent any more, and to set up my curtains. {10:21} For the shepherds
are become brutish, and have not inquired of Yahweh: therefore they have not
prospered, and all their flocks are scattered. {10:22} The voice of tidings,
behold, it comes, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the
cities of Judah a desolation, a dwelling-place of jackals. {10:23} O Yahweh, I
know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walks to
direct his steps. {10:24} O Yahweh, correct me, but in measure: not in your
anger, lest you bring me to nothing. {10:25} Pour out your wrath upon the
nations that know you not, and upon the families that call not on your name:
for they have devoured Jacob, behold, they have devoured him and consumed him,
and have laid waste his habitation.
{O24)11} Jeremiah Chapter Eleven. {11:1} The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh,
saying, {11:2} Hear you the words of this covenant, and speak unto the men of
Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem; {11:3} and say you unto them, Thus
said Yahweh, the God of Israel: A cursed be the man that hears not the words of
this covenant, {11:4} which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought
them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, saying, Obey my
voice, and do them, according to all which I command you: so shall you be my
people, and I will be your God; {11:5} that I may establish the oath which I
swore unto your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as at
this day. Then answered I, and said, Amen, O Yahweh. {11:6} And Yahweh said
unto me, Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of
Jerusalem, saying, Hear you the words of this covenant, and do them. {11:7} For
I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day that I brought them up out
of the land of Egypt, even unto this day, rising early and protesting, saying,
Obey my voice. {11:8} yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked
every one in the stubbornness of their evil heart: therefore I brought upon
them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they did
them not. {11:9} And Yahweh said unto me, A conspiracy is found among the men
of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem. {11:10} They are turned back
to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear my words; and they
are gone after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of
Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers. {11:11}
Therefore thus said Yahweh, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they
shall not be able to escape; and they shall cry unto me, but I will not hear
unto them. {11:12} Then shall the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem
go and cry unto the gods unto which they offer incense: but they will not save
them at all in the time of their trouble. {11:13} For according to the number
of your cities are your gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the
streets of Jerusalem have you set up altars to the shameful thing, even altars
to burn incense unto Baal. {11:14} Therefore pray not you for this people,
neither lift up cry nor prayer for them; for I will not hear them in the time
that they cry unto me because of their trouble. {11:15} What has my agape
beloved to do in my house, seeing she has wrought lewdness [with] many, and the
holy flesh is passed from you? when you do evil, then you rejoice. {11:16} Yahweh
called your name, A green olive-tree, fair with goodly fruit: with the noise of
a great tumult he has kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.
{11:17} For Yahweh of hosts, who planted you, has pronounced evil against you,
because of the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which
they have wrought for themselves in provoking me to anger by offering incense
unto Baal. {11:18} And Yahweh gave me knowledge of it, and I knew it: then you
showed me their doings. {11:19} But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the
slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, [saying],
Let us destroy the tree with the fruit there, and let us cut him off from the
land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered. {11:20} But, O Yahweh
of hosts, who judges righteously, who test the heart and the mind, I shall see
your vengeance on them; for unto you have I revealed my cause. {11:21}
Therefore thus said Yahweh concerning the men of Anathoth, that seek your life,
saying, you shall not prophesy in the name of Yahweh, that you die not by our
hand; {11:22} therefore thus said Yahweh of hosts, Behold, I will punish them:
the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die
by famine; {11:23} and there shall be no remnant unto them: for I will bring
evil upon the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.
{O24)12} Jeremiah Chapter Twelve. {12:1} Righteous are you, O Yahweh, when I
contend with you; yet would I reason the cause with you: Therefore does the way
of the wicked prosper? Therefore are all they at ease that deal very
treacherously? {12:2} you have planted them, behold, they have taken root; they
grow, behold, they bring forth fruit: you are near in their mouth, and far from
their heart. {12:3} But you, O Yahweh, know me; you sees me, and test my heart
toward you: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for
the day of slaughter. {12:4} How long shall the land grieve, and the herbs of
the whole country wither? for the wickedness of them that dwell therein, the
beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our latter
end. {12:5} If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then
how Can you contend with horses? and though in a land of peace you are secure,
yet how will you do in the pride of the Jordan? {12:6} For even your brethren,
and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you; even
they have cried aloud after you: believe them not, though they speak fair words
unto you. {12:7} I have forsaken my house, I have cast off my heritage; I have
given the dearly agape beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies. {12:8}
My heritage is become unto me as a lion in the forest: she has uttered her
voice against me; therefore I have hated her. {12:9} Is my heritage unto me as
a speckled bird of prey? are the birds of prey against her round about? go you,
assemble all the beasts of the field, bring them to devour. {12:10} Many
shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot,
they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness. {12:11} They have made
it a desolation; it grieves unto me, being desolate; the whole land is made
desolate, because no man lay it to heart. {12:12} Destroyers are come upon all
the bare heights in the wilderness; for the sword of Yahweh devours from the
one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh has peace.
{12:13} They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns; they have put themselves
to pain, and profit nothing: and you shall be ashamed of your fruits, because
of the fierce anger of Yahweh. {12:14} Thus said Yahweh against all mine evil
neighbors, that touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to
inherit: behold, I will pluck them up from off their land, and will pluck up
the house of Judah from among them. {12:15} And it shall come to pass, after
that I have plucked them up, I will return and have compassion on them; and I
will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land.
{12:16} And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my
people, to swear by my name, As Yahweh lives; even as they taught my people to
swear by Baal; then shall they be built up in the midst of my people. {12:17}
But if they will not hear, then will I pluck up that nation, plucking up and
destroying it, said Yahweh.
{O24)13} Jeremiah Chapter Thirteen. {13:1} Thus said Yahweh unto me, Go, and
buy you a linen girdle, and put it upon your loins, and put it not in water.
{13:2} So I bought a girdle according to the word of Yahweh, and put it upon my
loins. {13:3} And the word of Yahweh came unto me the second time, saying,
{13:4} Take the girdle that you have bought, which is upon your loins, and
arise, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a cleft of the rock. {13:5} So
I went, and hid it by the Euphrates, as Yahweh commanded me. {13:6} And it came
to pass after many days, that Yahweh said unto me, Arise, go to the Euphrates,
and take the girdle from there, which I commanded you to hide there. {13:7}
Then I went to the Euphrates, and dug, and took the girdle from the place where
I had hid it; and, behold, the girdle was marred, it was profitable for
nothing. {13:8} Then the word of Yahweh came unto me, saying, {13:9} Thus said Yahweh,
After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride of
Jerusalem. {13:10} This evil people, that refuse to hear my words, that walk in
the stubbornness of their heart, and are gone after other gods to serve them,
and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is profitable for
nothing. {13:11} For as the girdle cleaves to the loins of a man, so have I
caused to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of
Judah, said Yahweh; that they may be unto me for a people, and for a name, and
for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear. {13:12} Therefore you
shall speak unto them this word: Thus said Yahweh, the God of Israel, Every
bottle shall be filled with wine: and they shall say unto you, Do we not
certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine? {13:13} Then shall
you say unto them, Thus said Yahweh, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of
this land, even the kings that sit upon David's throne, and the priests, and
the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness. {13:14}
And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons
together, said Yahweh: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have compassion, that I
should not destroy them. {13:15} Hear you, and give ear; be not proud; for Yahweh
has spoken. {13:16} Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he cause darkness,
and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while you look for
light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness. {13:17}
But if you will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret for [your] pride; and
mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because Yahweh's flock is
taken captive. {13:18} Say you unto the king and to the queen-mother, Humble
yourselves, sit down; for your head tires are come down, even the crown of your
glory. {13:19} The cities of the South are shut up, and there is none to open
them: Judah is carried away captive, all of it; it is wholly carried away
captive. {13:20} Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north:
where is the flock that was given you, your beautiful flock? {13:21} What will
you say, when he shall set over you as head those whom you have yourself taught
to be friends to you? shall not sorrows take hold of you, as of a woman in
travail? {13:22} And if you say in your heart, Therefore are these things come
upon me? for the greatness of your works against law are your skirts uncovered,
and your heels suffer violence. {13:23} Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or
the leopard his spots? then may you also do good, that are accustomed to do
evil. {13:24} Therefore will I scatter them, as the stubble that passes away,
by the wind of the wilderness. {13:25} This is your lot, the portion measured
unto you from me, said Yahweh; because you have forgotten me, and trusted in
falsehood. {13:26} Therefore will I also uncover your skirts upon your face,
and your shame shall appear. {13:27} I have seen your abominations, even your
adulteries, and your neighings, the lewdness of your prostitution, on the hills
in the field. A curse unto you, O Jerusalem! you will not be made clean; how
long shall it yet be?
{O24)14} Jeremiah Chapter Fourteen. {14:1} The word of Yahweh that came to
Jeremiah concerning the drought. {14:2} Judah grieves, and the gates of it
languish, they sit in black upon the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone
up. {14:3} And their nobles send their little ones to the waters: they come to
the cisterns, and find no water; they return with their vessels empty; they are
put to shame and confounded, and cover their heads. {14:4} Because of the ground
which is cracked, for that no rain has been in the land, the plowmen are put to
shame, they cover their heads. {14:5} behold, the hind also in the field
calved, and forsakes [her young], because there is no grass. {14:6} And the
wild asses stand on the bare heights, they pant for air like jackals; their
eyes fail, because there is no herbage. {14:7} though our iniquities testify
against us, work you for your name's sake, O Yahweh; for our backslidings are
many; we have sinned against you. {14:8} O you hope of Israel, the Savior of it
in the time of trouble, why should you be as a alien in the land, and as a
wayfaring man that turns aside to tarry for a night? {14:9} Why should you be
as a man affrighted, as a mighty man that cannot save? yet you, O Yahweh, are
in the midst of us, and we are called by your name; leave us not. {14:10} Thus
said Yahweh unto this people, Even so have they agape loved to wander; they
have not refrained their feet: therefore Yahweh does not accept them; now will
he remember their works against law, and visit their sins. {14:11} And Yahweh
said unto me, Pray not for this people for [their] good. {14:12} When they
fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt-offering and
meal-offering, I will not accept them; but I will consume them by the sword,
and by the famine, and by the pestilence. {14:13} Then said I, Ah, Lord Yahweh!
behold, the prophets say unto them, you shall not see the sword, neither shall
you have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place. {14:14} Then Yahweh
said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name; I sent them not, neither
have I commanded them, neither spoke I unto them: they prophesy unto you a
lying vision, and divination, and a thing of nothing, and the deceit of their
own heart. {14:15} Therefore thus said Yahweh concerning the prophets that
prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and famine shall
not be in this land: By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.
{14:16} And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets
of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have none to
bury them-them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters: for I will
pour their wickedness upon them. {14:17} And you shall say this word unto them,
Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease; for
the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very
grievous wound. {14:18} If I go forth into the field, then, behold, the slain with
the sword! and if I enter into the city, then, behold, they that are sick with
famine! for both the prophet and the priest go about in the land, and have no
knowledge. {14:19} Have you utterly rejected Judah? has your soul loathed Zion?
why have you smitten us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace,
but no good came; and for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay! {14:20} We
acknowledge, O Yahweh, our wickedness, and the works against law of our
fathers; for we have sinned against you. {14:21} Do not abhor [us], for your
name's sake; do not disgrace the throne of your glory: remember, break not your
covenant with us. {14:22} Are there any among the vanities of the nations that
can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? are not you he, O Yahweh our
God? therefore we will wait for you; for you have made all these things.
{O24)15} Jeremiah Chapter Fifteen. {15:1} Then said Yahweh unto me, though
Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not be toward this people:
cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth. {15:2} And it shall come to
pass, when they say unto you, Where shall we go forth? then you shall tell
them, Thus said Yahweh: Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for
the sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the famine; and
such as are for captivity, to captivity. {15:3} And I will appoint over them
four kinds, said Yahweh: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the birds
of the heavens, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and to destroy. {15:4}
And I will cause them to be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the
earth, because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for that which
he did in Jerusalem. {15:5} For who will have pity upon you, O Jerusalem? or who
will bemoan you? or who will turn aside to ask of your welfare? {15:6} you have
rejected me, said Yahweh, you are gone backward: therefore have I stretched out
my hand against you, and destroyed you; I am weary with repenting. {15:7} And I
have winnowed them with a fan in the gates of the land; I have bereaved [them]
of children, I have destroyed my people; they returned not from their ways.
{15:8} Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas; I have
brought upon them against the mother of the young men a destroyer at noonday: I
have caused anguish and terrors to fall upon her suddenly. {15:9} She that has
borne seven languishes; she has given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while
it was yet day; she has been put to shame and confounded: and the residue of
them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, said Yahweh. {15:10} A
curse is me, my mother, that you have borne me a man of strife and a man of
contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, neither have men lent to me;
[yet] every one of them does curse me. {15:11} Yahweh said, Verily I will
strengthen you for good; verily I will cause the enemy to make supplication
unto you in the time of evil and in the time of affliction. {15:12} Can one
break iron, even iron from the north, and brass? {15:13} Your substance and
your treasures will I give for a spoil outside price, and that for all your
sins, even in all your borders. {15:14} And I will make [them] to pass with
your enemies into a land which you know not; for a fire is kindled in mine
anger, which shall burn upon you. {15:15} O Yahweh, you know; remember me, and
visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in your
longsuffering: know that for your sake I have suffered reproach. {15:16} Your
words were found, and I did eat them; and your words were unto me a joy and the
rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by your name, O Yahweh, God of hosts.
{15:17} I sat not in the assembly of them that make merry, nor rejoiced; I sat
alone because of your hand; for you have filled me with indignation. {15:18}
Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed?
will you indeed be unto me as a deceitful [brook], as waters that fail? {15:19}
Therefore thus said Yahweh, If you return, then will I bring you again, that
you may stand before me; and if you take forth the precious from the vile, you
shall be as my mouth: they shall return unto you, but you shall not return unto
them. {15:20} And I will make you unto this people a fortified brazen wall; and
they shall fight against you, but they shall not prevail against you; for I am
with you to save you and to deliver you, said Yahweh. {15:21} And I will
deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem you out of the
hand of the terrible. {O24)16} Jeremiah Chapter
Sixteen. {16:1} The word of Yahweh
came also unto me, saying, {16:2} you shall not take you a wife, neither shall
you have sons or daughters, in this place. {16:3} For thus said Yahweh
concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place,
and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that
begot them in this land: {16:4} They shall die grievous deaths: they shall not
be lamented, neither shall they be buried; they shall be as dung upon the face
of the ground; and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and
their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the heavens, and for the
beasts of the earth. {16:5} For thus said Yahweh, Enter not into the house of grieving,
neither go to lament, neither bemoan them; for I have taken away my peace from
this people, said Yahweh, even loving kindness and tender mercies. {16:6} Both
great and small shall die in this land; they shall not be buried, neither shall
men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them;
{16:7} neither shall men break [bread] for them in grieving, to comfort them
for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for
their father or for their mother. {16:8} And you shall not go into the house of
feasting to sit with them, to eat and to drink. {16:9} For thus said Yahweh of
hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place,
before your eyes and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness,
the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride. {16:10} And it shall
come to pass, when you shall show this people all these words, and they shall
say unto you, Therefore has Yahweh pronounced all this great evil against us?
or what is our works against law? or what is our sin that we have committed
against Yahweh our God? {16:11} Then shall you say unto them, Because your
fathers have forsaken me, said Yahweh, and have walked after other gods, and
have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not
kept my law; {16:12} and you have done evil more than your fathers; for,
behold, you walk every one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that
you hear not unto me: {16:13} therefore will I cast you forth out of this land
into the land that you have not known, neither you nor your fathers; and there
shall you serve other gods day and night; for I will show you no favor. {16:14}
Therefore, behold, the days come, said Yahweh, that it shall no more be said,
As Yahweh lives, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of
Egypt; {16:15} but, As Yahweh lives, that brought up the children of Israel
from the land of the north, and from all the countries where he had driven
them. And I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their
fathers. {16:16} Behold, I will send for many fishers, said Yahweh, and they
shall fish them up; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall
hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the clefts of
the rocks. {16:17} For mine eyes are upon all their ways; they are not hid from
my face, neither is their works against law concealed from mine eyes. {16:18}
And first I will recompense their works against law and their sin double,
because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable
things, and have filled mine inheritance with their abominations. {16:19} O Yahweh,
my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, unto
you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Our
fathers have inherited nothing but lies, [even] vanity and things wherein there
is no profit. {16:20} shall a man make unto himself gods, which yet are no
gods? {16:21} Therefore, behold, I will cause them to know, this once will I
cause them to know my hand and my might; and they shall know that my name is Yahweh.
{O24)17} Jeremiah Chapter Seventeen. {17:1} The sin of Judah is written with a
pen of iron, [and] with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the tablet of
their heart, and upon the horns of your altars; {17:2} whilst their children
remember their altars and their Asherim by the green trees upon the high hills.
{17:3} O my mountain in the field, I will give your substance and all your
treasures for a spoil, [and] your high places, because of sin, throughout all
your borders. {17:4} And you, even of yourself, shall discontinue from your
heritage that I gave you; and I will cause you to serve your enemies in the
land which you know not: for you have kindled a fire in mine anger which shall
burn for ever. {17:5} Thus said Yahweh: A cursed is the man that trusts in man,
and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from Yahweh. {17:6} For he
shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good comes, but
shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not
inhabited. {17:7} Blessed is the man that trusts in Yahweh, and whose trust Yahweh
is. {17:8} For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, that spreads out
its roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat comes, but its leaf shall
be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease
from yielding fruit. {17:9} The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is
exceedingly corrupt: who can know it? {17:10} I, Yahweh, search the mind, I try
the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit
of his doings. {17:11} As the partridge that sits on [eggs] which she has not
laid, so is he that gets riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days
they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool. {17:12} A glorious
throne, [set] on high from the beginning, is the place of our sanctuary.
{17:13} O Yahweh, the hope of Israel, all that forsake you shall be put to shame.
They that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have
forsaken Yahweh, the fountain of living waters. {17:14} Heal me, O Yahweh, and
I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for you are my praise.
{17:15} Behold, they say unto me, Where is the word of Yahweh? let it come now.
{17:16} As for me, I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you; neither
have I desired the curseful day; you
know: that which came out of my lips was before your face. {17:17} Be not a
terror unto me: you are my refuge in the day of evil. {17:18} Let them be put
to shame that persecute me, but let not me be put to shame; let them be
dismayed, but let not me be dismayed; bring upon them the day of evil, and
destroy them with double destruction. {17:19} Thus said Yahweh unto me: Go, and
stand in the gate of the children of the people, whereby the kings of Judah
come in, and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem; {17:20}
and say unto them, Hear you the word of Yahweh, you kings of Judah, and all
Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates:
{17:21} Thus said Yahweh, Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the
Sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem; {17:22} neither carry
forth a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath day, neither do you any work:
but hallow you the Sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers. {17:23} But they
heard not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they
might not hear, and might not receive instruction. {17:24} And it shall come to
pass, if you diligently hear unto me, said Yahweh, to bring in no burden
through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but to hallow the Sabbath
day, to do no work therein; {17:25} then shall there enter in by the gates of
this city kings and princes sitting upon the throne of David, riding in
chariots and on horses, they, and their princes, the men of Judah, and the
inhabitants of Jerusalem; and this city shall remain for ever. {17:26} And they
shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places round about Jerusalem,
and from the land of Benjamin, and from the lowland, and from the hill-country,
and from the South, bringing burnt-offerings, and sacrifices, and
meal-offerings, and frankincense, and bringing [sacrifices of] thanksgiving,
unto the house of Yahweh. {17:27} But if you will not hear unto me to hallow
the Sabbath day, and not to bear a burden and enter in at the gates of Jerusalem
on the Sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates there, and it shall
devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.
{O24)18}
Jeremiah Chapter Eighteen. {18:1} The
word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying, {18:2} Arise, and go down to
the potter's house, and there I will cause you to hear my words. {18:3} Then I
went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he was making a work on the
wheels. {18:4} And when the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the
hand of the potter, he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the
potter to make it. {18:5} Then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {18:6} O
house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? said Yahweh. Behold, as
the clay in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel. {18:7}
At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to
pluck up and to break down and to destroy it; {18:8} if that nation, concerning
which I have spoken, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I
thought to do unto them. {18:9} And at what instant I shall speak concerning a
nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it; {18:10} if they do
that which is evil in my sight, that they obey not my voice, then I will repent
of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them. {18:11} Now therefore,
speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus
said Yahweh: Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you:
return you now every one from his evil way, and amend your ways and your doings.
{18:12} But they say, It is in vain; for we will walk after our own devices,
and we will do every one after the stubbornness of his evil heart. {18:13}
Therefore thus said Yahweh: Ask you now among the nations, who has heard such
things; the virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing. {18:14} shall the
snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field? [or] shall the cold waters
that flow down from afar be dried up? {18:15} For my people have forgotten me,
they have burned incense to false [gods]; and they have been made to stumble in
their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in bypaths, in a way not cast up;
{18:16} to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; every one
that passes thereby shall be astonished, and shake his head. {18:17} I will
scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will show them the back,
and not the face, in the day of their calamity. {18:18} Then said they, Come,
and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from
the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and
let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
{18:19} Give heed to me, O Yahweh, and hear to the voice of them that contend
with me. {18:20} shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have dug a pit
for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn
away your wrath from them. {18:21} Therefore deliver up their children to the
famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives
become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, [and] their
young men smitten of the sword in battle. {18:22} Let a cry be heard from their
houses, when you shall bring a troop suddenly upon them; for they have dug a
pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet. {18:23} yet, Yahweh, you know all
their counsel against me to slay me; forgive not their works against law,
neither blot out their sin from your sight; but let them be overthrown before
you; deal you with them in the time of your anger.
{O24)19}
Jeremiah Chapter Nineteen. {19:1} Thus
said Yahweh, Go, and buy a potter's earthen bottle, and [take] of the elders of
the people, and of the elders of the priests; {19:2} and go forth unto the
valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the gate Harsith, and
proclaim there the words that I shall tell you; {19:3} and say, Hear you the
word of Yahweh, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem: thus said Yahweh
of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, which
anyone who hears, his ears shall tingle. {19:4} Because they have forsaken me,
and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods,
that they knew not, they and their fathers and the kings of Judah; and have
filled this place with the blood of innocents, {19:5} and have built the high
places of Baal, to burn their sons in the fire for burnt-offerings unto Baal;
which I commanded not, nor spoke it, neither came it into my mind: {19:6} therefore,
behold, the days come, said Yahweh, that this place shall no more be called
Topheth, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of Slaughter.
{19:7} And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place;
and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the
hand of them that seek their life: and their dead bodies will I give to be food
for the birds of the heavens, and for the beasts of the earth. {19:8} And I
will make this city an astonishment, and a hissing; every one that passes
thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues there. {19:9}
And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their
daughters; and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend, in the siege
and in the distress, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their life,
shall distress them. {19:10} Then shall you break the bottle in the sight of
the men that go with you, {19:11} and shall say unto them, Thus said Yahweh of
hosts: Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter's
vessel, that cannot be made whole again; and they shall bury in Topheth, till
there be no place to bury. {19:12} Thus will I do unto this place, said Yahweh,
and to the inhabitants there, even making this city as Topheth: {19:13} and the
houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are defiled,
shall be as the place of Topheth, even all the houses upon whose roofs they
have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out
drink-offerings unto other gods. {19:14} Then came Jeremiah from Topheth, where
Yahweh had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of Yahweh's house,
and said to all the people: {19:15} Thus said Yahweh of hosts, the God of
Israel, Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all its towns all the evil
that I have pronounced against it; because they have made their neck stiff,
that they may not hear my words.
{O24)20} Jeremiah Chapter Twenty. {20:1} Now Pashhur, the son of Immer the priest,
who was chief officer in the house of Yahweh, heard Jeremiah prophesying these
things. {20:2} Then Pashhur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the
stocks that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, which was in the house of Yahweh.
{20:3} And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashhur brought forth Jeremiah
out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him, Yahweh has not called your name
Pashhur, but Magor-missabib. {20:4} For thus said Yahweh, Behold, I will make
you a terror to yourself, and to all your friends; and they shall fall by the
sword of their enemies, and your eyes shall behold it; and I will give all
Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive to
Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword. {20:5} Furthermore I will give all
the riches of this city, and all the gains there, and all the precious things
there, behold, all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the
hand of their enemies; and they shall make them a prey, and take them, and carry
them to Babylon. {20:6} And you, Pashhur, and all that dwell in your house
shall go into captivity; and you shall come to Babylon, and there you shall
die, and there shall you be buried, you, and all your friends, to whom you have
prophesied falsely. {20:7} O Yahweh, you have persuaded me, and I was
persuaded; you are stronger than I, and have prevailed: I am become a
laughing-stock all the day, every one mocks me. {20:8} For as often as I speak,
I cry out; I cry, Violence and destruction! because the word of Yahweh is made
a reproach unto me, and a derision, all the day. {20:9} And if I say, I will
not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name, then there is in my
heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with
forbearing, and I cannot [contain]. {20:10} For I have heard the defaming of
many, terror on every side. Denounce, and we will denounce him, [say] all my
familiar friends, they that watch for my fall; perhaps he will be persuaded,
and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him. {20:11}
But Yahweh is with me as a mighty one [and] a terrible: therefore my
persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail; they shall be utterly
put to shame, because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting
dishonor which shall never be forgotten. {20:12} But, O Yahweh of hosts, that
test the righteous, that sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance
on them; for unto you have I revealed my cause. {20:13} Sing unto Yahweh,
praise you Yahweh; for he has delivered the soul of the needy from the hand of
evil-doers. {20:14} Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day
wherein my mother bare me be blessed. {20:15} A cursed be the man who brought
tidings to my father, saying, A man-child is born unto you; making him very
glad. {20:16} And let that man be as the cities which Yahweh overthrew, and
repented not: and let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontime;
{20:17} because he slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have been
my grave, and her womb always great. {20:18} Therefore came I forth out of the
womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
{O24)21}
Jeremiah Chapter TwentyOne. {21:1} The
word which came unto Jeremiah from Yahweh, when king Zedekiah sent unto him
Pashhur the son of Malchijah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest,
saying, {21:2} Inquire, I pray you, of Yahweh for us; for Nebuchadrezzar king
of Babylon makes war against us: perhaps Yahweh will deal with us according to
all his wondrous works, that he may go up from us. {21:3} Then said Jeremiah
unto them, Thus shall you say to Zedekiah: {21:4} Thus said Yahweh, the God of
Israel, Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands,
wherewith you fight against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans that
besiege you, outside the walls; and I will gather them into the midst of this
city. {21:5} And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and
with a strong arm, even in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation.
{21:6} And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: they
shall die of a great pestilence. {21:7} And afterward, said Yahweh, I will
deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, even such as
are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine,
into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their
enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their life: and he shall smite
them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity,
nor have mercy. {21:8} And unto this people you shall say, Thus said Yahweh:
Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death. {21:9} He that
abides in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the
pestilence; but he that goes out, and passes over to the Chaldeans that besiege
you, he shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey. {21:10} For I
have set my face upon this city for evil, and not for good, said Yahweh: it
shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with
fire. {21:11} And touching the house of the king of Judah, hear you the word of
Yahweh: {21:12} O house of David, thus said Yahweh, Execute justice in the
morning, and deliver him that is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest
my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can quench it, because of
the evil of your doings. {21:13} Behold, I am against you, O inhabitant of the
valley, [and] of the rock of the plain, said Yahweh; you that say, Who shall
come down against us? or who shall enter into our habitations? {21:14} And I
will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, said Yahweh; and I will
kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all that is round about her.
{O24)22}
Jeremiah Chapter TwentyTwo. {22:1}
Thus said Yahweh: Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there
this word, {22:2} And say, Hear the word of Yahweh, O king of Judah, that sits
upon the throne of David, you, and your servants, and your people that enter in
by these gates. {22:3} Thus said Yahweh: Execute you justice and righteousness,
and deliver him that is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no
wrong, do no violence, to the alien, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither
shed innocent blood in this place. {22:4} For if you do this thing indeed, then
shall there enter in by the gates of this house kings sitting upon the throne
of David, riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants, and his
people. {22:5} But if you will not hear these words, I swear by myself, said Yahweh,
that this house shall become a desolation. {22:6} For thus said Yahweh
concerning the house of the king of Judah: you are Gilead unto me, [and] the
head of Lebanon; [yet] surely I will make you a wilderness, [and] cities which
are not inhabited. {22:7} And I will prepare destroyers against you, every one
with his weapons; and they shall cut down your choice cedars, and cast them
into the fire. {22:8} And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall
say every man to his neighbor, Therefore has Yahweh done thus unto this great
city? {22:9} Then they shall answer, Because they forsook the covenant of Yahweh
their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them. {22:10} Weep you not for
the dead, neither bemoan him; but weep sore for him that goes away; for he
shall return no more, nor see his native country. {22:11} For thus said Yahweh
touching shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned instead of
Josiah his father, [and] who went forth out of this place: He shall not return
there any more. {22:12} But in the place where they have led him captive, there
shall he die, and he shall see this land no more. {22:13} A curse unto him that
builds his house [illegally] by works against
law, and his chambers by injustice; that uses his neighbor's service outside
wages, and gives him not his hire; {22:14} that said, I will build me a wide
house and spacious chambers, and cuts him out windows; and it is ceiled with
cedar, and painted with vermilion. {22:15} shall you reign, because you strive
to excel in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink, and do justice and
[legal] works in the law? then it was well with him. {22:16} He judged the cause
of the poor and needy; then it was well. Was not this to know me? said Yahweh.
{22:17} But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for
shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
{22:18} Therefore thus said Yahweh concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king
of Judah: they shall not lament for him, [saying], Ah my brother! or, Ah
sister! They shall not lament for him, [saying] Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!
{22:19} He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth
beyond the gates of Jerusalem. {22:20} Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up
your voice in Bashan, and cry from Abarim; for all your lovers are destroyed.
{22:21} I spoke unto you in your prosperity; but you said, I will not hear.
This has been your manner from your youth, that you obeyed not my voice.
{22:22} The wind shall feed all your shepherds, and your lovers shall go into
captivity: surely then shall you be ashamed and confounded for all your
wickedness. {22:23} O inhabitant of Lebanon, that make your nest in the cedars,
how greatly to be pitied shall you be when pangs come upon you, the pain as of
a woman in travail! {22:24} As I live, said Yahweh, though Coniah the son of
Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon my right hand, yet would I pluck
you there; {22:25} and I will give you into the hand of them that seek your
life, and into the hand of them of whom you are afraid, even into the hand of
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans. {22:26} And
I will cast you out, and your mother that bare you, into another country, where
you were not born; and there shall you die. {22:27} But to the land whereunto
their soul longs to return, there shall they not return. {22:28} Is this man
Coniah a despised broken vessel? is he a vessel wherein none delights?
Therefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into the land which
they know not? {22:29} O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of Yahweh. {22:30}
Thus said Yahweh, Write you this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in
his days; for no more shall a man of his seed prosper, sitting upon the throne
of David, and ruling in Judah.
{O24)23} Jeremiah Chapter TwentyThree. {23:1} A curse unto the shepherds that
destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! said Yahweh. {23:2} Therefore thus
said Yahweh, the God of Israel, against the shepherds that feed my people: you
have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them;
behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, said Yahweh. {23:3} And
I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have
driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be
fruitful and multiply. {23:4} And I will set up shepherds over them, who shall
feed them; and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall any be
lacking, said Yahweh. {23:5} Behold, the days come, said Yahweh, that I will
raise unto David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal
wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. {23:6} In his
days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely; and this is his name
whereby he shall be called: Yahweh our righteousness. {23:7} Therefore, behold,
the days come, said Yahweh, that they shall no more say, As Yahweh lives, who
brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; {23:8} but, As Yahweh
lives, who brought up and who led the seed of the house of Israel out of the
north country, and from all the countries where I had driven them. And they
shall dwell in their own land. {23:9} Concerning the prophets. My heart within
me is broken, all my bones shake; I am like a drunk man, and like a man whom
wine has overcome, because of Yahweh, and because of his holy words. {23:10}
For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land grieves;
the pastures of the wilderness are dried up. And their course is evil, and
their might is not right; {23:11} for both prophet and priest are profane;
behold, in my house have I found their wickedness, said Yahweh. {23:12}
Therefore their way shall be unto them as slippery places in the darkness: they
shall be driven on, and fall therein; for I will bring evil upon them, even the
year of their visitation, said Yahweh. {23:13} And I have seen folly in the
prophets of Samaria; they prophesied by Baal, and caused my people Israel to
err. {23:14} In the prophets of Jerusalem also I have seen a horrible thing:
they commit adultery, and walk in lies; and they strengthen the hands of
evil-doers, so that none does return from his wickedness: they are all of them
become unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants of it as Gomorrah. {23:15}
Therefore thus said Yahweh of hosts concerning the prophets: Behold, I will
feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall; for from the
prophets of Jerusalem is ungodliness gone forth into all the land. {23:16} Thus
said Yahweh of hosts, Hear not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy
unto you: they teach you vanity; they speak a vision of their own heart, and
not out of the mouth of Yahweh. {23:17} They say continually unto them that
despise me, Yahweh has said, you shall have peace; and unto every one that
walks in the stubbornness of his own heart they say, No evil shall come upon
you. {23:18} For who has stood in the council of Yahweh, that he should
perceive and hear his word? who has marked my word, and heard it? {23:19}
Behold, the tempest of Yahweh, [even his] wrath, is gone forth, behold, a
whirling tempest: it shall burst upon the head of the wicked. {23:20} The anger
of Yahweh shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed
the intents of his heart: in the latter days you shall understand it perfectly.
{23:21} I sent not these prophets, yet they ran: I spoke not unto them, yet
they prophesied. {23:22} But if they had stood in my council, then had they
caused my people to hear my words, and had turned them from their evil way, and
from the evil of their doings. {23:23} Am I a God at hand, said Yahweh, and not
a God afar off? {23:24} Can any hide himself in secret places so that I shall
not see him? said Yahweh. Do not I fill heaven and earth? said Yahweh. {23:25}
I have heard what the prophets have said, that prophesy lies in my name,
saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed. {23:26} How long shall this be in the
heart of the prophets that prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceit of
their own heart? {23:27} that think to cause my people to forget my name by
their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbor, as their fathers forgot
my name for Baal. {23:28} The prophet that has a dream, let him tell a dream;
and he that has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to
the wheat? said Yahweh. {23:29} Is not my word like fire? said Yahweh; and like
a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces? {23:30} Therefore, behold, I am
against the prophets, said Yahweh, that steal my words every one from his
neighbor. {23:31} Behold, I am against the prophets, said Yahweh, that use
their tongues, and say, He said. {23:32} Behold, I am against them that
prophesy lying dreams, said Yahweh, and do tell them, and cause my people to
err by their lies, and by their vain boasting: yet I sent them not, nor
commanded them; neither do they profit this people at all, said Yahweh. {23:33}
And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask you, saying, What
is the burden of Yahweh? then shall you say unto them, What burden! I will cast
you off, said Yahweh. {23:34} And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the
people, that shall say, The burden of Yahweh, I will even punish that man and
his house. {23:35} Thus shall you say every one to his neighbor, and every one
to his brother, What has Yahweh answered? and, What has Yahweh spoken? {23:36}
And the burden of Yahweh shall you mention no more: for every man's own word
shall be his burden; for you have perverted the words of the living God, of Yahweh
of hosts our God. {23:37} Thus shall you say to the prophet, What has Yahweh
answered you? and, What has Yahweh spoken? {23:38} But if you say, The burden
of Yahweh; therefore thus said Yahweh: Because you say this word, The burden of
Yahweh, and I have sent unto you, saying, you shall not say, The burden of Yahweh;
{23:39} therefore, behold, I will utterly forget you, and I will cast you off,
and the city that I gave unto you and to your fathers, away from my presence:
{23:40} and I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual
shame, which shall not be forgotten.
{O24)24} Jeremiah Chapter TwentyFour. {24:1} Yahweh showed me, and, behold, two
baskets of figs set before the temple of Yahweh, after that Nebuchadrezzar king
of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of
Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the craftsmen and smiths, from Jerusalem,
and had brought them to Babylon. {24:2} One basket had very good figs, like the
figs that are first-ripe; and the other basket had very bad figs, which could
not be eaten, they were so bad. {24:3} Then said Yahweh unto me, What sees you,
Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the bad, very bad,
that cannot be eaten, they are so bad. {24:4} And the word of Yahweh came unto
me, saying, {24:5} Thus said Yahweh, the God of Israel: Like these good figs,
so will I regard the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into
the land of the Chaldeans, for good. {24:6} For I will set mine eyes upon them
for good, and I will bring them again to this land: and I will build them, and
not pull them down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up. {24:7} And I
will give them a heart to know me, that I am Yahweh: and they shall be my
people, and I will be their God; for they shall return unto me with their whole
heart. {24:8} And as the bad figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so bad,
surely thus said Yahweh, So will I give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his
princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that
dwell in the land of Egypt, {24:9} I will even give them up to be tossed to and
fro among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil; to be a reproach and a
proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall drive them. {24:10}
And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till
they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their
fathers.
{O24)25} Jeremiah Chapter TwentyFive. {25:1} The word that came to Jeremiah
concerning all the people of Judah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of
Josiah, king of Judah (the same was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of
Babylon,) {25:2} which Jeremiah the prophet spoke unto all the people of Judah,
and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying: {25:3} From the thirteenth
year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even unto this day, these three
and twenty years, the word of Yahweh has come unto me, and I have spoken unto
you, rising up early and speaking; but you have not heard. {25:4} And Yahweh
has sent unto you all his servants the prophets, rising up early and sending
them, (but you have not heard, nor inclined your ear to hear,) {25:5} saying,
Return you now every one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings,
and dwell in the land that Yahweh has given unto you and to your fathers, from
of old and even for evermore; {25:6} and go not after other gods to serve them,
and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger with the work of your hands;
and I will do you no hurt. {25:7} yet you have not heard unto me, said Yahweh;
that you may provoke me to anger with the work of your hands to your own hurt.
{25:8} Therefore thus said Yahweh of hosts: Because you have not heard my
words, {25:9} behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, said Yahweh,
and [I will send] unto Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will
bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants there, and against
all these nations round about; and I will utterly destroy them, and make them
an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations. {25:10} Furthermore
I will take from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice
of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and
the light of the lamp. {25:11} And this whole land shall be a desolation, and
an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy
years. {25:12} And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished,
that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, said Yahweh, for their
works against law, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it desolate
for ever. {25:13} And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have
pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah
has prophesied against all the nations. {25:14} For many nations and great
kings shall make bondmen of them, even of them; and I will recompense them
according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands. {25:15} For
thus said Yahweh, the God of Israel, unto me: take this cup of the wine of
wrath at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send you, to drink it.
{25:16} And they shall drink, and reel to and fro, and be mad, because of the
sword that I will send among them. {25:17} Then took I the cup at Yahweh's
hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom Yahweh had sent me: {25:18}
[to wit], Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings there, and the
princes there, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a
curse, as it is this day; {25:19} Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and
his princes, and all his people; {25:20} and all the mingled people, and all
the kings of the land of the Uz, and all the kings of the Philistines, and
Ashkelon, and Gaza, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod; {25:21} Edom, and
Moab, and the children of Ammon; {25:22} and all the kings of Tyre, and all the
kings of Sidon, and the kings of the isle which is beyond the sea; {25:23}
Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that have the corners [of their hair] cut
off; {25:24} and all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled
people that dwell in the wilderness; {25:25} and all the kings of Zimri, and
all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes; {25:26} and all the
kings of the north, far and near, one with another; and all the kingdoms of the
world, which are upon the face of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall
drink after them. {25:27} And you shall say unto them, Thus said Yahweh of
hosts, the God of Israel: Drink you, and be drunk, and spew, and fall, and rise
no more, because of the sword which I will send among you. {25:28} And it shall
be, if they refuse to take the cup at your hand to drink, then shall you say
unto them, Thus said Yahweh of hosts: you shall surely drink. {25:29} For, lo,
I begin to work evil at the city which is called by my name; and should you be
utterly unpunished? you shall not be unpunished; for I will call for a sword
upon all the inhabitants of the earth, said Yahweh of hosts. {25:30} Therefore
prophesy you against them all these words, and say unto them, Yahweh will roar from
on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he will mightily roar
against his fold; he will give a shout, as they that tread [the grapes],
against all the inhabitants of the earth. {25:31} A noise shall come even to
the end of the earth; for Yahweh has a controversy with the nations; he will
enter into judgment with all flesh: as for the wicked, he will give them to the
sword, said Yahweh. {25:32} Thus said Yahweh of hosts, Behold, evil shall go
forth from nation to nation, and a great tempest shall be raised up from the
uttermost parts of the earth. {25:33} And the slain of Yahweh shall be at that
day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shall
not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the face
of the ground. {25:34} Wail, you shepherds, and cry; and wallow [in ashes], you
principal of the flock; for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions
are fully come, and you shall fall like a goodly vessel. {25:35} And the
shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape.
{25:36} A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and the wailing of the principal
of the flock! for Yahweh lays waste their pasture. {25:37} And the peaceable
folds are brought to silence because of the fierce anger of Yahweh. {25:38} He
has left his covert, as the lion; for their land is become an astonishment
because of the fierceness of the oppressing [sword], and because of his fierce
anger.
{O24)26} Jeremiah Chapter TwentySix. {26:1} In the beginning of the reign of
Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, came this word from Yahweh, saying,
{26:2} Thus said Yahweh: Stand in the court of Yahweh's house, and speak unto
all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in Yahweh's house, all the words
that I command you to speak unto them; diminish not a word. {26:3} It may be
they will hear, and turn every man from his evil way; that I may repent me of
the evil which I purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings.
{26:4} And you shall say unto them, Thus said Yahweh: If you will not hear to
me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you, {26:5} to hear to the words
of my servants the prophets, whom I send unto you, even rising up early and
sending them, but you have not heard; {26:6} then will I make this house like
Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth. {26:7}
And the priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking
these words in the house of Yahweh. {26:8} And it came to pass, when Jeremiah
had made an end of speaking all that Yahweh had commanded him to speak unto all
the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people laid hold on
him, saying, you shall surely die. {26:9} Why have you prophesied in the name
of Yahweh, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be
desolate, outside inhabitant? And all the people were gathered unto Jeremiah in
the house of Yahweh. {26:10} And when the princes of Judah heard these things,
they came up from the king's house unto the house of Yahweh; and they sat in
the entry of the new gate of Yahweh's [house]. {26:11} Then spoke the priests
and the prophets unto the princes and to all the people, saying, This man is
worthy of death; for he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard
with your ears. {26:12} Then spoke Jeremiah unto all the princes and to all the
people, saying, Yahweh sent me to prophesy against this house and against this
city all the words that you have heard. {26:13} Now therefore amend your ways
and your doings, and obey the voice of Yahweh your God; and Yahweh will repent
him of the evil that he has pronounced against you. {26:14} But as for me,
behold, I am in your hand: do with me as is good and right in your eyes.
{26:15} Only know you for certain that, if you put me to death, you will bring
innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon the inhabitants
there; for of a truth Yahweh has sent me unto you to speak all these words in
your ears. {26:16} Then said the princes and all the people unto the priests
and to the prophets: This man is not worthy of death; for he has spoken to us
in the name of Yahweh our God. {26:17} Then rose up certain of the elders of
the land, and spoke to all the assembly of the people, saying, {26:18} Micah
the Morashtite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spoke
to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus said Yahweh of hosts: Zion shall be
plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the
house as the high places of a forest. {26:19} Did Hezekiah king of Judah and
all Judah put him to death? did he not fear Yahweh, and entreat the favor of Yahweh,
and Yahweh repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus
should we commit great evil against our own souls. {26:20} And there was also a
man that prophesied in the name of Yahweh, Uriah the son of Shemaiah of
Kiriath-jearim; and he prophesied against this city and against this land
according to all the words of Jeremiah: {26:21} and when Jehoiakim the king,
with all his mighty-men, and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought
to put him to death; but when Uriah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and went
into Egypt: {26:22} and Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, [namely],
Elnathan the son of Achbor, and certain men with him, into Egypt; {26:23} and
they fetched forth Uriah out of Egypt, and brought him unto Jehoiakim the king,
who slew him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the
common people. {26:24} But the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with
Jeremiah, that they should not give him into the hand of the people to put him
to death.
{O24)27} Jeremiah Chapter TwentySeven. {27:1} In the beginning of the reign of
Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, came this word unto Jeremiah from Yahweh,
saying, {27:2} Thus said Yahweh to me: Make you bonds and bars, and put them
upon your neck; {27:3} and send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of
Moab, and to the king of the children of Ammon, and to the king of Tyre, and to
the king of Sidon, by the hand of the messengers that come to Jerusalem unto
Zedekiah king of Judah; {27:4} and give them a charge unto their masters,
saying, Thus said Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, Thus shall you say unto
your masters: {27:5} I have made the earth, the men and the beasts that are
upon the face of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched arm; and I
give it unto whom it seems right unto me. {27:6} And now have I given all these
lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the
beasts of the field also have I given him to serve him. {27:7} And all the
nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the time of his
own land come: and then many nations and great kings shall make him their
bondman. {27:8} And it shall come to pass, that the nation and the kingdom
which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and that will not
put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I
punish, said Yahweh, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the
pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand. {27:9} But as for you, hear
you not to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreams, nor to your
soothsayers, nor to your sorcerers, that speak unto you, saying, you shall not
serve the king of Babylon: {27:10} for they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove
you far from your land, and that I should drive you out, and you should perish.
{27:11} But the nation that shall bring their neck under the yoke of the king
of Babylon, and serve him, that [nation] will I let remain in their own land,
said Yahweh; and they shall till it, and dwell therein. {27:12} And I spoke to
Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying, Bring your necks
under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live.
{27:13} Why will you die, you and your people, by the sword, by the famine, and
by the pestilence, as Yahweh has spoken concerning the nation that will not
serve the king of Babylon? {27:14} And hear not unto the words of the prophets
that speak unto you, saying, you shall not serve the king of Babylon; for they
prophesy a lie unto you. {27:15} For I have not sent them, said Yahweh, but
they prophesy falsely in my name; that I may drive you out, and that you may
perish, you, and the prophets that prophesy unto you. {27:16} Also I spoke to
the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus said Yahweh: Hear not to the
words of your prophets that prophesy unto you, saying, Behold, the vessels of Yahweh's
house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon; for they prophesy a lie
unto you. {27:17} Hear not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live:
Therefore should this city become a desolation? {27:18} But if they be
prophets, and if the word of Yahweh be with them, let them now make
intercession to Yahweh of hosts, that the vessels which are left in the house
of Yahweh, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, go not to
Babylon. {27:19} For thus said Yahweh of hosts concerning the pillars, and
concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the residue of the
vessels that are left in this city, {27:20} which Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon took not, when he carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim,
king of Judah, from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and
Jerusalem; {27:21} behold, thus said Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel,
concerning the vessels that are left in the house of Yahweh, and in the house
of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem: {27:22} They shall be carried to
Babylon, and there shall they be, until the day that I visit them, said Yahweh;
then will I bring them up, and restore them to this place.
{O24)28}
Jeremiah Chapter TwentyEight. {28:1}
And it came to pass the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah
king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth moon, that Hananiah the son of
Azzur, the prophet, who was of Gibeon, spoke unto me in the house of Yahweh, in
the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying, {28:2} Thus speaks Yahweh
of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, I have broken the yoke of the king of
Babylon. {28:3} Within two full years will I bring again into this place all
the vessels of Yahweh's house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away
from this place, and carried to Babylon: {28:4} and I will bring again to this
place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, with all the captives of
Judah, that went to Babylon, said Yahweh; for I will break the yoke of the king
of Babylon. {28:5} Then the prophet Jeremiah said unto the prophet Hananiah in
the presence of the priests, and in the presence of all the people that stood
in the house of Yahweh, {28:6} even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: Yahweh do
so; Yahweh perform your words which you have prophesied, to bring again the
vessels of Yahweh's house, and all them of the captivity, from Babylon unto
this place. {28:7} Nevertheless hear you now this word that I speak in your
ears, and in the ears of all the people: {28:8} The prophets that have been
before me and before you of old prophesied against many countries, and against
great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence. {28:9} The prophet that
prophesies of peace, when the word of the prophet shall come to pass, then
shall the prophet be known, that Yahweh has truly sent him. {28:10} Then
Hananiah the prophet took the bar from off the prophet Jeremiah's neck, and
brake it. {28:11} And Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the people, saying,
Thus said Yahweh: Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon within two full years from off the neck of all the nations. And the
prophet Jeremiah went his way. {28:12} Then the word of Yahweh came unto
Jeremiah, after that Hananiah the prophet had broken the bar from off the neck
of the prophet Jeremiah, saying, {28:13} Go, and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus
said Yahweh: you have broken the bars of wood; but you have made in their stead
bars of iron. {28:14} For thus said Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: I have
put a yoke of iron upon the neck of all these nations, that they may served
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him: and I have given him
the beasts of the field also. {28:15} Then said the prophet Jeremiah unto
Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah: Yahweh has not sent you; but you make
this people to trust in a lie. {28:16} Therefore thus said Yahweh, Behold, I
will send you away from off the face of the earth: this year you shall die,
because you have spoken rebellion against Yahweh. {28:17} So Hananiah the
prophet died the same year in the seventh moon.
{O24)29} Jeremiah Chapter TwentyNine. {29:1} Now these are the words of the
letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the residue of the
elders of the captivity, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all
the people, whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to
Babylon, {29:2} (after that Jeconiah the king, and the queen-mother, and the
eunuchs, [and] the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the craftsmen, and the
smiths, were departed from Jerusalem,) {29:3} by the hand of Elasah the son of
Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent
unto Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon,) saying, {29:4} Thus said Yahweh
of hosts, the God of Israel, unto all the captivity, whom I have caused to be
carried away captive from Jerusalem unto Babylon: {29:5} Build you houses, and
dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them. {29:6} Take you
wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give
your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply
you there, and be not diminished. {29:7} And seek the peace of the city where I
have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray unto Yahweh for it; for in
the peace of it shall you have peace. {29:8} For thus said Yahweh of hosts, the
God of Israel: Let not your prophets that are in the midst of you, and your
diviners, deceive you; neither hear you to your dreams which you cause to be
dreamed. {29:9} For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent
them, said Yahweh. {29:10} For thus said Yahweh, After seventy years are
accomplished for Babylon, I will visit you, and perform my good word toward
you, in causing you to return to this place. {29:11} For I know the thoughts
that I think toward you, said Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to
give you hope in your latter end. {29:12} And you shall call upon me, and you
shall go and pray unto me, and I will hear unto you. {29:13} And you shall seek
me, and find me, when you shall search for me with all your heart. {29:14} And
I will be found of you, said Yahweh, and I will turn again your captivity, and
I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places wither I have
driven you, said Yahweh; and I will bring you again unto the place where I
caused you to be carried away captive. {29:15} Because you have said, Yahweh
has raised us up prophets in Babylon; {29:16} thus said Yahweh concerning the
king that sits upon the throne of David, and concerning all the people that
dwell in this city, your brethren that are not gone forth with you into
captivity; {29:17} thus said Yahweh of hosts; Behold, I will send upon them the
sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that
cannot be eaten, they are so bad. {29:18} And I will pursue after them with the
sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be
tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth, to be an execration, and
an astonishment, and a hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations where I
have driven them; {29:19} because they have not heard my words, said Yahweh,
wherewith I sent unto them my servants the prophets, rising up early and
sending them; but you would not hear, said Yahweh. {29:20} Hear you therefore
the word of Yahweh, all you of the captivity, whom I have sent away from Jerusalem
to Babylon. {29:21} Thus said Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning
Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and concerning Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who
prophesy a lie unto you in my name: Behold, I will deliver them into the hand
of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall slay them before your eyes; {29:22}
and of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captives of Judah that are in
Babylon, saying, Yahweh make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of
Babylon roasted in the fire; {29:23} because they have wrought folly in Israel,
and have committed adultery with their neighbors' wives, and have spoken words
in my name falsely, which I commanded them not; and I am he that knows, and am
witness, said Yahweh. {29:24} And concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite you shall
speak, saying, {29:25} Thus speaks Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, saying,
Because you have sent letters in your own name unto all the people that are at
Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, and to all the
priests, saying, {29:26} Yahweh has made you priest in the stead of Jehoiada
the priest, that there may be officers in the house of Yahweh, for every man
that is mad, and makes himself a prophet, that you should put him in the stocks
and in shackles. {29:27} Now therefore, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of
Anathoth, who makes himself a prophet to you, {29:28} forasmuch as he has sent
unto us in Babylon, saying, [The captivity] is long: build you houses, and
dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them? {29:29} And
Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears of Jeremiah the prophet.
{29:30} Then came the word of Yahweh unto Jeremiah, saying, {29:31} Send to all
them of the captivity, saying, Thus said Yahweh concerning Shemaiah the
Nehelamite: Because that Shemaiah has prophesied unto you, and I sent him not,
and he has caused you to trust in a lie; {29:32} therefore thus said Yahweh,
Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed; he shall not have
a man to dwell among this people, neither shall he behold the good that I will
do unto my people, said Yahweh, because he has spoken rebellion against Yahweh.
{O24)30}
Jeremiah Chapter Thirty. {30:1} The
word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying, {30:2} Thus speaks Yahweh, the
God of Israel, saying, Write you all the words that I have spoken unto you in a
book. {30:3} For, lo, the days come, said Yahweh, that I will turn again the
captivity of my people Israel and Judah, said Yahweh; and I will cause them to
return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.
{30:4} And these are the words that Yahweh spoke concerning Israel and
concerning Judah. {30:5} For thus said Yahweh: We have heard a voice of
trembling, of fear, and not of peace. {30:6} Ask you now, and see whether a man
does travail with child: Therefore do I see every man with his hands on his
loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness? {30:7}
Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of
Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it. {30:8} And it shall come to
pass in that day, said Yahweh of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off
your neck, and will burst your bonds; and strangers shall no more make him
their bondman; {30:9} but they shall serve Yahweh their God, and David their
king, whom I will raise up unto them. {30:10} Therefore fear you not, O Jacob
my servant, said Yahweh; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save
you from afar, and your seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall
return, and shall be quiet and at ease, and none shall make him afraid. {30:11}
For I am with you, said Yahweh, to save you: for I will make a full end of all
the nations where I have scattered you, but I will not make a full end of you;
but I will correct you in measure, and will in no wise leave you unpunished.
{30:12} For thus said Yahweh, Your hurt is incurable, and your wound grievous.
{30:13} There is none to plead your cause, that you may be bound up: you have
no healing medicines. {30:14} All your lovers have forgotten you; they seek you
not: for I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement
of a cruel one, for the greatness of your works against law, because your sins
were increased. {30:15} Why cry you for your hurt? your pain is incurable: for
the greatness of your works against law, because your sins were increased, I
have done these things unto you. {30:16} Therefore all they that devour you
shall be devoured; and all your adversaries, every one of them, shall go into
captivity; and they that despoil you shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon
you will I give for a prey. {30:17} For I will restore health unto you, and I
will heal you of your wounds, said Yahweh; because they have called you an
outcast, [saying], It is Zion, whom no man seeks after. {30:18} Thus said Yahweh:
Behold, I will turn again the captivity of Jacob's tents, and have compassion
on his dwelling-places; and the city shall be built upon its own hill, and the
palace shall be inhabited after its own manner. {30:19} And out of them shall
proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply
them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not
be small. {30:20} Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their
congregation shall be established before me; and I will punish all that oppress
them. {30:21} And their prince shall be of themselves, and their ruler shall
proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall
approach unto me: for who is he that has had boldness to approach unto me? said
Yahweh. {30:22} And you shall be my people, and I will be your God. {30:23}
Behold, the tempest of Yahweh, [even his] wrath, is gone forth, a sweeping
tempest: it shall burst upon the head of the wicked. {30:24} The fierce anger
of Yahweh shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed
the intents of his heart: in the latter days you shall understand it.
{O24)31} Jeremiah Chapter Thirty One. {31:1} At that time, said Yahweh, will I be
the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people. {31:2} Thus
said Yahweh, The people that were left of the sword found favor in the
wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest. {31:3} Yahweh
appeared of old unto me, [saying], behold, I have agape loved you with an
everlasting love: therefore with loving kindness have I drawn you. {31:4} Again
will I build you, and you shall be built, O virgin of Israel: again shall you
be adorned with your tabrets, and shall go forth in the dances of them that
make merry. {31:5} Again shall you plant vineyards upon the mountains of
Samaria; the planters shall plant, and shall enjoy [the fruit there]. {31:6}
For there shall be a day, that the watchmen upon the hills of Ephraim shall
cry, Arise you, and let us go up to Zion unto Yahweh our God. {31:7} For thus
said Yahweh, Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout for the chief of the
nations: publish you, praise you, and say, O Yahweh, save your people, the
remnant of Israel. {31:8} Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and
gather them from the uttermost parts of the earth, [and] with them the blind
and the lame, the woman with child and her that travails with child together: a
great company shall they return here. {31:9} They shall come with weeping; and
with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by rivers of
waters, in a straight way wherein they shall not stumble; for I am a father to
Israel, and Ephraim is my first-born. {31:10} Hear the word of Yahweh, O you nations,
and declare it in the isles afar off; and say, He that scattered Israel will
gather him, and keep him, as shepherd does his flock. {31:11} For Yahweh has
ransomed Jacob, and redeemed him from the hand of him that was stronger than
he. {31:12} And they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow
unto the goodness of Yahweh, to the grain, and to the new wine, and to the oil,
and to the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a
watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all. {31:13} Then shall
the virgin rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old together; for I
will turn their grieving into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice
from their sorrow. {31:14} And I will satiate the soul of the priests with
fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, said Yahweh.
{31:15} Thus said Yahweh: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter
weeping, Rachel weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for her
children, because they are not. {31:16} Thus said Yahweh: Refrain your voice
from weeping, and your eyes from tears; for your work shall be rewarded, said Yahweh;
and they shall come again from the land of the enemy. {31:17} And there is hope
for your latter end, said Yahweh; and [your] children shall come again to their
own border. {31:18} I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [thus], you
have Chastised me, and I was Chastised, as a calf unaccustomed [to the yoke]:
turn you me, and I shall be turned; for you are Yahweh my God. {31:19} Surely
after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote
upon my thigh: I was ashamed, behold, even confounded, because I did bear the
reproach of my youth. {31:20} Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a darling child?
for as often as I speak against him, I do earnestly remember him still:
therefore my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, said Yahweh.
{31:21} Set you up way marks, make you guide-posts; set your heart toward the
highway, even the way by which you went: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn
again to these your cities. {31:22} How long will you go here and there, O you
backsliding daughter? for Yahweh has created a new thing in the earth: a woman
shall encompass a man. {31:23} Thus said Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel,
yet again shall they use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities
there, when I shall bring again their captivity: Yahweh bless you, O habitation
of righteousness, O mountain of holiness. {31:24} And Judah and all the cities
there shall dwell therein together, the husbandmen, and they that go about with
flocks. {31:25} For I have satiated the weary soul, and every sorrowful soul
have I replenished. {31:26} Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was
sweet unto me. {31:27} Behold, the days come, said Yahweh, that I will sow the
house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed
of beast. {31:28} And it shall come to pass that, like as I have watched over
them to pluck up and to break down and to overthrow and to destroy and to
afflict, so will I watch over them to build and to plant, said Yahweh. {31:29}
In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and
the children's teeth are set on edge. {31:30} But every one shall die for his
own works against law: every man that eats the sour grapes, his teeth shall be
set on edge. {31:31} Behold, the days come, said Yahweh, that I will make a new
covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: {31:32} not
according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took
them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they
brake, although I was a husband unto them, said Yahweh. {31:33} But this is the
covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, said Yahweh:
I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it;
and I will be their God, and they shall be my people: {31:34} and they shall
teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know Yahweh;
for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them,
said Yahweh: for I will forgive their works against law, and their sin will I
remember no more. {31:35} Thus said Yahweh, who gives the sun for a light by
day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who
stirs up the sea, so that the waves there roar; Yahweh of hosts is his name:
{31:36} If these ordinances depart from before me, said Yahweh, then the seed
of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever. {31:37} Thus
said Yahweh: If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth
searched out beneath, then will I also cast off all the seed of Israel for all
that they have done, said Yahweh. {31:38} Behold, the days come, said Yahweh,
that the city shall be built to Yahweh from the tower of Hananel unto the gate
of the corner. {31:39} And the measuring line shall go out further straight
onward unto the hill Gareb, and shall turn about unto Goah. {31:40} And the
whole valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes, and all the fields unto the
brook Kidron, unto the corner of the horse gate toward the east, shall be holy
unto Yahweh; it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more for
ever.
{O24)32} Jeremiah Chapter ThirtyTwo. {32:1} The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh
in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of
Nebuchadrezzar. {32:2} Now at that time the king of Babylon's army was
besieging Jerusalem; and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the
guard, which was in the king of Judah's house. {32:3} For Zedekiah king of
Judah had shut him up, saying, Therefore do you prophesy, and say, Thus said Yahweh,
Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he
shall take it; {32:4} and Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the
hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king
of Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall behold
his eyes; {32:5} and he shall bring Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he be
until I visit him, said Yahweh: though you fight with the Chaldeans, you shall
not prosper? {32:6} And Jeremiah said, The word of Yahweh came unto me, saying,
{32:7} Behold, Hanamel the son of shallum your uncle shall come unto you,
saying, Buy you my field that is in Anathoth; for the right of redemption is
your to buy it. {32:8} So Hanamel mine uncle's son came to me in the court of
the guard according to the word of Yahweh, and said unto me, Buy my field, I
pray you, that is in Anathoth, which is in the land of Benjamin; for the right
of inheritance is your, and the redemption is your; buy it for yourself. Then I
knew that this was the word of Yahweh. {32:9} And I bought the field that was
in Anathoth of Hanamel mine uncle's son, and weighed him the money, even
seventeen shekels of silver. {32:10} And I subscribed the deed, and sealed it,
and called witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances. {32:11} So I
took the deed of the purchase, both that which was sealed, [according to] the
law and custom, and that which was open: {32:12} and I delivered the deed of
the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the
presence of Hanamel mine uncle's [son], and in the presence of the witnesses
that subscribed the deed of the purchase, before all the Jews that sat in the
court of the guard. {32:13} And I charged Baruch before them, saying, {32:14}
Thus said Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: Take these deeds, this deed of
the purchase which is sealed, and this deed which is open, and put them in an
earthen vessel; that they may continue many days. {32:15} For thus said Yahweh
of hosts, the God of Israel: Houses and fields and vineyards shall yet again be
bought in this land. {32:16} Now after I had delivered the deed of the purchase
unto Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed unto Yahweh, saying, {32:17} Ah Lord Yahweh!
behold, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your
outstretched arm; there is nothing too hard for you, {32:18} who shows loving
kindness unto thousands, and recompenses the works against law of the fathers
into the bosom of their children after them; the great, the mighty God, Yahweh
of hosts is his name; {32:19} great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes
are open upon all the ways of the sons of men, to give every one according to
his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings: {32:20} who did set signs
and wonders in the land of Egypt, even unto this day, both in Israel and among
[other] men; and made you a name, as at this day; {32:21} and did bring forth
your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and
with a strong hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terror;
{32:22} and gave them this land, which you did swear to their fathers to give
them, a land flowing with milk and honey; {32:23} and they came in, and
possessed it, but they obeyed not your voice, neither walked in your law; they
have done nothing of all that you command them to do: therefore you have caused
all this evil to come upon them. {32:24} Behold, the mounds, they are come unto
the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans that
fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the
pestilence; and what you have spoken is come to pass; and, behold, you sees it.
{32:25} And you have said unto me, O Lord Yahweh, Buy you the field for money,
and call witnesses; whereas the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.
{32:26} Then came the word of Yahweh unto Jeremiah, saying, {32:27} Behold, I
am Yahweh, the God of all flesh: is there anything too hard for me? {32:28}
Therefore thus said Yahweh: Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the
Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and he shall
take it: {32:29} and the Chaldeans, that fight against this city, shall come
and set this city on fire, and burn it, with the houses, upon whose roofs they
have offered incense unto Baal, and poured out drink-offerings unto other gods,
to provoke me to anger. {32:30} For the children of Israel and the children of
Judah have done only that which was evil in my sight from their youth; for the
children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands,
said Yahweh. {32:31} For this city has been to me a provocation of mine anger
and of my wrath from the day that they built it even unto this day; that I
should remove it from before my face, {32:32} because of all the evil of the
children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to
provoke me to anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their
prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. {32:33} And
they have turned unto me the back, and not the face: and though I taught them,
rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not heard receive instruction.
{32:34} But they set their abominations in the house which is called by my name,
to defile it. {32:35} And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the
valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass
through [the fire] unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it
into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
{32:36} And now therefore thus said Yahweh, the God of Israel, concerning this
city, where you say, It is given into the hand of the king of Babylon by the
sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: {32:37} Behold, I will gather
them out of all the countries, where I have driven them in mine anger, and in
my wrath, and in great indignation; and I will bring them again unto this
place, and I will cause them to dwell safely: {32:38} and they shall be my
people, and I will be their God: {32:39} and I will give them one heart and one
way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their
children after them: {32:40} and I will make an everlasting covenant with them,
that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good; and I will put
my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me. {32:41} behold, I
will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land
assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul. {32:42} For thus said Yahweh:
Like as I have brought all this great evil upon this people, so will I bring
upon them all the good that I have promised them. {32:43} And fields shall be
bought in this land, where you say, It is desolate, outside man or beast; it is
given into the hand of the Chaldeans. {32:44} Men shall buy fields for money,
and subscribe the deeds, and seal them, and call witnesses, in the land of
Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in
the cities of the hill-country, and in the cities of the lowland, and in the
cities of the South: for I will cause their captivity to return, said Yahweh.
{O24)33} Jeremiah Chapter ThirtyThree. {33:1} Furthermore the word of Yahweh came
unto Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the
guard, saying, {33:2} Thus said Yahweh that does it, Yahweh that forms it to
establish it; Yahweh is his name: {33:3} Call unto me, and I will answer you,
and will show you great things, and difficult, which you know not. {33:4} For
thus said Yahweh, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and
concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are broken down [to make a
defense] against the mounds and against the sword; {33:5} while [men] come to
fight with the Chaldeans, and to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I
have slain in mine anger and in my wrath, and for all whose wickedness I have
hid my face from this city: {33:6} Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and
I will cure them; and I will reveal unto them abundance of peace and truth.
{33:7} And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to
return, and will build them, as at the first. {33:8} And I will cleanse them
from all their works against law, whereby they have sinned against me; and I
will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned against me, and
whereby they have transgressed against me. {33:9} And [this city] shall be to
me for a name of joy, for a praise and for a glory, before all the nations of
the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do unto them, and shall fear
and tremble for all the good and for all the peace that I procure unto it.
{33:10} Thus said Yahweh: yet again there shall be heard in this place, where
you say, It is waste, outside man and outside beast, even in the cities of
Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, outside man and
outside inhabitant and outside beast, {33:11} the voice of joy and the voice of
gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of
them that say, Give thanks to Yahweh of hosts, for Yahweh is good, for his
loving kindness [endures] for ever; [and of them] that bring [sacrifices of]
thanksgiving into the house of Yahweh. For I will cause the captivity of the
land to return as at the first, said Yahweh. {33:12} Thus said Yahweh of hosts:
yet again shall there be in this place, which is waste, outside man and outside
beast, and in all the cities there, a habitation of shepherds causing their
flocks to lie down. {33:13} In the cities of the hill-country, in the cities of
the lowland, and in the cities of the South, and in the land of Benjamin, and
in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks
again pass under the hands of him that numbers them, said Yahweh. {33:14}
Behold, the days come, said Yahweh, that I will perform that good word which I
have spoken concerning the house of Israel and concerning the house of Judah.
{33:15} In those days, and at that time, will I cause a Branch of righteousness
to grow up unto David; and he shall execute justice and righteousness in the
land. {33:16} In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell
safely; and this is [the name] whereby she shall be called: Yahweh our
righteousness. {33:17} For thus said Yahweh: David shall never want a man to
sit upon the throne of the house of Israel; {33:18} neither shall the priests
the Levites want a man before me to offer burnt-offerings, and to burn
meal-offerings, and to do sacrifice continually. {33:19} And the word of Yahweh
came unto Jeremiah, saying, {33:20} Thus said Yahweh: If you can break my
covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, so that there shall not be
day and night in their time; {33:21} then may also my covenant be broken with
David my servant, that he shall not have a son to reign upon his throne; and
with the Levites the priests, my ministers. {33:22} As the host of heaven
cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured; so will I multiply
the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me. {33:23}
And the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, saying, {33:24} Consider you not what
this people have spoken, saying, The two families which Yahweh did choose, he
has cast them off? thus do they despise my people, that they should be no more
a nation before them. {33:25} Thus said Yahweh: If my covenant of day and night
[stand] not, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
{33:26} then will I also cast away the seed of Jacob, and of David my servant,
so that I will not take of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and will have
mercy on them.
{O24)34} Jeremiah Chapter ThirtyFour. {34:1} The word which came unto Jeremiah
from Yahweh, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the
kingdoms of the earth that were under his dominion, and all the peoples, were
fighting against Jerusalem, and against all the cities there, saying: {34:2}
Thus said Yahweh, the God of Israel, Go, and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah,
and tell him, Thus said Yahweh, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of
the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire: {34:3} and you shall not
escape out of his hand, but shall surely be taken, and delivered into his hand;
and your eyes shall behold the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak
with you mouth to mouth, and you shall go to Babylon. {34:4} yet hear the word
of Yahweh, O Zedekiah king of Judah: thus said Yahweh concerning you, you shall
not die by the sword; {34:5} you shall die in peace; and with the burnings of
your fathers, the former kings that were before you, so shall they make a
burning for you; and they shall lament you, [saying], Ah Lord! for I have
spoken the word, said Yahweh. {34:6} Then Jeremiah the prophet spoke all these
words unto Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem, {34:7} when the king of
Babylon's army was fighting against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of
Judah that were left, against Lachish and against Azekah; for these [alone]
remained of the cities of Judah [as] fortified cities. {34:8} The word that
came unto Jeremiah from Yahweh, after that the king Zedekiah had made a
covenant with all the people that were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto
them; {34:9} that every man should let his man-servant, and every man his
maid-servant, that is a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free; that none should make
bondmen of them, [to wit], of a Jew his brother. {34:10} And all the princes
and all the people obeyed, that had entered into the covenant, that every one
should let his man-servant, and every one his maid-servant, go free, that none
should make bondmen of them any more; they obeyed, and let them go: {34:11} but
afterwards they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they
had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and
for handmaids. {34:12} Therefore the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah from Yahweh,
saying, {34:13} Thus said Yahweh, the God of Israel: I made a covenant with
your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out
of the house of bondage, saying, {34:14} At the end of seven years you shall
let go every man his brother that is a Hebrew, that has been sold unto you, and
has served you six years, you shall let him go free from you: but your fathers
heard not unto me, neither inclined their ear. {34:15} And you were now turned,
and had done that which is right in mine eyes, in proclaiming liberty every man
to his neighbor; and you had made a covenant before me in the house which is
called by my name: {34:16} but you turned and profaned my name, and caused
every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom you had let go free at
their pleasure, to return; and you brought them into subjection, to be unto you
for servants and for handmaids. {34:17} Therefore thus said Yahweh: you have
not heard unto me, to proclaim liberty, every man to his brother, and every man
to his neighbor: behold, I proclaim unto you a liberty, said Yahweh, to the
sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be tossed
to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth. {34:18} And I will give the men
that have transgressed my covenant, that have not performed the words of the
covenant which they made before me, when they cut the calf in twain and passed
between the parts there; {34:19} the princes of Judah, and the princes of
Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land, that
passed between the parts of the calf; {34:20} I will even give them into the
hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life; and
their dead bodies shall be for food unto the birds of the heavens, and to the
beasts of the earth. {34:21} And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I
give into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their
life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, that are gone away from
you. {34:22} Behold, I will command, said Yahweh, and cause them to return to
this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire:
and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, outside inhabitant.
{O24)35}
Jeremiah Chapter ThirtyFive. {35:1} The
word which came unto Jeremiah from Yahweh in the days of Jehoiakim the son of
Josiah, king of Judah, saying, {35:2} Go unto the house of the Rechabites, and
speak unto them, and bring them into the house of Yahweh, into one of the
chambers, and give them wine to drink. {35:3} Then I took Jaazaniah the son of
Jeremiah, the son of Habazziniah, and his brethren, and all his sons, and the
whole house of the Rechabites; {35:4} and I brought them into the house of Yahweh,
into the chamber of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah, the man of God,
which was by the chamber of the princes, which was above the chamber of
Maaseiah the son of shallum, the keeper of the threshold. {35:5} And I set
before the sons of the house of the Rechabites bowls full of wine, and cups;
and I said unto them, Drink you wine. {35:6} But they said, We will drink no
wine; for Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, commanded us, saying, you
shall drink no wine, neither you, nor your sons, for ever: {35:7} neither shall
you build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any; but all your
days you shall dwell in tents; that you may live many days in the land wherein
you sojourn. {35:8} And we have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab,
our father, in all that he charged us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our
wives, our sons, or our daughters; {35:9} nor to build houses for us to dwell
in; neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed: {35:10} but we have dwelt in
tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded
us. {35:11} But it came to pass, when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came up
into the land, that we said, Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the
army of the Chaldeans, and for fear of the army of the Syrians; so we dwell at
Jerusalem. {35:12} Then came the word of Yahweh unto Jeremiah, saying, {35:13}
Thus said Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: Go, and say to the men of Judah
and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will you not receive instruction to hear to
my words? said Yahweh. {35:14} The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he
commanded his sons, not to drink wine, are performed; and unto this day they
drink none, for they obey their father's commandment: but I have spoken unto
you, rising up early and speaking; and you have not heard unto me. {35:15} I
have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and
sending them, saying, Return you now every man from his evil way, and amend
your doings, and go not after other gods to serve them, and you shall dwell in
the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but you have not
inclined your ear, nor heard unto me. {35:16} Forasmuch as the sons of Jonadab
the son of Rechab have performed the commandment of their father which he
commanded them, but this people has not heard unto me; {35:17} therefore thus
said Yahweh, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring upon
Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have
pronounced against them; because I have spoken unto them, but they have not
heard; and I have called unto them, but they have not answered. {35:18} And
Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites, Thus said Yahweh of hosts, the
God of Israel: Because you have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father,
and kept all his precepts, and done according unto all that he commanded you;
{35:19} therefore thus said Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: Jonadab the son
of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever.
{O24)36} Jeremiah Chapter ThirtySix. {36:1} And it came to pass in the fourth
year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, that this word came unto
Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying, {36:2} Take you a roll of a book, and write
therein all the words that I have spoken unto you against Israel, and against
Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spoke unto you, from the
days of Josiah, even unto this day. {36:3} It may be that the house of Judah
will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them; that they may return
every man from his evil way; that I may forgive their works against law and
their sin. {36:4} Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah; and Baruch
wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of Yahweh, which he had spoken
unto him, upon a roll of a book. {36:5} And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying,
I am shut up; I cannot go into the house of Yahweh: {36:6} therefore go you,
and read in the roll, which you have written from my mouth, the words of Yahweh
in the ears of the people in Yahweh's house upon the fast-day; and also you
shall read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities. {36:7}
It may be they will present their supplication before Yahweh, and will return
every one from his evil way; for great is the anger and the wrath that Yahweh
has pronounced against this people. {36:8} And Baruch the son of Neriah did
according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in the book
the words of Yahweh in Yahweh's house. {36:9} Now it came to pass in the fifth
year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth moon, that all
the people in Jerusalem, and all the people that came from the cities of Judah
unto Jerusalem, proclaimed a fast before Yahweh. {36:10} Then read Baruch in
the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of Yahweh, in the chamber of
Gemariah the son of Shaphan, the scribe, in the upper court, at the entry of
the new gate of Yahweh's house, in the ears of all the people. {36:11} And when
Micaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard out of the book all
the words of Yahweh, {36:12} he went down into the king's house, into the
scribe's chamber: and, lo, all the princes were sitting there, [to wit],
Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan the son of
Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and
all the princes. {36:13} Then Micaiah declared unto them all the words that he
had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people. {36:14}
Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of
Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, unto Baruch, saying, Take in your hand the roll
wherein you have read in the ears of the people, and come. So Baruch the son of
Neriah took the roll in his hand, and came unto them. {36:15} And they said
unto him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch read it in their
ears. {36:16} Now it came to pass, when they had heard all the words, they
turned in fear one toward another, and said unto Baruch, We will surely tell
the king of all these words. {36:17} And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us
now, How did you write all these words at his mouth? {36:18} Then Baruch
answered them, He pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth, and I
wrote them with ink in the book. {36:19} Then said the princes unto Baruch, Go,
hide you, you and Jeremiah; and let no man know where you are. {36:20} And they
went in to the king into the court; but they had laid up the roll in the
chamber of Elishama the scribe; and they told all the words in the ears of the
king. {36:21} So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll; and he took it out of
the chamber of Elishama the scribe. And Jehudi read it in the ears of the king,
and in the ears of all the princes that stood beside the king. {36:22} Now the
king was sitting in the winter-house in the ninth moon: and [there was a fire
in] the brazier burning before him. {36:23} And it came to pass, when Jehudi
had read three or four leaves, that [the king] cut it with the penknife, and
cast it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the roll was consumed
in the fire that was in the brazier. {36:24} And they were not afraid, nor rent
their garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants that heard all these
words. {36:25} Furthermore Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession
to the king that he would not burn the roll; but he would not hear them.
{36:26} And the king commanded Jerahmeel the king's son, and Seraiah the son of
Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah
the prophet; but Yahweh hid them. {36:27} Then the word of Yahweh came to
Jeremiah, after that the king had burned the roll, and the words which Baruch
wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying, {36:28} Take you again another roll,
and write in it all the former words that were in the first roll, which
Jehoiakim the king of Judah has burned. {36:29} And concerning Jehoiakim king
of Judah you shall say, Thus said Yahweh: you have burned this roll, saying,
Why have you written therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come
and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from there man and beast?
{36:30} Therefore thus said Yahweh concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: He shall
have none to sit upon the throne of David; and his dead body shall be cast out
in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost. {36:31} And I will
punish him and his seed and his servants for their works against law; and I
will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men
of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them, but they heard not.
{36:32} Then took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the
son of Neriah, who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of
the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire; and there were
added besides unto them many like words.
{O24)37} Jeremiah Chapter ThirtySeven. {37:1} And Zedekiah the son of Josiah
reigned as king, instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar
king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah. {37:2} But neither he, nor his
servants, nor the people of the land, did hear unto the words of Yahweh, which
he spoke by the prophet Jeremiah. {37:3} And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the
son of Shelemiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, to the prophet
Jeremiah, saying, Pray now unto Yahweh our God for us. {37:4} Now Jeremiah came
in and went out among the people; for they had not put him into prison. {37:5}
And Pharaoh's army was come forth out of Egypt; and when the Chaldeans that
were besieging Jerusalem heard tidings of them, they brake up from Jerusalem.
{37:6} Then came the word of Yahweh unto the prophet Jeremiah, saying, {37:7}
Thus said Yahweh, the God of Israel, Thus shall you say to the king of Judah,
that sent you unto me to inquire of me: Behold, Pharaoh's army, which is come
forth to help you, shall return to Egypt into their own land. {37:8} And the
Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city; and they shall take
it, and burn it with fire. {37:9} Thus said Yahweh, Deceive not yourselves,
saying, The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us; for they shall not depart.
{37:10} For though you had smitten the whole army of the Chaldeans that fight
against you, and there remained but wounded men among them, behold would they
rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city with fire. {37:11} And it
came to pass that, when the army of the Chaldeans was broken up from Jerusalem
for fear of Pharaoh's army, {37:12} then Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem
to go into the land of Benjamin, to receive his portion there, in the midst of
the people. {37:13} And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the
ward was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of
Hananiah; and he laid hold on Jeremiah the prophet, saying, you are falling
away to the Chaldeans. {37:14} Then said Jeremiah, It is false; I am not
falling away to the Chaldeans. But he heard not to him; so Irijah laid hold on
Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes. {37:15} And the princes were wroth
with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan
the scribe; for they had made that the prison. {37:16} When Jeremiah was come
into the dungeon-house, and into the cells, and Jeremiah had remained there
many days; {37:17} Then Zedekiah the king sent, and fetched him: and the king
asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there any word from Yahweh? And
Jeremiah said, There is. He said also, you shall be delivered into the hand of
the king of Babylon. {37:18} Furthermore Jeremiah said unto king Zedekiah,
Wherein have I sinned against you, or against your servants, or against this
people, that you have put me in prison? {37:19} Where now are your prophets
that prophesied unto you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against
you, nor against this land? {37:20} And now hear, I pray you, O my lord the
king: let my supplication, I pray you, be presented before you, that you cause
me not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there. {37:21}
Then Zedekiah the king commanded, and they committed Jeremiah into the court of
the guard; and they gave him daily a loaf of bread out of the bakers' street,
until all the bread in the city was spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court
of the guard.
{O24)38} Jeremiah Chapter ThirtyEight. {38:1} And Shephatiah the son of Mattan,
and Gedaliah the son of Pashhur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur
the son of Malchijah, heard the words that Jeremiah spoke unto all the people,
saying, {38:2} Thus said Yahweh, He that abides in this city shall die by the
sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he that goes forth to the
Chaldeans shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey, and he shall
live. {38:3} Thus said Yahweh, This city shall surely be given into the hand of
the army of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it. {38:4} Then the princes
said unto the king, Let this man, we pray you, be put to death; forasmuch as he
weakens the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of
all the people, in speaking such words unto them: for this man seeks not the
welfare of this people, but the hurt. {38:5} And Zedekiah the king said,
Behold, he is in your hand; for the king is not he that can do anything against
you. {38:6} Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchijah
the king's son, that was in the court of the guard: and they let down Jeremiah
with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank
in the mire. {38:7} Now when Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, a eunuch, who was in
the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon (the king
then sitting in the gate of Benjamin,) {38:8} Ebed-melech went forth out of the
king's house, and spoke to the king, saying, {38:9} My lord the king, these men
have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they
have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die in the place where he is,
because of the famine; for there is no more bread in the city. {38:10} Then the
king commanded Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from here thirty men
with you, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die.
{38:11} So Ebed-melech took the men with him, and went into the house of the
king under the treasury, and took there rags and worn-out garments, and let
them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah. {38:12} And Ebed-melech the
Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah, Put now these rags and worn-out garments under
your armholes under the cords. And Jeremiah did so. {38:13} So they drew up
Jeremiah with the cords, and took him up out of the dungeon: and Jeremiah
remained in the court of the guard. {38:14} Then Zedekiah the king sent, and
took Jeremiah the prophet unto him into the third entry that is in the house of
Yahweh: and the king said unto Jeremiah, I will ask you a thing; hide nothing
from me. {38:15} Then Jeremiah said unto Zedekiah, If I declare it unto you,
will you not surely put me to death? and if I give you counsel, you will not
hear unto me. {38:16} So Zedekiah the king swore secretly unto Jeremiah,
saying, As Yahweh lives, that made us this soul, I will not put you to death,
neither will I give you into the hand of these men that seek your life. {38:17}
Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah, Thus said Yahweh, the God of hosts, the God
of Israel: If you will go forth unto the king of Babylon's princes, then your
soul shall live, and this city shall not be burned with fire; and you shall
live, and your house. {38:18} But if you will not go forth to the king of
Babylon's princes, then shall this city be given into the hand of the
Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and you shall not escape out of
their hand. {38:19} And Zedekiah the king said unto Jeremiah, I am afraid of
the Jews that are fallen away to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their
hand, and they mock me. {38:20} But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver you.
Obey, I ask you, the voice of Yahweh, in that which I speak unto you: so it
shall be well with you, and your soul shall live. {38:21} But if you refuse to
go forth, this is the word that Yahweh has showed me: {38:22} behold, all the
women that are left in the king of Judah's house shall be brought forth to the
king of Babylon's princes, and those women shall say, Your familiar friends
have set you on, and have prevailed over you: [now that] your feet are sunk in
the mire, they are turned away back. {38:23} And they shall bring out all your
wives and your children to the Chaldeans; and you shall not escape out of their
hand, but shall be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon: and you shall
cause this city to be burned with fire. {38:24} Then said Zedekiah unto
Jeremiah, Let no man know of these words, and you shall not die. {38:25} But if
the princes hear that I have talked with you, and they come unto you, and say
unto you, Declare unto us now what you have said unto the king; hide it not
from us, and we will not put you to death; also what the king said unto you:
{38:26} then you shall say unto them, I presented my supplication before the
king, that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan's house, to die there.
{38:27} Then came all the princes unto Jeremiah, and asked him; and he told
them according to all these words that the king had commanded. So they left off
speaking with him; for the matter was not perceived. {38:28} So Jeremiah abode
in the court of the guard until the day that Jerusalem was taken.
{O24)39}
Jeremiah Chapter ThirtyNine. {39:1}
And it came to pass when Jerusalem was taken, (in the ninth year of Zedekiah
king of Judah, in the tenth moon, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all
his army against Jerusalem, and besieged it; {39:2} in the eleventh year of
Zedekiah, in the fourth moon, the ninth day of the moon, a breach was made in
the city,) {39:3} that all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat
in the middle gate, [to wit], Nergal-sharezer, Samgar-nebo, Sarsechim,
Rab-saris, Nergal-sharezer, Rab-mag, with all the rest of the princes of the
king of Babylon. {39:4} And it came to pass that, when Zedekiah the king of
Judah and all the men of war saw them, then they fled, and went forth out of
the city by night, by the way of the king's garden, through the gate between
the two walls; and he went out toward the Arabah. {39:5} But the army of the
Chaldeans pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho:
and when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadrezzar king of
Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he gave judgment upon him. {39:6}
Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes:
also the king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Judah. {39:7} Furthermore he
put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.
{39:8} And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of the people,
with fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem. {39:9} Then Nebuzaradan the
captain of the guard carried away captive into Babylon the residue of the
people that remained in the city, the deserters also that fell away to him, and
the residue of the people that remained. {39:10} But Nebuzaradan the captain of
the guard left of the poor of the people, that had nothing, in the land of
Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time. {39:11} Now
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon gave charge concerning Jeremiah to Nebuzaradan
the captain of the guard, saying, {39:12} Take him, and look well to him, and
do him no harm; but do unto him even as he shall say unto you. {39:13} So
Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard sent, and Nebushazban, Rab-saris, and
Nergal-sharezer, Rab-mag, and all the chief officers of the king of Babylon;
{39:14} they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the guard, and
committed him unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, that he
should carry him home: so he dwelt among the people. {39:15} Now the word of Yahweh
came unto Jeremiah, while he was shut up in the court of the guard, saying,
{39:16} Go, and speak to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Thus said Yahweh of
hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring my words upon this city for
evil, and not for good; and they shall be accomplished before you in that day.
{39:17} But I will deliver you in that day, said Yahweh; and you shall not be
given into the hand of the men of whom you are afraid. {39:18} For I will
surely save you, and you shall not fall by the sword, but your life shall be
for a prey unto you; because you have put your trust in me, said Yahweh.
{O24)40} Jeremiah Chapter Forty. {40:1} The word which came to Jeremiah from
Yahweh, after that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from
Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all the captives of
Jerusalem and Judah, that were carried away captive unto Babylon. {40:2} And
the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said unto him, Yahweh your God
pronounced this evil upon this place; {40:3} and Yahweh has brought it, and
done according as he spoke: because you have sinned against Yahweh, and have
not obeyed his voice, therefore this thing is come upon you. {40:4} And now,
behold, I loose you this day from the chains which are upon your hand. If it
seem good unto you to come with me into Babylon, come, and I will look well
unto you; but if it seem ill unto you to come with me into Babylon, forbear:
behold, all the land is before you; where it seems good and right unto you to
go, there go. {40:5} Now while he was not yet gone back, Go back then, [said
he], to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of
Babylon has made governor over the cities of Judah, and dwell with him among
the people; or go where so ever it seems right unto you to go. So the captain
of the guard gave him victuals and a present, and let him go. {40:6} Then went
Jeremiah unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah, and dwelt with him among
the people that were left in the land. {40:7} Now when all the captains of the
forces that were in the fields, even they and their men, heard that the king of
Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had
committed unto him men, and women, and children, and of the poorest of the
land, of them that were not carried away captive to Babylon; {40:8} then they
came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, [to wit], Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan
and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons
of Ephai the Netophasite, and Jezaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and
their men. {40:9} And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan swore unto
them and to their men, saying, Fear not to serve the Chaldeans: dwell in the
land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you. {40:10} As
for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah, to stand before the Chaldeans that
shall come unto us: but you, gather you wine and summer fruits and oil, and put
them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that you have taken. {40:11}
Likewise when all the Jews that were in Moab, and among the children of Ammon,
and in Edom, and that were in all the countries, heard that the king of Babylon
had left a remnant of Judah, and that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of
Ahikam, the son of Shaphan; {40:12} then all the Jews returned out of all
places where they were driven, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, unto
Mizpah, and gathered wine and summer fruits very much. {40:13} Furthermore
Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were in the
fields, came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, {40:14} and said unto him, Do you know that
Baalis the king of the children of Ammon has sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah
to take your life? But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam believed them not. {40:15}
Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying,
Let me go, I pray you, and I will slay Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man
shall know it: Therefore should he take your life, that all the Jews that are
gathered unto you should be scattered, and the remnant of Judah perish? {40:16}
But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said unto Johanan the son of Kareah, you shall
not do this thing; for you speak falsely of Ishmael.
{O24)41}
Jeremiah Chapter FortyOne. {41:1} Now
it came to pass in the seventh moon, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son
of Elishama, of the seed royal and [one of] the chief officers of the king, and
ten men with him, came unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there
they did eat bread together in Mizpah. {41:2} Then arose Ishmael the son of
Nethaniah, and the ten men that were with him, and smote Gedaliah the son of
Ahikam the son of Shaphan with the sword, and slew him, whom the king of
Babylon had made governor over the land. {41:3} Ishmael also slew all the Jews
that were with him, [to wit], with Gedaliah, at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans that
were found there, the men of war. {41:4} And it came to pass the second day
after he had slain Gedaliah, and no man knew it, {41:5} that there came men
from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even fourscore men, having their
beards shaven and their clothes rent, and having cut themselves, with
meal-offerings and frankincense in their hand, to bring them to the house of Yahweh.
{41:6} And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went forth from Mizpah to meet them,
weeping all along as he went: and it came to pass, as he met them, he said unto
them, Come to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam. {41:7} And it was so, when they came
into the midst of the city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah slew them, [and
cast them] into the midst of the pit, he, and the men that were with him.
{41:8} But ten men were found among them that said unto Ishmael, Slay us not;
for we have stores hidden in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and of oil,
and of honey. So he forbear, and slew them not among their brethren. {41:9} Now
the pit wherein Ishmael cast all the dead bodies of the men whom he had slain,
by the side of Gedaliah (the same was that which Asa the king had made for fear
of Baasha king of Israel,) Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with them
that were slain. {41:10} Then Ishmael carried away captive all the residue of
the people that were in Mizpah, even the king's daughters, and all the people
that remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had
committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam; Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried
them away captive, and departed to go over to the children of Ammon. {41:11}
But when Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that
were with him, heard of all the evil that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had
done, {41:12} then they took all the men, and went to fight with Ishmael the
son of Nethaniah, and found him by the great waters that are in Gibeon. {41:13}
Now it came to pass that, when all the people that were with Ishmael saw
Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with him,
then they were glad. {41:14} So all the people that Ishmael had carried away
captive from Mizpah turned about and came back, and went unto Johanan the son
of Kareah. {41:15} But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with
eight men, and went to the children of Ammon. {41:16} Then took Johanan the son
of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with him, all the
remnant of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah,
from Mizpah, after that he had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, [to wit], the
men of war, and the women, and the children, and the eunuchs, whom he had
brought back from Gibeon: {41:17} and they departed, and dwelt in Geruth
Chimham, which is by Beth-lehem, to go to enter into Egypt, {41:18} because of
the Chaldeans; for they were afraid of them, because Ishmael the son of
Nethaniah had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon made
governor over the land.
{O24)42}
Jeremiah Chapter FortyTwo. {42:1} Then
all the captains of the forces, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Jezaniah the
son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least even unto the greatest, came
near, {42:2} and said unto Jeremiah the prophet, Let, we pray you, our
supplication be presented before you, and pray for us unto Yahweh your God,
even for all this remnant; for we are left but a few of many, as your eyes do
behold us: {42:3} that Yahweh your God may show us the way wherein we should
walk, and the thing that we should do. {42:4} Then Jeremiah the prophet said
unto them, I have heard you; behold, I will pray unto Yahweh your God according
to your words; and it shall come to pass that what ever thing Yahweh shall
answer you, I will declare it unto you; I will keep nothing back from you.
{42:5} Then they said to Jeremiah, Yahweh be a true and faithful witness
amongst us, if we do not according to all the word wherewith Yahweh your God
shall send you to us. {42:6} Whether it be good, or whether it be evil, we will
obey the voice of Yahweh our God, to whom we send you; that it may be well with
us, when we obey the voice of Yahweh our God. {42:7} And it came to pass after
ten days, that the word of Yahweh came unto Jeremiah. {42:8} Then called he
Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with
him, and all the people from the least even to the greatest, {42:9} and said
unto them, Thus said Yahweh, the God of Israel, unto whom you sent me to
present your supplication before him: {42:10} If you will still abide in this
land, then will I build you, and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and
not pluck you up; for I repent me of the evil that I have done unto you.
{42:11} Be not afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom you are afraid; be not
afraid of him, said Yahweh: for I am with you to save you, and to deliver you
from his hand. {42:12} And I will grant you mercy, that he may have mercy upon
you, and cause you to return to your own land. {42:13} But if you say, We will
not dwell in this land; so that you obey not the voice of Yahweh your God,
{42:14} saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we shall see
no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there
will we dwell: {42:15} now therefore hear you the word of Yahweh, O remnant of
Judah: Thus said Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, If you indeed set your
faces to enter into Egypt, and go to sojourn there; {42:16} then it shall come
to pass, that the sword, which you fear, shall overtake you there in the land
of Egypt; and the famine, where you are afraid, shall follow hard after you
there in Egypt; and there you shall die. {42:17} So shall it be with all the
men that set their faces to go into Egypt to sojourn there: they shall die by
the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; and none of them shall remain
or escape from the evil that I will bring upon them. {42:18} For thus said Yahweh
of hosts, the God of Israel: As mine anger and my wrath has been poured forth
upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so shall my wrath be poured forth upon you,
when you shall enter into Egypt; and you shall be an execration, and an
astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and you shall see this place no
more. {42:19} Yahweh has spoken concerning you, O remnant of Judah, Go you not
into Egypt: know certainly that I have testified unto you this day. {42:20} For
you have dealt deceitfully against your own souls; for you sent me unto Yahweh
your God, saying, Pray for us unto Yahweh our God; and according unto all that Yahweh
our God shall say, so declare unto us, and we will do it: {42:21} and I have
this day declared it to you; but you have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh your
God in anything for which he has sent me unto you. {42:22} Now therefore know
certainly that you shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the
pestilence, in the place where you desire to go to sojourn there.
{O24)43}
Jeremiah Chapter FortyThree.
{43:1} And it came to pass that, when Jeremiah had made an end of
speaking unto all the people all the words of Yahweh their God, wherewith Yahweh
their God had sent him to them, even all these words, {43:2} then spoke Azariah
the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men,
saying unto Jeremiah, you speak falsely: Yahweh our God has not sent you to
say, you shall not go into Egypt to sojourn there; {43:3} but Baruch the son of
Neriah sets you on against us, to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans,
that they may put us to death, and carry us away captive to Babylon. {43:4} So
Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, and all the
people, obeyed not the voice of Yahweh, to dwell in the land of Judah. {43:5}
But Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, took all the
remnant of Judah, that were returned from all the nations where they had been
driven, to sojourn in the land of Judah; {43:6} the men, and the women, and the
children, and the king's daughters, and every person that Nebuzaradan the
captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of
Shaphan; and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah; {43:7} and
they came into the land of Egypt; for they obeyed not the voice of Yahweh: and
they came unto Tahpanhes. {43:8} Then came the word of Yahweh unto Jeremiah in
Tahpanhes, saying, {43:9} Take great stones in your hand, and hide them in
mortar in the brickwork, which is at the entry of Pharaoh's house in Tahpanhes,
in the sight of the men of Judah; {43:10} and say unto them, Thus said Yahweh
of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadrezzar the
king of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne upon these stones that I
have hid; and he shall spread his royal pavilion over them. {43:11} And he
shall come, and shall smite the land of Egypt; such as are for death [shall be
given] to death, and such as are for captivity to captivity, and such as are
for the sword to the sword. {43:12} And I will kindle a fire in the houses of
the gods of Egypt; and he shall burn them, and carry them away captive: and he
shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd put-on his garment;
and he shall go forth from there in peace. {43:13} He shall also break the
pillars of Beth-shemesh, that is in the land of Egypt; and the houses of the
gods of Egypt shall he burn with fire.
{O24)44}
Jeremiah Chapter FortyFour. {44:1} The
word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews that dwelt in the land of
Egypt, that dwelt at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Memphis, and in the
country of Pathros, saying, {44:2} Thus said Yahweh of hosts, the God of
Israel: you have seen all the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon
all the cities of Judah; and, behold, this day they are a desolation, and no
man dwells therein, {44:3} because of their wickedness which they have committed
to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, [and] to serve other
gods, that they knew not, neither they, nor you, nor your fathers. {44:4}
Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and
sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate. {44:5} But
they heard not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn
no incense unto other gods. {44:6} Therefore my wrath and mine anger was poured
forth, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem;
and they are wasted and desolate, as it is this day. {44:7} Therefore now thus
said Yahweh, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: Therefore commit you [this]
great evil against your own souls, to cut off from you man and woman, infant
and suckling, out of the midst of Judah, to leave you none remaining; {44:8} in
that you provoke me unto anger with the works of your hands, burning incense
unto other gods in the land of Egypt, where you are gone to sojourn; that you
may be cut off, and that you may be a curse and a reproach among all the
nations of the earth? {44:9} Have you forgotten the wickedness of your fathers,
and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives,
and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives which they committed
in the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem? {44:10} They are not
humbled even unto this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor
in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers. {44:11}
Therefore thus said Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will set my
face against you for evil, even to cut off all Judah. {44:12} And I will take
the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to
sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed; in the land of Egypt shall they
fall; they shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine; they shall die,
from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword and by the famine; and they
shall be an execration, [and] an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.
{44:13} For I will punish them that dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have
punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; {44:14}
so that none of the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to
sojourn there, shall escape or be left, to return into the land of Judah, to
which they have a desire to return to dwell there: for none shall return save
such as shall escape. {44:15} Then all the men who knew that their wives burned
incense unto other gods, and all the women that stood by, a great assembly,
even all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered
Jeremiah, saying, {44:16} As for the word that you have spoken unto us in the
name of Yahweh, we will not hear unto you. {44:17} But we will certainly
perform every word that is gone forth out of our mouth, to burn incense unto
the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings unto her, as we have done,
we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in
the streets of Jerusalem; for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well,
and saw no evil. {44:18} But since we left off burning incense to the queen of
heaven, and pouring out drink-offerings unto her, we have wanted all things,
and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine. {44:19} And when we
burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink-offerings unto her,
did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink-offerings unto her,
outside our husbands? {44:20} Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the
men, and to the women, even to all the people that had given him that answer,
saying, {44:21} The incense that you burned in the cities of Judah, and in the
streets of Jerusalem, you and your fathers, your kings and your princes, and
the people of the land, did not Yahweh remember them, and came it not into his
mind? {44:22} so that Yahweh could not longer bear, because of the evil of your
doings, and because of the abominations which you have committed; therefore is
your land become a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, outside
inhabitant, as it is this day. {44:23} Because you have burned incense, and
because you have sinned against Yahweh, and have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh,
nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore
this evil is happened unto you, as it is this day. {44:24} Furthermore Jeremiah
said unto all the people, and to all the women, Hear the word of Yahweh, all
Judah that are in the land of Egypt: {44:25} Thus said Yahweh of hosts, the God
of Israel, saying, you and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and
with your hands have fulfilled it, saying, We will surely perform our vows that
we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out
drink-offerings unto her: establish then your vows, and perform your vows.
{44:26} Therefore hear you the word of Yahweh, all Judah that dwell in the land
of Egypt: Behold, I have sworn by my great name, said Yahweh, that my name
shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of
Egypt, saying, As the Lord Yahweh lives. {44:27} Behold, I watch over them for
evil, and not for good; and all the men of Judah that are in the land of Egypt
shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until there be an end of
them. {44:28} And they that escape the sword shall return out of the land of
Egypt into the land of Judah, few in number; and all the remnant of Judah, that
are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose word shall
stand, mine, or theirs. {44:29} And this shall be the sign unto you, said Yahweh,
that I will punish you in this place, that you may know that my words shall
surely stand against you for evil: {44:30} Thus said Yahweh, Behold, I will
give Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the
hand of them that seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand
of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, who was his enemy, and sought his life.
{O24)45}
Jeremiah Chapter Fortyfive. {45:1} The
word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke unto Baruch the son of Neriah, when he
wrote these word in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of
Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying, {45:2} Thus said Yahweh,
the God of Israel, unto you, O Baruch: {45:3} you did say, A curse is me now!
for Yahweh has added sorrow to my pain; I am weary with my groaning, and I find
no rest. {45:4} Thus shall you say unto him, Thus said Yahweh: Behold, that
which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will
pluck up; and this in the whole land. {45:5} And you seek great things for
yourself? seek them not; for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, said Yahweh;
but your life will I give unto you for a prey in all places where you go.
{O24)46}
Jeremiah Chapter FortySix. {46:1} The
word of Yahweh which came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.
{46:2} Of Egypt: concerning the army of Pharaoh-neco king of Egypt, which was by
the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote
in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah. {46:3}
Prepare you the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle. {46:4} Harness the
horses, and get up, you horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish
the spears, put on the coats of mail. {46:5} Therefore have I seen it? they are
dismayed and are turned backward; and their mighty ones are beaten down, and
are fled apace, and look not back: terror is on every side, said Yahweh. {46:6}
Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; in the north by the
river Euphrates have they stumbled and fallen. {46:7} Who is this that rises up
like the Nile, whose waters toss themselves like the rivers? {46:8} Egypt rises
up like the Nile, and his waters toss themselves like the rivers: and he said,
I will rise up, I will cover the earth; I will destroy cities and the
inhabitants there. {46:9} Go up, you horses; and rage, you chariots; and let
the mighty men go forth: Cush and Put, that handle the shield; and the Ludim,
that handle and bend the bow. {46:10} For that day is [a day] of the Lord, Yahweh
of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and
the sword shall devour and be satiate, and shall drink its fill of their blood;
for the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, has a sacrifice in the north country by the
river Euphrates. {46:11} Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin daughter of
Egypt: in vain do you use many medicines; there is no healing for you. {46:12}
The nations have heard of your shame, and the earth is full of your cry; for
the mighty man has stumbled against the mighty, they are fallen both of them
together. {46:13} The word that Yahweh spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, how that
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come and smite the land of Egypt. {46:14}
Declare you in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Memphis and in
Tahpanhes: say you, Stand forth, and prepare you; for the sword has devoured
round about you. {46:15} Why are your strong ones swept away? they stood not,
because Yahweh did drive them. {46:16} He made many to stumble, behold, they
fell one upon another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own
people, and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword. {46:17}
They cried there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he has let the
appointed time pass by. {46:18} As I live, said the King, whose name is Yahweh
of hosts, surely like Tabor among the mountains, and like Carmel by the sea, so
shall he come. {46:19} O you daughter that dwells in Egypt, furnish yourself to
go into captivity; for Memphis shall become a desolation, and shall be burnt
up, outside inhabitant. {46:20} Egypt is a very fair heifer; [but] destruction
out of the north is come, it is come. {46:21} Also her hired men in the midst
of her are like calves of the stall; for they also are turned back, they are
fled away together, they did not stand: for the day of their calamity is come
upon them, the time of their visitation. {46:22} The sound of it shall go like
the serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes,
as hewers of wood. {46:23} They shall cut down her forest, said Yahweh, though
it cannot be searched; because they are more than the locusts, and are
innumerable. {46:24} The daughter of Egypt shall be put to shame; she shall be
delivered into the hand of the people of the north. {46:25} Yahweh of hosts,
the God of Israel, said: Behold, I will punish Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and
Egypt, with her gods, and her kings; even Pharaoh, and them that trust in him:
{46:26} and I will deliver them into the hand of those that seek their lives,
and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his
servants; and afterwards it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, said Yahweh.
{46:27} But fear not you, O Jacob my servant, neither be dismayed, O Israel:
for, lo, I will save you from afar, and your seed from the land of their
captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be quiet and at ease, and none
shall make him afraid. {46:28} Fear not you, O Jacob my servant, said Yahweh;
for I am with you: for I will make a full end of all the nations where I have
driven you; but I will not make a full end of you, but I will correct you in measure,
and will in no wise leave you unpunished.
{O24)47} Jeremiah Chapter FortySeven. {47:1} The word of Yahweh that came to
Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines, before that Pharaoh smote
Gaza. {47:2} Thus said Yahweh: Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and
shall become an overflowing stream, and shall overflow the land and all that is
therein, the city and them that dwell therein; and the men shall cry, and all
the inhabitants of the land shall wail. {47:3} At the noise of the stamping of
the hoofs of his strong ones, at the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling
of his wheels, the fathers look not back to their children for feebleness of
hands; {47:4} because of the day that comes to destroy all the Philistines, to
cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper that remains: for Yahweh will destroy
the Philistines, the remnant of the isle of Caphtor. {47:5} Baldness is come
upon Gaza; Ashkelon is brought to nothing, the remnant of their valley: how
long will you cut yourself? {47:6} O you sword of Yahweh, how long will it be
ere you be quiet? put up yourself into your scabbard; rest, and be still.
{47:7} How Can you be quiet, seeing Yahweh has given you a charge? Against
Ashkelon, and against the sea-shore, there has he appointed it.
{O24)48}
Jeremiah Chapter FortyEight. {48:1} Of
Moab. Thus said Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: A curse unto Nebo! for it
is laid waste; Kiriathaim is put to shame, it is taken; Misgab is put to shame
and broken down. {48:2} The praise of Moab is no more; in Heshbon they have
devised evil against her: Come, and let us cut her off from being a nation. you
also, O Madmen, shall be brought to silence: the sword shall pursue you. {48:3}
The sound of a cry from Horonaim, desolation and great destruction! {48:4} Moab
is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard. {48:5} For by the
ascent of Luhith with continual weeping shall they go up; for at the descent of
Horonaim they have heard the distress of the cry of destruction. {48:6} Flee,
save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness. {48:7} For, because
you have trusted in your works and in your treasures, you also shall be taken:
and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity, his priests and his princes
together. {48:8} And the destroyer shall come upon every city, and no city
shall escape; the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed;
as Yahweh has spoken. {48:9} Give wings unto Moab, that she may fly and get her
away: and her cities shall become a desolation, outside any to dwell therein.
{48:10} A cursed be he that does the work of Yahweh negligently; and cursed be
he that keeps back his sword from blood. {48:11} Moab has been at ease from his
youth, and he has settled on his lees, and has not been emptied from vessel to
vessel, neither has he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remains in him,
and his scent is not changed. {48:12} Therefore, behold, the days come, said Yahweh,
that I will send unto him them that pour off, and they shall pour him off; and
they shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles in pieces. {48:13} And
Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Beth-el
their confidence. {48:14} How say you, We are mighty men, and valiant men for
the war? {48:15} Moab is laid waste, and they are gone up into his cities, and
his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, said the King, whose name
is Yahweh of hosts. {48:16} The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his
affliction hurries fast. {48:17} All you that are round about him, bemoan him,
and all you that know his name; say, How is the strong staff broken, the
beautiful rod! {48:18} O you daughter that dwells in Dibon, come down from your
glory, and sit in thirst; for the destroyer of Moab is come up against you, he
has destroyed your strongholds. {48:19} O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the
way, and watch: ask him that flees, and her that escapes; say, What has been
done? {48:20} Moab is put to shame; for it is broken down: wail and cry; tell
you it by the Arnon, that Moab is laid waste. {48:21} And judgment is come upon
the plain country, upon Holon, and upon Jahzah, and upon Mephaath, {48:22} and
upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, and upon Beth-diblathaim, {48:23} and upon
Kiriathaim, and upon Beth-gamul, and upon Beth-meon, {48:24} and upon Kerioth,
and upon Bozrah, and upon all the cities of the land of Moab, far or near.
{48:25} The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, said Yahweh.
{48:26} Make you him drunk; for he magnified himself against Yahweh: and Moab shall
wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision. {48:27} For was not
Israel a derision unto you? was he found among thieves? for as often as you
speak of him, you wags the head. {48:28} O you inhabitants of Moab, leave the
cities, and dwell in the rock; and be like the dove that makes her nest over
the mouth of the abyss. {48:29} We have heard of the pride of Moab, [that] he
is very proud; his loftiness, and his pride, and his arrogance, and the
haughtiness of his heart. {48:30} I know his wrath, said Yahweh, that it is
nothing; his boastings have wrought nothing. {48:31} Therefore will I wail for
Moab; behold, I will cry out for all Moab: for the men of Kir-heres shall they
grieve. {48:32} With more than the weeping of Jazer will I weep for you, O vine
of Sibmah: your branches passed over the sea, they reached even to the sea of
Jazer: upon your summer fruits and upon your vintage the destroyer is fallen.
{48:33} And gladness and joy is taken away from the fruitful field and from the
land of Moab; and I have caused wine to cease from the winepresses: none shall
tread with shouting; the shouting shall be no shouting. {48:34} From the cry of
Heshbon even unto Elealeh, even unto Jahaz have they uttered their voice, from
Zoar even unto Horonaim, to Eglath-shelishiyah: for the waters of Nimrim also
shall become desolate. {48:35} Furthermore I will cause to cease in Moab, said Yahweh,
him that offers in the high place, and him that burns incense to his gods.
{48:36} Therefore my heart sounds for Moab like pipes, and my heart sounds like
pipes for the men of Kir-heres: therefore the abundance that he has gotten is
perished. {48:37} For every head is bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the
hands are cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth. {48:38} On all the housetops
of Moab and in the streets of it there is lamentation every where; for I have
broken Moab like a vessel wherein none delights, said Yahweh. {48:39} How is it
broken down! [how] do they wail! how has Moab turned the back with shame! so
shall Moab become a derision and a terror to all that are round about him.
{48:40} For thus said Yahweh: Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall
spread out his wings against Moab. {48:41} Kerioth is taken, and the
strongholds are seized, and the heart of the mighty men of Moab at that day
shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs. {48:42} And Moab shall be
destroyed from being a people, because he has magnified himself against Yahweh.
{48:43} Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon you, O inhabitant of Moab,
said Yahweh. {48:44} He that flees from the fear shall fall into the pit; and
he that gets up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring
upon him, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation, said Yahweh. {48:45}
They that fled stand outside strength under the shadow of Heshbon; for a fire
is gone forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and has
devoured the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.
{48:46} A curse unto you, O Moab! the people of Chemosh is undone; for your
sons are taken away captive, and your daughters into captivity. {48:47} yet
will I bring back the captivity of Moab in the latter days, said Yahweh. Thus
far is the judgment of Moab.
{O24)49} Jeremiah Chapter FortyNine. {49:1} Of the children of Ammon. Thus said Yahweh:
Has Israel no sons? has he no heir? why then does Malcam possess Gad, and his
people well in the cities there? {49:2} Therefore, behold, the days come, said Yahweh,
that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard against Rabbah of the children of
Ammon; and it shall become a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned
with fire: then shall Israel possess them that did possess him, said Yahweh.
{49:3} Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste; cry, you daughters of Rabbah,
gird you with sackcloth: lament, and run to and fro among the fences; for
Malcam shall go into captivity, his priests and his princes together. {49:4}
Therefore glory you in the valleys, your flowing valley, O backsliding
daughter? that trusted in her treasures, [saying], Who shall come unto me?
{49:5} Behold, I will bring a fear upon you, said the Lord, Yahweh of hosts,
from all that are round about you; and you shall be driven out every man right
forth, and there shall be none to gather together the fugitives. {49:6} But
afterward I will bring back the captivity of the children of Ammon, said Yahweh.
{49:7} Of Edom. Thus said Yahweh of hosts: Is wisdom no more in Teman? is
counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished? {49:8} Flee you,
turn back, dwell in the depths, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the
calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I shall visit him. {49:9} If
grape-gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? if
thieves by night, would they not destroy till they had enough? {49:10} But I
have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be
able to hide himself: his seed is destroyed, and his brethren, and his
neighbors; and he is not. {49:11} Leave your fatherless children, I will
preserve them alive; and let your widows trust in me. {49:12} For thus said Yahweh:
Behold, they to whom it pertained not to drink of the cup shall assuredly
drink; and are you he that shall altogether go unpunished? you shall not go
unpunished, but you shall surely drink. {49:13} For I have sworn by myself,
said Yahweh, that Bozrah shall become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste, and
a curse; and all the cities of it shall be perpetual wastes. {49:14} I have
heard tidings from Yahweh, and an ambassador is sent among the nations,
[saying], Gather yourselves together, and come against her, and rise up to the
battle. {49:15} For, behold, I have made you small among the nations, and
despised among men. {49:16} As for your terribleness, the pride of your heart
has deceived you, O you that dwells in the clefts of the rock, that hold the
height of the hill: though you should make your nest as high as the eagle, I
will bring you down from there, said Yahweh. {49:17} And Edom shall become an
astonishment: every one that passes by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss
at all the plagues there. {49:18} As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and
the neighbor cities there, said Yahweh, no man shall dwell there, neither shall
any son of man sojourn therein. {49:19} Behold, he shall come up like a lion
from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation: for I will suddenly
make them run away from it; and who so is chosen, him will I appoint over it:
for who is like me? and who will appoint me a time? and who is the shepherd
that will stand before me? {49:20} Therefore hear you the counsel of Yahweh,
that he has taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he has purposed against
the inhabitants of Teman: Surely they shall drag them away, [even] the little
ones of the flock; surely he shall make their habitation desolate over them.
{49:21} The earth trembles at the noise of their fall; there is a cry, the
noise where is heard in the Red Sea. {49:22} Behold, he shall come up and fly
as the eagle, and spread out his wings against Bozrah: and the heart of the
mighty men of Edom at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
{49:23} Of Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad; for they have heard evil
tidings, they are melted away: there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.
{49:24} Damascus is waxed feeble, she turns herself to flee, and trembling has
seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her, as of a woman in
travail. {49:25} How is the city of praise not forsaken, the city of my joy?
{49:26} Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of
war shall be brought to silence in that day, said Yahweh of hosts. {49:27} And
I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall devour the palaces
of Ben-hadad. {49:28} Of Kedar, and of the kingdoms of Hazor, which
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote. Thus said Yahweh: Arise you, go up to
Kedar, and destroy the children of the east. {49:29} Their tents and their
flocks shall they take; they shall carry away for themselves their curtains,
and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry unto them, Terror
on every side! {49:30} Flee you, wander far off, dwell in the depths, O you
inhabitants of Hazor, said Yahweh; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon has taken
counsel against you, and has conceived a purpose against you. {49:31} Arise,
get you up unto a nation that is at ease, that dwells outside care, said Yahweh;
that have neither gates nor bars, that dwell alone. {49:32} And their camels shall
be a booty, and the multitude of their cattle a spoil: and I will scatter unto
all winds them that have the corners [of their hair] cut off; and I will bring
their calamity from every side of them, said Yahweh. {49:33} And Hazor shall be
a dwelling-place of jackals, a desolation for ever: no man shall dwell there,
neither shall any son of man sojourn therein. {49:34} The word of Yahweh that
came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam, in the beginning of the reign of
Zedekiah king of Judah, saying, {49:35} Thus said Yahweh of hosts: Behold, I
will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might. {49:36} And upon Elam
will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven, and will scatter
them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation where the outcasts of
Elam shall not come. {49:37} And I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their
enemies, and before them that seek their life; and I will bring evil upon them,
even my fierce anger, said Yahweh; and I will send the sword after them, till I
have consumed them; {49:38} and I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy
from there king and princes, said Yahweh. {49:39} But it shall come to pass in
the latter days, that I will bring back the captivity of Elam, said Yahweh.
{O24)50} Jeremiah Chapter Fifty. {50:1} The word that Yahweh spoke
concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by Jeremiah the
prophet. {50:2} Declare you among the nations and publish, and set up a
standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is put to shame,
Merodach is dismayed; her images are put to shame, her idols are dismayed.
{50:3} For out of the north there comes up a nation against her, which shall
make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they are fled, they are
gone, both man and beast. {50:4} In those days, and in that time, said Yahweh,
the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together;
they shall go on their way weeping, and shall seek Yahweh their God. {50:5}
They shall inquire concerning Zion with their faces towards it, [saying], Come
you, and join yourselves to Yahweh in an everlasting covenant that shall not be
forgotten. {50:6} My people have been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused
them to go astray; they have turned them away on the mountains; they have gone
from mountain to hill; they have forgotten their resting-place. {50:7} All that
found them have devoured them; and their adversaries said, We are not guilty,
because they have sinned against Yahweh, the habitation of righteousness, even Yahweh,
the hope of their fathers. {50:8} Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and go
forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he-goats before the
flocks. {50:9} For, lo, I will stir up and cause to come up against Babylon a
company of great nations from the north country; and they shall set themselves
in array against her; from there she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as
of an expert mighty man; none shall return in vain. {50:10} And Chaldea shall
be a prey: all that prey upon her shall be satisfied, said Yahweh. {50:11}
Because you are glad, because you rejoice, O you that plunder my heritage,
because you are wanton as a heifer that treads out [the grain], and neigh as
strong horses; {50:12} your mother shall be utterly put to shame; she that bare
you shall be confounded: behold, she shall be the hindermost of the nations, a
wilderness, a dry land, and a desert. {50:13} Because of the wrath of Yahweh
she shall not be inhabited, but she shall be wholly desolate: every one that
goes by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues. {50:14} Set
yourselves in array against Babylon round about, all you that bend the bow;
shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she has sinned against Yahweh. {50:15} Shout
against her round about: she has submitted herself; her bulwarks are fallen,
her walls are thrown down; for it is the vengeance of Yahweh: take vengeance
upon her; as she has done, do unto her. {50:16} Cut off the sower from Babylon,
and him that handles the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the
oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall flee
every one to his own land. {50:17} Israel is a hunted sheep; the lions have
driven him away: first, the king of Assyria devoured him; and now at last
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones. {50:18} Therefore thus
said Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will punish the king of
Babylon and his land, as I have punished the king of Assyria. {50:19} And I
will bring Israel again to his pasture, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan,
and his soul shall be satisfied upon the hills of Ephraim and in Gilead.
{50:20} In those days, and in that time, said Yahweh, the works against law of
Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and
they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I leave as a remnant.
{50:21} Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the
inhabitants of Pekod: slay and utterly destroy after them, said Yahweh, and do
according to all that I have commanded you. {50:22} A sound of battle is in the
land, and of great destruction. {50:23} How is the hammer of the whole earth
cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
{50:24} I have laid a snare for you, and you are also taken, O Babylon, and you
was not aware: you are found, and also caught, because you have striven against
Yahweh. {50:25} Yahweh has opened his armory, and has brought forth the weapons
of his indignation; for the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, has a work [to do] in the
land of the Chaldeans. {50:26} Come against her from the utmost border; open
her store-houses; cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly; let nothing of
her be left. {50:27} Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter:
a curse unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation. {50:28}
The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare
in Zion the vengeance of Yahweh our God, the vengeance of his temple. {50:29}
Call together the archers against Babylon, all them that bend the bow; encamp
against her round about; let none of it escape: recompense her according to her
work; according to all that she has done, do unto her; for she has been proud
against Yahweh, against the Holy One of Israel. {50:30} Therefore shall her
young men fall in her streets, and all her men of war shall be brought to
silence in that day, said Yahweh. {50:31} Behold, I am against you, O you proud
one, said the Lord, Yahweh of hosts; for your day is come, the time that I will
visit you. {50:32} And the proud one shall stumble and fall, and none shall
raise him up; and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all
that are round about him. {50:33} Thus said Yahweh of hosts: The children of
Israel and the children of Judah are oppressed together; and all that took them
captive hold them fast; they refuse to let them go. {50:34} Their Redeemer is
strong; Yahweh of hosts is his name: he will thoroughly plead their cause, that
he may give rest to the earth, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon. {50:35}
A sword is upon the Chaldeans, said Yahweh, and upon the inhabitants of
Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men. {50:36} A sword is upon
the boasters, and they shall become fools; a sword is upon her mighty men, and
they shall be dismayed. {50:37} A sword is upon their horses, and upon their
chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and
they shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures, and they shall be
robbed. {50:38} A drought is upon her waters, and they shall be dried up; for
it is a land of graven images, and they are mad over idols. {50:39} Therefore
the wild beasts of the desert with the wolves shall dwell there, and the ostriches
shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall
it be dwelt in from generation to generation. {50:40} As when God overthrew
Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities there, said Yahweh, so shall no man
dwell there, neither shall any son of man sojourn therein. {50:41} Behold, a
people comes from the north; and a great nation and many kings shall be stirred
up from the uttermost parts of the earth. {50:42} They lay hold on bow and
spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roars like the sea; and
they ride upon horses, every one set in array, as a man to the battle, against
you, O daughter of Babylon. {50:43} The king of Babylon has heard the tidings
of them, and his hands wax feeble: anguish has taken hold of him, [and] pangs
as of a woman in travail. {50:44} Behold, [the enemy] shall come up like a lion
from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation: for I will suddenly
make them run away from it; and who so is chosen, him will I appoint over it: for
who is like me? and who will appoint me a time? and who is the shepherd that
can stand before me? {50:45} Therefore hear you the counsel of Yahweh, that he
has taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the
land of the Chaldeans: Surely they shall drag them away, [even] the little ones
of the flock; surely he shall make their habitation desolate over them. {50:46}
At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth trembles, and the cry is heard
among the nations.
{O24)51} Jeremiah Chapter FiftyOne. {51:1} Thus said Yahweh: Behold, I will
raise up against Babylon, and against them that dwell in Leb-kamai, a
destroying wind. {51:2} And I will send unto Babylon strangers, that shall
winnow her; and they shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall
be against her round about. {51:3} Against [him that] bends let the archer bend
his bow, and against [him that] lifted himself up in his coat of mail: and
spare you not her young men; destroy you utterly all her host. {51:4} And they
shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and thrust through in her
streets. {51:5} For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah, of his God, of Yahweh of
hosts; though their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.
{51:6} Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and save every man his life; be not
cut off in her works against law: for it is the time of Yahweh's vengeance; he
will render unto her a recompense. {51:7} Babylon has been a golden cup in Yahweh's
hand, that made all the earth drunk: the nations have drunk of her wine;
therefore the nations are mad. {51:8} Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed:
wail for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed. {51:9} We
would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go
every one into his own country; for her judgment reaches unto heaven, and is
lifted up even to the skies. {51:10} Yahweh has brought forth our
righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of Yahweh our God.
{51:11} Make sharp the arrows; hold firm the shields: Yahweh has stirred up the
spirit of the kings of the Medes; because his purpose is against Babylon, to
destroy it: for it is the vengeance of Yahweh, the vengeance of his temple.
{51:12} Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong,
set the watchmen, prepare the ambushes; for Yahweh has both purposed and done
that which he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon. {51:13} O you that
dwells upon many waters, abundant in treasures, your end is come, the measure
of your covetousness. {51:14} Yahweh of hosts has sworn by himself, [saying],
Surely I will fill you with men, as with the canker-worm; and they shall lift
up a shout against you. {51:15} He has made the earth by his power, he has established
the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the
heavens: {51:16} when he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the
heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he
makes lightning for the rain, and brings forth the wind out of his treasuries.
{51:17} Every man is become brutish [and is] outside knowledge; every goldsmith
is put to shame by his image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is
no breath in them. {51:18} They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of
their visitation they shall perish. {51:19} The portion of Jacob is not like
these; for he is the former of all things; and [Israel] is the tribe of his
inheritance: Yahweh of hosts is his name. {51:20} you are my battle-axe and
weapons of war: and with you will I break in pieces the nations; and with you
will I destroy kingdoms; {51:21} and with you will I break in pieces the horse
and his rider; {51:22} and with you will I break in pieces the chariot and him
that rides therein; and with you will I break in pieces man and woman; and with
you will I break in pieces the old man and the youth; and with you will I break
in pieces the young man and the virgin; {51:23} and with you will I break in
pieces the shepherd and his flock; and with you will I break in pieces the
husbandman and his yoke [of oxen]; and with you will I break in pieces
governors and deputies. {51:24} And I will render unto Babylon and to all the
inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your
sight, said Yahweh. {51:25} Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain,
said Yahweh, which destroy all the earth; and I will stretch out my hand upon
you, and roll you down from the rocks, and will make you a burnt mountain.
{51:26} And they shall not take of you a stone for a corner, nor a stone for
foundations; but you shall be desolate for ever, said Yahweh. {51:27} Set you
up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the
nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni,
and Ashkenaz: appoint a marshal against her; cause the horses to come up as the
rough canker-worm. {51:28} Prepare against her the nations, the kings of the
Medes, the governors there, and all the deputies there, and all the land of
their dominion. {51:29} And the land trembles and is in pain; for the purposes
of Yahweh against Babylon do stand, to make the land of Babylon a desolation,
outside inhabitant. {51:30} The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to fight, they
remain in their strongholds; their might has failed; they are become as women:
her dwelling-places are set on fire; her bars are broken. {51:31} One post
shall run to meet another, and one messenger to met another, to show the king
of Babylon that his city is taken on every quarter: {51:32} and the passages
are seized, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are
affrighted. {51:33} For thus said Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: The
daughter of Babylon is like a threshing-floor at the time when it is trodden;
yet a little while, and the time of harvest shall come for her. {51:34}
Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me, he has crushed me, he has
made me an empty vessel, he has, like a monster, swallowed me up, he has filled
his maw with my delicacies; he has cast me out. {51:35} The violence done to me
and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and, My
blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say. {51:36}
Therefore thus said Yahweh: Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance
for you; and I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry. {51:37} And
Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment, and
a hissing, outside inhabitant. {51:38} They shall roar together like young
lions; they shall growl as lions' whelps. {51:39} When they are heated, I will
make their feast, and I will make them drunk, that they may rejoice, and sleep
a perpetual sleep, and not wake, said Yahweh. {51:40} I will bring them down
like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats. {51:41} How is Sheshach
taken! and the praise of the whole earth seized! how is Babylon become a
desolation among the nations! {51:42} The sea is come up upon Babylon; she is
covered with the multitude of the waves there. {51:43} Her cities are become a
desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land wherein no man dwells, neither
does any son of man pass thereby. {51:44} And I will execute judgment upon Bel
in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he has swallowed
up; and the nations shall not flow any more unto him: behold, the wall of
Babylon shall fall. {51:45} My people, go you out of the midst of her, and save
yourselves every man from the fierce anger of Yahweh. {51:46} And let not your
heart faint, neither fear you for the tidings that shall be heard in the land;
for tidings shall come one year, and after that in another year [shall come]
tidings, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler. {51:47} Therefore,
behold, the days come, that I will execute judgment upon the graven images of
Babylon; and her whole land shall be confounded; and all her slain shall fall
in the midst of her. {51:48} Then the heavens and the earth, and all that is
therein, shall sing for joy over Babylon; for the destroyers shall come unto
her from the north, said Yahweh. {51:49} As Babylon has caused the slain of
Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the land. {51:50} you
that have escaped the sword, go you, stand not still; remember Yahweh from
afar, and let Jerusalem come into your mind. {51:51} We are confounded, because
we have heard reproach; confusion has covered our faces: for strangers are come
into the sanctuaries of Yahweh's house. {51:52} Therefore, behold, the days come,
said Yahweh, that I will execute judgment upon her graven images; and through
all her land the wounded shall groan. {51:53} though Babylon should mount up to
heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me
shall destroyers come unto her, said Yahweh. {51:54} The sound of a cry from
Babylon, and of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans! {51:55} For Yahweh
lays Babylon waste, and destroys out of her the great voice; and their waves
roar like many waters; the noise of their voice is uttered: {51:56} for the
destroyer is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken,
their bows are broken in pieces; for Yahweh is a God of recompenses, he will
surely requite. {51:57} And I will make drunk her princes and her wise men, her
governors and her deputies, and her mighty men; and they shall sleep a
perpetual sleep, and not wake, said the King, whose name is Yahweh of hosts.
{51:58} Thus said Yahweh of hosts: The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly
overthrown, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the peoples shall
labor for vanity, and the nations for the fire; and they shall be weary.
{51:59} The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of
Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah to
Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. Now Seraiah was chief chamberlain.
{51:60} And Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon
Babylon, even all these words that are written concerning Babylon. {51:61} And
Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When you come to Babylon, then see that you read all
these words, {51:62} and say, O Yahweh, you have spoken concerning this place,
to cut it off, that none shall dwell therein, neither man nor beast, but that
it shall be desolate for ever. {51:63} And it shall be, when you have made an
end of reading this book, that you shall bind a stone to it, and cast it into
the midst of the Euphrates: {51:64} and you shall say, Thus shall Babylon sink,
and shall not rise again because of the evil that I will bring upon her; and
they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.
{O24)52} Jeremiah Chapter FiftyTwo. {52:1} Zedekiah was one and twenty years
old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and his
mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. {52:2} And he did
that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, according to all that Jehoiakim had
done. {52:3} For through the anger of Yahweh did it come to pass in Jerusalem and
Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence. And Zedekiah rebelled
against the king of Babylon. {52:4} And it came to pass in the ninth year of
his reign, in the tenth moon, in the tenth day of the moon, that Nebuchadrezzar
king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped
against it; and they built forts against it round about. {52:5} So the city was
besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. {52:6} In the fourth moon, in
the ninth day of the moon, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was
no bread for the people of the land. {52:7} Then a breach was made in the city,
and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way
of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden; (now the
Chaldeans were against the city round about;) and they went toward the Arabah.
{52:8} But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook
Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.
{52:9} Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon to
Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he gave judgment upon him. {52:10} And the
king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he slew also all the
princes of Judah in Riblah. {52:11} And he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and
the king of Babylon bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon, and put
him in prison till the day of his death. {52:12} Now in the fifth moon, in the
tenth day of the moon, which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadrezzar,
king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, who stood before
the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem: {52:13} and he burned the house of Yahweh,
and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house,
burned he with fire. {52:14} And all the army of the Chaldeans, that were with
the captain of the guard, brake down all the walls of Jerusalem round about.
{52:15} Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the
poorest of the people, and the residue of the people that were left in the
city, and those that fell away, that fell to the king of Babylon, and the
residue of the multitude. {52:16} But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left
of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen. {52:17} And the
pillars of brass that were in the house of Yahweh, and the bases and the brazen
sea that were in the house of Yahweh, did the Chaldeans break in pieces, and
carried all the brass of them to Babylon. {52:18} The pots also, and the
shovels, and the snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons, and all the vessels
of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away. {52:19} And the cups, and
the fire pans, and the basins, and the pots, and the candlesticks, and the
spoons, and the bowls-that which was of gold, in gold, and that which was of
silver, in silver,- the captain of the guard took away. {52:20} The two
pillars, the one sea, and the twelve brazen bulls that were under the bases,
which king Solomon had made for the house of Yahweh-the brass of all these
vessels was outside weight. {52:21} And as for the pillars, the height of the
one pillar was eighteen cubits; and a line of twelve cubits did compass it; and
the thickness of it was four fingers: it was hollow. {52:22} And a capital of
brass was upon it; and the height of the one capital was five cubits, with
network and pomegranates upon the capital round about, all of brass: and the
second pillar also had like unto these, and pomegranates. {52:23} And there
were ninety and six pomegranates on the sides; all the pomegranates were a
hundred upon the network round about. {52:24} And the captain of the guard took
Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three
keepers of the threshold: {52:25} and out of the city he took an officer that
was set over the men of war; and seven men of them that saw the king's face,
that were found in the city; and the scribe of the captain of the host, who
mustered the people of the land; and threescore men of the people of the land,
that were found in the midst of the city. {52:26} And Nebuzaradan the captain
of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.
{52:27} And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death at Riblah in
the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away captive out of his land. {52:28}
This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh
year three thousand Jews and three and twenty; {52:29} in the eighteenth year
of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty
and two persons; {52:30} in the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar
Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven
hundred forty and five persons: all the persons were four thousand and six
hundred. {52:31} And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the
captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth moon, in the five and
twentieth day of the moon, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the [first]
year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought
him forth out of prison; {52:32} and he spoke kindly to him, and set his throne
above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon, {52:33} and
changed his prison garments. And [Jehoiachin] did eat bread before him
continually all the days of his life: {52:34} and for his allowance, there was
a continual allowance given him by the king of Babylon, every day a portion
until the day of his death, all the days of his life.
{O25)1} Lamentations Chapter One. The lamentations of Jeremiah.
{1:1} How does the city sit solitary, that was full of people! She is
become as a widow, that was great among the nations! She that was a princess
among the provinces is become tributary! {1:2} She weeps sore in the night, and
her tears are on her cheeks; Among all her agape lovers she has none to comfort
her: All her friends have dealt treacherously with her; they are become her
enemies. {1:3} Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because
of great servitude; She dwells among the nations, she finds no rest: All her
persecutors overtook her within the straits. {1:4} The ways of Zion do grieve,
because none come to the solemn
assembly; All her gates are desolate, her priests do sigh: Her virgins
are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness. {1:5} Her adversaries are
become the head, her enemies prosper; For Yahweh has afflicted her for the
multitude of her transgression of the law: Her young children are gone into
captivity before the adversary. {1:6} And from the daughter of Zion all her
majesty is departed: Her princes are become like hares that find no pasture,
And they are gone outside strength before the pursuer. {1:7} Jerusalem
remembers in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant
things that were from the days of old: When her people fell into the hand of
the adversary, and none did help her, The adversaries saw her, they did mock at
her desolations. {1:8} Jerusalem has grievously sinned; therefore she is become
as an unclean thing; All that honored her despise her, because they have seen
her nakedness: behold, she sighs, and turns backward. {1:9} Her filthiness was
in her skirts; she remembered not her latter
end; Therefore is she come down wonderfully; she has no comforter:
Behold, O Yahweh, my affliction; for the enemy has magnified himself. {1:10}
The adversary has spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: For she has
seen that the nations are entered into her sanctuary, Concerning whom you did command
that they should not enter into your assembly. {1:11} All her people sigh, they
seek bread; They have given their pleasant things for food to refresh the soul:
See, O Yahweh, and behold; for I am become abject. {1:12} Is it nothing to you, all you that
pass by? Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which
is brought upon me, Wherewith Yahweh has
afflicted [me] in the day of his fierce anger. {1:13} From on high has he sent
fire into my bones, and it prevails against them; He has spread a net for my
feet, he has turned me back: He has made me desolate and faint all the day.
{1:14} The yoke of my transgression of the law is bound by his hand; They are
knit together, they are come up upon my neck; he has made my strength to fail:
The Lord has delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand. {1:15} The Lord has set at nothing
all my mighty men in the midst of me; He has called a solemn assembly against
me to crush my young men: The Lord has trodden as in a winepress the virgin
daughter of Judah. {1:16} For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runs down
with water; Because the comforter that should refresh my soul is far from me:
My children are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed. {1:17} Zion spreads
forth her hands; there is none to comfort her; Yahweh has commanded concerning
Jacob, that they that are round about
him should be his adversaries: Jerusalem is among them as an unclean
thing. {1:18} Yahweh is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment:
Hear, I pray you, all you peoples, and behold my sorrow: My virgins and my
young men are gone into captivity. {1:19} I called for my lovers, [but] they
deceived me: My priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, While
they sought them food to refresh their souls. {1:20} Behold, O Yahweh; for I am in
distress; my heart is troubled; My heart is turned within me; for I have
grievously rebelled: Abroad the sword bereaves, at home there is as death.
{1:21} They have heard that I sigh; there is none to comfort me; All mine
enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that you have done it: you will bring the day that you have
proclaimed, and they shall be like unto me. {1:22} Let all their wickedness
come before you; And do unto them, as you have done unto me for all my
transgression of the law: For my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.
{O25)2} Lamentations 2. {2:1}
How has the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger! He has
cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, And has not
remembered his footstool in the day of his anger. {2:2} The Lord has swallowed
up all the habitations of Jacob, and has not pitied: He has thrown down in his
wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He has brought them down to the
ground; he has profaned the kingdom and the princes there. {2:3} He has cut off
in fierce anger all the horn of Israel; He has drawn back his right hand from
before the enemy: And he has burned up Jacob like a flaming fire, which devours
round about. {2:4} He has bent his bow like an enemy, he has stood with his
right hand as an adversary, And has slain all that were pleasant to the eye: In
the tent of the daughter of Zion he has poured out his wrath like fire. {2:5}
The Lord is become as an enemy, he has swallowed up Israel; He has swallowed up
all her palaces, he has destroyed his strongholds; And he has multiplied in the
daughter of Judah grieving and
lamentation. {2:6} And he has violently taken away his tabernacle, as if
it were of a garden; he has destroyed his place of assembly: Yahweh has caused
solemn assembly and Sabbath to be forgotten in Zion, And has despised in the
indignation of his anger the king and the priest. {2:7} The Lord has cast off
his altar, he has abhorred his sanctuary; He has given up into the hand of the
enemy the walls of her palaces: They have made a noise in the house of Yahweh,
as in the day of a solemn assembly. {2:8} Yahweh has purposed to destroy the
wall of the daughter of Zion; He has stretched out the line, he has not
withdrawn his hand from destroying; And he has made the rampart and wall to
lament; they languish together. {2:9} Her gates are sunk into the ground; he
has destroyed and broken her bars: Her king and her princes are among the
nations where the law is not; behold, her prophets find no vision from Yahweh.
{2:10} The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, they keep
silence; They have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves
with sackcloth: The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the
ground. {2:11} Mine eyes do fail with
tears, my heart is troubled; My liver is poured upon the earth, because of the
destruction of the daughter of my people, Because the young children and the
sucklings swoon in the streets of the city. {2:12} They say to their mothers,
Where is grain and wine? When they swoon as the wounded in the streets of the
city, When their soul is poured out into their mothers' bosom. {2:13} What
shall I testify unto you? what shall I liken to you, O daughter of Jerusalem?
What shall I compare to you, that I may comfort you, O virgin daughter of Zion?
For your breach is great like the sea: who can heal you? {2:14} Your prophets
have seen for you false and foolish visions; And they have not uncovered your works
against law, to bring back your captivity, But have seen for you false oracles
and causes of banishment. {2:15} All that pass by clap their hands at you; They
hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, [saying], Is this the
city that men called The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?
{2:16} All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you; They hiss and
gnash the teeth; they say, We have swallowed her up; Certainly this is the day
that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it. {2:17} Yahweh has done that
which he purposed; he has fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of
old; He has thrown down, and has not pitied: And he has caused the enemy to
rejoice over you; he has exalted the horn of your adversaries. {2:18} Their
heart cried unto the Lord: O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down
like a river day and night; Give yourself no respite; let not the apple of your
eye cease. {2:19} Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches;
Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord: Lift up your hands
toward him for the life of your young children, that faint for hunger at the
head of every street. {2:20} See, O Yahweh,
and behold to whom you have done thus! shall the women eat their fruit, the
children that are dandled in the hands? shall the priest and the prophet be
slain in the sanctuary of the Lord? {2:21} The youth and the old man lie on the
ground in the streets; My virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword: you
have slain them in the day of your anger; you have slaughtered, [and] not
pitied. {2:22} you have called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my
terrors on every side; And there was
none that escaped or remained in the day of Yahweh's anger: Those that I have dandled and brought
up has mine enemy consumed.
{O25)3} Lamentations . {3:1} I am the man
that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. {3:2} He has led me and
caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light. {3:3} Surely against me he turns
his hand again and again all the day. {3:4} My flesh and my skin has he made
old; he has broken my bones. {3:5} He has built against me, and compassed me
with gall and travail. {3:6} He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those
that have been long dead. {3:7} He has walled me about, that I cannot go forth;
he has made my chain heavy. {3:8} behold, when I cry, and call for help, he
shuts out my prayer. {3:9} He has walled up my ways with hewn stone; he has
made my paths crooked. {3:10} He is unto me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion
in secret places. {3:11} He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces;
he has made me desolate. {3:12} He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for
the arrow. {3:13} He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my
reins. {3:14} I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the
day. {3:15} He has filled me with bitterness, he has sated me with wormwood.
{3:16} He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he has covered me with
ashes. {3:17} And you have removed my soul far off from peace; I forgot
prosperity. {3:18} And I said, My strength is perished, and mine expectation
from Yahweh. {3:19} Remember mine
affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. {3:20} My soul has them still in
remembrance, and is bowed down within me. {3:21} This I recall to my mind;
therefore have I hope. {3:22} [It is of] Yahweh's loving kindnesses that we are
not consumed, because his compassions fail not. {3:23} They are new every
morning; great is your faithfulness. {3:24} Yahweh is my portion, said my soul;
therefore will I hope in him. {3:25} Yahweh is good unto them that wait for
him, to the soul that seeks him. {3:26} It is good that a man should hope and
quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.
{3:27} It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. {3:28} Let him
sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it upon him. {3:29} Let him put
his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope. {3:30} Let him give his
cheek to him that smites him; let him be filled full with reproach. {3:31} For
the Lord will not cast off for ever. {3:32} For [enen] though he [may] cause
grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his [agape]
loving kindnesses. {3:33} For he does not afflict willingly, nor grieve the
children of men. {3:34} To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,
{3:35} To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High,
{3:36} To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approves not. {3:37} Who is he
that said, and it comes to pass, when the Lord
commands it not? {3:38} Out of the mouth of the Most High comes there
not evil and good? {3:39} Therefore does a living man complain, a man for the
punishment of his sins? {3:40} Let us
search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh. {3:41} Let us lift up our
heart with our hands unto God in the heavens. {3:42} We have transgressed and
have rebelled; you have not pardoned. {3:43} you have covered with anger and
pursued us; you have slain, you have not pitied. {3:44} you have covered
yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through. {3:45} you have made
us an off-scouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples. {3:46} All our
enemies have opened their mouth wide against us. {3:47} Fear and the pit are
come upon us, devastation and destruction. {3:48} Mine eye runs down with
streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people. {3:49} Mine
eye pours down, and ceases not, outside any intermission, {3:50} Till Yahweh
look down, and behold from heaven. {3:51} Mine eye affects my soul, because of
all the daughters of my city. {3:52} They have chased me sore like a bird, they
that are mine enemies outside cause. {3:53} They have cut off my life in the
dungeon, and have cast a stone upon me. {3:54} Waters flowed over my head; I
said, I am cut off. {3:55} I called upon
your name, O Yahweh, out of the lower dungeon. {3:56} you heard my voice; hide
not your ear at my breathing, at my cry. {3:57} you drew near in the day that I
called upon you; you said, Fear not. {3:58} O Lord, you have pleaded the causes
of my soul; you have redeemed my life. {3:59} O Yahweh, you have seen my wrong;
judge you my cause. {3:60} you have seen all their vengeance and all their
devices agains me. {3:61} you have heard their reproach, O Yahweh, and all
their devices against me, {3:62} The lips of those that rose up against me, and
their device against me all the day.
{3:63} Behold you their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song.
{3:64} you will render unto them a recompense, O Yahweh, according to the work
of their hands. {3:65} you will give them hardness of heart, your a curse unto
them. {3:66} you will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the
heavens of Yahweh.
{O25)4} Lamentations 4. {4:1} How is the
gold become dim! [how] is the most pure gold changed! The stones of the
sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street. {4:2} The precious sons
of Zion, comparable to fine gold, How are they esteemed as earthen pitchers,
the work of the hands of the potter! {4:3} Even the jackals draw out the
breast, they give suck to their young ones: The daughter of my people is become
cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness. {4:4} The tongue of the sucking
child cleaves to the roof of his mouth for thirst: The young children ask
bread, and no man breaks it unto them. {4:5} They that did feed delicately are
desolate in the streets: They that were brought up in scarlet embrace
dunghills. {4:6} For the works against law of the daughter of my people is
greater than the sin of Sodom, Which was overthrown as in a moment and no
hands, were laid upon her. {4:7} Her nobles were purer than snow, they were
whiter than milk; They were ruddier in body than rubies, their polishing was as
of sapphire. {4:8} Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in
the streets: Their skin cleaves to
their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick. {4:9} They that are
slain with the sword are better than they that are slain with hunger; For these
pine away, stricken through, for want of the fruits of the field. {4:10} The
hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food
in the destruction of the daughter of my people. {4:11} Yahweh has accomplished
his wrath, he has poured out his fierce anger; And he has kindled a fire in
Zion, which has devoured the foundations there. {4:12} The kings of the earth
believed not, neither all the inhabitants of the world, That the adversary and
the enemy would enter into the gates of Jerusalem. {4:13} [It is] because of
the sins of her prophets, [and] the iniquities of her priests, That have shed
the blood of the just in the midst of her. {4:14} They wander as blind men in
the streets, they are polluted with blood, So that men cannot touch their
garments. {4:15} Depart you, they cried unto them, Unclean! depart, depart,
touch not! When they fled away and wandered, men said among the nations, They
shall no more sojourn [here]. {4:16} The anger of Yahweh has scattered them; he
will no more regard them: They respected not the persons of the priests, they
favored not the elders. {4:17} Our eyes do yet fail [in looking] for our vain
help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save. {4:18}
They hunt our steps, so that we cannot go in our streets: Our end is near, our
days are fulfilled; for our end is come. {4:19} Our pursuers were swifter than
the eagles of the heavens: They chased us upon the mountains, they laid wait
for us in the wilderness. {4:20} The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Yahweh,
was taken in their pits; Of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among
the nations. {4:21} Rejoice and be glad,
O daughter of Edom that dwells in the land of Uz: The cup shall pass through
unto you also; you shall be drunk, and shall make yourself naked. {4:22} The
punishment of your works against law is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry you away into
captivity: He will visit your works against law, O daughter of Edom; he will
uncover your sins.
{O25)5} Lamentations 5. {5:1} Remember, O Yahweh,
what is come upon us: Behold, and see our reproach. {5:2} Our inheritance is
turned unto strangers, Our houses unto aliens. {5:3} We are orphans and
fatherless; Our mothers are as widows. {5:4} We have drunk our water for money;
Our wood is sold unto us. {5:5} Our pursuers are upon our necks: We are weary,
and have no rest. {5:6} We have given the hand to the Egyptians, And to the
Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. {5:7} Our fathers sinned, and are not;
And we have borne their iniquities. {5:8} Servants rule over us: There is none
to deliver us out of their hand. {5:9} We get our bread at the peril of our
lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness. {5:10} Our skin is black like an
oven, Because of the burning heat of famine. {5:11} They ravished the women in
Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah. {5:12} Princes were hanged up by
their hand: The faces of elders were not honored. {5:13} The young men bare the
mill; And the children stumbled under the wood. {5:14} The elders have ceased
from the gate, The young men from their music. {5:15} The joy of our heart is
ceased; Our dance is turned into grieving. {5:16} The crown is fallen from our
head: A curse unto us! for we have sinned. {5:17} For this our heart is faint;
For these things our eyes are dim; {5:18} For the mountain of Zion, which is
desolate: The foxes walk upon it. {5:19}
you, O Yahweh, abides for ever; Your throne is from generation to generation.
{5:20} Therefore do you forget us for ever, [And] forsake us so long time?
{5:21} You Turn us unto you, O Yahweh, and we shall be turned; Renew our days
as of old. {5:22} But you have utterly rejected us; you are very angry against
us.
{O26)1} Ezekiel 1. {1:1} Now it came to pass in the thirtieth
year, in the fourth [moon], in the fifth [day] of the moon, as I was among the
captives by the river Chebar that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of
God. {1:2} In the fifth [day] of the moon, which was the fifth year of king
Jehoiachin's captivity, {1:3} the word of Yahweh came expressly unto Ezekiel
the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar;
and the hand of Yahweh was there upon him. {1:4} And I looked, and, behold, a
stormy wind came out of the north, a great cloud, with a fire enfolding itself,
and a brightness round about it, and out of the midst of it as it were glowing
metal, out of the midst of the fire. {1:5} And out of the midst of it came the likeness of four living creatures.
And this was their appearance: they had the likeness of a man. {1:6} And every
one had four faces, and every one of them had four wings. {1:7} And their feet
were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's
foot; and they sparkled like burnished brass. {1:8} And they had the hands of a
man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and
their wings [thus]: {1:9} their wings were joined one to another; they turned
not when they went; they went every one straight forward. {1:10} As for the
likeness of their faces, they had the face of a man; and they four had the face
of a lion on the right side; and they four had the face of an ox on the left
side; they four had also the face of an eagle. {1:11} And their faces and their
wings were separate above; two [wings] of every one were joined one to another,
and two covered their bodies. {1:12} And they went every one straight forward:
where the spirit was to go, they went; they turned not when they went. {1:13}
As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning
coals of fire, like the appearance of torches: [the fire] went up and down
among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went
forth lightning. {1:14} And the living creatures ran and returned as the
appearance of a flash of lightning. {1:15} Now as I beheld the living
creatures, behold, one wheel upon the earth beside the living creatures, for
each of the four faces there. {1:16} The appearance of the wheels and their
work was like unto a beryl: and they four had one likeness; and their
appearance and their work was as it were a wheel within a wheel. {1:17} When
they went, they went in their four directions: they turned not when they went.
{1:18} As for their rims, they were high and dreadful; and they four had their
rims full of eyes round about. {1:19} And when the living creatures went, the
wheels went beside them; and when the living creatures were lifted up from the
earth, the wheels were lifted up. {1:20} Where ever the spirit was to go, they
went; there was the spirit to go: and the wheels were lifted up beside them;
for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels. {1:21} When those
went, these went; and when those stood, these stood; and when those were lifted
up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up beside them: for the spirit of the
living creature was in the wheels. {1:22} And over the head of the living
creature there was the likeness of a firmament, like the terrible crystal to
look upon, stretched forth over their heads above. {1:23} And under the
firmament were their wings straight, the one toward the other: every one had
two which covered on this side, and every one had two which covered on that
side, their bodies. {1:24} And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings
like the noise of great waters, like the voice of the Almighty, a noise of
tumult like the noise of a host: when they stood, they let down their wings.
{1:25} And there was a voice above the firmament that was over their heads:
when they stood, they let down their wings. {1:26} And above the firmament that
was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a
sapphire stone; and upon the likeness of the throne was a likeness as the
appearance of a man upon it above. {1:27} And I saw as it were glowing metal,
as the appearance of fire within it round about, from the appearance of his
loins and upward; and from the appearance of his loins and downward I saw as it
were the appearance of fire, and there was brightness round about him. {1:28}
As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was
the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the
likeness of the glory of Yahweh. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I
heard a voice of one that spoke.
{O26)2} Ezekiel 2. {2:1} And he said unto me, Son of man,
stand upon your feet, and I will speak with you. {2:2} And the Spirit entered
into me when he spoke unto me, and set me upon my feet; and I heard him that
spoke unto me. {2:3} And he said unto me, Son of man, I send you to the
children of Israel, to nations that are rebellious, which have rebelled against
me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me even unto this very
day. {2:4} And the children are impudent and stiff hearted: I do sent you unto
them; and you shall say unto them, Thus said the Lord Yahweh. {2:5} And they,
whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are a
rebellious house,) yet shall know that there has been a prophet among them.
{2:6} And you, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their
words, though briers and thorns are with you, and you do dwell among scorpions:
be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they are a
rebellious house. {2:7} And you shall speak my words unto them, whether they
will hear, or whether they will forbear; for they are most rebellious. {2:8}
But you, son of man, hear what I say unto you; be not you rebellious like that
rebellious house: open your mouth, and eat that which I give you. {2:9} And
when I looked, behold, a hand was put forth unto me; and, lo, a roll of a book
was therein; {2:10} And he spread it before me: and it was written within and
outside; and there were written therein lamentations, and grieving, and a
curse.
{O26)3} Ezekiel 3. {3:1} And he said unto me, Son of man, eat
that which you find; eat this roll, and go, speak unto the house of Israel.
{3:2} So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat the roll. {3:3} And he said
unto me, Son of man, cause your belly to eat, and fill your bowels with this
roll that I give you. Then did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for
sweetness. {3:4} And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get you unto the house of
Israel, and speak with my words unto them. {3:5} For you are not sent to a
people of a strange speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel;
{3:6} not to many peoples of a strange speech and of a hard language, whose
words you Can not understand. Surely, if I sent you to them, they would hear
unto you. {3:7} But the house of Israel will not hear unto you; for they will
not hear unto me: for all the house of Israel are of hard forehead and of a
stiff heart. {3:8} Behold, I have made your face hard against their faces, and
your forehead hard against their foreheads. {3:9} As an adamant harder than
flint have I made your forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed at their
looks, though they are a rebellious house. {3:10} Furthermore he said unto me,
Son of man, all my words that I shall speak unto you receive in your heart, and
hear with your ears. {3:11} And go, get you to them of the captivity, unto the
children of your people, and speak unto them, and tell them, Thus said the Lord
Yahweh; whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear. {3:12} Then the
Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the voice of a great rushing,
[saying], Blessed be the glory of Yahweh from his place. {3:13} And [I heard]
the noise of the wings of the living creatures as they touched one another, and
the noise of the wheels beside them, even the noise of a great rushing. {3:14}
So the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away; and I went in bitterness, in the
heat of my spirit; and the hand of Yahweh was strong upon me. {3:15} Then I
came to them of the captivity at Tel-abib, that dwelt by the river Chebar, and
to where they dwelt; and I sat there overwhelmed among them seven days. {3:16}
And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the word of Yahweh came unto
me, saying, {3:17} Son of man, I have made you a watchman unto the house of
Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.
{3:18} When I say unto the wicked, you shall surely die; and you give him not
warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life;
the same wicked man shall die in his works against law; but his blood will I
require at your hand. {3:19} yet if you warn the wicked, and he turn not from
his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his works against law;
but you have delivered your soul. {3:20} Again, when a righteous man does turn
from his righteousness, and commit works against law, and I lay a stumbling
block before him, he shall die: because you have not given him warning, he shall
die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be
remembered; but his blood will I require at your hand. {3:21} Nevertheless if
you warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he does not sin, he
shall surely live, because he took warning; and you have delivered your soul.
{3:22} And the hand of Yahweh was there upon me; and he said unto me, Arise, go
forth into the plain, and I will there talk with you. {3:23} Then I arose, and
went forth into the plain: and, behold, the glory of Yahweh stood there, as the
glory which I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell on my face. {3:24} Then the
Spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet; and he spoke with me, and said
unto me, Go, shut yourself within your house. {3:25} But you, son of man,
behold, they shall lay bands upon you, and shall bind you with them, and you
shall not go out among them: {3:26} and I will make your tongue cleave to the
roof of your mouth, that you shall be dumb, and shall not be to them a
reprover; for they are a rebellious house. {3:27} But when I speak with you, I
will open your mouth, and you shall say unto them, Thus said the Lord Yahweh:
He that hears, let him hear; and he that forbears, let him forbear: for they
are a rebellious house.
{O26)4} Ezekiel 4. {4:1} you also, son of man, take you a tile,
and lay it before you, and portray upon it a city, even Jerusalem: {4:2} and
lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and cast up a mound against
it; set camps also against it, and plant battering rams against it round about.
{4:3} And take you unto you an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between
you and the city: and set your face toward it, and it shall be besieged, and
you shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.
{4:4} Furthermore lie you upon your left side, and lay the works against law of
the house of Israel upon it; [according to] the number of the days that you
shall lie upon it, you shall bear their works against law. {4:5} For I have
appointed the years of their works against law to be unto you a number of days,
even three hundred and ninety days: so shall you bear the works against law of
the house of Israel. {4:6} And again, when you have accomplished these, you
shall lie on your right side, and shall bear the works against law of the house
of Judah: forty days, each day for a year, have I appointed it unto you. {4:7}
And you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with your arm
uncovered; and you shall prophesy against it. {4:8} And, behold, I lay bands
upon you, and you shall not turn you from one side to the other, till you have
accomplished the days of your siege. {4:9} Take you also unto you wheat, and
barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel,
and make you bread there; [according to] the number of the days that you shall
lie upon your side, even three hundred and ninety days, shall you eat there.
{4:10} And your food which you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a
day: from time to time shall you eat it. {4:11} And you shall drink water by
measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time shall you drink. {4:12} And
you shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it in their sight with
dung that comes out of man. {4:13} And Yahweh said, Even thus shall the
children of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations where I will
drive them. {4:14} Then said I, Ah Lord Yahweh! behold, my soul has not been
polluted; for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which
dies of itself, or is torn of beasts; neither came there abominable flesh into
my mouth. {4:15} Then he said unto me, See, I have given you cow's dung for
man's dung, and you shall prepare your bread thereon. {4:16} Furthermore he
said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem:
and they shall eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness; and they shall drink
water by measure, and in dismay: {4:17} that they may want bread and water, and
be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their works against law.
{O26)5} Ezekiel 5. {5:1} And you, son of man, take you a sharp
sword; [as] a barber's razor shall you take it unto you, and shall cause it to
pass upon your head and upon your beard: then take you balances to weigh, and
divide the hair. {5:2} A third part shall you burn in the fire in the midst of
the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled; and you shall take a third
part, and smite with the sword round about it; and a third part you shall
scatter to the wind, and I will draw out a sword after them. {5:3} And you
shall take of it a few in number, and bind them in your skirts. {5:4} And of
these again shall you take, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn
them in the fire; there from shall a fire come forth into all the house of
Israel. {5:5} Thus said the Lord Yahweh: This is Jerusalem; I have set her in
the midst of the nations, and countries are round about her. {5:6} And she has
rebelled against mine ordinances in doing wickedness more than the nations, and
against my statutes more than the countries that are round about her; for they
have rejected mine ordinances, and as for my statutes, they have not walked in
them. {5:7} Therefore thus said the Lord Yahweh: Because you are turbulent more
than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes,
neither have kept mine ordinances, neither have done after the ordinances of
the nations that are round about you; {5:8} therefore thus said the Lord Yahweh:
Behold, I, even I, am against you; and I will execute judgments in the midst of
you in the sight of the nations. {5:9} And I will do in you that which I have
not done, and whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all your
abominations. {5:10} Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of
you, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments on you;
and the whole remnant of you will I scatter unto all the winds. {5:11}
Therefore, as I live, said the Lord Yahweh, surely, because you have defiled my
sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your abominations,
therefore will I also diminish [you]; neither shall mine eye spare, and I also
will have no pity. {5:12} A third part of you shall die with the pestilence,
and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of you; and a third part
shall fall by the sword round about you; and a third part I will scatter unto
all the winds, and will draw out a sword after them. {5:13} Thus shall mine
anger be accomplished, and I will cause my wrath toward them to rest, and I
shall be comforted; and they shall know that I, Yahweh, have spoken in my zeal,
when I have accomplished my wrath upon them. {5:14} Furthermore I will make you
a desolation and a reproach among the nations that are round about you, in the
sight of all that pass by. {5:15} So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an
instruction and an astonishment, unto the nations that are round about you,
when I shall execute judgments on you in anger and in wrath, and in wrathful
rebukes; (I, Yahweh, have spoken it;) {5:16} when I shall send upon them the
evil arrows of famine, that are for destruction, which I will send to destroy
you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of
bread; {5:17} and I will send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall
bereave you; and pestilence and blood shall pass through you; and I will bring
the sword upon you: I, Yahweh, have spoken it.
{O26)6} Ezekiel 6. {6:1} And the word of Yahweh came unto me,
saying, {6:2} Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel, and
prophesy unto them, {6:3} and say, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of
the Lord Yahweh: Thus said the Lord Yahweh to the mountains and to the hills,
to the watercourses and to the valleys: Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword
upon you, and I will destroy your high places. {6:4} And your altars shall
become desolate, and your sun-images shall be broken; and I will cast down your
slain men before your idols. {6:5} And I will lay the dead bodies of the
children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round
about your altars. {6:6} In all your dwelling-places the cities shall be laid
waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid
waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your
sun-images may be hewn down, and your works may be abolished. {6:7} And the
slain shall fall in the midst of you, and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
{6:8} yet will I leave a remnant, in that you shall have some that escape the
sword among the nations, when you shall be scattered through the countries.
{6:9} And those of you that escape shall remember me among the nations where
they shall be carried captive, how that I have been broken with their lewd heart,
which has departed from me, and with their eyes, which play the prostitute
after their idols: and they shall loathe themselves in their own sight for the
evils which they have committed in all their abominations. {6:10} And they
shall know that I am Yahweh: I have not said in vain that I would do this evil
unto them. {6:11} Thus said the Lord Yahweh: Smite with your hand, and stamp
with your foot, and say, Alas! because of all the evil abominations of the
house of Israel; for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the
pestilence. {6:12} He that is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he that
is near shall fall by the sword; and he that remains and is besieged shall die
by the famine: thus will I accomplish my wrath upon them. {6:13} And you shall
know that I am Yahweh, when their slain men shall be among their idols round
about their altars, upon every high hill, on all the tops of the mountains, and
under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the places where they
offered sweet savor to all their idols. {6:14} And I will stretch out my hand
upon them, and make the land desolate and waste, from the wilderness toward
Diblah, throughout all their habitations: and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
{O26)7}
Ezekiel 7. {7:1} Furthermore
the word of Yahweh came unto me, saying, {7:2} And you, son of man, thus said
the Lord Yahweh unto the land of Israel, An end: the end is come upon the four
corners of the land. {7:3} Now is the end upon you, and I will send mine anger
upon you, and will judge you according to your ways; and I will bring upon you
all your abominations. {7:4} And mine eye shall not spare you, neither will I
have pity; but I will bring your ways upon you, and your abominations shall be
in the midst of you: and you shall know that I am Yahweh. {7:5} Thus said the
Lord Yahweh: An evil, an only evil; behold, it comes. {7:6} An end is come, the
end is come; it awakes against you; behold, it comes. {7:7} Your doom is come
unto you, O inhabitant of the land: the time is come, the day is near, [a day
of] tumult, and not [of] joyful shouting, upon the mountains. {7:8} Now will I
shortly pour out my wrath upon you, and accomplish mine anger against you, and
will judge you according to your ways; and I will bring upon you all your abominations.
{7:9} And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will bring upon
you according to your ways; and your abominations shall be in the midst of you;
and you shall know that I, Yahweh, do smite. {7:10} Behold, the day, behold, it
comes: your doom is gone forth; the rod has blossomed, pride has budded. {7:11}
Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness; none of them [shall remain], nor
of their multitude, nor of their wealth: neither shall there be eminency among
them. {7:12} The time is come, the day draws near: let not the buyer rejoice,
nor the seller grieve; for wrath is upon all the multitude there. {7:13} For
the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they be yet alive:
for the vision is touching the whole multitude there, none shall return;
neither shall any strengthen himself in the works against law of his life.
{7:14} They have blown the trumpet, and have made all ready; but none goes to
the battle; for my wrath is upon all the multitude there. {7:15} The sword is
outside, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that is in the field
shall die with the sword: and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence
shall devour him. {7:16} But those of them that escape shall escape, and shall
be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, every one
in his works against law. {7:17} All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall
be weak as water. {7:18} They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and
horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon
all their heads. {7:19} They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their
gold shall be as an unclean thing; their silver and their gold shall not be
able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of Yahweh: they shall not satisfy
their souls, neither fill their bowels; because it has been the stumbling block
of their works against law. {7:20} As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it
in majesty; but they made the images of their abominations [and] their
detestable things therein: therefore have I made it unto them as an unclean
thing. {7:21} And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey,
and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall profane it. {7:22}
My face will I turn also from them, and they shall profane my secret [place];
and robbers shall enter into it, and profane it. {7:23} Make the chain; for the
land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence. {7:24}
Therefore I will bring the worst of the nations, and they shall possess their
houses: I will also make the pride of the strong to cease; and their holy
places shall be profaned. {7:25} Destruction comes; and they shall seek peace,
and there shall be none. {7:26} Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumor
shall be upon rumor; and they shall seek a vision of the prophet; but the law
shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders. {7:27} The king
shall grieve, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of
the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do unto them after their way,
and according to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that I am
Yahweh.
{O26)8} Ezekiel 8. {8:1} And it came to pass in the sixth
year, in the sixth [moon], in the fifth [day] of the moon, as I sat in my
house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord Yahweh
fell there upon me. {8:2} Then I beheld, and, lo, a likeness as the appearance
of fire; from the appearance of his loins and downward, fire; and from his loins
and upward, as the appearance of brightness, as it were glowing metal. {8:3}
And he put forth the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head; and the
Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven, and brought me in the visions of
God to Jerusalem, to the door of the gate of the inner [court] that looks
toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes
to jealousy. {8:4} And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there,
according to the appearance that I saw in the plain. {8:5} Then said he unto
me, Son of man, lift up your eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up
mine eyes the way toward the north, and behold, northward of the gate of the
altar this image of jealousy in the entry. {8:6} And he said unto me, Son of
man, sees you what they do? even the great abominations that the house of
Israel do commit here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but you
shall again see yet other great abominations. {8:7} And he brought me to the
door of the court; and when I looked, behold, a hole in the wall. {8:8} Then
said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had dug in the
wall, behold, a door. {8:9} And he said unto me, Go in, and see the wicked
abominations that they do here. {8:10} So I went in and saw; and behold, every
form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house
of Israel, portrayed upon the wall round about. {8:11} And there stood before
them seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel; and in the midst of them
stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, every man with his censer in his hand; and
the odor of the cloud of incense went up. {8:12} Then said he unto me, Son of
man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every
man in his chambers of imagery? for they say, Yahweh sees us not; Yahweh has
forsaken the land. {8:13} He said also unto me, you shall again see yet other
great abominations which they do. {8:14} Then he brought me to the door of the
gate of Yahweh's house which was toward the north; and behold, there sat the
women weeping for Tammuz. {8:15} Then said he unto me, Have you seen [this], O
son of man? you shall again see yet greater abominations than these. {8:16} And
he brought me into the inner court of Yahweh's house; and behold, at the door
of the temple of Yahweh, between the porch and the altar, were about five and
twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of Yahweh, and their faces
toward the east; and they were worshipping the sun toward the east. {8:17} Then
he said unto me, Have you seen [this], O son of man? Is it a light thing to the
house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for
they have filled the land with violence, and have turned again to provoke me to
anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose. {8:18} Therefore will I also
deal in wrath; mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity; and though
they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.
{o26)9} Ezekiel 9. {9:1} Then he cried in mine ears with a
loud voice, saying, Cause you them that have charge over the city to draw near,
every man with his destroying weapon in his hand. {9:2} And behold, six men
came from the way of the upper gate, which lies toward the north, every man
with his slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man in the midst of them clothed
in linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side. And they went in, and stood
beside the brazen altar. {9:3} And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up
from the cherub, whereupon it was, to the threshold of the house: and he called
to the man clothed in linen, who had the writer's inkhorn by his side. {9:4}
And Yahweh said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst
of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that
cry over all the abominations that are done in the midst there. {9:5} And to
the others he said in my hearing, Go you through the city after him, and smite:
let not your eye spare, neither have you pity; {9:6} slay utterly the old man,
the young man and the virgin, and little children and women; but come not near
any man upon whom is the mark: and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at
the old men that were before the house. {9:7} And he said unto them, Defile the
house, and fill the courts with the slain: go you forth. And they went forth,
and smote in the city. {9:8} And it came to pass, while they were smiting, and
I was left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord Yahweh! will
you destroy all the residue of Israel in your pouring out of your wrath upon
Jerusalem? {9:9} Then said he unto me, The works against law of the house of
Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the
city full of withholding [of judgment]: for they say, Yahweh has forsaken the
land, and Yahweh sees not. {9:10} And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare,
neither will I have pity, but I will bring their way upon their head. {9:11}
And behold, the man clothed in linen, who had the inkhorn by his side, reported
the matter, saying, I have done as you have commanded me.
{O26)10} Ezekiel 10. {10:1} Then I looked, and behold, in the
firmament that was over the head of the cherubim there appeared above them as
it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne. {10:2}
And he spoke unto the man clothed in linen, and said, Go in between the
whirling [wheels], even under the cherub, and fill both your hands with coals
of fire from between the cherubim, and scatter them over the city. And he went
in [while] in my sight. {10:3} Now the cherubim stood on the right side of the
house, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court. {10:4} And
the glory of Yahweh mounted up from the cherub, [and stood] over the threshold
of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full
of the brightness of Yahweh's glory. {10:5} And the sound of the wings of the
cherubim was heard even to the outer court, as the voice of God Almighty when
he speaks. {10:6} And it came to pass, when he commanded the man clothed in
linen, saying, Take fire from between the whirling wheels, from between the
cherubim, that he went in, and stood beside a wheel. {10:7} And the cherub
stretched forth his hand from between the cherubim unto the fire that was
between the cherubim, and took [there], and put it into the hands of him that
was clothed in linen, who took it and went out. {10:8} And there appeared in
the cherubim the form of a man's hand under their wings. {10:9} And I looked,
and behold, four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside one cherub, and
another wheel beside another cherub; and the appearance of the wheels was like
unto a beryl stone. {10:10} And as for their appearance, they four had one
likeness, as if a wheel have been within a wheel. {10:11} When they went, they
went in their four directions: they turned not as they went, but to the place
where the head looked they followed it; they turned not as they went. {10:12}
And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and
the wheels, were full of eyes round about, [even] the wheels that they four
had. {10:13} As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing, the whirling
[wheels]. {10:14} And every one had four faces: the first face was the face of
the cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third face the
face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle. {10:15} And the cherubim
mounted up: this is the living creature that I saw by the river Chebar. {10:16}
And when the cherubim went, the wheels went beside them; and when the cherubim
lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the wheels also turned not
from beside them. {10:17} When they stood, these stood; and when they mounted
up, these mounted up with them: for the spirit of the living creature was in
them. {10:18} And the glory of Yahweh went forth from over the threshold of the
house, and stood over the cherubim. {10:19} And the cherubim lifted up their
wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight when they went forth, and the
wheels beside them: and they stood at the door of the east gate of Yahweh's
house; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above. {10:20} This is
the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river Chebar; and
I knew that they were cherubim. {10:21} Every one had four faces, and every one
four wings; and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.
{10:22} And as for the likeness of their faces, they were the faces which I saw
by the river Chebar, their appearances and themselves; they went every one
straight forward.
{O26)11} Ezekiel 11. {11:1} Then the Spirit lifted me up, and
brought me unto the east gate of Yahweh's house, which looks eastward: and
behold, at the door of the gate five and twenty men; and I saw in the midst of
them Jaazaniah the son of Azzur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of
the people. {11:2} And he said unto me, Son of man, these are the men that
devise works against law, and that give wicked counsel in this city; {11:3}
that say, [The time] is not near to build houses: this [city] is the caldron,
and we are the flesh. {11:4} Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son
of man. {11:5} And the Spirit of Yahweh fell upon me, and he said unto me,
Speak, Thus said Yahweh: Thus have you said, O house of Israel; for I know the
things that come into your mind. {11:6} you have multiplied your slain in this
city, and you have filled the streets of it with the slain. {11:7} Therefore
thus said the Lord Yahweh: Your slain that you have laid in the midst of it,
they are the flesh, and this [city] is the caldron; but you shall be brought
forth out of the midst of it. {11:8} you have feared the sword; and I will
bring the sword upon you, said the Lord Yahweh. {11:9} And I will bring you
forth out of the midst there, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and
will execute judgments among you. {11:10} you shall fall by the sword; I will
judge you in the border of Israel; and you shall know that I am Yahweh. {11:11}
This [city] shall not be your caldron, neither shall you be the flesh in the
midst there; I will judge you in the border of Israel; {11:12} and you shall
know that I am Yahweh: for you have not walked in my statutes, neither have you
executed mine ordinances, but have done after the ordinances of the nations
that are round about you. {11:13} And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that
Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then fell I down upon my face, and cried with
a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord Yahweh! will you make a full end of the remnant
of Israel? {11:14} And the word of Yahweh came unto me, saying, {11:15} Son of
man, your brethren, even your brethren, the men of your kindred, and all the
house of Israel, all of them, [are they] unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem
have said, Get you far from Yahweh; unto us is this land given for a
possession. {11:16} Therefore say, Thus said the Lord Yahweh: Whereas I have
removed them far off among the nations, and whereas I have scattered them among
the countries, yet will I be to them a sanctuary for a little while in the
countries where they are come. {11:17} Therefore say, Thus said the Lord Yahweh:
I will gather you from the peoples, and assemble you out of the countries where
you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel. {11:18} And
they shall come there, and they shall take away all the detestable things of it
and all the abominations of it from there. {11:19} And I will give them one
heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out
of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh; {11:20} that they may walk
in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my
people, and I will be their God. {11:21} But as for them whose heart walks
after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will bring
their way upon their own heads, said the Lord Yahweh. {11:22} Then did the
cherubim lift up their wings, and the wheels were beside them; and the glory of
the God of Israel was over them above. {11:23} And the glory of Yahweh went up
from the midst of the city, and stood upon the mountain which is on the east
side of the city. {11:24} And the Spirit lifted me up, and brought me in the
vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So the
vision that I had seen went up from me. {11:25} Then I spoke unto them of the
captivity all the things that Yahweh had showed me.
{O26)12} Ezekiel 12. {12:1} The word of Yahweh also came unto
me, saying, {12:2} Son of man, you dwell in the midst of the rebellious house,
that have eyes to see, and see not, that have ears to hear, and hear not; for
they are a rebellious house. {12:3} Therefore, you son of man, prepare you
stuff for removing, and remove by day in their sight; and you shall remove from
your place to another place in their sight: it may be they will consider,
though they are a rebellious house. {12:4} And you shall bring forth your stuff
by day in their sight, as stuff for removing; and you shall go forth yourself
at even in their sight, as when men go forth into exile. {12:5} Dig you through
the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby. {12:6} In their sight shall you
bear it upon your shoulder, and carry it forth in the dark; you shall cover
your face, that you see not the land: for I have set you for a sign unto the
house of Israel. {12:7} And I did so as I was commanded: I brought forth my
stuff by day, as stuff for removing, and in the even I dug through the wall
with my hand; I brought it forth in the dark, and bare it upon my shoulder in
their sight. {12:8} And in the morning came the word of Yahweh unto me, saying,
{12:9} Son of man, has not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said unto
you, What do you? {12:10} Say you unto them, Thus said the Lord Yahweh: This
burden [concerns] the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel among
whom they are. {12:11} Say, I am your sign: like as I have done, so shall it be
done unto them; they shall go into exile, into captivity. {12:12} And the
prince that is among them shall bear upon his shoulder in the dark, and shall
go forth: they shall dig through the wall to carry out thereby: he shall cover
his face, because he shall not see the land with his eyes. {12:13} My net also
will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare; and I will bring him
to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he
shall die there. {12:14} And I will scatter toward every wind all that are
round about him to help him, and all his bands; and I will draw out the sword
after them. {12:15} And they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall disperse
them among the nations, and scatter them through the countries. {12:16} But I
will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the
pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations among the nations
where they come; and they shall know that I am Yahweh. {12:17} Furthermore the
word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {12:18} Son of man, eat your bread with
quaking, and drink your water with trembling and with fearfulness; {12:19} and
say unto the people of the land, Thus said the Lord Yahweh concerning the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the land of Israel: They shall eat their bread
with fearfulness, and drink their water in dismay, that her land may be desolate,
[and despoiled] of all that is therein, because of the violence of all them
that dwell therein. {12:20} And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid
waste, and the land shall be a desolation; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
{12:21} And the word of Yahweh came unto me, saying, {12:22} Son of man, what
is this proverb that you have in the land of Israel, saying, The days are
prolonged, and every vision fails? {12:23} Tell them therefore, Thus said the
Lord Yahweh: I will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it
as a proverb in Israel; but say unto them, The days are at hand, and the
fulfillment of every vision. {12:24} For there shall be no more any false
vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel. {12:25} For I am Yahweh;
I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall be performed; it shall be
no more deferred: for in your days, O rebellious house, will I speak the word,
and will perform it, said the Lord Yahweh. {12:26} Again the word of Yahweh
came to me, saying, {12:27} Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel
say, The vision that he sees is for many day to come, and he prophesies of
times that are far off. {12:28} Therefore say unto them, Thus said the Lord Yahweh:
There shall none of my words be deferred any more, but the word which I shall
speak shall be performed, said the Lord Yahweh.
{O26)13} Ezekiel 13. {13:1} And the word of Yahweh came unto me,
saying, {13:2} Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that
prophesy, and say you unto them that prophesy out of their own heart, Hear you
the word of Yahweh: {13:3} Thus said the Lord Yahweh, a curse unto the foolish
prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing! {13:4} O Israel,
your prophets have been like foxes in the waste places. {13:5} you have not
gone up into the gaps, neither built up the wall for the house of Israel, to
stand in the battle in the day of Yahweh. {13:6} They have seen falsehood and
lying divination, that say, Yahweh said; but Yahweh has not sent them: and they
have made men to hope that the word would be confirmed. {13:7} Have you not
seen a false vision, and have you not spoken a lying divination, in that you
say, Yahweh said; albeit I have not spoken? {13:8} Therefore thus said the Lord
Yahweh: Because you have spoken falsehood, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I
am against you, said the Lord Yahweh. {13:9} And my hand shall be against the
prophets that see false visions, and that divine lies: they shall not be in the
council of my people, neither shall they be written in the writing of the house
of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel; and you shall know
that I am the Lord Yahweh. {13:10} Because, even because they have seduced my
people, saying, Peace; and there is no peace; and when one builds up a wall,
behold, they daub it with un-tempered [mortar]: {13:11} say unto them that daub
it with un-tempered [mortar], that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing
shower; and you, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend
it. {13:12} Lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said unto you, Where
is the daubing wherewith you have daubed it? {13:13} Therefore thus said the
Lord Yahweh: I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my wrath; and there
shall be an overflowing shower in mine anger, and great hailstones in wrath to
consume it. {13:14} So will I break down the wall that you have daubed with
un-tempered [mortar], and bring it down to the ground, so that the foundation
of it shall be uncovered; and it shall fall, and you shall be consumed in the
midst there: and you shall know that I am Yahweh. {13:15} Thus will I
accomplish my wrath upon the wall, and upon them that have daubed it with
un-tempered [mortar]; and I will say unto you, The wall is no more, neither
they that daubed it; {13:16} [to wit], the prophets of Israel that prophesy
concerning Jerusalem, and that see visions of peace for her, and there is no
peace, said the Lord Yahweh. {13:17} And you, son of man, set your face against
the daughters of your people, that prophesy out of their own heart; and
prophesy you against them, {13:18} and say, Thus said the Lord Yahweh: A curse
to the women that sew pillows upon all elbows, and make kerchiefs for the head
of [persons of] every stature to hunt souls! Will you hunt the souls of my
people, and save souls alive for yourselves? {13:19} And you have profaned me
among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the
souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by
your lying to my people that hear unto lies. {13:20} Therefore thus said the
Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against your pillows, wherewith you there hunt the
souls to make [them] fly, and I will tear them from your arms; and I will let
the souls go, even the souls that you hunt to make [them] fly. {13:21} Your
kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver my people out of your hand, and they
shall be no more in your hand to be hunted; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
{13:22} Because with lies you have grieved the heart of the righteous, whom I
have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not
return from his wicked way, and be saved alive: {13:23} Therefore you shall no
more see false visions, nor divine divinations: and I will deliver my people
out of your hand; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
{O26)14} Ezekiel 14. {14:1} Then came certain of the elders of
Israel unto me, and sat before me. {14:2} And the word of Yahweh came unto me,
saying, {14:3} Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart,
and put the stumbling block of their works against law before their face:
should I be inquired of at all by them? {14:4} Therefore speak unto them, and
say unto them, Thus said the Lord Yahweh: Every man of the house of Israel that
takes his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his works against
law before his face, and comes to the prophet; I Yahweh will answer him therein
according to the multitude of his idols; {14:5} that I may take the house of
Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their
idols. {14:6} Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus said the Lord Yahweh:
Return you, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from
all your abominations. {14:7} For every one of the house of Israel, or of the
strangers that sojourn in Israel, that separates himself from me, and takes his
idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his works against law
before his face, and comes to the prophet to inquire for himself of me; I Yahweh
will answer him by myself: {14:8} and I will set my face against that man, and
will make him an astonishment, for a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off
from the midst of my people; and you shall know that I am Yahweh. {14:9} And if
the prophet be deceived and speak a word, I, Yahweh, have deceived that
prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the
midst of my people Israel. {14:10} And they shall bear their works against law:
the works against law of the prophet shall be even as the works against law of
him that seeks [unto him]; {14:11} that the house of Israel may go no more
astray from me, neither defile themselves any more with all their transgression
of the law; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, said the
Lord Yahweh. {14:12} And the word of Yahweh came unto me, saying, {14:13} Son
of man, when a land sins against me by committing a trespass, and I stretch out
my hand upon it, and break the staff of the bread there, and send famine upon
it, and cut off from it man and beast; {14:14} though these three men, Noah,
Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their
righteousness, said the Lord Yahweh. {14:15} If I cause evil beasts to pass
through the land, and they ravage it, and it be made desolate, so that no man
may pass through because of the beasts; {14:16} though these three men were in
it, as I live, said the Lord Yahweh, they should deliver neither sons nor daughters;
they only should be delivered, but the land should be desolate. {14:17} Or if I
bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I
cut off from it man and beast; {14:18} though these three men were in it, as I
live, said the Lord Yahweh, they should deliver neither sons nor daughters, but
they only should be delivered themselves. {14:19} Or if I send a pestilence
into that land, and pour out my wrath upon it in blood, to cut off from it man
and beast; {14:20} though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, said
the Lord Yahweh, they should deliver neither son nor daughter; they should but
deliver their own souls by their righteousness. {14:21} For thus said the Lord Yahweh:
How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and
the famine, and the evil beasts, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and
beast! {14:22} yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be
carried forth, both sons and daughters: behold, they shall come forth unto you,
and you shall see their way and their doings; and you shall be comforted
concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, even concerning all
that I have brought upon it. {14:23} And they shall comfort you, when you see
their way and their doings; and you shall know that I have not done outside
cause all that I have done in it, said the Lord Yahweh.
{O26)15} Ezekiel 15. {15:1} And the word of Yahweh came unto me,
saying, {15:2} Son of man, what is the vine-tree more than any tree, the
vine-branch which is among the trees of the forest? {15:3} shall wood be taken
of it to make any work? or will men take a pin of it to hang any vessel
thereon? {15:4} Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire has
devoured both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned: is it profitable
for any work? {15:5} Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how
much less, when the fire has devoured it, and it is burned, shall it yet be
meet for any work! {15:6} Therefore thus said the Lord Yahweh: As the vine-tree
among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will
I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem. {15:7} And I will set my face against
them; they shall go forth from the fire, but the fire shall devour them; and
you shall know that I am Yahweh, when I set my face against them. {15:8} And I
will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass, said the
Lord Yahweh.
{o26)16}
Ezekiel 16. {16:1} Again the
word of Yahweh came unto me, saying, {16:2} Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know
her abominations; {16:3} and say, Thus said the Lord Yahweh unto Jerusalem:
Your birth and your nativity is of the land of the Canaanite; the Amorite was
your father, and your mother was a Hittite. {16:4} And as for your nativity, in
the day you was born your navel was not cut, neither was you washed in water to
cleanse you; you was not salted at all, nor swaddled at all. {16:5} No eye
pitied you, to do any of these things unto you, to have compassion upon you; but
you was cast out in the open field, for that your person was abhorred, in the
day that you was born. {16:6} And when I passed by you, and saw you weltering
in your blood, I said unto you, [though you are] in your blood, live; behold, I
said unto you, [though you are] in your blood, live. {16:7} I caused you to
multiply as that which grows in the field, and you did increase and wax great,
and you attain to [an] excellent ornament; your breasts were fashioned, and
your hair was grown; yet you was naked and bare. {16:8} Now when I passed by
you, and looked upon you, behold, your time was the time of love; and I spread
my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness: behold, I swore unto you, and
entered into a covenant with you, said the Lord Yahweh, and you became mine.
{16:9} Then washed I you with water; behold, I thoroughly washed away your
blood from you, and I anointed you with oil. {16:10} I clothed you also with
broidered work, and shod you with sealskin, and I girded you about with fine
linen, and covered you with silk. {16:11} And I decked you with ornaments, and
I put bracelets upon your hands, and a chain on your neck. {16:12} And I put a
ring upon your nose, and ear-rings in your ears, and a beautiful crown upon
your head. {16:13} Thus was you decked with gold and silver; and your raiment
was of fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; you did eat fine flour, and
honey, and oil; and you was exceeding beautiful, and you did prosper unto royal
estate. {16:14} And your renown went forth among the nations for your beauty;
for it was perfect, through my majesty which I had put upon you, said the Lord Yahweh.
{16:15} But you did trust in your beauty, and played the prostitute because of
your beauty, and pours out your prostitutions on every one that passed by; his
it was. {16:16} And you did take of your garments, and made for you high places
decked with different colors, and played the prostitute upon them: [the things
like that] shall not come, neither shall it be [so]. {16:17} you did also take
your fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made
for you images of men, and did play the prostitute with them; {16:18} and you
took your broidered garments, and covered them, and did set mine oil and mine
incense before them. {16:19} My bread also which I gave you, fine flour, and
oil, and honey, wherewith I fed you, you did even set it before them for a
sweet savor; and [thus] it was, said the Lord Yahweh. {16:20} Then you have
taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne unto me, and these have
you sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Were your prostitutions a small
matter, {16:21} that you have slain my children, and delivered them up, in
causing them to pass through [the fire] unto them? {16:22} And in all your
abominations and your prostitutions you have not remembered the days of your
youth, when you was naked and bare, and was withholding in your blood. {16:23}
And it is come to pass after all your wickedness, (A Curse, A Curse unto you!
said the Lord Yahweh,) {16:24} that you have built unto you a vaulted place,
and have made you a lofty place in every street. {16:25} you have built your
lofty place at the head of every way, and have made your beauty an abomination,
and have opened your feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied your prostitution.
{16:26} you have also committed fornication with the Egyptians, your neighbors,
great of flesh; and have multiplied your prostitution, to provoke me to anger.
{16:27} Behold therefore, I have stretched out my hand over you, and have
diminished your ordinary [food], and delivered you unto the will of them that
hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, that are ashamed of your lewd way.
{16:28} you have played the prostitute also with the Assyrians, because you was
insatiable; behold, you have played the prostitute with them, and yet you was
not satisfied. {16:29} you have furthermore multiplied your prostitution unto
the land of traffic, unto Chaldea; and yet you was not satisfied herewith.
{16:30} How weak is your heart, said the Lord Yahweh, seeing you do all these
things, the work of an impudent prostitute; {16:31} in that you builds your
vaulted place at the head of every way, and make your lofty place in every
street, and have not been as a prostitute, in that you scorn hire. {16:32} A
wife that commits adultery! that takes strangers instead of her husband!
{16:33} They give gifts to all prostitutes; but you give your gifts to all your
lovers, and bribe them, that they may come unto you on every side for your prostitutions.
{16:34} And you are different from [other] women in your prostitutions, in that
none follows you to play the prostitute; and whereas you give hire, and no hire
is given unto you, therefore you are different. {16:35} Therefore, O prostitute,
hear the word of Yahweh: {16:36} Thus said the Lord Yahweh, Because your
filthiness was poured out, and your nakedness uncovered through your prostitutions
with your lovers; and because of all the idols of your abominations, and for
the blood of your children, that you did give unto them; {16:37} therefore
behold, I will gather all your lovers, with whom you have taken pleasure, and
all them that you have agape loved, with all them that you have hated; I will
even gather them against you on every side, and will uncover your nakedness
unto them, that they may see all your nakedness. {16:38} And I will judge you,
as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will bring upon
you the blood of wrath and jealousy. {16:39} I will also give you into their
hand, and they shall throw down your vaulted place, and break down your lofty
places; and they shall strip you of your clothes, and take your fair jewels;
and they shall leave you naked and bare. {16:40} They shall also bring up a
company against you, and they shall stone you with stones, and thrust you
through with their swords. {16:41} And they shall burn your houses with fire,
and execute judgments upon you in the sight of many women; and I will cause you
to cease from playing the prostitute, and you shall also give no hire any more.
{16:42} So will I cause my wrath toward you to rest, and my jealousy shall
depart from you, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry. {16:43}
Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have raged against
me in all these things; therefore, behold, I also will bring your way upon your
head, said the Lord Yahweh: and you shall not commit this lewdness with all
your abominations. {16:44} Behold, every one that uses proverbs shall use
[this] proverb against you, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.
{16:45} you are the daughter of your mother, that loathes her husband and her
children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands
and their children: your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.
{16:46} And your elder sister is Samaria, that dwells at your left hand, she
and her daughters; and your younger sister, that dwells at your right hand, is
Sodom and her daughters. {16:47} yet have you not walked in their ways, nor
done after their abominations; but, as [if that were] a very little [thing],
you was more corrupt than they in all your ways. {16:48} As I live, said the
Lord Yahweh, Sodom your sister has not done, she nor her daughters, as you have
done, you and your daughters. {16:49} Behold, this was the works against law of
your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and
in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
{16:50} And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I
took them away as I saw [good]. {16:51} Neither has Samaria committed half of
your sins; but you have multiplied your abominations more than they, and have
justified your sisters by all your abominations which you have done. {16:52}
you also, bear you your own shame, in that you have given judgment for your
sisters; through your sins that you have committed more abominable than they,
they are more righteous that you: behold, be you also confounded, and bear your
shame, in that you have justified your sisters. {16:53} And I will turn again
their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of
Samaria and her daughters, and the captivity of your captives in the midst of
them; {16:54} that you may bear your own shame, and may be ashamed because of
all that you have done, in that you are a comfort unto them. {16:55} And your
sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former estate; and
Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate; and you and your
daughters shall return to your former estate. {16:56} For your sister Sodom was
not mentioned by your mouth in the day of your pride, {16:57} before your
wickedness was uncovered, as at the time of the reproach of the daughters of Syria,
and of all that are round about her, the daughters of the Philistines, that do
despite unto you round about. {16:58} you have borne your lewdness and your
abominations, said Yahweh. {16:59} For thus said the Lord Yahweh: I will also
deal with you as you have done, who have despised the oath in breaking the
covenant. {16:60} Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with you in the days
of your youth, and I will establish unto you an everlasting covenant. {16:61}
Then shall you remember your ways, and be ashamed, when you shall receive your
sisters, your elder [sisters] and your younger; and I will give them unto you
for daughters, but not by your covenant. {16:62} And I will establish my
covenant with you; and you shall know that I am Yahweh; {16:63} that you may
remember, and be confounded, and never open your mouth any more, because of
your shame, when I have forgiven you all that you have done, said the Lord Yahweh.
{O26)17} Ezekiel 17. {17:1} And the word of Yahweh came unto me,
saying, {17:2} Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the
house of Israel; {17:3} and say, Thus said the Lord Yahweh: A great eagle with
great wings and long pinions, full of feathers, which had divers colors, came
unto Lebanon, and took the top of the cedar: {17:4} he cropped off the topmost
of the young twigs there, and carried it unto a land of traffic; he set it in a
city of merchants. {17:5} He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it
in a fruitful soil; he placed it beside many waters; he set it as a
willow-tree. {17:6} And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature,
whose branches turned toward him, and the roots of it were under him: so it
became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs. {17:7} There
was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and, behold,
this vine did bend its roots toward him, and shot forth its branches toward
him, from the beds of its plantation, that he might water it. {17:8} It was
planted in a good soil by many waters, that it might bring forth branches, and
that it might bear fruit that it might be a goodly vine. {17:9} Say you, Thus
said the Lord Yahweh: shall it prosper? shall he not pull up the roots there,
and cut off the fruit there, that it may wither; that all its fresh springing
leaves may wither? and not by a strong arm or much people can it be raised from
the roots there. {17:10} behold, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall
it not utterly wither, when the east wind touches it? it shall wither in the
beds where it grew. {17:11} Furthermore the word of Yahweh came unto me,
saying, {17:12} Say now to the rebellious house, Know you not what these things
mean? tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and took the
king there, and the princes there, and brought them to him to Babylon: {17:13}
and he took of the seed royal, and made a covenant with him; he also brought
him under an oath, and took away the mighty of the land; {17:14} that the
kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping
his covenant it might stand. {17:15} But he rebelled against him in sending his
ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. shall
he prosper? shall he escape that does such things? shall he break the covenant,
and yet escape? {17:16} As I live, said the Lord Yahweh, surely in the place
where the king dwells that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose
covenant he brake, even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die. {17:17}
Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company help him in the
war, when they cast up mounds and build forts, to cut off many persons. {17:18}
For he has despised the oath by breaking the covenant; and behold, he had given
his hand, and yet has done all these things; he shall not escape. {17:19}
Therefore thus said the Lord Yahweh: As I live, surely mine oath that he has
despised, and my covenant that he has broken, I will even bring it upon his own
head. {17:20} And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my
snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will enter into judgment with him
there for his trespass that he has trespassed against me. {17:21} And all his
fugitives in all his bands shall fall by the sword, and they that remain shall
be scattered toward every wind: and you shall know that I, Yahweh, have spoken
it. {17:22} Thus said the Lord Yahweh: I will also take of the lofty top of the
cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the topmost of its young twigs a
tender one, and I will plant it upon a high and lofty mountain: {17:23} in the
mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it; and it shall bring forth
boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and under it shall dwell all
birds of every wing; in the shade of the branches of it shall they dwell.
{17:24} And all the trees of the field shall know that I, Yahweh, have brought
down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree,
and have made the dry tree to flourish; I, Yahweh, have spoken and have done
it.
{O26)18} Ezekiel 18. {18:1} The word of Yahweh came unto me
again, saying, {18:2} What mean you, that you use this proverb concerning the
land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's
teeth are set on edge? {18:3} As I live, said the Lord Yahweh, you shall not
have [occasion] any more to use this proverb in Israel. {18:4} Behold, all
souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine:
the soul that sins, it shall die. {18:5} But if a man be just, and do that
which is lawful and right, {18:6} and has not eaten upon the mountains, neither
has lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither has defiled
his neighbor's wife, neither has come near to a woman in her impurity, {18:7}
and has not wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken
nothing by robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the
naked with a garment; {18:8} he that has not given forth upon interest, neither
has taken any increase, that has withdrawn his hand from works against law, has
executed true justice between man and man, {18:9} has walked in my statutes,
and has kept mine ordinances, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live,
said the Lord Yahweh. {18:10} If he beget a son that is a robber, a shedder of
blood, and that does any one of these things, {18:11} and that doesn't any of
those [duties], but even has eaten upon the mountains, and defiled his
neighbor's wife, {18:12} has wronged the poor and needy, has taken by robbery,
has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has
committed abomination, {18:13} has given forth upon interest, and has taken
increase; shall he then live? he shall not live: he has done all these
abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him. {18:14} Now,
lo, if he beget a son, that sees all his father's sins, which he has done, and
fears, and doesn't such like; {18:15} that has not eaten upon the mountains,
neither has lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, has not
defiled his neighbor's wife, {18:16} neither has wronged any, has not taken
anything to pledge, neither has taken by robbery, but has given his bread to
the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment; {18:17} that has
withdrawn his hand from the poor, that has not received interest nor increase,
has executed mine ordinances, has walked in my statutes; he shall not die for
the works [done] against law of his father, he shall surely live. {18:18} As
for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, robbed his brother, and did that
which is not good among his people, behold, he shall die in his works against
law. {18:19} yet say you, Therefore does not the son bear the works against law
of the father? when the son has done that which is lawful and right, and has
kept all my statutes, and has done them, he shall surely live. {18:20} The soul
that sins, it shall die: the son shall not bear the works against law of the
father, neither shall the father bear the works against law of the son; the
righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the
wicked shall be upon him. {18:21} But if the wicked turn from all his sins that
he has committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and
right, he shall surely live, he shall not die. {18:22} None of his
transgression of the law that he has committed shall be remembered against him:
in his righteousness that he has done he shall live. {18:23} Have I any
pleasure in the death of the wicked? said the Lord Yahweh; and not rather that
he should return from his way, and live? {18:24} But when the righteous turns
away from his righteousness, and commits works against law, and does according
to all the abominations that the wicked man does, shall he live? None of his
righteous deeds that he has done shall be remembered: in his trespass that he
has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them shall he die.
{18:25} yet you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of
Israel: Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal? {18:26} When the
righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits works against law,
and dies therein; in his works against law that he has done shall he die.
{18:27} Again, when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has
committed, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul
alive. {18:28} Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgression
of the law that he has committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
{18:29} yet said the house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not equal. O house
of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways unequal? {18:30} Therefore
I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, said the
Lord Yahweh. Return you, and turn yourselves from all your transgression of the
law; so works against law shall not be your ruin. {18:31} Cast away from you
all your transgression of the law, wherein you have transgressed; and make you
a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, O house of Israel? {18:32}
For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dies, said the Lord Yahweh:
Therefore turn yourselves, and live.
{O26)19} Ezekiel 19. {19:1} Furthermore, take you up a
lamentation for the princes of Israel, {19:2} and say, What was your mother? A
lioness: she couched among lions, in the midst of the young lions she nourished
her whelps. {19:3} And she brought up one of her whelps: he became a young
lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men. {19:4} The nations
also heard of him; he was taken in their pit; and they brought him with hooks
unto the land of Egypt. {19:5} Now when she saw that she had waited, and her
hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.
{19:6} And he went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion, and he
learned to catch the prey; he devoured men. {19:7} And he knew their palaces,
and laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fullness there,
because of the noise of his roaring. {19:8} Then the nations set against him on
every side from the provinces; and they spread their net over him; he was taken
in their pit. {19:9} And they put him in a cage with hooks, and brought him to
the king of Babylon; they brought him into strongholds, that his voice should
no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel. {19:10} Your mother was like a
vine, in your blood, planted by the waters: it was fruitful and full of
branches by reason of many waters. {19:11} And it had strong rods for the
Scepters of them that bare rule, and their stature was exalted among the thick
boughs, and they were seen in their height with the multitude of their
branches. {19:12} But it was plucked up in fury, it was cast down to the
ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit: its strong rods were broken off
and withered; the fire consumed them. {19:13} And now it is planted in the
wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land. {19:14} And fire is gone out of the rods
of its branches, it has devoured its fruit, so that there is in it no strong
rod to be a Scepter to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a
lamentation.
{O26)20} Ezekiel 20. {20:1} And it came to pass in the seventh
year, in the fifth [moon], the tenth [day] of the moon, that certain of the elders
of Israel came to inquire of Yahweh, and sat before me. {20:2} And the word of Yahweh
came unto me, saying, {20:3} Son of man, speak unto the elders of Israel, and
say unto them, Thus said the Lord Yahweh: Is it to inquire of me that you are
come? As I live, said the Lord Yahweh, I will not be inquired of by you. {20:4}
Will you judge them, son of man, will you judge them? Cause them to know the
abominations of their fathers; {20:5} and say unto them, Thus said the Lord Yahweh:
In the day when I chose Israel, and swore unto the seed of the house of Jacob,
and made myself known unto them in the land of Egypt, when I swore unto them,
saying, I am Yahweh your God; {20:6} in that day I swore unto them, to bring
them forth out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for
them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands. {20:7} And
I said unto them, Cast you away every man the abominations of his eyes, and
defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am Yahweh your God. {20:8} But
they rebelled against me, and would not hear unto me; they did not every man
cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of
Egypt. Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them, to accomplish my anger
against them in the midst of the land of Egypt. {20:9} But I wrought for my
name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, among
which they were, in whose sight I made myself known unto them, in bringing them
forth out of the land of Egypt. {20:10} So I caused them to go forth out of the
land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness. {20:11} And I gave them my
statutes, and showed them mine ordinances, which if a man do, he shall live in
them. {20:12} Furthermore also I gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between me
and them, that they might know that I am Yahweh that sanctifies them. {20:13}
But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not
in my statutes, and they rejected mine ordinances, which if a man keep, he
shall live in them; and my Sabbaths they greatly profaned. Then I said I would
pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to consume them. {20:14} But I
wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the
nations, in whose sight I brought them out. {20:15} Furthermore also I swore
unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I
had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;
{20:16} because they rejected mine ordinances, and walked not in my statutes,
and profaned my Sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols. {20:17}
Nevertheless mine eye spared them, and I destroyed them not, neither did I make
a full end of them in the wilderness. {20:18} And I said unto their children in
the wilderness, Walk you not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe
their ordinances, nor defile yourselves with their idols. {20:19} I am Yahweh
your God: walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them; {20:20}
and hallow my Sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that you
may know that I am Yahweh your God. {20:21} But the children rebelled against
me; they walked not in my statutes, neither kept mine ordinances to do them,
which if a man do, he shall live in them; they profaned my Sabbaths. Then I
said I would pour out my wrath upon them, to accomplish my anger against them
in the wilderness. {20:22} Nevertheless I withdrew my hand, and wrought for my
name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in
whose sight I brought them forth. {20:23} Then I swore unto them in the
wilderness, that I would scatter them among the nations, and disperse them
through the countries; {20:24} because they had not executed mine ordinances, but
had rejected my statutes, and had profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes were
after their fathers' idols. {20:25} Furthermore also I gave them statutes that
were not good, and ordinances wherein they should not live; {20:26} and I
polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through [the
fire] all that opens the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that
they might know that I am Yahweh. {20:27} Therefore, son of man, speak unto the
house of Israel, and say unto them, Thus said the Lord Yahweh: In this
furthermore have your fathers blasphemed me, in that they have committed a
trespass against me. {20:28} For when I had brought them into the land, which I
swore to give unto them, then they saw every high hill, and every thick tree,
and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the
provocation of their offering; there also they made their sweet savor, and they
poured out there their drink-offerings. {20:29} Then I said unto them, What
means the high place whereunto you go? So the name of it is called Bamah unto
this day. {20:30} Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus said the Lord Yahweh:
Do you pollute yourselves after the manner of your fathers? and play you the prostitute
after their abominations? {20:31} and when you offer your gifts, when you make
your sons to pass through the fire, do you pollute yourselves with all your
idols unto this day? and shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I
live, said the Lord Yahweh, I will not be inquired of by you; {20:32} and that
which comes into your mind shall not be at all, in that you say, We will be as
the nations, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone. {20:33}
As I live, said the Lord Yahweh, surely with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched
arm, and with wrath poured out, will I be king over you: {20:34} and I will
bring you out from the peoples, and will gather you out of the countries
wherein you are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm,
and with wrath poured out; {20:35} and I will bring you into the wilderness of
the peoples, and there will I enter into judgment with you face to face.
{20:36} Like as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of
the land of Egypt, so will I enter into judgment with you, said the Lord Yahweh.
{20:37} And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into
the bond of the covenant; {20:38} and I will purge out from among you the
rebels, and them that transgress against me; I will bring them forth out of the
land where they sojourn, but they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and
you shall know that I am Yahweh. {20:39} As for you, O house of Israel, thus
said the Lord Yahweh: Go you, serve every one his idols, and hereafter also, if
you will not hear unto me; but my holy name shall you no more profane with your
gifts, and with your idols. {20:40} For in my holy mountain, in the mountain of
the height of Israel, said the Lord Yahweh, there shall all the house of
Israel, all of them, serve me in the land: there will I accept them, and there
will I require your offerings, and the first-fruits of your oblations, with all
your holy things. {20:41} As a sweet savor will I accept you, when I bring you
out from the peoples, and gather you out of the countries wherein you have been
scattered; and I will be sanctified in you in the sight of the nations. {20:42}
And you shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall bring you into the land of
Israel, into the country which I swore to give unto your fathers. {20:43} And
there shall you remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein you have
polluted yourselves; and you shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for all
your evils that you have committed. {20:44} And you shall know that I am Yahweh,
when I have dealt with you for my name's sake, not according to your evil ways,
nor according to your corrupt doings, O you house of Israel, said the Lord Yahweh.
{20:45} And the word of Yahweh came unto me, saying, {20:46} Son of man, set
your face toward the south, and drop [your word] toward the south, and prophesy
against the forest of the field in the South; {20:47} and say to the forest of
the South, Hear the word of Yahweh: Thus said the Lord Yahweh, Behold, I will
kindle a fire in you, and it shall devour every green tree in you, and every
dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south
to the north shall be burnt thereby. {20:48} And all flesh shall see that I, Yahweh,
have kindled it; it shall not be quenched. {20:49} Then said I, Ah Lord Yahweh!
they say of me, Is he not a speaker of parables?
{O26)21} Ezekiel 21. {21:1} And the word of Yahweh came unto me,
saying, {21:2} Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, and drop [your word]
toward the sanctuaries, and prophesy against the land of Israel; {21:3} and say
to the land of Israel, Thus said Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, and will
draw forth my sword out of its sheath, and will cut off from you the righteous
and the wicked. {21:4} Seeing then that I will cut off from you the righteous
and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of its sheath against all
flesh from the south to the north: {21:5} and all flesh shall know that I, Yahweh,
have drawn forth my sword out of its sheath; it shall not return any more.
{21:6} Sigh therefore, you son of man; with the breaking of your loins and with
bitterness shall you sigh before their eyes. {21:7} And it shall be, when they
say unto you, Why do you sigh? that you shall say, Because of the tidings, for
it comes; and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every
spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it comes, and
it shall be done, said the Lord Yahweh. {21:8} And the word of Yahweh came unto
me, saying, {21:9} Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus said Yahweh: Say, A
sword, a sword, it is sharpened, and also furbished; {21:10} it is sharpened
that it may make a slaughter; it is furbished that it may be as lightning:
shall we then make mirth? the rod of my son, it contemn every tree. {21:11} And
it is given to be furbished, that it may be handled: the sword, it is
sharpened, behold, it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the slayer.
{21:12} Cry and wail, son of man; for it is upon my people, it is upon all the
princes of Israel: they are delivered over to the sword with my people; smite
therefore upon your thigh. {21:13} For there is a trial; and what if even the
rod that contemn shall be no more? said the Lord Yahweh. {21:14} you therefore,
son of man, prophesy, and smite your hands together; and let the sword be
doubled the third time, the sword of the deadly wounded: it is the sword of the
great one that is deadly wounded, which enters into their chambers. {21:15} I
have set the threatening sword against all their gates, that their heart may
melt, and their stumbling be multiplied: ah! it is made as lightning, it is
pointed for slaughter. {21:16} Gather you together, go to the right, set
yourself in array, go to the left, wherever your face is set. {21:17} I will also
smite my hands together, and I will cause my wrath to rest: I, Yahweh, have
spoken it. {21:18} The word of Yahweh came unto me again, saying, {21:19} Also,
you son of man, appoint you two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may
come; they twain shall come forth out of one land: and mark out a place, mark
it out at the head of the way to the city. {21:20} you shall appoint a way for
the sword to come to Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and to Judah in Jerusalem
the fortified. {21:21} For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way,
at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he shook the arrows to and fro,
he consulted the teraphim, he looked in the liver. {21:22} In his right hand
was the divination [for] Jerusalem, to set battering rams, to open the mouth in
the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering rams
against the gates, to cast up mounds, to build forts. {21:23} And it shall be
unto them as a false divination in their sight, who have sworn oaths unto them;
but he brings works against law to remembrance, that they may be taken. {21:24}
Therefore thus said the Lord Yahweh: Because you have made your works against
law to be remembered, in that your transgression of the law are uncovered, so
that in all your doings your sins do appear; because that you are come to
remembrance, you shall be taken with the hand. {21:25} And you, O deadly
wounded wicked one, the prince of Israel, whose day is come, in the time of the
works against law of the end, {21:26} thus said the Lord Yahweh: Remove the
miter, and take off the crown; this [shall be] no more the same; exalt that
which is low, and abase that which is high. {21:27} I will overturn, overturn,
overturn it: this also shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I
will give it [him]. {21:28} And you, son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus said
the Lord Yahweh concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning their
reproach; and say you, A sword, a sword is drawn, for the slaughter it is
furbished, to cause it to devour, that it may be as lightning; {21:29} while
they see for you false visions, while they divine lies unto you, to lay you
upon the necks of the wicked that are deadly wounded, whose day is come in the
time of the works against law of the end. {21:30} Cause it to return into its
sheath. In the place where you was created, in the land of your birth, will I
judge you. {21:31} And I will pour out mine indignation upon you; I will blow
upon you with the fire of my wrath; and I will deliver you into the hand of
brutish men, skilful to destroy. {21:32} you shall be for fuel to the fire;
your blood shall be in the midst of the land; you shall be no more remembered:
for I, Yahweh, have spoken it.
{O26)22} Ezekiel 22. {22:1} Furthermore the word of Yahweh came
unto me, saying, {22:2} And you, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the
bloody city? then cause her to know all her abominations. {22:3} And you shall
say, Thus said the Lord Yahweh: A city that sheds blood in the midst of her,
that her time may come, and that makes idols against herself to defile her!
{22:4} you are become guilty in your blood that you have shed, and are defiled
in your idols which you have made; and you have caused your days to draw near,
and are come even unto your years: therefore have I made you a reproach unto
the nations, and a mocking to all the countries. {22:5} Those that are near,
and those that are far from you, shall mock you, you infamous one [and] full of
tumult. {22:6} Behold, the princes of Israel, every one according to his power,
have been in you to shed blood. {22:7} In you have they set light by father and
mother; in the midst of you have they dealt by oppression with the alien; in
you have they wronged the fatherless and the widow. {22:8} you have despised my
holy things, and have profaned my Sabbaths. {22:9} Slanderous men have been in
you to shed blood; and in you they have eaten upon the mountains: in the midst
of you they have committed lewdness. {22:10} In you have they uncovered their
fathers' nakedness; in you have they humbled her that was unclean in her
impurity. {22:11} And one has committed abomination with his neighbor's wife;
and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law; and another in you has
humbled his sister, his father's daughter. {22:12} In you have they taken
bribes to shed blood; you have taken interest and increase, and you have
greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me, said
the Lord Yahweh. {22:13} Behold, therefore, I have smitten my hand at your
dishonest gain which you have made, and at your blood which has been in the
midst of you. {22:14} Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong, in
the days that I shall deal with you? I, Yahweh, have spoken it, and will do it.
{22:15} And I will scatter you among the nations, and disperse you through the
countries; and I will consume your filthiness out of you. {22:16} And you shall
be profaned in yourself, in the sight of the nations; and you shall know that I
am Yahweh. {22:17} And the word of Yahweh came unto me, saying, {22:18} Son of
man, the house of Israel is become dross unto me: all of them are brass and tin
and iron and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are the dross of silver.
{22:19} Therefore thus said the Lord Yahweh: Because you are all become dross,
therefore, behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem. {22:20} As
they gather silver and brass and iron and lead and tin into the midst of the
furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it; so will I gather you in mine
anger and in my wrath, and I will lay you there, and melt you. {22:21} behold,
I will gather you, and blow upon you with the fire of my wrath, and you shall
be melted in the midst there. {22:22} As silver is melted in the midst of the
furnace, so shall you be melted in the midst there; and you shall know that I, Yahweh,
have poured out my wrath upon you. {22:23} And the word of Yahweh came unto me,
saying, {22:24} Son of man, say unto her, you are a land that is not cleansed,
nor rained upon in the day of indignation. {22:25} There is a conspiracy of her
prophets in the midst there, like a roaring lion ravening the prey: they have
devoured souls; they take treasure and precious things; they have made her
widows many in the midst there. {22:26} Her priests have done violence to my
law, and have profaned my holy things: they have made no distinction between
the holy and the common, neither have they caused men to discern between the
unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am
profaned among them. {22:27} Her princes in the midst of it are like wolves
ravening the prey, to shed blood, [and] to destroy souls, that they may get
dishonest gain. {22:28} And her prophets have daubed for them with un-tempered
[mortar], seeing false visions, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus said
the Lord Yahweh, when Yahweh has not spoken. {22:29} The people of the land
have used oppression, and exercised robbery; behold, they have vexed the poor
and needy, and have oppressed the alien wrongfully. {22:30} And I sought for a
man among them, that should build up the wall, and stand in the gap before me
for the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found none. {22:31} Therefore
have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the
fire of my wrath: their own way have I brought upon their heads, said the Lord Yahweh.
{O26)23} Ezekiel 23. {23:1} The word of Yahweh came again unto
me, saying, {23:2} Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one
mother: {23:3} and they played the prostitute in Egypt; they played the prostitute
in their youth; there were their breasts pressed, and there was handled the
bosom of their virginity. {23:4} And the names of them were Oholah the elder,
and Oholibah her sister: and they became mine, and they bare sons and
daughters. And as for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem Oholibah.
{23:5} And Oholah played the prostitute when she was mine; and she doted on her
lovers, on the Assyrians [her] neighbors, {23:6} who were clothed with blue,
governors and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon
horses. {23:7} And she bestowed her prostitutions upon them, the choicest men
of Assyria all of them; and on whom so ever she doted, with all their idols she
defiled herself. {23:8} Neither has she left her prostitutions since [the days
of] Egypt; for in her youth they lay with her, and they handled the bosom of
her virginity; and they poured out their prostitution upon her. {23:9}
Therefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the
Assyrians, upon whom she doted. {23:10} These uncovered her nakedness; they
took her sons and her daughters; and her they slew with the sword: and she
became a byword among women; for they executed judgments upon her. {23:11} And her
sister Oholibah saw this, yet was she more corrupt in her doting than she, and
in her prostitutions which were more than the prostitutions of her sister.
{23:12} She doted upon the Assyrians, governors and rulers, [her] neighbors,
clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable
young men. {23:13} And I saw that she was defiled; they both took one way.
{23:14} And she increased her prostitutions; for she saw men portrayed upon the
wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion, {23:15} girded with
girdles upon their loins, with flowing turbans upon their heads, all of them
princes to look upon, after the likeness of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the
land of their nativity. {23:16} And as soon as she saw them she doted upon
them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea. {23:17} And the Babylonians
came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their prostitution,
and she was polluted with them, and her soul was alienated from them. {23:18}
So she uncovered her prostitutions, and uncovered her nakedness: then my soul
was alienated from her, like as my soul was alienated from her sister. {23:19}
yet she multiplied her prostitutions, remembering the days of her youth,
wherein she had played the prostitute in the land of Egypt. {23:20} And she
doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose
issue is like the issue of horses. {23:21} Thus you call to remembrance the
lewdness of your youth, in the handling of your bosom by the Egyptians for the
breasts of your youth. {23:22} Therefore, O Oholibah, thus said the Lord Yahweh:
Behold, I will raise up your lovers against you, from whom your soul is
alienated, and I will bring them against you on every side: {23:23} the
Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, [and] all the
Assyrians with them; desirable young men, governors and rulers all of them,
princes and men of renown, all of them riding upon horses. {23:24} And they
shall come against you with weapons, chariots, and wagons, and with a company
of peoples; they shall set themselves against you with buckler and shield and
helmet round about; and I will commit the judgment unto them, and they shall
judge you according to their judgments. {23:25} And I will set my jealousy
against you, and they shall deal with you in fury; they shall take away your
nose and your ears; and your residue shall fall by the sword: they shall take
your sons and your daughters; and your residue shall be devoured by the fire.
{23:26} They shall also strip you of your clothes, and take away your fair
jewels. {23:27} Thus will I make your lewdness to cease from you, and your prostitution
[brought] from the land of Egypt; so that you shall not lift up your eyes unto
them, nor remember Egypt any more. {23:28} For thus said the Lord Yahweh:
Behold, I will deliver you into the hand of them whom you hate, into the hand
of them from whom your soul is alienated; {23:29} and they shall deal with you
in hatred, and shall take away all your labor, and shall leave you naked and
bare; and the nakedness of your prostitutions shall be uncovered, both your
lewdness and your prostitutions. {23:30} These things shall be done unto you,
for that you have played the prostitute after the nations, and because you are
polluted with their idols. {23:31} you have walked in the way of your sister;
therefore will I give her cup into your hand. {23:32} Thus said the Lord Yahweh:
you shall drink of your sister's cup, which is deep and large; you shall be
laughed to scorn and had in derision; it contained much. {23:33} you shall be
filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and
desolation, with the cup of your sister Samaria. {23:34} you shall even drink
it and drain it out, and you shall gnaw the shreds there, and shall tear your
breasts; for I have spoken it, said the Lord Yahweh. {23:35} Therefore thus
said the Lord Yahweh: Because you have forgotten me, and cast me behind your
back, therefore bear you also your lewdness and your prostitutions. {23:36} Yahweh
said furthermore unto me: Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? then
declare unto them their abominations. {23:37} For they have committed adultery,
and blood is in their hands; and with their idols have they committed adultery;
and they have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass through
[the fire] unto they to be devoured. {23:38} Furthermore this they have done
unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my
Sabbaths. {23:39} For when they had slain their children to their idols, then
they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus have they
done in the midst of my house. {23:40} And furthermore you have sent for men
that come from far, unto whom a messenger was sent, and, lo, they came; for
whom you did wash yourself, paint your eyes, and deck yourself with ornaments,
{23:41} and sit upon a stately bed, with a table prepared before it, whereupon
you did set mine incense and mine oil. {23:42} And the voice of a multitude
being at ease was with her: and with men of the common sort were brought
drunkards from the wilderness; and they put bracelets upon the hands of them
[twain], and beautiful crowns upon their heads. {23:43} Then said I of her that
was old in adulteries, Now will they play the prostitute with her, and she
[with them]. {23:44} And they went in unto her, as they go in unto a prostitute:
so went they in unto Oholah and unto Oholibah, the lewd women. {23:45} And
righteous men, they shall judge them with the judgment of adulteresses, and
with the judgment of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and
blood is in their hands. {23:46} For thus said the Lord Yahweh: I will bring up
a company against them, and will give them to be tossed to and fro and robbed.
{23:47} And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with
their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their
houses with fire. {23:48} Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land,
that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness. {23:49} And they
shall recompense your lewdness upon you, and you shall bear the sins of your
idols; and you shall know that I am the Lord Yahweh.
{O26)24} Ezekiel 24. {24:1} Again, in the ninth year, in the tenth
moon, in the tenth [day] of the moon, the word of Yahweh came unto me, saying,
{24:2} Son of man, write you the name of the day, [even] of this selfsame day:
the king of Babylon drew close unto Jerusalem this selfsame day. {24:3} And
utter a parable unto the rebellious house, and say unto them, Thus said the
Lord Yahweh, Set on the caldron, set it on, and also pour water into it: {24:4}
gather the pieces of it into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the
shoulder; fill it with the choice bones. {24:5} Take the choice of the flock,
and also a pile [of wood] for the bones under [the caldron]; make it boil well;
behold, let the bones of it be boiled in the midst of it. {24:6} Therefore thus
said the Lord Yahweh: A curse to the bloody city, to the caldron whose rust is
therein, and whose rust is not gone out of it! take out of it piece after
piece; No lot is fallen upon it. {24:7} For her blood is in the midst of her;
she set it upon the bare rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it
with dust. {24:8} That it may cause wrath to come up to take vengeance, I have
set her blood upon the bare rock, that it should not be covered. {24:9}
Therefore thus said the Lord Yahweh: A curse to the bloody city! I also will
make the pile great. {24:10} Heap on the wood, make the fire hot, boil well the
flesh, and make thick the broth, and let the bones be burned. {24:11} Then set
it empty upon the coals there, that it may be hot, and the brass of it may
burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the rust of it
may be consumed. {24:12} She has wearied [herself] with toil; yet her great
rust goes not forth out of her; her rust [goes not forth] by fire. {24:13} In
your filthiness is lewdness: because I have cleansed you and you was not
cleansed, you shall not be cleansed from your filthiness any more, till I have
caused my wrath toward you to rest. {24:14} I, Yahweh, have spoken it: it shall
come to pass, and I will do it: I will not go back, neither will I spare,
neither will I repent; according to your ways, and according to your doings,
shall they judge you, said the Lord Yahweh. {24:15} Also the word of Yahweh
came unto me, saying, {24:16} Son of man, behold, I take away from you the
desire of your eyes with a stroke: yet you shall neither grieve nor weep,
neither shall your tears run down. {24:17} Sigh, but not aloud, make no
grievingfor the dead; bind your head tire upon you, and put your shoes upon
your feet, and cover not your lips, and eat not the bread of men. {24:18} So I
spoke unto the people in the morning; and at even my wife died; and I did in
the morning as I was commanded. {24:19} And the people said unto me, Will you
not tell us what these things are to us, that you do so? {24:20} Then I said
unto them, The word of Yahweh came unto me, saying, {24:21} Speak unto the
house of Israel, Thus said the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will profane my
sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and that which
your soul pities; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind
shall fall by the sword. {24:22} And you shall do as I have done: you shall not
cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men. {24:23} And your tires shall be upon
your heads, and your shoes upon your feet: you shall not grieve nor weep; but
you shall pine away in your iniquities, and moan one toward another. {24:24}
Thus shall Ezekiel be unto you a sign; according to all that he has done shall
you do: when this comes, then shall you know that I am the Lord Yahweh. {24:25}
And you, son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their
strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon
they set their heart, their sons and their daughters, {24:26} that in that day
he that escapes shall come unto you, to cause you to hear it with your ears?
{24:27} In that day shall your mouth be opened to him that is escaped, and you
shall speak, and be no more dumb: so shall you be a sign unto them; and they
shall know that I am Yahweh.
{O26)25} Ezekiel 25. {25:1} And the word of Yahweh came unto me,
saying, {25:2} Son of man, set your face toward the children of Ammon, and
prophesy against them: {25:3} and say unto the children of Ammon, Hear the word
of the Lord Yahweh: Thus said the Lord Yahweh, Because you said, Aha, against
my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it was
made desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity:
{25:4} therefore, behold, I will deliver you to the children of the east for a
possession, and they shall set their encampments in you, and make their
dwellings in you; they shall eat your fruit, and they shall drink your milk.
{25:5} And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the children of Ammon a
couching-place for flocks: and you shall know that I am Yahweh. {25:6} For thus
said the Lord Yahweh: Because you have clapped your hands, and stamped with the
feet, and rejoiced with all the despite of your soul against the land of
Israel; {25:7} therefore, behold, I have stretched out my hand upon you, and
will deliver you for a spoil to the nations; and I will cut you off from the
peoples, and I will cause you to perish out of the countries: I will destroy
you; and you shall know that I am Yahweh. {25:8} Thus said the Lord Yahweh:
Because that Moab and Seir do say, Behold, the house of Judah is like unto all
the nations; {25:9} therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the
cities, from his cities which are on his frontiers, the glory of the country,
Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon, and Kiriathaim, {25:10} unto the children of the
east, [to go] against the children of Ammon; and I will give them for a
possession, that the children of Ammon may not be remembered among the nations.
{25:11} and I will execute judgments upon Moab; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
{25:12} Thus said the Lord Yahweh: Because that Edom has dealt against the
house of Judah by taking vengeance, and has greatly offended, and revenged
himself upon them; {25:13} therefore thus said the Lord Yahweh, I will stretch
out my hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make
it desolate from Teman; even unto Dedan shall they fall by the sword. {25:14}
And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel; and they
shall do in Edom according to mine anger and according to my wrath; and they
shall know my vengeance, said the Lord Yahweh. {25:15} Thus said the Lord Yahweh:
Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with
despite of soul to destroy with perpetual enmity; {25:16} therefore thus said
the Lord Yahweh, Behold, I will stretch out my hand upon the Philistines, and I
will cut off the Cherethites, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast. {25:17}
And I will execute great vengeance upon them with wrathful rebukes; and they
shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them.
{O26)26} Ezekiel 26. {26:1} And it came to pass in the eleventh
year, in the first [day] of the moon, that the word of Yahweh came unto me,
saying, {26:2} Son of man, because that Tyre has said against Jerusalem, Aha,
she is broken [that was] the gate of the peoples; she is turned unto me; I
shall be replenished, now that she is laid waste: {26:3} therefore thus said
the Lord Yahweh, Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and will cause many nations
to come up against you, as the sea causes its waves to come up. {26:4} And they
shall destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers: I will also scrape
her dust from her, and make her a bare rock. {26:5} She shall be a place for the
spreading of nets in the midst of the sea; for I have spoken it, said the Lord Yahweh;
and she shall become a spoil to the nations. {26:6} And her daughters that are
in the field shall be slain with the sword: and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
{26:7} For thus said the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will bring upon Tyre
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, from the north, with horses, and
with chariots, and with horsemen, and a company, and much people. {26:8} He
shall slay with the sword your daughters in the field; and he shall make forts
against you, and cast up a mound against you, and raise up the buckler against
you. {26:9} And he shall set his battering engines against your walls, and with
his axes he shall break down your towers. {26:10} By reason of the abundance of
his horses their dust shall cover you: your walls shall shake at the noise of
the horsemen, and of the wagons, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into
your gates, as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach. {26:11} With the
hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all your streets; he shall slay your
people with the sword; and the pillars of your strength shall go down to the
ground. {26:12} And they shall make a spoil of your riches, and make a prey of
your merchandise; and they shall break down your walls, and destroy your
pleasant houses; and they shall lay your stones and your timber and your dust
in the midst of the waters. {26:13} And I will cause the noise of your songs to
cease; and the sound of your harps shall be no more heard. {26:14} And I will
make you a bare rock; you shall be a place for the spreading of nets; you shall
be built no more: for I Yahweh have spoken it, said the Lord Yahweh. {26:15}
Thus said the Lord Yahweh to Tyre: shall not the isles shake at the sound of
your fall, when the wounded groan, when the slaughter is made in the midst of
you? {26:16} Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their
thrones, and lay aside their robes, and strip off their broidered garments:
they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit upon the ground,
and shall tremble every moment, and be astonished at you. {26:17} And they
shall take up a lamentation over you, and say to you, How are you destroyed,
that was inhabited by seafaring men, the renowned city, that was strong in the
sea, she and her inhabitants, that caused their terror to be on all that dwelt
there! {26:18} Now shall the isles tremble in the day of your fall; behold, the
isles that are in the sea shall be dismayed at your departure. {26:19} For thus
said the Lord Yahweh: When I shall make you a desolate city, like the cities
that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep upon you, and the great
waters shall cover you; {26:20} then will I bring you down with them that
descend into the pit, to the people of old time, and will make you to dwell in
the nether parts of the earth, in the places that are desolate of old, with
them that go down to the pit, that you be not inhabited; and I will set glory
in the land of the living: {26:21} I will make you a terror, and you shall no
more have any being; though you be sought for, yet shall you never be found
again, said the Lord Yahweh.
{O26)27} Ezekiel 27. {27:1} The word of Yahweh came again unto
me, saying, {27:2} And you, son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre; {27:3}
and say unto Tyre, O you that dwells at the entry of the sea, that are the
merchant of the peoples unto many isles, thus said the Lord Yahweh: you, O
Tyre, have said, I am perfect in beauty. {27:4} Your borders are in the heart
of the seas; your builders have perfected your beauty. {27:5} They have made
all your planks of fir-trees from Senir; they have taken a cedar from Lebanon
to make a mast for you. {27:6} Of the oaks of Bashan have they made your oars;
they have made your benches of ivory inlaid in boxwood, from the isles of
Kittim. {27:7} Of fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was your sail, that
it might be to you for an ensign; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was
your awning. {27:8} The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers: your
wise men, O Tyre, were in you, they were your pilots. {27:9} The old men of
Gebal and the wise men of it were in you your caulkers: all the ships of the
sea with their mariners were in you to deal in your merchandise. {27:10} Persia
and Lud and Put were in your army, your men of war: they hanged the shield and
helmet in you; they set forth your comeliness. {27:11} The men of Arvad with
your army were upon your walls round about, and valorous men were in your
towers; they hanged their shields upon your walls round about; they have
perfected your beauty. {27:12} Tarshish was your merchant by reason of the
multitude of all kinds of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded
for your wares. {27:13} Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were your traffickers;
they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass for your merchandise.
{27:14} They of the house of Togarmah traded for your wares with horses and
war-horses and mules. {27:15} The men of Dedan were your traffickers; many
isles were the mare of your hand: they brought you in exchange horns of ivory
and ebony. {27:16} Syria was your merchant by reason of the multitude of your
handiworks: they traded for your wares with emeralds, purple, and broidered work,
and fine linen, and coral, and rubies. {27:17} Judah, and the land of Israel,
they were your traffickers: they traded for your merchandise wheat of Minnith,
and pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm. {27:18} Damascus was your merchant
for the multitude of your handiworks, by reason of the multitude of all kinds
of riches, with the wine of Helbon, and white wool. {27:19} Vedan and Javan
traded with yarn for your wares: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were among
your merchandise. {27:20} Dedan was your trafficker in precious cloths for
riding. {27:21} Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they were the merchants
of your hand; in lambs, and rams, and goats, in these were they your merchants.
{27:22} The traffickers of Sheba and Raamah, they were your traffickers; they
traded for your wares with the chief of all spices, and with all precious
stones, and gold. {27:23} Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traffickers of Sheba,
Asshur [and] Chilmad, were your traffickers. {27:24} These were your
traffickers in choice wares, in wrappings of blue and broidered work, and in
chests of rich apparel, bound with cords and made of cedar, among your
merchandise. {27:25} The ships of Tarshish were your caravans for your
merchandise: and you was replenished, and made very glorious in the heart of
the seas. {27:26} Your rowers have brought you into great waters: the east wind
has broken you in the heart of the seas. {27:27} Your riches, and your wares,
your merchandise, your mariners, and your pilots, your caulkers, and the dealers
in your merchandise, and all your men of war, that are in you, with all your
company which is in the midst of you, shall fall into the heart of the seas in
the day of your ruin. {27:28} At the sound of the cry of your pilots the
suburbs shall shake. {27:29} And all that handled the oar, the mariners, [and]
all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships; they shall stand
upon the land, {27:30} and shall cause their voice to be heard over you, and
shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow
themselves in the ashes: {27:31} and they shall make themselves bald for you,
and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for you in bitterness of soul
with bitter grieveing. {27:32} And in their wailing they shall take up a
lamentation for you, and lament over you, [saying], Who is there like Tyre,
like her that is brought to silence in the midst of the sea? {27:33} When your
wares went forth out of the seas, you filled many peoples; you did enrich the
kings of the earth with the multitude of your riches and of your merchandise.
{27:34} In the time that you was broken by the seas in the depths of the
waters, your merchandise and all your company did fall in the midst of you.
{27:35} All the inhabitants of the isles are astonished at you, and their kings
are horribly afraid; they are troubled in their countenance. {27:36} The
merchants among the peoples hiss at you; you are become a terror, and you shall
nevermore have any being.
{O26)28} Ezekiel 28. {28:1} The word of Yahweh came again unto
me, saying, {28:2} Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyre, Thus said the Lord Yahweh:
Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, I am a god, I sit in the
seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet you are man, and not God, though you
did set your heart as the heart of God;- {28:3} behold, you are wiser than
Daniel; there is no secret that is hidden from you; {28:4} by your wisdom and
by your understanding you have gotten you riches, and have gotten gold and
silver into your treasures; {28:5} by your great wisdom [and] by your traffic
have you increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your
riches;- {28:6} therefore thus said the Lord Yahweh: Because you have set your
heart as the heart of God, {28:7} therefore, behold, I will bring strangers
upon you, the terrible of the nations; and they shall draw their swords against
the beauty of your wisdom, and they shall defile your brightness. {28:8} They
shall bring you down to the pit; and you shall die the death of them that are
slain, in the heart of the seas. {28:9} Will you yet say before him that slays
you, I am God? but you are man, and not God, in the hand of him that wounds
you. {28:10} you shall die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers:
for I have spoken it, said the Lord Yahweh. {28:11} Furthermore the word of Yahweh
came unto me, saying, {28:12} Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king
of Tyre, and say unto him, Thus said the Lord Yahweh: you seal up the sum, full
of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. {28:13} you was in Eden, the garden of God;
every precious stone was your covering, the sardius, the topaz, and the
diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and
the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of your tabrets and of your pipes was
in you; in the day that you was created they were prepared. {28:14} you was the
anointed cherub that covers: and I set you, [so that] you was upon the holy
mountain of God; you have walked up and down in the midst of the stones of
fire. {28:15} you was perfect in your ways from the day that you was created,
till [illegal] works outside law was found in you. {28:16} By the abundance of
your traffic they filled the midst of you with violence, and you have sinned:
therefore have I cast you as profane out of the mountain of God; and I have
destroyed you, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. {28:17}
Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; you have corrupted your wisdom
by reason of your brightness: I have cast you to the ground; I have laid you
before kings, that they may behold you. {28:18} By the multitude of your
lawless works, in the [illegal] works ouside law of your traffic, you have
profaned your sanctuaries; therefore have I brought forth a fire from the midst
of you; it has devoured you, and I have turned you to ashes upon the earth in
the sight of all them that behold you. {28:19} All they that know you among the
peoples shall be astonished at you: you are become a terror, and you shall nevermore
have any being. {28:20} And the word of Yahweh came unto me, saying, {28:21}
Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, and prophesy against it, {28:22} and
say, Thus said the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, O Sidon; and I will
be glorified in the midst of you; and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I
shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her. {28:23}
For I will send pestilence into her, and blood into her streets; and the
wounded shall fall in the midst of her, with the sword upon her on every side;
and they shall know that I am Yahweh. {28:24} And there shall be no more a
pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor a hurting thorn of any that are
round about them, that did despite unto them; and they shall know that I am the
Lord Yahweh. {28:25} Thus said the Lord Yahweh: When I shall have gathered the
house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and shall be
sanctified in them in the sight of the nations, then shall they dwell in their
own land which I gave to my servant Jacob. {28:26} And they shall dwell
securely therein; behold, they shall build houses, and plant vineyards, and
shall dwell securely, when I have executed judgments upon all those that do
them despite round about them; and they shall know that I am Yahweh their God.
{O26)29} 29. {29:1} In the tenth year, in the tenth
[moon], in the twelfth [day] of the moon, the word of Yahweh came unto me,
saying, {29:2} Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and
prophesy against him, and against all Egypt; {29:3} speak, and say, Thus said
the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great
monster that lies in the midst of his rivers, that has said, My river is mine
own, and I have made it for myself. {29:4} And I will put hooks in your jaws,
and I will cause the fish of your rivers to stick unto your scales; and I will
bring you up out of the midst of your rivers, with all the fish of your rivers
which stick unto your scales. {29:5} And I will cast you forth into the
wilderness, you and all the fish of your rivers: you shall fall upon the open
field; you shall not be brought together, nor gathered; I have given you for
food to the beasts of the earth and to the birds of the heavens. {29:6} And all
the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am Yahweh, because they have been a
staff of reed to the house of Israel. {29:7} When they took hold of you by your
hand, you did break, and did rend all their shoulders; and when they leaned
upon you, you brake, and made all their loins to be at a stand. {29:8}
Therefore thus said the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will bring a sword upon you, and
will cut off from you man and beast. {29:9} And the land of Egypt shall be a
desolation and a waste; and they shall know that I am Yahweh. Because he has
said, The river is mine, and I have made it; {29:10} therefore, behold, I am
against you, and against your rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt an
utter waste and desolation, from the tower of Seveneh even unto the border of
Ethiopia. {29:11} No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall
pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years. {29:12} And I will
make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of the countries that are
desolate; and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be a
desolation forty years; and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and
will disperse them through the countries. {29:13} For thus said the Lord Yahweh:
At the end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians from the peoples where
they were scattered; {29:14} and I will bring back the captivity of Egypt, and
will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their
birth; and they shall be there a base kingdom. {29:15} It shall be the basest
of the kingdoms; neither shall it any more lift itself up above the nations:
and I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations.
{29:16} And it shall be no more the confidence of the house of Israel, bringing
works against law to remembrance, when they turn to look after them: and they
shall know that I am the Lord Yahweh. {29:17} And it came to pass in the seven
and twentieth year, in the first [moon], in the first [day] of the moon, the
word of Yahweh came unto me, saying, {29:18} Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of
Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyre: every head was
made bald, and every shoulder was worn; yet had he no wages, nor his army, from
Tyre, for the service that he had served against it. {29:19} Therefore thus
said the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar
king of Babylon; and he shall carry off her multitude, and take her spoil, and
take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army. {29:20} I have given him
the land of Egypt as his recompense for which he served, because they wrought
for me, said the Lord Yahweh. {29:21} In that day will I cause a horn to bud
forth unto the house of Israel, and I will give you the opening of the mouth in
the midst of them; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
{O26)30} Ezekiel 30. {30:1} The word of Yahweh came again unto
me, saying, {30:2} Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus said the Lord Yahweh:
Wail you, Alas for the day! {30:3} For the day is near, even the day of Yahweh
is near; it shall be a day of clouds, a time of the nations. {30:4} And a sword
shall come upon Egypt, and anguish shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall
fall in Egypt; and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations
shall be broken down. {30:5} Ethiopia, and Put, and Lud, and all the mingled
people, and Cub, and the children of the land that is in league, shall fall
with them by the sword. {30:6} Thus said Yahweh: They also that uphold Egypt
shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of
Seveneh shall they fall in it by the sword, said the Lord Yahweh. {30:7} And
they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate; and her
cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted. {30:8} And they
shall know at I am Yahweh, when I have set a fire in Egypt, and all her helpers
are destroyed. {30:9} In that day shall messengers go forth from before me in
ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid; and there shall be anguish upon
them, as in the day of Egypt; for, lo, it comes. {30:10} Thus said the Lord Yahweh:
I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease, by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar
king of Babylon. {30:11} He and his people with him, the terrible of the
nations, shall be brought in to destroy the land; and they shall draw their
swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain. {30:12} And I will make
the rivers dry, and will sell the land into the hand of evil men; and I will
make the land desolate, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I, Yahweh,
have spoken it. {30:13} Thus said the Lord Yahweh: I will also destroy the
idols, and I will cause the images to cease from Memphis; and there shall be no
more a prince from the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of
Egypt. {30:14} And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set a fire in Zoan,
and will execute judgments upon No. {30:15} And I will pour my wrath upon Sin,
the stronghold of Egypt; and I will cut off the multitude of No. {30:16} And I
will set a fire in Egypt: Sin shall be in great anguish, and No shall be broken
up; and Memphis [shall have] adversaries in the day-time. {30:17} The young men
of Aven and of Pibessets shall fall by the sword; and these [cities] shall go
into captivity. {30:18} At Tehaphnehes also the day shall withdraw itself, when
I shall break there the yokes of Egypt, and the pride of her power shall cease
in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into
captivity. {30:19} Thus will I execute judgments upon Egypt; and they shall
know that I am Yahweh. {30:20} And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the
first [moon], in the seventh [day] of the moon, that the word of Yahweh came
unto me, saying, {30:21} Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of
Egypt; and, lo, it has not been bound up, to apply [healing] medicines, to put
a bandage to bind it, that it be strong to hold the sword. {30:22} Therefore
thus said the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will
break his arms, the strong [arm], and that which was broken; and I will cause
the sword to fall out of his hand. {30:23} And I will scatter the Egyptians
among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries. {30:24} And I
will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand:
but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he shall groan before him with the
groanings of a deadly wounded man. {30:25} And I will hold up the arms of the
king of Babylon; and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know
that I am Yahweh, when I shall put my sword into the hand of the king of
Babylon, and he shall stretch it out upon the land of Egypt. {30:26} And I will
scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them through the
countries; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
{O26)31} Ezekiel 31. {31:1} And it came to pass in the eleventh
year, in the third [moon], in the first [day] of the moon, that the word of Yahweh
came unto me, saying, {31:2} Son of man, say unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to
his multitude: Whom are you like in your greatness? {31:3} Behold, the Assyrian
was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a forest-like shade, and of
high stature; and its top was among the thick boughs. {31:4} The waters nourished
it, the deep made it to grow: the rivers of it ran round about its plantation;
and it sent out its channels unto all the trees of the field. {31:5} Therefore
its stature was exalted above all the trees of the field; and its boughs were
multiplied, and its branches became long by reason of many waters, when it shot
[them] forth. {31:6} All the birds of the heavens made their nests in its
boughs; and under its branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth
their young; and under its shadow dwelt all great nations. {31:7} Thus was it
fair in its greatness, in the length of its branches; for its root was by many
waters. {31:8} The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it; the fir-trees
were not like its boughs, and the plane-trees were not as its branches; nor was
any tree in the garden of God like unto it in its beauty. {31:9} I made it fair
by the multitude of its branches, so that all the trees of Eden, that were in
the garden of God, envied it. {31:10} Therefore thus said the Lord Yahweh:
Because you are exalted in stature, and he has set his top among the thick
boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height; {31:11} I will even deliver
him into the hand of the mighty one of the nations; he shall surely deal with
him; I have driven him out for his wickedness. {31:12} And strangers, the
terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the
mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are
broken by all the watercourses of the land; and all the peoples of the earth
are gone down from his shadow, and have left him. {31:13} Upon his ruin all the
birds of the heavens shall dwell, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon
his branches; {31:14} to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt
themselves in their stature, neither set their top among the thick boughs, nor
that their mighty ones stand up on their height, [even] all that drink water:
for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the
midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit. {31:15} Thus
said the Lord Yahweh: In the day when he went down to Sheol I caused a
grieveing: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the rivers there; and
the great waters were stayed; and I caused Lebanon to grieve for him, and all
the trees of the field fainted for him. {31:16} I made the nations to shake at
the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to Sheol with them that descend
into the pit; and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that
drink water, were comforted in the nether parts of the earth. {31:17} They also
went down into Sheol with him unto them that are slain by the sword; behold,
they that were his arm, [that] dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the
nations. {31:18} To whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the
trees of Eden? yet shall you be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the
nether parts of the earth: you shall lie in the midst of the uncircumcised,
with them that are slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude,
said the Lord Yahweh.
{O26)32} Ezekiel 32. {32:1} And it came to pass in the twelfth
year, in the twelfth moon, in the first [day] of the moon, that the word of Yahweh
came unto me, saying, {32:2} Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh
king of Egypt, and say unto him, you was likened unto a young lion of the
nations: yet are you as a monster in the seas; and you did break forth with
your rivers, and troubles the waters with your feet, and pollute their rivers.
{32:3} Thus said the Lord Yahweh: I will spread out my net upon you with a
company of many peoples; and they shall bring you up in my net. {32:4} And I
will leave you upon the land, I will cast you forth upon the open field, and
will cause all the birds of the heavens to settle upon you, and I will satisfy
the beasts of the whole earth with you. {32:5} And I will lay your flesh upon
the mountains, and fill the valleys with your height. {32:6} I will also water
with your blood the land wherein you swim, even to the mountains; and the
watercourses shall be full of you. {32:7} And when I shall extinguish you, I
will cover the heavens, and make the stars of it dark; I will cover the sun
with a cloud, and the moon shall not give its light. {32:8} All the bright lights
of heaven will I make dark over you, and set darkness upon your land, said the
Lord Yahweh. {32:9} I will also vex the hearts of many peoples, when I shall
bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries which you have not
known. {32:10} behold, I will make many peoples amazed at you, and their kings
shall be horribly afraid for you, when I shall brandish my sword before them;
and they shall tremble at every moment, every man for his own life, in the day
of your fall. {32:11} For thus said the Lord Yahweh: The sword of the king of
Babylon shall come upon you. {32:12} By the swords of the mighty will I cause
your multitude to fall; the terrible of the nations are they all: and they
shall bring to nothing the pride of Egypt, and all the multitude of it shall be
destroyed. {32:13} I will destroy also all the beasts of it from beside many
waters; neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more, nor the hoofs of
beasts trouble them. {32:14} Then will I make their waters clear, and cause their
rivers to run like oil, said the Lord Yahweh. {32:15} When I shall make the
land of Egypt desolate and waste, a land destitute of that where it was full,
when I shall smite all them that dwell therein, then shall they know that I am Yahweh.
{32:16} This is the lamentation wherewith they shall lament; the daughters of
the nations shall lament with; over Egypt, and over all her multitude, shall
they lament with, said the Lord Yahweh. {32:17} It came to pass also in the
twelfth year, in the fifteenth [day] of the moon, that the word of Yahweh came
unto me, saying, {32:18} Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast
them down, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether
parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit. {32:19} Whom do you
pass in beauty? go down, and be you laid with the uncircumcised. {32:20} They
shall fall in the midst of them that are slain by the sword: she is delivered
to the sword; draw her away and all her multitudes. {32:21} The strong among the
mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of Sheol with them that help him:
they are gone down, they lie still, even the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.
{32:22} Asshur is there and all her company; her graves are round about her;
all of them slain, fallen by the sword; {32:23} whose graves are set in the
uttermost parts of the pit, and her company is round about her grave; all of
them slain, fallen by the sword, who caused terror in the land of the living.
{32:24} There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave; all of them
slain, fallen by the sword, who are gone down uncircumcised into the nether
parts of the earth, who caused their terror in the land of the living, and have
borne their shame with them that go down to the pit. {32:25} They have set her
a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude; her graves are round
about her; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for their terror was
caused in the land of the living, and they have borne their shame with them
that go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of them that are slain. {32:26}
There is Meshech, Tubal, and all their multitude; their graves are round about
them; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for they caused their
terror in the land of the living. {32:27} And they shall not lie with the
mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, that are gone down to Sheol with
their weapons of war, and have laid their swords under their heads, and their
iniquities are upon their bones; for [they were] the terror of the mighty in
the land of the living. {32:28} But you shall be broken in the midst of the
uncircumcised, and shall lie with them that are slain by the sword. {32:29}
There is Edom, her kings and all her princes, who in their might are laid with
them that are slain by the sword: they shall lie with the uncircumcised, and
with them that go down to the pit. {32:30} There are the princes of the north,
all of them, and all the Sidonians, who are gone down with the slain; in the
terror which they caused by their might they are put to shame; and they lie
uncircumcised with them that are slain by the sword, and bear their shame with
them that go down to the pit. {32:31} Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be
comforted over all his multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army, slain by the
sword, said the Lord Yahweh. {32:32} For I have put his terror in the land of
the living; and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised, with them
that are slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, said the Lord Yahweh.
{O26)33} Ezekiel 33. {33:1} And the word of Yahweh came unto me,
saying, {33:2} Son of man, speak to the children of your people, and say unto
them, When I bring the sword upon a land, and the people of the land take a man
from among them, and set him for their watchman; {33:3} if, when he sees the
sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people; {33:4} then
anyone who hears the sound of the trumpet, and takes not warning, if the sword
come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head. {33:5} He heard
the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall be upon him;
whereas if he had taken warning, he would have delivered his soul. {33:6} But
if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be
not warned, and the sword come, and take any person from among them; he is
taken away in his works against law, but his blood will I require at the
watchman's hand. {33:7} So you, son of man, I have set you a watchman unto the
house of Israel; therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning
from me. {33:8} When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, you shall surely die,
and you do not speak to warn the wicked from his way; that wicked man shall die
in his works against law, but his blood will I require at your hand. {33:9}
Nevertheless, if you warn the wicked of his way to turn from it, and he turn
not from his way; he shall die in his works against law, but you have delivered
your soul. {33:10} And you, son of man, say unto the house of Israel: Thus you
speak, saying, Our transgression of the law and our sins are upon us, and we
pine away in them; how then can we live? {33:11} Say unto them, As I live, said
the Lord Yahweh, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the
wicked turn from his way and live: turn you, turn you from your evil ways; for
why will you die, O house of Israel? {33:12} And you, son of man, say unto the
children of your people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver
him in the day of his transgression of the law; and as for the wickedness of
the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turns from his
wickedness; neither shall he that is righteous be able to live thereby in the
day that he sins. {33:13} When I say to the righteous, that he shall surely
live; if he trust to his righteousness, and commit works against law, none of
his righteous deeds shall be remembered; but in his works against law that he
has committed, therein shall he die. {33:14} Again, when I say unto the wicked,
you shall surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and
right; {33:15} if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that which he had
taken by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, committing no works against law;
he shall surely live, he shall not die. {33:16} None of his sins that he has
committed shall be remembered against him: he has done that which is lawful and
right; he shall surely live. {33:17} yet the children of your people say, The
way of the Lord is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal. {33:18}
When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits works against law,
he shall even die therein. {33:19} And when the wicked turns from his
wickedness, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.
{33:20} yet you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O house of Israel, I
will judge you every one after his ways. {33:21} And it came to pass in the
twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth [moon], in the fifth [day] of the
moon, that one that had escaped out of Jerusalem came unto me, saying, The city
is smitten. {33:22} Now the hand of Yahweh had been upon me in the evening,
before he that was escaped came; and he had opened my mouth, until he came to
me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no more dumb. {33:23} And
the word of Yahweh came unto me, saying, {33:24} Son of man, they that inhabit
those waste places in the land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he
inherited the land: but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance.
{33:25} Therefore say unto them, Thus said the Lord Yahweh: you eat with the
blood, and lift up your eyes unto your idols, and shed blood: and shall you
possess the land? {33:26} you stand upon your sword, you work abomination, and
you defile every one his neighbor's wife: and shall you possess the land?
{33:27} Thus shall you say unto them, Thus said the Lord Yahweh: As I live,
surely they that are in the waste places shall fall by the sword; and him that
is in the open field will I give to the beasts to be devoured; and they that
are in the strongholds and in the caves shall die of the pestilence. {33:28}
And I will make the land a desolation and an astonishment; and the pride of her
power shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, so that none
shall pass through. {33:29} Then shall they know that I am Yahweh, when I have
made the land a desolation and an astonishment, because of all their
abominations which they have committed. {33:30} And as for you, son of man, the
children of your people talk of you by the walls and in the doors of the
houses, and speak one to another, every one to his brother, saying, Come, I
pray you, and hear what is the word that comes forth from Yahweh. {33:31} And
they come unto you as the people comes, and they sit before you as my people,
and they hear your words, but do them not; for with their mouth they show much
love, but their heart goes after their gain. {33:32} And, lo, you are unto them
as a very lovely song of one that has a pleasant voice, and can play well on an
instrument; for they hear your words, but they do them not. {33:33} And when
this comes to pass, (behold, it comes,) then shall they know that a prophet has
been among them.
{O26)34} Ezekiel 34. {34:1} And the word of Yahweh came unto me,
saying, {34:2} Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy,
and say unto them, even to the shepherds, Thus said the Lord Yahweh: A curse
unto the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! should not the shepherds
feed the sheep? {34:3} you eat the fat, and you clothe you with the wool, you
kill the fatlings; but you feed not the sheep. {34:4} The diseased have you not
strengthened, neither have you healed that which was sick, neither have you
bound up that which was broken, neither have you brought back that which was
driven away, neither have you sought that which was lost; but with force and
with rigor have you ruled over them. {34:5} And they were scattered, because
there was no shepherd; and they became food to all the beasts of the field, and
were scattered. {34:6} My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon
every high hill: behold, my sheep were scattered upon all the face of the
earth; and there was none that did search or seek [after them]. {34:7}
Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of Yahweh: {34:8} As I live, said the
Lord Yahweh, surely forasmuch as my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became
food to all the beasts of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did
my shepherds search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not
my sheep; {34:9} therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of Yahweh: {34:10}
Thus said the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will
require my sheep at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the sheep;
neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; and I will deliver my
sheep from their mouth, that they may not be food for them. {34:11} For thus
said the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I myself, even I, will search for my sheep, and
will seek them out. {34:12} As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that
he is among his sheep that are scattered abroad, so will I seek out my sheep;
and I will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the
cloudy and dark day. {34:13} And I will bring them out from the peoples, and
gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land; and I
will feed them upon the mountains of Israel, by the watercourses, and in all
the inhabited places of the country. {34:14} I will feed them with good
pasture; and upon the mountains of the height of Israel shall their fold be:
there shall they lie down in a good fold; and on fat pasture shall they feed
upon the mountains of Israel. {34:15} I myself will be the shepherd of my
sheep, and I will cause them to lie down, said the Lord Yahweh. {34:16} I will
seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and
will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick:
but the fat and the strong I will destroy; I will feed them in justice. {34:17}
And as for you, O my flock, thus said the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I judge between
sheep and sheep, the rams and the he-goats. {34:18} Seems it a small thing unto
you to have fed upon the good pasture, but you must tread down with your feet
the residue of your pasture? and to have drunk of the clear waters, but you
must foul the residue with your feet? {34:19} And as for my sheep, they eat
that which you have trodden with your feet, and they drink that which you have
fouled with your feet. {34:20} Therefore thus said the Lord Yahweh unto them:
Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep. {34:21}
Because you thrust with side and with shoulder, and push all the diseased with
your horns, till you have scattered them abroad; {34:22} therefore will I save
my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between sheep and
sheep. {34:23} And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed
them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their
shepherd. {34:24} And I, Yahweh, will be their God, and my servant David prince
among them; I, Yahweh, have spoken it. {34:25} And I will make with them a
covenant of peace, and will cause evil beasts to cease out of the land; and
they shall dwell securely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods. {34:26}
And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will
cause the shower to come down in its season; there shall be showers of
blessing. {34:27} And the tree of the field shall yield its fruit, and the
earth shall yield its increase, and they shall be secure in their land; and
they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have broken the bars of their yoke,
and have delivered them out of the hand of those that made bondmen of them.
{34:28} And they shall no more be a prey to the nations, neither shall the
beasts of the earth devour them; but they shall dwell securely, and none shall
make them afraid. {34:29} And I will raise up unto them a plantation for
renown, and they shall be no more consumed with famine in the land, neither
bear the shame of the nations any more. {34:30} And they shall know that I, Yahweh,
their God am with them, and that they, the house of Israel, are my people, said
the Lord Yahweh. {34:31} And you my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are men,
and I am your God, said the Lord Yahweh.
{O26)35} Ezekiel 35. {35:1} Furthermore the word of Yahweh came
unto me, saying, {35:2} Son of man, set your face against mount Seir, and
prophesy against it, {35:3} and say unto it, Thus said the Lord Yahweh: Behold,
I am against you, O mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you, and
I will make you a desolation and an astonishment. {35:4} I will lay your cities
waste, and you shall be desolate; and you shall know that I am Yahweh. {35:5}
Because you have had a perpetual enmity, and have given over the children of
Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of
the works against law of the end; {35:6} therefore, as I live, said the Lord Yahweh,
I will prepare you unto blood, and blood shall pursue you: since you have not
hated blood, therefore blood shall pursue you. {35:7} Thus will I make mount
Seir an astonishment and a desolation; and I will cut off from it him that
passes through and him that returns. {35:8} And I will fill its mountains with
its slain: in your hills and in your valleys and in all your watercourses shall
they fall that are slain with the sword. {35:9} I will make you a perpetual
desolation, and your cities shall not be inhabited; and you shall know that I
am Yahweh. {35:10} Because you have said, These two nations and these two
countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas Yahweh was there:
{35:11} therefore, as I live, said the Lord Yahweh, I will do according to your
anger, and according to your envy which you have showed out of your hatred
against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I shall judge you.
{35:12} And you shall know that I, Yahweh, have heard all your reviling which
you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid
desolate, they are given us to devour. {35:13} And you have magnified
yourselves against me with your mouth, and have multiplied your words against
me: I have heard it. {35:14} Thus said the Lord Yahweh: When the whole earth
rejoices, I will make you desolate. {35:15} As you did rejoice over the
inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto
you: you shall be desolate, O mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it; and
they shall know that I am Yahweh.
{O26)36} Ezekiel 36. {36:1} And you, son of man, prophesy unto
the mountains of Israel, and say, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of Yahweh.
{36:2} Thus said the Lord Yahweh: Because the enemy has said against you, Aha!
and, The ancient high places are ours in possession; {36:3} therefore prophesy,
and say, Thus said the Lord Yahweh: Because, even because they have made you
desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that you might be a possession
unto the residue of the nations, and you are taken up in the lips of talkers,
and the evil report of the people; {36:4} therefore, you mountains of Israel,
hear the word of the Lord Yahweh: Thus said the Lord Yahweh to the mountains
and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, to the desolate
wastes and to the cities that are forsaken, which are become a prey and
derision to the residue of the nations that are round about; {36:5} therefore
thus said the Lord Yahweh: Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken
against the residue of the nations, and against all Edom, that have appointed
my land unto themselves for a possession with the joy of all their heart, with
despite of soul, to cast it out for a prey. {36:6} Therefore prophesy
concerning the land of Israel, and say unto the mountains and to the hills, to
the watercourses and to the valleys, Thus said the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I have
spoken in my jealousy and in my wrath, because you have borne the shame of the
nations: {36:7} therefore thus said the Lord Yahweh: I have sworn, [saying],
Surely the nations that are round about you, they shall bear their shame.
{36:8} But you, O mountains of Israel, you shall shoot forth your branches, and
yield your fruit to my people Israel; for they are at hand to come. {36:9} For,
behold, I am for you, and I will turn into you, and you shall be tilled and
sown; {36:10} and I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, even
all of it; and the cities shall be inhabited, and the waste places shall be
built; {36:11} and I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall
increase and be fruitful; and I will cause you to be inhabited after your
former estate, and will do better [unto you] than at your beginnings: and you
shall know that I am Yahweh. {36:12} behold, I will cause men to walk upon you,
even my people Israel; and they shall possess you, and you shall be their
inheritance, and you shall no more from here on bereave them of children.
{36:13} Thus said the Lord Yahweh: Because they say unto you, your [land] is a
devourer of men, and has been a bereaver of your nation; {36:14} therefore you
shall devour men no more, neither bereave your nation any more, said the Lord Yahweh;
{36:15} neither will I let you hear any more the shame of the nations, neither
shall you bear the reproach of the peoples any more, neither shall you cause
your nation to stumble any more, said the Lord Yahweh. {36:16} Furthermore the
word of Yahweh came unto me, saying, {36:17} Son of man, when the house of
Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their way and by their
doings: their way before me was as the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity.
{36:18} Therefore I poured out my wrath upon them for the blood which they had
poured out upon the land, and because they had defiled it with their idols;
{36:19} and I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through
the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged
them. {36:20} And when they came unto the nations, where they went, they
profaned my holy name; in that men said of them, These are the people of Yahweh,
and are gone forth out of his land. {36:21} But I had regard for my holy name,
which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations, where they went.
{36:22} Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus said the Lord Yahweh: I do
not [this] for your sake, O house of Israel, but for my holy name, which you
have profaned among the nations, where you went. {36:23} And I will sanctify my
great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned
in the midst of them; and the nations shall know that I am Yahweh, said the
Lord Yahweh, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes. {36:24} For I
will take you from among the nations, and gather you out of all the countries,
and will bring you into your own land. {36:25} And I will sprinkle clean water
upon you, and you shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your
idols, will I cleanse you. {36:26} A new heart also will I give you, and a new
spirit will I put within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your
flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. {36:27} And I will put my Spirit
within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and you shall keep mine
ordinances, and do them. {36:28} And you shall dwell in the land that I gave to
your fathers; and you shall be my people, and I will be your God. {36:29} And I
will save you from all your uncleanness: and I will call for the grain, and
will multiply it, and lay no famine upon you. {36:30} And I will multiply the
fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that you may receive no more
the reproach of famine among the nations. {36:31} Then shall you remember your
evil ways, and your doings that were not good; and you shall loathe yourselves
in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations. {36:32} Nor
for your sake do I [this], said the Lord Yahweh, be it known unto you: be
ashamed and confounded for your ways, O house of Israel. {36:33} Thus said the
Lord Yahweh: In the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will
cause the cities to be inhabited, and the waste places shall be built. {36:34}
And the land that was desolate shall be tilled, whereas it was a desolation in
the sight of all that passed by. {36:35} And they shall say, This land that was
desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and
ruined cities are fortified and inhabited. {36:36} Then the nations that are
left round about you shall know that I, Yahweh, have built the ruined places,
and planted that which was desolate: I, Yahweh, have spoken it, and I will do
it. {36:37} Thus said the Lord Yahweh: For this, furthermore, will I be
inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them: I will increase them
with men like a flock. {36:38} As the flock for sacrifice, as the flock of Jerusalem
in her appointed feasts, so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of
men; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
{O26)37} Ezekiel 37.
{37:1} The hand of Yahweh was upon me, and he brought me out in the
Spirit of Yahweh, and set me down in the midst of the valley; and it was full
of bones. {37:2} And he caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold,
there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry. {37:3}
And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord Yahweh,
you know. {37:4} Again he said unto me, Prophesy over these bones, and say unto
them, O you dry bones, hear the word of Yahweh. {37:5} Thus said the Lord Yahweh
unto these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall
live. {37:6} And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you,
and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live; and you
shall know that I am Yahweh. {37:7} So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as
I prophesied, there was a noise, and, behold, an earthquake; and the bones came
together, bone to its bone. {37:8} And I beheld, and, lo, there were sinews
upon them, and flesh came up, and skin covered them above; but there was no
breath in them. {37:9} Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy,
son of man, and say to the wind, Thus said the Lord Yahweh: Come from the four
winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live. {37:10} So I
prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived,
and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army. {37:11} Then he said
unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they
say, Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are clean cut off.
{37:12} Therefore prophesy, and say unto them, Thus said the Lord Yahweh:
Behold, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, O
my people; and I will bring you into the land of Israel. {37:13} And you shall
know that I am Yahweh, when I have opened your graves, and caused you to come
up out of your graves, O my people. {37:14} And I will put my Spirit in you,
and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land: and you shall know
that I, Yahweh, have spoken it and performed it, said Yahweh. {37:15} The word
of Yahweh came again unto me, saying, {37:16} And you, son of man, take you one
stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his
companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick
of Ephraim, and [for] all the house of Israel his companions: {37:17} and join
them for you one to another into one stick, that they may become one in your
hand. {37:18} And when the children of your people shall speak unto you,
saying, Will you not show us what you meanest by these? {37:19} say unto them,
Thus said the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in
the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his companions; and I will put
them with it, [even] with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they
shall be one in my hand. {37:20} And the sticks whereon you write shall be in
your hand before their eyes. {37:21} And say unto them, Thus said the Lord Yahweh:
Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the nations, where they
are gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own
land: {37:22} and I will make them one nation in the land, upon the mountains
of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all; and they shall be no more
two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all;
{37:23} neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor
with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgression of the law;
but I will save them out of all their dwelling-places, wherein they have
sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their
God. {37:24} And my servant David shall be king over them; and they all shall
have one shepherd: they shall also walk in mine ordinances, and observe my
statutes, and do them. {37:25} And they shall dwell in the land that I have
given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers dwelt; and they shall dwell
therein, they, and their children, and their children's children, for ever: and
David my servant shall be their prince for ever. {37:26} Furthermore I will
make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with
them; and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in
the midst of them for evermore. {37:27} My tabernacle also shall be with them;
and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. {37:28} And the nations
shall know that I am Yahweh that sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary shall be
in the midst of them for evermore.
{O26)38} Ezekiel 38. {38:1} And the word of Yahweh came unto me,
saying, {38:2} Son of man, set your face toward Gog, of the land of Magog, the
prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him, {38:3} and say,
Thus said the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, O Gog, prince of Rosh,
Meshech, and Tubal: {38:4} and I will turn you about, and put hooks into your
jaws, and I will bring you forth, and all your army, horses and horsemen, all
of them clothed in full armor, a great company with buckler and shield, all of
them handling swords; {38:5} Persia, Cush, and Put with them, all of them with
shield and helmet; {38:6} Gomer, and all his hordes; the house of Togarmah in
the uttermost parts of the north, and all his hordes; even many peoples with
you. {38:7} Be you prepared, behold, prepare yourself, you, and all your
companies that are assembled unto you, and be you a guard unto them. {38:8}
After many days you shall be visited: in the latter years you shall come into
the land that is brought back from the sword, that is gathered out of many
peoples, upon the mountains of Israel, which have been a continual waste; but
it is brought forth out of the peoples, and they shall dwell securely, all of
them. {38:9} And you shall ascend, you shall come like a storm, you shall be
like a cloud to cover the land, you, and all your hordes, and many peoples with
you. {38:10} Thus said the Lord Yahweh: It shall come to pass in that day, that
things shall come into your mind, and you shall devise an evil device: {38:11}
and you shall say, I will go up to the land of un-walled villages; I will go to
them that are at rest, that dwell securely, all of them dwelling outside walls,
and having neither bars nor gates; {38:12} to take the spoil and to take the
prey; to turn your hand against the waste places that are [now] inhabited, and
against the people that are gathered out of the nations, that have gotten cattle
and goods, that dwell in the middle of the earth. {38:13} Sheba, and Dedan, and
the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions there, shall say unto you,
are you come to take the spoil? have you assembled your company to take the
prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take
great spoil? {38:14} Therefore, son of man, prophesy, and say unto Gog, Thus
said the Lord Yahweh: In that day when my people Israel dwells securely, shall
you not know it? {38:15} And you shall come from your place out of the
uttermost parts of the north, you, and many peoples with you, all of them
riding upon horses, a great company and a mighty army; {38:16} and you shall
come up against my people Israel, as a cloud to cover the land: it shall come
to pass in the latter days, that I will bring you against my land, that the
nations may know me, when I shall be sanctified in you, O Gog, before their
eyes. {38:17} Thus said the Lord Yahweh: are you he of whom I spoke in old time
by my servants the prophets of Israel, that prophesied in those days for [many]
years that I would bring you against them? {38:18} And it shall come to pass in
that day, when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, said the Lord Yahweh,
that my wrath shall come up into my nostrils. {38:19} For in my jealousy and in
the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great
shaking in the land of Israel; {38:20} so that the fishes of the sea, and the
birds of the heavens, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that
creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth,
shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the
steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground. {38:21} And I
will call for a sword against him unto all my mountains, said the Lord Yahweh:
every man's sword shall be against his brother. {38:22} And with pestilence and
with blood will I enter into judgment with him; and I will rain upon him, and
upon his hordes, and upon the many peoples that are with him, an overflowing
shower, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone. {38:23} And I will magnify
myself, and sanctify myself, and I will make myself known in the eyes of many
nations; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
{O26)39} Ezekiel 39. {39:1} And you, son of man, prophesy
against Gog, and say, Thus said the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, O
Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal: {39:2} and I will turn you about, and
will lead you on, and will cause you to come up from the uttermost parts of the
north; and I will bring you upon the mountains of Israel; {39:3} and I will
smite your bow out of your left hand, and will cause your arrows to fall out of
your right hand. {39:4} you shall fall upon the mountains of Israel, you, and
all your hordes, and the peoples that are with you: I will give you unto the
ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
{39:5} you shall fall upon the open field; for I have spoken it, said the Lord Yahweh.
{39:6} And I will send a fire on Magog, and on them that dwell securely in the
isles; and they shall know that I am Yahweh. {39:7} And my holy name will I
make known in the midst of my people Israel; neither will I suffer my holy name
to be profaned any more: and the nations shall know that I am Yahweh, the Holy
One in Israel. {39:8} Behold, it comes, and it shall be done, said the Lord Yahweh;
this is the day where I have spoken. {39:9} And they that dwell in the cities
of Israel shall go forth, and shall make fires of the weapons and burn them,
both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the hand
staves, and the spears, and they shall make fires of them seven years; {39:10}
so that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of
the forests; for they shall make fires of the weapons; and they shall plunder
those that plundered them, and rob those that robbed them, said the Lord Yahweh.
{39:11} And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a
place for burial in Israel, the valley of them that pass through on the east of
the sea; and it shall stop them that pass through: and there shall they bury
Gog and all his multitude; and they shall call it The valley of Hamon-gog.
{39:12} And seven moons shall the house of Israel be burying them, that they
may cleanse the land. {39:13} behold, all the people of the land shall bury
them; and it shall be to them a renown in the day that I shall be glorified,
said the Lord Yahweh. {39:14} And they shall set apart men of continual
employment, that shall pass through the land, and, with them that pass through,
those that bury them that remain upon the face of the land, to cleanse it:
after the end of seven moons shall they search. {39:15} And they that pass
through the land shall pass through; and when any sees a man's bone, then shall
he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of
Hamon-gog. {39:16} And Hamonah shall also be the name of a city. Thus shall
they cleanse the land. {39:17} And you, son of man, thus said the Lord Yahweh:
Speak unto the birds of every sort, and to every beast of the field, Assemble
yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do
sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that
you may eat flesh and drink blood. {39:18} you shall eat the flesh of the
mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and
of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan. {39:19} And you shall
eat fat till you be full, and drink blood till you be drunk, of my sacrifice
which I have sacrificed for you. {39:20} And you shall be filled at my table
with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, said the
Lord Yahweh. {39:21} And I will set my glory among the nations; and all the
nations shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have
laid upon them. {39:22} So the house of Israel shall know that I am Yahweh
their God, from that day and forward. {39:23} And the nations shall know that
the house of Israel went into captivity for their works against law; because
they trespassed against me, and I hid my face from them: so I gave them into
the hand of their adversaries, and they fell all of them by the sword. {39:24}
According to their uncleanness and according to their transgression of the law
did I unto them; and I hid my face from them. {39:25} Therefore thus said the
Lord Yahweh: Now will I bring back the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon
the whole house of Israel; and I will be jealous for my holy name. {39:26} And
they shall bear their shame, and all their trespasses whereby they have
trespassed against me, when they shall dwell securely in their land, and none
shall make them afraid; {39:27} when I have brought them back from the peoples,
and gathered them out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in the
sight of many nations. {39:28} And they shall know that I am Yahweh their God,
in that I caused them to go into captivity among the nations, and have gathered
them unto their own land; and I will leave none of them any more there; {39:29}
neither will I hide my face any more from them; for I have poured out my Spirit
upon the house of Israel, said the Lord Yahweh.
{O26)40} Ezekiel 40. {40:1} In the five and twentieth year of
our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth [day] of the moon, in
the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the selfsame day, the
hand of Yahweh was upon me, and he brought me there. {40:2} In the visions of
God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set me down upon a very high
mountain, whereon was as it were the frame of a city on the south. {40:3} And
he brought me there; and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the
appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and
he stood in the gate. {40:4} And the man said unto me, Son of man, behold with
your eyes, and hear with your ears, and set your heart upon all that I shall
show you; for, to the intent that I may show them unto you, are you brought
here: declare all that you sees to the house of Israel. {40:5} And, behold, a
wall on the outside of the house round about, and in the man's hand a measuring
reed six cubits long, of a cubit and a handbreadth each: so he measured the
thickness of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed. {40:6} Then came
he unto the gate which looks toward the east, and went up the steps there: and
he measured the threshold of the gate, one reed broad; and the other threshold,
one reed broad. {40:7} And every lodge was one reed long, and one reed broad;
and [the space] between the lodges was five cubits; and the threshold of the
gate by the porch of the gate toward the house was one reed. {40:8} He measured
also the porch of the gate toward the house, one reed. {40:9} Then measured he
the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the posts there, two cubits; and the
porch of the gate was toward the house. {40:10} And the lodges of the gate
eastward were three on this side, and three on that side; they three were of
one measure: and the posts had one measure on this side and on that side.
{40:11} And he measured the breadth of the opening of the gate, ten cubits; and
the length of the gate, thirteen cubits; {40:12} and a border before the
lodges, one cubit [on this side], and a border, one cubit on that side; and the
lodges, six cubits on this side, and six cubits on that side. {40:13} And he
measured the gate from the roof of the one lodge to the roof of the other, a
breadth of five and twenty cubits; door against door. {40:14} He made also
posts, threescore cubits; and the court [reached] unto the posts, round about
the gate. {40:15} And [from] the forefront of the gate at the entrance unto the
forefront of the inner porch of the gate were fifty cubits. {40:16} And there
were closed windows to the lodges, and to their posts within the gate round
about, and likewise to the arches; and windows were round about inward; and
upon [each] post were palm-trees. {40:17} Then brought he me into the outer
court; and, lo, there were chambers and a pavement, made for the court round
about: thirty chambers were upon the pavement. {40:18} And the pavement was by
the side of the gates, answerable unto the length of the gates, even the lower
pavement. {40:19} Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower
gate unto the forefront of the inner court outside, a hundred cubits, [both] on
the east and on the north. {40:20} And the gate of the outer court whose
prospect is toward the north, he measured the length of it and the breadth
there. {40:21} And the lodges of it were three on this side and three on that
side; and the posts of it and the arches of it were after the measure of the
first gate: the length of it was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty
cubits. {40:22} And the windows there, and the arches there, and the palm-trees
there, were after the measure of the gate whose prospect is toward the east;
and they went up unto it by seven steps; and the arches of it were before them.
{40:23} And there was a gate to the inner court over against the [other] gate,
[both] on the north and on the east; and he measured from gate to gate a
hundred cubits. {40:24} And he led me toward the south; and, behold, a gate
toward the south: and he measured the posts of it and the arches of it
according to these measures. {40:25} And there were windows in it and in the
arches of it round about, like those windows: the length was fifty cubits, and
the breadth five and twenty cubits. {40:26} And there were seven steps to go up
to it, and the arches of it were before them; and it had palm-trees, one on
this side, and another on that side, upon the posts there. {40:27} And there
was a gate to the inner court toward the south: and he measured from gate to
gate toward the south a hundred cubits. {40:28} Then he brought me to the inner
court by the south gate: and he measured the south gate according to these
measures; {40:29} and the lodges there, and the posts there, and the arches
there, according to these measures: and there were windows in it and in the
arches of it round about; it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits
broad. {40:30} And there were arches round about, five and twenty cubits long,
and five cubits broad. {40:31} And the arches of it were toward the outer
court; and palm-trees were upon the posts there: and the ascent to it had eight
steps. {40:32} And he brought me into the inner court toward the east: and he
measured the gate according to these measures; {40:33} and the lodges there,
and the posts there, and the arches there, according to these measures: and
there were windows therein and in the arches of it round about; it was fifty
cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad. {40:34} And the arches of it
were toward the outer court; and palm-trees were upon the posts there, on this
side, and on that side: and the ascent to it had eight steps. {40:35} And he
brought me to the north gate: and he measured [it] according to these measures;
{40:36} the lodges there, the posts there, and the arches there: and there were
windows therein round about; the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five
and twenty cubits. {40:37} And the posts of it were toward the outer court; and
palm-trees were upon the posts there, on this side, and on that side: and the
ascent to it had eight steps. {40:38} And a chamber with the door of it was by
the posts at the gates; there they washed the burnt-offering. {40:39} And in
the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, and two tables on that
side, to slay thereon the burnt-offering and the sin-offering and the
trespass-offering. {40:40} And on the [one] side outside, as one goes up to the
entry of the gate toward the north, were two tables; and on the other side,
which belonged to the porch of the gate, were two tables. {40:41} Four tables
were on this side, and four tables on that side, by the side of the gate; eight
tables, whereupon they slew [the sacrifices]. {40:42} And there were four
tables for the burnt-offering, of hewn stone, a cubit and a half long, and a
cubit and a half broad, and one cubit high; whereupon they laid the instruments
wherewith they slew the burnt-offering and the sacrifice. {40:43} And the
hooks, a handbreadth long, were fastened within round about: and upon the
tables was the flesh of the oblation. {40:44} And outside the inner gate were
chambers for the singers in the inner court, which was at the side of the north
gate; and their prospect was toward the south; one at the side of the east gate
having the prospect toward the north. {40:45} And he said unto me, This
chamber, whose prospect is toward the south, is for the priests, the keepers of
the charge of the house; {40:46} and the chamber whose prospect is toward the
north is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the altar: these are the
sons of Zadok, who from among the sons of Levi come near to Yahweh to minister
unto him. {40:47} And he measured the court, a hundred cubits long, and a
hundred cubits broad, foursquare; and the altar was before the house. {40:48}
Then he brought me to the porch of the house, and measured each post of the
porch, five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side: and the breadth
of the gate was three cubits on this side, and three cubits on that side.
{40:49} The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven
cubits; even by the steps whereby they went up to it: and there were pillars by
the posts, one on this side, and another on that side.
{O26)41} Ezekiel 41. {41:1} And he brought me to the temple, and
measured the posts, six cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on
the other side, which was the breadth of the tabernacle. {41:2} And the breadth
of the entrance was ten cubits; and the sides of the entrance were five cubits on
the one side, and five cubits on the other side: and he measured the length
there, forty cubits, and the breadth, twenty cubits. {41:3} Then went he
inward, and measured each post of the entrance, two cubits; and the entrance,
six cubits; and the breadth of the entrance, seven cubits. {41:4} And he
measured the length there, twenty cubits, and the breadth, twenty cubits,
before the temple: and he said unto me, This is the most holy place. {41:5}
Then he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every
side-chamber, four cubits, round about the house on every side. {41:6} And the
side-chambers were in three stories, one over another, and thirty in order; and
they entered into the wall which belonged to the house for the side-chambers round
about, that they might have hold [therein], and not have hold in the wall of
the house. {41:7} And the side-chambers were broader as they encompassed [the
house] higher and higher; for the encompassing of the house went higher and
higher round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house [continued]
upward; and so one went up [from] the lowe [chamber] to the highest by the
middle [chamber]. {41:8} I saw also that the house had a raised basement round
about: the foundations of the side-chambers were a full reed of six great
cubits. {41:9} The thickness of the wall, which was for the side-chambers, on
the outside, was five cubits: and that which was left was the place of the
side-chambers that belonged to the house. {41:10} And between the chambers was
a breadth of twenty cubits round about the house on every side. {41:11} And the
doors of the side-chambers were toward [the place] that was left, one door
toward the north, and another door toward the south: and the breadth of the
place that was left was five cubits round about. {41:12} And the building that
was before the separate place at the side toward the west was seventy cubits
broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about, and the
length of it ninety cubits. {41:13} So he measured the house, a hundred cubits
long; and the separate place, and the building, with the walls there, a hundred
cubits long; {41:14} also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the
separate place toward the east, a hundred cubits. {41:15} And he measured the
length of the building before the separate place which was at the back there,
and the galleries there on the one side and on the other side, a hundred
cubits; and the inner temple, and the porches of the court; {41:16} the
thresholds, and the closed windows, and the galleries round about on their
three stories, over against the threshold, ceiled with wood round about, and
[from] the ground up to the windows, (now the windows were covered), {41:17} to
[the space] above the door, even unto the inner house, and outside, and by all
the wall round about within and outside, by measure. {41:18} And it was made
with cherubim and palm-trees; and a palm-tree was between cherub and cherub,
and every cherub had two faces; {41:19} so that there was the face of a man
toward the palm-tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the
palm-tree on the other side. [thus was it] made through all the house round
about: {41:20} from the ground unto above the door were cherubim and palm-trees
made: thus was the wall of the temple. {41:21} As for the temple, the
door-posts were squared; and as for the face of the sanctuary, the appearance
[there] was as the appearance [of the temple]. {41:22} The altar was of wood,
three cubits high, and the length of it two cubits; and the corners there, and
the length there, and the walls there, were of wood: and he said unto me, This
is the table that is before Yahweh. {41:23} And the temple and the sanctuary
had two doors. {41:24} And the doors had two leaves [apiece], two turning
leaves: two [leaves] for the one door, and two leaves for the other. {41:25}
And there were made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubim and
palm-trees, like as were made upon the walls; and there was a threshold of wood
upon the face of the porch outside. {41:26} And there were closed windows and
palm-trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch:
thus were the side-chambers of the house, and the thresholds.
{O26)42} Ezekiel 42. {42:1} Then he brought me forth into the
outer court, the way toward the north: and he brought me into the chamber that
was over against the separate place, and which was over against the building
toward the north. {42:2} Before the length of a hundred cubits was the north
door, and the breadth was fifty cubits. {42:3} Over against the twenty [cubits]
which belonged to the inner court, and over against the pavement which belonged
to the outer court, was gallery against gallery in the third story. {42:4} And
before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits' breadth inward, a way of one
cubit; and their doors were toward the north. {42:5} Now the upper chambers
were shorter; for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower
and the middlemost, in the building. {42:6} For they were in three stories, and
they had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore [the uppermost]
was straitened more than the lowe and the middlemost from the ground. {42:7}
And the wall that was outside by the side of the chambers, toward the outer court
before the chambers, the length of it was fifty cubits. {42:8} For the length
of the chambers that were in the outer court was fifty cubits: and, lo, before
the temple were a hundred cubits. {42:9} And from under these chambers was the
entry on the east side, as one goes into them from the outer court. {42:10} In
the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, before the separate
place, and before the building, there were chambers. {42:11} And the way before
them was like the appearance of [the way of] the chambers which were toward the
north; according to their length so was their breadth: and all their egresses
were both according to their fashions, and according to their doors. {42:12}
And according to the doors of the chambers that were toward the south was a
door at the head of the way, even the way directly before the wall toward the
east, as one enters into them. {42:13} Then said he unto me, The north chambers
and the south chambers, which are before the separate place, they are the holy chambers,
where the priests that are near unto Yahweh shall eat the most holy things:
there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meal-offering, and the
sin-offering, and the trespass-offering; for the place is holy. {42:14} When
the priests enter in, then shall they not go out of the holy place into the
outer court, but there they shall lay their garments wherein they minister; for
they are holy: and they shall put on other garments, and shall approach to that
which pertains to the people. {42:15} Now when he had made an end of measuring
the inner house, he brought me forth by the way of the gate whose prospect is
toward the east, and measured it round about. {42:16} He measured on the east
side with the measuring reed five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round
about. {42:17} He measured on the north side five hundred reeds with the
measuring reed round about. {42:18} He measured on the south side five hundred
reeds with the measuring reed. {42:19} He turned about to the west side, and
measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed. {42:20} He measured it on
the four sides: it had a wall round about, the length five hundred, and the
breadth five hundred, to make a separation between that which was holy and that
which was common.
{O26)43} Ezekiel 43. {43:1} Afterward he brought me to the gate,
even the gate that looks toward the east. {43:2} And, behold, the glory of the
God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his voice was like the sound of
many waters; and the earth shined with his glory. {43:3} And it was according
to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that
I saw when I came to destroy the city; and the visions were like the vision
that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face. {43:4} And the glory
of Yahweh came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward
the east. {43:5} And the Spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner
court; and, behold, the glory of Yahweh filled the house. {43:6} And I heard
one speaking unto me out of the house; and a man stood by me. {43:7} And he
said unto me, Son of man, [this is] the place of my throne, and the place of
the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel
for ever. And the house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name, neither
they, nor their kings, by their prostitution, and by the dead bodies of their
kings [in] their high places; {43:8} in their setting of their threshold by my
threshold, and their door-post beside my door-post, and there was [but] the
wall between me and them; and they have defiled my holy name by their
abominations which they have committed: Therefore I have consumed them in mine
anger. {43:9} Now let them put away their prostitution, and the dead bodies of
their kings, far from me; and I will dwell in the midst of them for ever.
{43:10} you, son of man, show the house to the house of Israel, that they may
be ashamed of their iniquities; and let them measure the pattern. {43:11} And
if they be ashamed of all that they have done, make known unto them the form of
the house, and the fashion there, and the egresses there, and the entrances
there, and all the forms there, and all the ordinances there, and all the forms
there, and all the laws there; and write it in their sight; that they may keep
the whole form there, and all the ordinances there, and do them. {43:12} This
is the law of the house: upon the top of the mountain the whole limit of it
round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house. {43:13}
And these are the measures of the altar by cubits (the cubit is a cubit and a
handbreadth): the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the
border of it by the edge of it round about a span; and this shall be the base
of the altar. {43:14} And from the bottom upon the ground to the lower ledge
shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser ledge to
the greater ledge shall be four cubits, and the breadth a cubit. {43:15} And
the upper altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar hearth and upward
there shall be four horns. {43:16} And the altar hearth shall be twelve
[cubits] long by twelve broad, square in the four sides there. {43:17} And the
ledge shall be fourteen [cubits] long by fourteen broad in the four sides there;
and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and the bottom of it shall be a
cubit round about; and the steps of it shall look toward the east. {43:18} And
he said unto me, Son of man, thus said the Lord Yahweh: These are the
ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make it, to offer
burnt-offerings thereon, and to sprinkle blood thereon. {43:19} you shall give
to the priests the Levites that are of the seed of Zadok, who are near unto me,
to minister unto me, said the Lord Yahweh, a young bullock for a sin-offering.
{43:20} And you shall take of the blood there, and put it on the four horns of
it, and on the four corners of the ledge, and upon the border round about: thus
shall you cleanse it and make atonement for it. {43:21} you shall also take the
bullock of the sin-offering, and it shall be burnt in the appointed place of
the house, outside the sanctuary. {43:22} And on the second day you shall offer
a he-goat outside blemish for a sin-offering; and they shall cleanse the altar,
as they did cleanse it with the bullock. {43:23} When you have made an end of
cleansing it, you shall offer a young bullock outside blemish, and a ram out of
the flock outside blemish. {43:24} And you shall bring them near before Yahweh,
and the priests shall cast salt upon them, and they shall offer them up for a
burnt-offering unto Yahweh. {43:25} Seven days shall you prepare every day a
goat for a sin-offering: they shall also prepare a young bullock, and a ram out
of the flock, outside blemish. {43:26} Seven days shall they make atonement for
the altar and purify it; so shall they consecrate it. {43:27} And when they
have accomplished the days, it shall be that upon the eighth day, and forward,
the priests shall make your burnt-offerings upon the altar, and your peace-offerings;
and I will accept you, said the Lord Yahweh.
{O26)44} Ezekiel 44. {44:1} Then he brought me back by the way
of the outer gate of the sanctuary, which looks toward the east; and it was
shut. {44:2} And Yahweh said unto me, This gate shall be shut; it shall not be
opened, neither shall any man enter in by it; for Yahweh, the God of Israel,
has entered in by it; therefore it shall be shut. {44:3} As for the prince, he
shall sit therein as prince to eat bread before Yahweh; he shall enter by the
way of the porch of the gate, and shall go out by the way of the same. {44:4}
Then he brought me by the way of the north gate before the house; and I looked,
and, behold, the glory of Yahweh filled the house of Yahweh: and I fell upon my
face. {44:5} And Yahweh said unto me, Son of man, mark well, and behold with
your eyes, and hear with your ears all that I say unto you concerning all the
ordinances of the house of Yahweh, and all the laws there; and mark well the
entrance of the house, with every egress of the sanctuary. {44:6} And you shall
say to the rebellious, even to the house of Israel, Thus said the Lord Yahweh:
O you house of Israel, let it suffice you of all your abominations, {44:7} in
that you have brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised
in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to profane it, even my house, when you offer
my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant, [to add]
unto all your abominations. {44:8} And you have not kept the charge of my holy
things; but you have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.
{44:9} Thus said the Lord Yahweh, No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and
uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any foreigners that
are among the children of Israel. {44:10} But the Levites that went far from
me, when Israel went astray, that went astray from me after their idols, they
shall bear their works against law. {44:11} yet they shall be ministers in my
sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the house, and ministering in the
house: they shall slay the burnt-offering and the sacrifice for the people, and
they shall stand before them to minister unto them. {44:12} Because they
ministered unto them before their idols, and became a stumbling block of works against
law unto the house of Israel; therefore have I lifted up my hand against them,
said the Lord Yahweh, and they shall bear their works against law. {44:13} And
they shall not come near unto me, to execute the office of priest unto me, nor
to come near to any of my holy things, unto the things that are most holy; but
they shall bear their shame, and their abominations which they have committed.
{44:14} yet will I make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all the
service there, and for all that shall be done therein. {44:15} But the priests
the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the
children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister
unto me; and they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood,
said the Lord Yahweh: {44:16} they shall enter into my sanctuary, and they
shall come near to my table, to minister unto me, and they shall keep my
charge. {44:17} And it shall be that, when they enter in at the gates of the
inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments; and no wool shall come
upon them, while they minister in the gates of the inner court, and within.
{44:18} They shall have linen tires upon their heads, and shall have linen
breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird themselves with [anything that
causes] sweat. {44:19} And when they go forth into the outer court, even into
the outer court to the people, they shall put off their garments wherein they
minister, and lay them in the holy chambers; and they shall put on other
garments, that they sanctify not the people with their garments. {44:20}
Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they
shall only cut off the hair of their heads. {44:21} Neither shall any of the
priests drink wine, when they enter into the inner court. {44:22} Neither shall
they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away; but they shall
take virgins of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that is the widow
of a priest. {44:23} And they shall teach my people the difference between the
holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the
clean. {44:24} And in a controversy they shall stand to judge; according to
mine ordinances shall they judge it: and they shall keep my laws and my
statutes in all my appointed feasts; and they shall hallow my Sabbaths. {44:25}
And they shall go in to no dead person to defile themselves; but for father, or
for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that has
had no husband, they may defile themselves. {44:26} And after he is cleansed,
they shall reckon unto him seven days. {44:27} And in the day that he goes into
the sanctuary, into the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall
offer his sin-offering, said the Lord Yahweh. {44:28} And they shall have an
inheritance: I am their inheritance; and you shall give them no possession in
Israel; I am their possession. {44:29} They shall eat the meal-offering, and
the sin-offering, and the trespass-offering; and every devoted thing in Israel
shall be theirs. {44:30} And the first of all the first-fruits of every thing,
and every oblation of everything, of all your oblations, shall be for the
priest: you shall also give unto the priests the first of your dough, to cause
a blessing to rest on your house. {44:31} The priests shall not eat of anything
that dies of itself, or is torn, whether it be bird or beast.
{O26)45} Ezekiel 45. {45:1} Furthermore, when you shall divide
by lot the land for inheritance, you shall offer an oblation unto Yahweh, a
holy portion of the land; the length shall be the length of five and twenty
thousand [reeds], and the breadth shall be ten thousand: it shall be holy in
all the border of it round about. {45:2} Of this there shall be for the holy
place five hundred [in length] by five hundred [in breadth], square round
about; and fifty cubits for the suburbs of it round about. {45:3} And of this
measure shall you measure a length of five and twenty thousand, and a breadth
of ten thousand: and in it shall be the sanctuary, which is most holy. {45:4}
It is a holy portion of the land; it shall be for the priests, the ministers of
the sanctuary, that come near to minister unto Yahweh; and it shall be a place
for their houses, and a holy place for the sanctuary. {45:5} And five and
twenty thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth, shall be unto the
Levites, the ministers of the house, for a possession unto themselves, [for]
twenty chambers. {45:6} And you shall appoint the possession of the city five
thousand broad, and five and twenty thousand long, side by side with the
oblation of the holy portion: it shall be for the whole house of Israel. {45:7}
And [what ever is] for the prince [shall be] on the one side and on the other
side of the holy oblation and of the possession of the city, in front of the
holy oblation and in front of the possession of the city, on the west side
westward, and on the east side eastward; and in length answerable unto one of
the portions, from the west border unto the east border. {45:8} In the land it
shall be to him for a possession in Israel: and my princes shall no more
oppress my people; but they shall give the land to the house of Israel
according to their tribes. {45:9} Thus said the Lord Yahweh: Let it suffice
you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute justice and
righteousness; take away your exactions from my people, said the Lord Yahweh.
{45:10} you shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
{45:11} The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may
contain the tenth part of a homer, and the ephah the tenth part of a homer: the
measure of it shall be after the homer. {45:12} And the shekel shall be twenty
gerahs; twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your
maneh. {45:13} This is the oblation that you shall offer: the sixth part of an
ephah from a homer of wheat; and you shall give the sixth part of an ephah from
a homer of barley; {45:14} and the set portion of oil, of the bath of oil, the
tenth part of a bath out of the cor, [which is] ten baths, even a homer; (for
ten baths are a homer;) {45:15} and one lamb of the flock, out of two hundred,
from the well-watered pastures of Israel; -for a meal-offering, and for a
burnt-offering, and for peace-offerings, to make atonement for them, said the
Lord Yahweh. {45:16} All the people of the land shall give unto this oblation
for the prince in Israel. {45:17} And it shall be the prince's part to give the
burnt-offerings, and the meal-offerings, and the drink-offerings, in the
feasts, and on the new moons, and on the Sabbaths, in all the appointed feasts
of the house of Israel: he shall prepare the sin-offering, and the
meal-offering, and the burnt-offering, and the peace-offerings, to make
atonement for the house of Israel. {45:18} Thus said the Lord Yahweh: In the
first [moon], in the first [day] of the moon, you shall take a young bullock
outside blemish; and you shall cleanse the sanctuary. {45:19} And the priest
shall take of the blood of the sin-offering, and put it upon the door-posts of
the house, and upon the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and upon the
posts of the gate of the inner court. {45:20} And so you shall do on the
seventh [day] of the moon for every one that sins, and for him that is simple:
so shall you make atonement for the house. {45:21} In the first [moon], in the
fourteenth day of the moon, you shall have the Passover, a feast of seven days;
unleavened bread shall be eaten. {45:22} And upon that day shall the prince
prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bullock for a
sin-offering. {45:23} And the seven days of the feast he shall prepare a
burnt-offering to Yahweh, seven bullocks and seven rams outside blemish daily
the seven days; and a he-goat daily for a sin-offering. {45:24} And he shall
prepare a meal-offering, an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and a
hin of oil to an ephah. {45:25} In the seventh [moon], in the fifteenth day of
the moon, in the feast, shall he do the like the seven days; according to the
sin-offering, according to the burnt-offering, and according to the
meal-offering, and according to the oil.
{O26)46} Ezekiel 46. {46:1} Thus said the Lord Yahweh: The gate
of the inner court that looks toward the east shall be shut the six working
days; but on the Sabbath day it shall be opened, and on the day of the new moon
it shall be opened. {46:2} And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch
of the gate outside, and shall stand by the post of the gate; and the priests
shall prepare his burnt-offering and his peace-offerings, and he shall worship
at the threshold of the gate: then he shall go forth; but the gate shall not be
shut until the evening. {46:3} And the people of the land shall worship at the
door of that gate before Yahweh on the Sabbaths and on the new moons. {46:4}
And the burnt-offering that the prince shall offer unto Yahweh shall be on the
Sabbath day six lambs outside blemish and a ram outside blemish; {46:5} and the
meal-offering shall be an ephah for the ram, and the meal-offering for the
lambs as he is able to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah. {46:6} And on the
day of the new moon it shall be a young bullock outside blemish, and six lambs,
and a ram; they shall be outside blemish: {46:7} and he shall prepare a
meal-offering, an ephah for the bullock, and an ephah for the ram, and for the
lambs according as he is able, and a hin of oil to an ephah. {46:8} And when
the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the way of the porch of the gate, and
he shall go forth by the way there. {46:9} But when the people of the land
shall come before Yahweh in the appointed feasts, he that enters by the way of
the north gate to worship shall go forth by the way of the south gate; and he
that enters by the way of the south gate shall go forth by the way of the north
gate: he shall not return by the way of the gate whereby he came in, but shall
go forth straight before him. {46:10} And the prince, when they go in, shall go
in, in the midst of them; and when they go forth, they shall go forth
[together]. {46:11} And in the feasts and in the solemnities the meal-offering
shall be an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs as
he is able to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah. {46:12} And when the prince
shall prepare a freewill-offering, a burnt-offering or peace-offerings as a
freewill-offering unto Yahweh, one shall open for him the gate that looks
toward the east; and he shall prepare his burnt-offering and his peace-offerings,
as he does on the Sabbath day: then he shall go forth; and after his going
forth one shall shut the gate. {46:13} And you shall prepare a lamb a year old
outside blemish for a burnt-offering unto Yahweh daily: morning by morning
shall you prepare it. {46:14} And you shall prepare a meal-offering with it
morning by morning, the sixth part of an ephah, and the third part of a hin of
oil, to moisten the fine flour; a meal-offering unto Yahweh continually by a
perpetual ordinance. {46:15} Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and the
meal-offering, and the oil, morning by morning, for a continual burnt-offering.
{46:16} Thus said the Lord Yahweh: If the prince give a gift unto any of his
sons, it is his inheritance, it shall belong to his sons; it is their possession
by inheritance. {46:17} But if he give of his inheritance a gift to one of his
servants, it shall be his to the year of liberty; then it shall return to the
prince; but as for his inheritance, it shall be for his sons. {46:18}
Furthermore the prince shall not take of the people's inheritance, to thrust
them out of their possession; he shall give inheritance to his sons out of his
own possession, that my people be not scattered every man from his possession.
{46:19} Then he brought me through the entry, which was at the side of the
gate, into the holy chambers for the priests, which looked toward the north:
and, behold, there was a place on the hinder part westward. {46:20} And he said
unto me, This is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass-offering
and the sin-offering, [and] where they shall bake the meal-offering; that they
bring them not forth into the outer court, to sanctify the people. {46:21} Then
he brought me forth into the outer court, and caused me to pass by the four
corners of the court; and, behold, in every corner of the court there was a
court. {46:22} In the four corners of the court there were courts enclosed,
forty [cubits] long and thirty broad: these four in the corners were of one
measure. {46:23} And there was a wall round about in them, round about the
four, and boiling-places were made under the walls round about. {46:24} Then
said he unto me, These are the boiling-houses, where the ministers of the house
shall boil the sacrifice of the people.
{O26)47} Ezekiel 47. {47:1} And he brought me back unto the door
of the house; and, behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the
house eastward; (for the forefront of the house was toward the east;) and the
waters came down from under, from the right side of the house, on the south of
the altar. {47:2} Then he brought me out by the way of the gate northward, and
led me round by the way outside unto the outer gate, by the way of [the gate]
that looks toward the east; and, behold, there ran out waters on the right
side. {47:3} When the man went forth eastward with the line in his hand, he
measured a thousand cubits, and he caused me to pass through the waters, waters
that were to the ankles. {47:4} Again he measured a thousand, and caused me to
pass through the waters, waters that were to the knees. Again he measured a
thousand, and caused me to pass through [the waters], waters that were to the
loins. {47:5} Afterward he measured a thousand; [and it was] a river that I
could not pass through; for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river
that could not be passed through. {47:6} And he said unto me, Son of man, have
you seen [this]? Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the bank of the
river. {47:7} Now when I had returned, behold, upon the bank of the river were
very many trees on the one side and on the other. {47:8} Then said he unto me,
These waters issue forth toward the eastern region, and shall go down into the
Arabah; and they shall go toward the sea; into the sea [shall the waters go]
which were made to issue forth; and the waters shall be healed. {47:9} And it
shall come to pass, that every living creature which swarms, in every place
where the rivers come, shall live; and there shall be a very great multitude of
fish; for these waters are come there, and [the waters of the sea] shall be
healed, and everything shall live where ever the river comes. {47:10} And it
shall come to pass, that fishers shall stand by it: from En-gedi even unto
En-eglaim shall be a place for the spreading of nets; their fish shall be after
their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many. {47:11} But the miry
places there, and the marshes there, shall not be healed; they shall be given
up to salt. {47:12} And by the river upon the bank there, on this side and on
that side, shall grow every tree for food, whose leaf shall not where, neither
shall the fruit of it fail: it shall bring forth new fruit every moon, because
the waters of it issues out of the sanctuary; and the fruit of it shall be for
food, and the leaf of it for healing. {47:13} Thus said the Lord Yahweh: This
shall be the border, whereby you shall divide the land for inheritance
according to the twelve tribes of Israel: Joseph [shall have two] portions.
{47:14} And you shall inherit it, one as well as another; for I swore to give
it unto your fathers: and this land shall fall unto you for inheritance.
{47:15} And this shall be the border of the land: On the north side, from the
great sea, by the way of Hethlon, unto the entrance of Zedad; {47:16} Hamath,
Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and the border of
Hamath; Hazer-hatticon, which is by the border of Hauran. {47:17} And the
border from the sea, shall be Hazar-enon at the border of Damascus; and on the
north northward is the border of Hamath. This is the north side. {47:18} And
the east side, between Hauran and Damascus and Gilead, and the land of Israel,
shall be the Jordan; from the [north] border unto the east sea shall you
measure. This is the east side. {47:19} And the south side southward shall be
from Tamar as far as the waters of Meriboth-kadesh, to the brook [of Egypt],
unto the great sea. This is the south side southward. {47:20} And the west side
shall be the great sea, from the [south] border as far as over against the
entrance of Hamath. This is the west side. {47:21} So shall you divide this
land unto you according to the tribes of Israel. {47:22} And it shall come to
pass, that you shall divide it by lot for an inheritance unto you and to the
strangers that sojourn among you, who shall beget children among you; and they
shall be unto you as the home-born among the children of Israel; they shall
have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel. {47:23} And it shall come
to pass, that in what tribe the stranger sojourns, there shall you give him his
inheritance, said the Lord Yahweh.
{O26)48} Ezekiel 48. {48:1} Now these are the names of the
tribes: From the north end, beside the way of Hethlon to the entrance of
Hamath, Hazar-enan at the border of Damascus, northward beside Hamath, (and
they shall have their sides east [and] west,) Dan, one [portion]. {48:2} And by
the border of Dan, from the east side unto the west side, Asher, one [portion].
{48:3} And by the border of Asher, from the east side even unto the west side,
Naphtali, one [portion]. {48:4} And by the border of Naphtali, from the east
side unto the west side, Manasseh, one [portion]. {48:5} And by the border of
Manasseh, from the east side unto the west side, Ephraim, one [portion]. {48:6}
And by the border of Ephraim, from the east side even unto the west side,
Reuben, one [portion]. {48:7} And by the border of Reuben, from the east side
unto the west side, Judah, one [portion]. {48:8} And by the border of Judah,
from the east side unto the west side, shall be the oblation which you shall
offer, five and twenty thousand [reeds] in breadth, and in length as one of the
portions, from the east side unto the west side: and the sanctuary shall be in
the midst of it. {48:9} The oblation that you shall offer unto Yahweh shall be
five and twenty thousand [reeds] in length, and ten thousand in breadth.
{48:10} And for these, even for the priests, shall be the holy oblation: toward
the north five and twenty thousand [in length], and toward the west ten thousand
in breadth, and toward the east ten thousand in breadth, and toward the south
five and twenty thousand in length: and the sanctuary of Yahweh shall be in the
midst there. {48:11} [It shall be] for the priests that are sanctified of the
sons of Zadok, that have kept my charge, that went not astray when the children
of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray. {48:12} And it shall be unto
them an oblation from the oblation of the land, a thing most holy, by the
border of the Levites. {48:13} And answerable unto the border of the priests,
the Levites shall have five and twenty thousand in length, and ten thousand in
breadth: all the length shall be five and twenty thousand, and the breadth ten
thousand. {48:14} And they shall sell none of it, nor exchange it, nor shall
the first-fruits of the land be alienated; for it is holy unto Yahweh. {48:15}
And the five thousand that are left in the breadth, in front of the five and
twenty thousand, shall be for common use, for the city, for dwelling and for
suburbs; and the city shall be in the midst there. {48:16} And these shall be
the measures there: the north side four thousand and five hundred, and the
south side four thousand and five hundred, and on the east side four thousand
and five hundred, and the west side four thousand and five hundred. {48:17} And
the city shall have suburbs: toward the north two hundred and fifty, and toward
the south two hundred and fifty, and toward the east two hundred and fifty, and
toward the west two hundred and fifty. {48:18} And the residue in the length,
answerable unto the holy oblation, shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten
thousand westward; and it shall be answerable unto the holy oblation; and the
increase of it shall be for food unto them that labor in the city. {48:19} And
they that labor in the city, out of all the tribes of Israel, shall till it.
{48:20} All the oblation shall be five and twenty thousand by five and twenty
thousand: you shall offer the holy oblation four-square, with the possession of
the city. {48:21} And the residue shall be for the prince, on the one side and
on the other of the holy oblation and of the possession of the city; in front
of the five and twenty thousand of the oblation toward the east border, and
westward in front of the five and twenty thousand toward the west border,
answerable unto the portions, it shall be for the prince: and the holy oblation
and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the midst there. {48:22} Furthermore
from the possession of the Levites, and from the possession of the city, being
in the midst of that which is the prince's, between the border of Judah and the
border of Benjamin, it shall be for the prince. {48:23} And as for the rest of
the tribes: from the east side unto the west side, Benjamin, one [portion].
{48:24} And by the border of Benjamin, from the east side unto the west side,
Simeon, one [portion]. {48:25} And by the border of Simeon, from the east side
unto the west side, Issachar, one [portion]. {48:26} And by the border of
Issachar, from the east side unto the west side, Zebulun, one [portion].
{48:27} And by the border of Zebulun, from the east side unto the west side,
Gad, one [portion]. {48:28} And by the border of Gad, at the south side
southward, the border shall be even from Tamar unto the waters of
Meribath-kadesh, to the brook [of Egypt], unto the great sea. {48:29} This is
the land which you shall divide by lot unto the tribes of Israel for
inheritance, and these are their several portions, said the Lord Yahweh.
{48:30} And these are the egresses of the city: On the north side four thousand
and five hundred [reeds] by measure; {48:31} and the gates of the city shall be
after the names of the tribes of Israel, three gates northward: the gate of
Reuben, one; the gate of Judah, one; the gate of Levi, one. {48:32} And at the
east side four thousand and five hundred [reeds], and three gates: even the
gate of Joseph, one; the gate of Benjamin, one; the gate of Dan, one. {48:33}
And at the south side four thousand and five hundred [reeds] by measure, and
three gates: the gate of Simeon, one; the gate of Issachar, one; the gate of
Zebulun, one. {48:34} At the west side four thousand and five hundred [reeds],
with their three gates: the gate of Gad, one; the gate of Asher, one; the gate
of Naphtali, one. {48:35} It shall be eighteen thousand [reeds] round about:
and the name of the city from that day shall be, Yahweh is there.
{O27)1} Daniel Chapter One. {1:1} In the third year of the reign of
Jehoiakim king of
{O27)2} Daniel Chapter two. {2:1} And in the second year of the reign
of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams; and his spirit was troubled,
and his sleep went from him. {2:2} Then the king commanded to call the
magicians, and the enchanters, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, to tell
the king his dreams. So they came in and stood before the king. {2:3} And the
king said unto them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit is troubled to know
the dream. {2:4} Then spoke the Chaldeans to the king in the Syrian language, O
king, live for ever: tell your servants the dream, and we will show the
interpretation. {2:5} The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is
gone from me: if you make not known unto me the dream and the interpretation
there, you shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill.
{2:6} But if you show the dream and the interpretation there, you shall receive
of me gifts and rewards and great honor: therefore show me the dream and the
interpretation there. {2:7} They answered the second time and said, Let the king
tell his servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation. {2:8} The
king answered and said, I know of a certainty that you would gain time, because
you see the thing is gone from me. {2:9} But if you make not known unto me the
dream, there is but one law for you; for you have prepared lying and corrupt
words to speak before me, till the time be changed: therefore tell me the
dream, and I shall know that you can show me the interpretation there. {2:10}
The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not a man upon the
earth that can show the king's matter, forasmuch as no king, lord, or ruler,
has asked such a thing of any magician, or enchanter, or Chaldean. {2:11} And
it is a rare thing that the king requires, and there is no other that can show
it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh. {2:12}
For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy
all the wise men of
{O27)3} Daniel Chapter Three. {3:1} Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image
of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth of it six cubits:
he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the
{O27)4} Daniel 4. {4:1} Nebuchadnezzar the king, unto all the
peoples, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth: Peace be
multiplied unto you. {4:2} It has seemed good unto me to show the signs and
wonders that the Most High God has wrought toward me. {4:3} How great are his
signs! and how mighty are his wonders! his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom,
and his dominion is from generation to generation. {4:4} I, Nebuchadnezzar, was
at rest in my house, and flourishing in my palace. {4:5} I saw a dream which
made me afraid; and the thoughts upon my bed and the visions of my head
troubled me. {4:6} Therefore made I a decree to bring in all the wise men of
Babylon before me, that they might make known unto me the interpretation of the
dream. {4:7} Then came in the magicians, the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the
soothsayers; and I told the dream before them; but they did not make known unto
me the interpretation there. {4:8} But at the last Daniel came in before me,
whose name was Belteshazzar, according to the name of my god, and in whom is
the spirit of the holy gods: and I told the dream before him, [saying], {4:9} O
Belteshazzar, master of the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the
holy gods is in you, and no secret troubles you, tell me the visions of my
dream that I have seen, and the interpretation there. {4:10} Thus were the visions
of my head upon my bed: I saw, and, behold, a tree in the midst of the earth;
and the height of it was great. {4:11} The tree grew, and was strong, and the
height of it reached unto heaven, and the sight of it to the end of all the
earth. {4:12} The leaves of it were fair, and the fruit of it much, and in it
was food for all: the beasts of the field had shadow under it, and the birds of
the heavens dwelt in the branches there, and all flesh was fed from it. {4:13}
I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and, behold, a watcher and a holy
one came down from heaven. {4:14} He cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the
tree, and cut off its branches, shake off its leaves, and scatter its fruit:
let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from its branches. {4:15}
Nevertheless leave the stump of its roots in the earth, even with a band of
iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the
dew of heaven: and let his portion be with the beasts in the grass of the
earth: {4:16} let his heart be changed from man's, and let a beast's heart be
given unto him; and let seven times pass over him. {4:17} The sentence is by
the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones; to the
intent that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men,
and gives it to whom so ever he will, and sets up over it the lowe of men.
{4:18} This dream I, king Nebuchadnezzar, have seen; and you, O Belteshazzar,
declare the interpretation, forasmuch as all the wise men of my kingdom are not
able to make known unto me the interpretation; but you are able; for the spirit
of the holy gods is in you. {4:19} Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar,
was stricken dumb for a while, and his thoughts troubled him. The king answered
and said, Belteshazzar, let not the dream, or the interpretation, trouble you.
Belteshazzar answered and said, My lord, the dream be to them that hate you,
and the interpretation of it to your adversaries. {4:20} The tree that you saw,
which grew, and was strong, whose height reached unto heaven, and the sight of
it to all the earth; {4:21} whose leaves were fair, and the fruit of it much,
and in it was food for all; under which the beasts of the field dwelt, and upon
whose branches the birds of the heavens had their habitation: {4:22} it is you,
O king, that are grown and become strong; for your greatness is grown, and
reaches unto heaven, and your dominion to the end of the earth. {4:23} And
whereas the king saw a watcher and a holy one coming down from heaven, and
saying, Hew down the tree, and destroy it; nevertheless leave the stump of the
roots of it in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender
grass of the field, and let it be wet with the dew of heaven: and let his
portion be with the beasts of the field, till seven times pass over him; {4:24}
this is the interpretation, O king, and it is the decree of the Most High,
which is come upon my lord the king: {4:25} that you shall be driven from men,
and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, and you shall be made
to eat grass as oxen, and shall be wet with the dew of heaven, and seven times
shall pass over you; till you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of
men, and gives it to whom so ever he will. {4:26} And whereas they commanded to
leave the stump of the roots of the tree; your kingdom shall be sure unto you,
after that you shall have known that the heavens do rule. {4:27} Therefore, O
king, let my counsel be acceptable unto you, and break off your sins by
righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor; if there may
be a lengthening of your tranquility. {4:28} All this came upon the king
Nebuchadnezzar. {4:29} At the end of twelve moons he was walking in the royal
palace of Babylon. {4:30} The king spoke and said, Is not this great Babylon,
which I have built for the royal dwelling-place, by the might of my power and
for the glory of my majesty? {4:31} While the word was in the king's mouth,
there fell a voice from heaven, [saying], O king Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is
spoken: The kingdom is departed from you: {4:32} and you shall be driven from
men; and they dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field; you shall be made
to eat grass as oxen; and seven times shall pass over you; until you know that
the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whom so ever he
will. {4:33} The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he
was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the
dew of heaven, till his hair was grown like eagles' [feathers], and his nails
like birds' [claws]. {4:34} And at the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar,
lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I
blessed the Most High, and I praised and honored him that lives for ever; for
his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom from generation to
generation. {4:35} And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing;
and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the
inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What do
you? {4:36} At the same time mine understanding returned unto me; and for the
glory of my kingdom, my majesty and brightness returned unto me; and my
counselors and my lords sought unto me; and I was established in my kingdom,
and excellent greatness was added unto me. {4:37} Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise
and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his
ways justice; and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.
{O27)5} Daniel 5. {5:1} Belshazzar the king made a great
feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. {5:2}
Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver
vessels which Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple which was
in Jerusalem; that the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, might
drink there from. {5:3} Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken
out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king and
his lords, his wives and his concubines, drank from them. {5:4} They drank
wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood,
and of stone. {5:5} In the same hour came forth the fingers of a man's hand,
and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the
king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. {5:6} Then the
king's countenance was changed in him, and his thoughts troubled him; and the joints
of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another. {5:7} The
king cried aloud to bring in the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the
soothsayers. The king spoke and said to the wise men of Babylon, Anyone who
shall read this writing, and show me the interpretation there, shall be clothed
with purple, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third
ruler in the kingdom. {5:8} Then came in all the king's wise men; but they
could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation.
{5:9} Then was king Belshazzar greatly troubled, and his countenance was
changed in him, and his lords were perplexed. {5:10} [Now] the queen by reason
of the words of the king and his lords came into the banquet house: the queen
spoke and said, O king, live forever; let not your thoughts trouble you, nor
let your countenance be changed. {5:11} There is a man in your kingdom, in whom
is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of your father light and
understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, were found in him; and
the king Nebuchadnezzar your father, the king, [I say], your father, made him
master of the magicians, enchanters, Chaldeans, and soothsayers; {5:12}
forasmuch as an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding,
interpreting of dreams, and showing of dark sentences, and dissolving of
doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar. Now
let Daniel be called, and he will show the interpretation. {5:13} Then was
Daniel brought in before the king. The king spoke and said unto Daniel, are you
that Daniel, who are of the children of the captivity of Judah, whom the king
my father brought out of Judah? {5:14} I have heard of you, that the spirit of
the gods is in you, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom are
found in you. {5:15} And now the wise men, the enchanters, have been brought in
before me, that they should read this writing, and make known unto me the
interpretation there; but they could not show the interpretation of the thing.
{5:16} But I have heard of you, that you Can give interpretations, and dissolve
doubts; now if you Can read the writing, and make known to me the
interpretation there, you shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of
gold about your neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom. {5:17} Then
Daniel answered and said before the king, Let your gifts be to yourself, and
give your rewards to another; nevertheless I will read the writing unto the
king, and make known to him the interpretation. {5:18} O you king, the Most
High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory,
and majesty: {5:19} and because of the greatness that he gave him, all the
peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him: whom he would
he slew, and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he raised up, and
whom he would he put down. {5:20} But when his heart was lifted up, and his
spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly
throne, and they took his glory from him: {5:21} and he was driven from the
sons of men, and his heart was made like the beasts', and his dwelling was with
the wild asses; he was fed with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the
dew of heaven; until he knew that the Most High God rules in the kingdom of
men, and that he sets up over it whom so ever he will. {5:22} And you his son,
O Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this, {5:23} but
have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the
vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your
concubines, have drunk wine from them; and you have praised the gods of silver
and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know; and
the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, have you not
glorified. {5:24} Then was the part of the hand sent from before him, and this
writing was inscribed. {5:25} And this is the writing that was inscribed: MENE,
MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN. {5:26} This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE;
God has numbered your kingdom, and brought it to an end; {5:27} TEKEL; you are
weighed in the balances, and are found wanting. {5:28} PERES; your kingdom is
divided, and given to the Medes and Persians. {5:29} Then commanded Belshazzar,
and they clothed Daniel with purple, and put a chain of gold about his neck,
and made proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the
kingdom. {5:30} In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain. {5:31}
And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about threescore and two years
old.
{O27)6} Daniel 6. {6:1} It pleased Darius to set over the
kingdom a hundred and twenty satraps, who should be throughout the whole
kingdom; {6:2} and over them three presidents, of whom Daniel was one; that
these satraps might give account unto them, and that the king should have no
damage. {6:3} Then this Daniel was distinguished above the presidents and the
satraps, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set
him over the whole realm. {6:4} Then the presidents and the satraps sought to
find occasion against Daniel as touching the kingdom; but they could find no
occasion nor fault, forasmuch as he was faithful, neither was there any error
or fault found in him. {6:5} Then said these men, We shall not find any
occasion against this Daniel, except we find it against him concerning the law
of his God. {6:6} Then these presidents and satraps assembled together to the
king, and said thus unto him, King Darius, live for ever. {6:7} All the
presidents of the kingdom, the deputies and the satraps, the counselors and the
governors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a
strong interdict, that anyone who shall ask a petition of any god or man for
thirty days, save of you, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions. {6:8}
Now, O king, establish the interdict, and sign the writing, that it be not
changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which alters not.
{6:9} Therefore king Darius signed the writing and the interdict. {6:10} And
when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house (now his
windows were open in his chamber toward Jerusalem) and he kneeled upon his
knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did
aforetime. {6:11} Then these men assembled together, and found Daniel making
petition and supplication before his God. {6:12} Then they came near, and spoke
before the king concerning the king's interdict: Have you not signed an
interdict, that every man that shall make petition unto any god or man within
thirty days, save unto you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The
king answered and said, The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes
and Persians, which alters not. {6:13} Then answered they and said before the
king, That Daniel, who is of the children of the captivity of Judah, regards
not you, O king, nor the interdict that you have signed, but makes his petition
three times a day. {6:14} Then the king, when he heard these words, was sore
displeased, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him; and he labored till the
going down of the sun to rescue him. {6:15} Then these men assembled together
unto the king, and said unto the king, Know, O king, that it is a law of the
Medes and Persians, that no interdict nor statute which the king establishes
may be changed. {6:16} Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and
cast him into the den of lions. [Now] the king spoke and said unto Daniel, Your
God whom you serves continually, he will deliver you. {6:17} And a stone was
brought, and laid upon the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his
own signet, and with the signet of his lords; that nothing might be changed
concerning Daniel. {6:18} Then the king went to his palace, and passed the
night fasting; neither were instruments of music brought before him: and his
sleep fled from him. {6:19} Then the king arose very early in the morning, and
went in haste unto the den of lions. {6:20} And when he came near unto the den
to Daniel, he cried with a lamentable voice; the king spoke and said to Daniel,
O Daniel, servant of the living God, is your God, whom you serve continually,
able to deliver you from the lions? {6:21} Then said Daniel unto the king, O
king, live for ever. {6:22} My God has sent his messenger, and has shut the
lions' mouths, and they have not hurt me; forasmuch as before him innocence was
found in me; and also before you, O king, have I done no hurt. {6:23} Then was
the king exceeding glad, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of
the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no manner of hurt was found
upon him, because he had trusted in his God. {6:24} And the king commanded, and
they brought those men that had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den
of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery
of them, and brake all their bones in pieces, before they came to the bottom of
the den. {6:25} Then king Darius wrote unto all the peoples, nations, and
languages, that dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied unto you. {6:26} I
make a decree, that in all the dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear
before the God of Daniel; for he is the living God, and steadfast for ever, And
his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed; and his dominion shall be even
unto the end. {6:27} He delivers and rescues, and he works signs and wonders in
heaven and in earth, who has delivered Daniel from the power of the lions.
{6:28} So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of
Cyrus the Persian.
{O27)7} Daniel 7. {7:1} In the first year of Belshazzar king
of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he
wrote the dream and told the sum of the matters. {7:2} Daniel spoke and said, I
saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of heaven brake forth
upon the great sea. {7:3} And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse
one from another. {7:4} The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I
beheld till the wings of it were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth,
and made to stand upon two feet as a man; and a man's heart was given to it.
{7:5} And, behold, another beast, a second, like to a bear; and it was raised
up on one side, and three ribs were in its mouth between its teeth: and they
said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh. {7:6} After this I beheld, and,
lo, another, like a leopard, which had upon its back four wings of a bird; the
beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it. {7:7} After this I saw
in the night-visions, and, behold, a fourth beast, terrible and powerful, and
strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth; it devoured and brake in
pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet: and it was diverse from all the
beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns. {7:8} I considered the horns,
and, behold, there came up among them another [the eleventh] horn, a little
one, before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots: and,
behold, in this [eleventh] horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth
speaking great things. {7:9} I beheld till thrones were placed, and one that
was ancient of days did sit: his raiment was white as snow, and the hair of his
head like pure wool; his throne was fiery flames, [and] the wheels of it
burning fire. {7:10} A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him:
thousands of thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand
stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened. {7:11} I
beheld at that time because of the voice of the great words which the
[eleventh] horn spoke; I beheld even till the beast was slain, and its body
destroyed, and it was given to be burned with fire. {7:12} And as for the rest
of the beasts, their dominion was taken away: yet their lives were prolonged
for a season and a time.
{7:13} I saw in the night-visions, and,
behold, there came with the clouds of heaven one like unto a son of man, and he
came even to the ancient of days, and they brought him near before him. {7:14}
And there was given him [the son of man] dominion, and glory, and a kingdom,
that all the peoples, nations, and languages should serve him: his dominion is
an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom [is] that
which shall not be destroyed.
{7:15} As for me, Daniel, my
spirit was grieved in the midst of my body, and the visions of my head troubled
me. {7:16} I came near unto one of them that stood by, and asked him the truth
concerning all this. So he told me, and made me know the interpretation of the
things. {7:17} These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, that shall
arise out of the earth. {7:18} But the Holy People of the Most High shall
receive the kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever.
{7:19} Then I desired to know
the truth concerning the fourth beast, which was different from all of them, exceeding terrible, whose
teeth were of iron, and its nails of brass; which devoured, brake in pieces,
and stamped the residue with its feet; {7:20} and concerning the ten horns that
were on its head, and the other [the eleventh horn] which came up, and before
which three fell [down], even that [eleventh] horn that had eyes, and a mouth
that spoke great things [that deceive], whose look was more stout than its
fellows. {7:21} I beheld, and the same [eleventh] horn made war with the Holy
People [of God], and prevailed against them; {7:22} until the ancient of days
came, and judgment was given to the Holy People of the Most High, and the time
came that the Holy People took repossession of the [everlasting] kingdom.
{7:23} Thus he said, The
fourth beast shall be a fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be different
from all the kingdoms, and shall devour the entire earth, and shall tread it
down, and break it in pieces. {7:24} And as for the ten horns, out of this
kingdom shall ten kings arise: and another [the eleventh horn] shall arise
after them; and he shall be different from the [other kings], and he shall
defeat three kings. {7:25} And he [the eleventh horn] shall speak [blasphemous]
words against the Most High, and [blasphemous words] shall deceive the Holy
People of the Most High; and he shall think [he can] change the set times [to
worship] and [change] the laws [of the most high]; and they [the deceived Holy
People] shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing [of
the Holy People] for a time.
{7:26} But judgment of the
court [of the Ekklesia] shall be seated, and they [the Holy People] shall
[judge] to take away his dominion [to deceive], to consume and to destroy it
unto the end. {7:27} And the kingdom and the dominion, and the [restored]
greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people
of the Holy People of the Most High: his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and
the entire rule of all nations shall serve and obey Him [The Most high God].
{7:28} Here is the end of the matter. As for
me, Daniel, my thoughts much troubled me, and my countenance was changed in me:
but I kept the matter in my heart.
{O27)8} Daniel 8. {8:1} In the third year of the reign of
king Belshazzar a vision appeared unto me, even unto me, Daniel, after that
which appeared unto me at the first. {8:2} And I saw in the vision; now it was
so, that when I saw, I was in Shushan the palace, which is in the province of
Elam; and I saw in the vision, and I was by the river Ulai. {8:3} Then I lifted
up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there stood before the river a ram which
had two horns: and the two horns were high; but one was higher than the other,
and the higher came up last. {8:4} I saw the ram pushing westward, and
northward, and southward; and no beasts could stand before him, neither was
there any that could deliver out of his hand; but he did according to his will,
and magnified himself. {8:5} And as I was considering, behold, a he-goat came
from the west over the face of the whole earth, and touched not the ground: and
the goat had a notable horn between his eyes. {8:6} And he came to the ram that
had the two horns, which I saw standing before the river, and ran upon him in
the fury of his power. {8:7} And I saw him come close unto the ram, and he was
moved with anger against him, and smote the ram, and brake his two horns; and
there was no power in the ram to stand before him; but he cast him down to the
ground, and trampled upon him; and there was none that could deliver the ram
out of his hand. {8:8} And the he-goat magnified himself exceedingly: and when
he was strong, the great horn was broken; and instead of it there came up four
notable [horns] toward the four winds of heaven. {8:9} And out of one of them
came forth a little horn, which waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and
toward the east, and toward the glorious [land]. {8:10} And it waxed great,
even to the host of heaven; and some of the host and of the stars it cast down
to the ground, and trampled upon them. {8:11} behold, it magnified itself, even
to the prince of the host; and it took away from him the continual
[burnt-offering], and the place of his sanctuary was cast down. {8:12} And the
host was given over [to it] together with the continual [burnt-offering]
through transgression of the law; and it cast down truth to the ground, and it
did [its pleasure] and prospered. {8:13} Then I heard a holy one speaking; and
another holy one said unto that certain one who spoke, How long shall be the
vision [concerning] the continual [burnt-offering], and the transgression of
the law that makes desolate, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be
trodden under foot? {8:14} And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three
hundred evenings [and] mornings; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed. {8:15}
And it came to pass, when I, even I Daniel, had seen the vision, that I sought
to understand it; and, behold, there stood before me as the appearance of a
man. {8:16} And I heard a man's voice between [the banks of] the Ulai, which
called, and said, Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision. {8:17} So he
came near where I stood; and when he came, I was affrighted, and fell upon my
face: but he said unto me, Understand, O son of man; for the vision belongs to
the time of the end. {8:18} Now as he was speaking with me, I fell into a deep
sleep with my face toward the ground; but he touched me, and set me upright.
{8:19} And he said, Behold, I will make you know what shall be in the latter
time of the indignation; for it belongs to the appointed time of the end.
{8:20} The ram which you saw, that had the two horns, they are the kings of
Media and Persia. {8:21} And the rough he-goat is the king of Greece: and the
great horn that is between his eyes is the first king. {8:22} And as for that
which was broken, in the place where four stood up, four kingdoms shall stand
up out of the nation, but not with his power. {8:23} And in the latter time of
their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce
countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up. {8:24} And his
power shall be mighty, but not by his own power; and he shall destroy
wonderfully, and shall prosper and do [his pleasure]; and he shall destroy the
mighty ones and the holy people. {8:25} And through his policy he shall cause
craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and in
[their] security shall he destroy many: he shall also stand up against the
prince of princes; but he shall be broken outside hand. {8:26} And the vision
of the evenings and mornings which has been told is true: but shut you up the
vision; for it belongs to many days [to come]. {8:27} And I, Daniel, fainted,
and was sick certain days; then I rose up, and did the king's business: and I
wondered at the vision, but none understood it.
{O27)9} Daniel 9. {9:1} In the first year of Darius the son
of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the
Chaldeans, {9:2} in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books
the number of the years where the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah the prophet,
for the accomplishing of the desolations of Jerusalem, even seventy years.
{9:3} And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications,
with fasting and sackcloth and ashes. {9:4} And I prayed unto Yahweh my God,
and made confession, and said, Oh, Lord, the great and dreadful God, who keeps
covenant and agape loving kindness with them that agape love him and keep his
commandments, {9:5} we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly,
and have rebelled, even turning aside from your precepts and from your
ordinances; {9:6} neither have we heard unto your servants the prophets, that
spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the
people of the land. {9:7} O Lord, righteousness belongs unto you, but unto us
confusion of face, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants
of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through
all the countries where you have driven them, because of their trespass that
they have trespassed against you. {9:8} O Lord, to us belongs confusion of
face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned
against you. {9:9} To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness; for we
have rebelled against him; {9:10} neither have we obeyed the voice of Yahweh
our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the
prophets. {9:11} behold, all
{O27)10} Daniel 10. {10:1} In the third year of Cyrus king of
Persia a thing was revealed unto Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar;
and the thing was true, even a great warfare: and he understood the thing, and
had understanding of the vision. {10:2} In those days I, Daniel, was grieving
[for] three whole solar sevens. {10:3} I ate no pleasant bread, neither came
flesh nor wine into my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three
whole solar sevens were fulfilled. {10:4} And in the four and twentieth day of
the first [the resurrection] moon [Abib], as I was by the side of the great
river, which is Hiddekel, {10:5} I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and,
behold, a man clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with pure gold of
Uphaz: {10:6} his body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance
of lightning, and his eyes as flaming torches, and his arms and his feet like
unto burnished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.
{10:7} And I, Daniel, alone saw the vision; for the men that were with me saw
not the vision; but a great quaking fell upon them, and they fled to hide
themselves. {10:8} So I was left alone, and saw this great vision, and there
remained no strength in me; for my comeliness was turned in me into corruption,
and I retained no strength. {10:9} yet heard I the voice of his words; and when
I heard the voice of his words, then was I fallen into a deep sleep on my face,
with my face toward the ground. {10:10} And, behold, a hand touched me, which
set me upon my knees and upon the palms of my hands. {10:11} And he said unto
me, O Daniel, you man greatly beloved, understand the words that I speak unto
you, and stand upright; for unto you am I now sent. And when he had spoken this
word unto me, I stood trembling. {10:12} Then said he unto me, Fear not,
Daniel; for from the first day that you did set your heart to understand, and
to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard: and I am come for
your words' sake. {10:13} But the prince of the
{O27)11} Daniel 11. {11:1} And as for me, in the first year of
Darius the Mede, I stood up to confirm and strengthen him. {11:2} And now will
I show you the truth. Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings in
{O28)1}
Hosea 1. {1:1} The word of Yahweh
that came unto Hosea the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and
Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of
Israel. {1:2} When Yahweh spoke at the first by Hosea, Yahweh said unto Hosea,
Go, take unto you a wife of prostitution and children of prostitution; for the
land does commit great prostitution, [departing] from Yahweh. {1:3} So he went
and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; and she conceived, and bare him a son.
{1:4} And Yahweh said unto him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while,
and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause
the kingdom of the house of
{O28)2} Hosea 2. {2:1} Say you unto your brethren, Ammi; and
to your sisters, Ruhamah. {2:2} Contend with your mother, contend; for she is
not my wife, neither am I her husband; and let her put away her prostitutions
from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts; {2:3} lest I strip
her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a
wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst. {2:4}
behold, upon her children will I have no mercy; for they are children of prostitution;
{2:5} for their mother has played the prostitute; she that conceived them has
done shamefully; for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread
and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink. {2:6} Therefore,
behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will build a wall against
her, that she shall not find her paths. {2:7} And she shall follow after her
lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not
find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for
then was it better with me than now. {2:8} For she did not know that I gave her
the grain, and the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied unto her silver and
gold, which they used for Baal. {2:9} Therefore will I take back my grain in
the time there, and my new wine in the season there, and will pluck away my
wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness. {2:10} And now will I
uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out
of my hand. {2:11} I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feasts, her
new moons, and her Sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies. {2:12} And I will
lay waste her vines and her fig-trees, where she has said, These are my hire
that my lovers have given me; and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of
the field shall eat them. {2:13} And I will visit upon her the days of the
Baalim, unto which she burned incense, when she decked herself with her
earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me, said Yahweh.
{2:14} Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness,
and speak comfortably unto her. {2:15} And I will give to her, her vineyards
from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she shall make
answer there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up
out of the land of Egypt. {2:16} And it shall be at that day, said Yahweh, that
you shall call me Ishi, and shall call me no more Baali. {2:17} For I will take
away the names of the Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be
mentioned by their name. {2:18} And in that day will I make a covenant for them
with the beasts of the field, and with the birds of the heavens, and with the
creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the
battle out of the land, and will make them to lie down safely. {2:19} And I
will betroth you unto me for ever; behold, I will betroth you unto me in
righteousness, and in justice, and in loving kindness, and in mercies. {2:20} I
will even betroth you unto me in faithfulness; and you shall know Yahweh.
{2:21} And it shall come to pass in that day, I will answer, said Yahweh, I
will answer the heavens, and they shall answer the earth; {2:22} and the earth
shall answer the grain, and the new wine, and the oil; and they shall answer
Jezreel. {2:23} And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy
upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them that were not my
people, you are my people; and they shall say, [you are] my God.
{O28)3} Hosea 3. {3:1} And Yahweh said unto me, Go again,
agape love a woman beloved of [her] friend, and an adulteress, even as Yahweh
agape loves children of Israel, though they turn unto other gods, and agape
love cakes of raisins. {3:2} So I bought her to me for fifteen [pieces] of
silver, and a homer of barley, and a half-homer of barley; {3:3} and I said
unto her, you shall abide for me many days; you shall not play the prostitute,
and you shall not be any man's wife: so will I also be toward you. {3:4} For
the children of Israel shall abide many days outside king, and outside prince,
and outside sacrifice, and outside pillar, and outside ephod or image for
worship: {3:5} afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek Yahweh
their God, and David their king, and shall come with fear unto Yahweh and to
his goodness in the latter days.
{O28)4} Hosea 4. {4:1} Hear the word of Yahweh, you children
of
{O28)5} Hosea 5.
{5:1} Hear this, O you priests, and hear, O house of Israel, and give
ear, O house of the king; for unto you pertains the judgment; for you have been
a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor. {5:2} And the rebels are gone
deep in making slaughter; but I am a chastiser of them all. {5:3} I know
Ephraim, and
{O28)6} Hosea 6. {6:1} Come, and let us return unto Yahweh;
for he has torn, and he will heal us; he has smitten, and he will bind us up.
{6:2} After two days will he revive us: on the third day he will raise us up,
and we shall live before him. {6:3} And let us know, let us follow on to know Yahweh:
his going forth is sure as the morning; and he will come unto us as the rain,
as the latter rain that waters the earth. {6:4} O Ephraim, what shall I do unto
you? O
{O28)7} Hosea 7. {7:1} When I would heal
{O28)8} Hosea 8. {8:1} [Set] the trumpet to your mouth. As an
eagle [he comes] against the house of Yahweh, because they have transgressed my
covenant, and trespassed against my law. {8:2} They shall cry unto me, My God,
we
{O28)9}
Hosea 9. {9:1} Rejoice not, O
Israel, for joy, like the peoples; for you have played the prostitute,
[departing] from your God; you have agape loved hire upon every grain-floor.
{9:2} The threshing-floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new
wine shall fail her. {9:3} They shall not dwell in Yahweh's land; but Ephraim
shall return to
{O28)10}
Hosea 10. {10:1}
{O28)11}
Hosea 11. {11:1} When
{o28)12}
Hosea 12. {12:1} Ephraim feeds on
wind, and follows after the east wind: he continually multiplies lies and
desolation; and they make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into
{O28)13} Hosea 13. {13:1} When Ephraim spoke, there was
trembling; he exalted himself in
{O28)14} 14. {14:1} O
{O29)1} Joel 1. The Book of Joel {1:1} The word of Yahweh that came to Joel
the son of Pethuel. {1:2} Hear this, you old men, and give ear, all you
inhabitants of the land. Has this been in your days, or in the days of your
fathers? {1:3} Tell you your children of it, and [let] your children [tell]
their children, and their children another generation. {1:4} That which the
palmer-worm has left has the locust eaten; and that which the locust has left
has the canker-worm eaten; and that which the canker-worm has left has the
caterpillar eaten. {1:5} Awake, you drunkards, and weep; and wail, all you
drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.
{1:6} For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and outside number; his
teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the jaw-teeth of a lioness. {1:7} He
has laid my vine waste, and barked my fig-tree: he has made it clean bare, and
cast it away; the branches of it are made white. {1:8} Lament like a virgin
girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth. {1:9} The meal-offering and
the drink-offering are cut off from the house of Yahweh; the priests, Yahweh's
ministers, grieve. {1:10} The field is laid waste, the land grieves; for the
grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, the oil languishes. {1:11} Be
confounded, O you husbandmen, wail, O you vinedressers, for the wheat and for
the barley; for the harvest of the field is perished. {1:12} The vine is
withered, and the fig-tree languishes; the pomegranate-tree, the palm-tree
also, and the apple-tree, even all the trees of the field are withered: for joy
is withered away from the sons of men. {1:13} Gird yourselves [with sackcloth],
and lament, you priests; wail, you ministers of the altar; come, lie all night
in sackcloth, you ministers of my God: for the meal-offering and the
drink-offering are withheld from the house of your God. {1:14} Sanctify a fast,
call a solemn assembly, gather the old men [and] all the inhabitants of the
land unto the house of Yahweh your God, and cry unto Yahweh. {1:15} Alas for
the day! for the day of Yahweh is at hand, and as destruction from the Almighty
shall it come. {1:16} Is not the food cut off before our eyes, [behold], joy
and gladness from the house of our God? {1:17} The seeds rot under their clods;
the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the grain is
withered. {1:18} How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed,
because they have no pasture; behold, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.
{1:19} O Yahweh, to you do I cry; for the fire has devoured the pastures of the
wilderness, and the flame has burned all the trees of the field. {1:20} behold,
the beasts of the field pant unto you; for the water brooks are dried up, and
the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness. {O29)2} Joel 2. {2:1} Blow you the trumpet in Zion, and
sound an alarm in my holy mountain; let all the inhabitants of the land
tremble: for the day of Yahweh comes, for it is near at hand; {2:2} a day of
darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, as the dawn spread
upon the mountains; a great people and a strong; there has not been ever the
like, neither shall be any more after them, even to the years of many
generations. {2:3} A fire devours before them; and behind them a flame burns:
the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate
wilderness; behold, and none has escaped them. {2:4} The appearance of them is
as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so do they run. {2:5} Like the
noise of chariots on the tops of the mountains do they leap, like the noise of
a flame of fire that devours the stubble, as a strong people set in battle
array. {2:6} At their presence the peoples are in anguish; all faces are waxed
pale. {2:7} They run like mighty men; they climb the wall like men of war; and
they march every one on his ways, and they break not their ranks. {2:8} Neither
does one thrust another; they march every one in his path; and they burst
through the weapons, and break not off [their course]. {2:9} They leap upon the
city; they run upon the wall; they climb up into the houses; they enter in at
the windows like a thief. {2:10} The earth quakes before them; the heavens
tremble; the sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their
shining. {2:11} And Yahweh utters his voice before his army; for his camp is
very great; for he is strong that executes his word; for the day of Yahweh is
great and very terrible; and who can abide it? {2:12} yet even now, said Yahweh,
turn you unto me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and
with grieveing: {2:13} and rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn
unto Yahweh your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and
abundant in loving kindness, and repents him of the evil. {2:14} Who knows
whether he will not turn and repent, and leave a blessing behind him, even a
meal-offering and a drink-offering unto Yahweh your God? {2:15} Blow the
trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly; {2:16} gather the
people, sanctify the assembly, assemble the old men, gather the children, and
those that suck the breasts; let the bridegroom go forth from his chamber, and
the bride out of her closet. {2:17} Let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh,
weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare your people, O Yahweh,
and give not your heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them:
Therefore should they say among the peoples, Where is their God? {2:18} Then
was Yahweh jealous for his land, and had pity on his people. {2:19} And Yahweh
answered and said unto his people, Behold, I will send you grain, and new wine,
and oil, and you shall be satisfied with; and I will no more make you a
reproach among the nations; {2:20} but I will remove far off from you the
northern [army], and will drive it into a land barren and desolate, its
forepart into the eastern sea, and its hinder part into the wEsthern sea; and
its stench shall come up, and its ill savor shall come up, because it has done
great things. {2:21} Fear not, O land, be glad and rejoice; for Yahweh has done
great things. {2:22} Be not afraid, you beasts of the field; for the pastures
of the wilderness do spring, for the tree bears its fruit, the fig-tree and the
vine do yield their strength. {2:23} Be glad then, you children of Zion, and
rejoice in Yahweh your God; for he gives you the former rain in just measure,
and he causes to come down for you the rain, the former rain and the latter
rain, in the first [moon Abib]. {2:24} And the floors shall be full of wheat
[sown in Abib, the first moon of resurrection], and the vats shall overflow
with new wine and oil. {2:25} And I will restore to you the years that the
locust has eaten, the canker-worm, and the caterpillar, and the palmer-worm, my
great army which I sent among you. {2:26} And you shall eat in plenty and be
satisfied, and shall praise the name of Yahweh your God, that has dealt
wondrously with you; and my people shall never be put to shame. {2:27} And you
shall know that I am in the midst of
{O29)3} Joel 3. {3:1} For, behold, in those days, and in
that time, when I shall bring back the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, {3:2}
I will gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of
Jehoshaphat; and I will execute judgment upon them there for my people and for
my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations: and they have
parted my land, {3:3} and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy
for a prostitute, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink. {3:4} behold,
and what are you to me, O Tyre, and
{O30)1} Amos 1. {1:1} The words of Amos, who was among the
herdsmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of
Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years
before the earthquake. {1:2} And he said, Yahweh will roar from
{O30)2} Amos 2. {2:1} Thus said Yahweh: For three
transgressions of the law of Moab, behold, for four, I will not turn away the
punishment there; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:
{2:2} but I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of
Kerioth; and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of
the trumpet; {2:3} and I will cut off the judge from the midst there, and will
slay all the princes of it with him, said Yahweh. {2:4} Thus said Yahweh: For
three transgressions of the law of Judah, behold, for four, I will not turn
away the punishment there; because they have rejected the law of Yahweh, and
have not kept his statutes, and their lies have caused them to err, after which
their fathers did walk: {2:5} but I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall
devour the palaces of Jerusalem. {2:6} Thus said Yahweh: For three
transgressions of the law of Israel, behold, for four, I will not turn away the
punishment there; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the
needy for a pair of shoes- {2:7} they that pant after the dust of the earth on
the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his
father go unto the [same] maiden, to profane my holy name: {2:8} and they lay
themselves down beside every altar upon clothes taken in pledge; and in the
house of their God they drink the wine of such as have been fined. {2:9} yet
destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the
cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above,
and his roots from beneath. {2:10} Also I brought you up out of the land of
Egypt, and led you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the
Amorite. {2:11} And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young
men for Nazirites. Is it not even thus, O you children of
{O30)3}
Amos 3. {3:1} Hear this word
that Yahweh has spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole
family which I brought up out of the land of Egypt, saying, {3:2} You only have
I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will visit upon you all
your iniquities. {3:3} shall two walk together, except they have agreed? {3:4}
Will a lion roar in the forest, when he has no prey? will a young lion cry out
of his den, if he have taken nothing? {3:5} Can a bird fall in a snare upon the
earth, where no gin is [set] for him? shall a snare spring up from the ground,
and have taken nothing at all? {3:6} shall the trumpet be blown in a city, and
the people not be afraid? shall evil befall a city, and Yahweh has not done it?
{3:7} Surely the Lord Yahweh will do nothing, except he reveal his secret unto
his servants the prophets. {3:8} The lion has roared; who will not fear? The
Lord Yahweh has spoken; who can but prophesy? {3:9} Publish you in the palaces
at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves
upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold what great tumults are therein, and
what oppressions in the midst there. {3:10} For they know not to do right, said
Yahweh, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces. {3:11} Therefore
thus said the Lord Yahweh: An adversary [there shall be], even round about the
land; and he shall bring down your strength from you, and your palaces shall be
plundered. {3:12} Thus said Yahweh: As the shepherd rescues out of the mouth of
the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear, so shall the children of Israel be
rescued that sit in Samaria in the corner of a couch, and on the silken
cushions of a bed. {3:13} Hear you, and testify against the house of Jacob,
said the Lord Yahweh, the God of hosts. {3:14} For in the day that I shall
visit the transgression of the law of
{O30)4} Amos 4. {4:1} Hear this word, you cattle of Bashan,
that are in the mountain of Samaria, that oppress the poor, that crush the
needy, that say unto their lords, Bring, and let us drink. {4:2} The Lord Yahweh
has sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that they
shall take you away with hooks, and your residue with fish-hooks. {4:3} And you
shall go out at the breaches, every one straight before her; and you shall cast
[yourselves] into Harmon, said Yahweh. {4:4} Come to Beth-el, and transgress;
to Gilgal, [and] multiply transgression of the law; and bring your sacrifices
every morning, [and] your tithes every three days; {4:5} and [butnt] offer a
sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim
freewill-offerings and publish them: for this you agape love, O you children of
Israel, said the Lord Yahweh. {4:6} And I also have given you cleanness of
teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places; yet you havr
not returned unto me, said Yahweh. {4:7} And I also have withheld the rain from
you, when there were yet three moons to the harvest; and I caused it to rain
upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was
rained upon, and the piece where it rained not withered. {4:8} So two or three
cities wandered unto one city to drink water, and were not satisfied: yet have
you not returned unto me, said Yahweh. {4:9} I have smitten you with blasting
and mildew: the multitude of your gardens and your vineyards and your fig-trees
and your olive-trees has the palmer-worm devoured: yet have you not returned
unto me, said Yahweh. {4:10} I have sent among you the pestilence after the
manner of
{O30)5) Amos 5. {5:1} Hear you this word which I take up for
a lamentation over you, O house of
{O30)6}
Amos 6. {6:1} A curse to them
that are at ease in
{O30)8} Amos {8:1} Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: and,
behold, a basket of summer fruit. {8:2} And he said, Amos, what sees you? And I
said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said Yahweh unto me, The end is come upon
my people
{O30)9}
Amos 9. {9:1} I saw the Lord
standing beside the altar: and he said, Smite the capitals, that the thresholds
may shake; and break them in pieces on the head of all of them; and I will slay
the last of them with the sword: there shall not one of them flee away, and
there shall not one of them escape. {9:2} though they dig into Sheol, there
shall my hand take them; and though they climb up to heaven, there will I bring
them down. {9:3} And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will
search and take them out there; and though they be hid from my sight in the
bottom of the sea, there will I command the serpent, and it shall bite them.
{9:4} And though they go into captivity before their enemies, there will I
command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set mine eyes upon them
for evil, and not for good. {9:5} For the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, [is] he that
touches the land and it melts, and all that dwell therein shall grieve; and it shall
rise up wholly like the River, and shall sink again, like the River of Egypt;
{9:6} [it is] he that builds his chambers in the heavens, and has founded his
vault upon the earth; he that calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them
out upon the face of the earth; Yahweh is his name. {9:7} Are you not as the
children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of
{O31)I} Obadiah 1. {1:1} The vision of Obadiah. Thus say the
Lord Yahweh concerning
{O32)1} Jonah 1. {1:1} Now the word of Yahweh came unto
Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, {1:2} Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city,
and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me. {1:3} But Jonah
rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh; and he went down to
Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare there, and went
down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh. {1:4}
But Yahweh sent out a great wind upon the sea, and there was a mighty tempest
on the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken. {1:5} Then the mariners
were afraid, and cried every man unto his god; and they cast forth the wares
that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it unto them. But Jonah was gone
down into the innermost parts of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.
{1:6} So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest you, O sleeper?
arise, call upon your God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish
not. {1:7} And they said every one to his fellow, Come, and let us cast lots,
that we may know for whose cause this evil is upon us. So they cast lots, and
the lot fell upon Jonah. {1:8} Then said they unto him, Tell us, we pray you,
for whose cause this evil is upon us; what is your occupation? and from where
do you come? what is your country? and of what people are you? {1:9} And he
said unto them, I am a Hebrew; and I fear Yahweh, the God of heaven, who has
made the sea and the dry land. {1:10} Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and
said unto him, What is this that you have done? For the men knew that he was
fleeing from the presence of Yahweh, because he had told them. {1:11} Then said
they unto him, What shall we do unto you, that the sea may be calm unto us? for
the sea grew more and more tempestuous. {1:12} And he said unto them, Take me
up, and cast me forth into the sea; so shall the sea be calm unto you: for I know
that for my sake this great tempest is upon you. {1:13} Nevertheless the men
rowed hard to get them back to the land; but they could not: for the sea grew
more and more tempestuous against them. {1:14} Therefore they cried unto Yahweh,
and said, We ask you, O Yahweh, we ask you, let us not perish for this man's
life, and lay not upon us innocent blood; for you, O Yahweh, have done as it
pleased you. {1:15} So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea; and
the sea ceased from its raging. {1:16} Then the men feared Yahweh exceedingly;
and they offered a sacrifice unto Yahweh, and made vows. {1:17} And Yahweh
prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah; and Jonah was in the belly of the
fish three days and three nights.
{O32)2} Jonah 2. {2:1} Then
Jonah prayed unto Yahweh his God out of the fish's belly. {2:2} And he said, I
called by reason of mine affliction unto Yahweh, And he answered me; Out of the
belly of Sheol cried I, [And] you heard my voice. {2:3} For you did cast me
into the depth, in the heart of the seas, And the flood was round about me; All
your waves and your billows passed over me. {2:4} And I said, I am cast out
from before your eyes; yet I will look again toward your holy temple. {2:5} The
waters compassed me about, even to the soul; The deep was round about me; The
weeds were wrapped about my head. {2:6} I went down to the bottoms of the
mountains; The earth with its bars [closed] upon me for ever: yet have you
brought up my life from the pit, O Yahweh my God. {2:7} When my soul fainted
within me, I remembered Yahweh; And my prayer came in unto you, into your holy
temple. {2:8} They that regard lying vanities Forsake their own mercy. {2:9}
But I will sacrifice unto you with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that
which I have vowed. Salvation is of Yahweh. {2:10} And Yahweh spoke unto the
fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.
{O32)3} Jonah 3. {3:1} And the word of Yahweh came unto
Jonah the second time, saying, {3:2} Arise, go unto
{O32)4} Jonah 4. {4:1} But it displeased Jonah exceedingly,
and he was angry. {4:2} And he prayed unto Yahweh, and said, I pray you, O Yahweh,
was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I hurried to
flee unto Tarshish; for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow
to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you [cause to] repent of the
evil. {4:3} Therefore now, O Yahweh, take, I ask you, my life from me; for it
is better for me to die than to live. {4:4} And Yahweh said, you do well to be
angry? {4:5} Then Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the
city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shade, till he might
see what would become of the city. {4:6} And The God Yahweh prepared a gourd,
and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to
deliver him from his evil case. So Jonah was exceeding glad because of the
gourd. {4:7} But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it
smote the gourd, that it withered. {4:8} And it came to pass, when the sun
arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of
Jonah, that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said,
It is better for me to die than to live. {4:9} And God said to Jonah, Do you
well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto
death. {4:10} And Yahweh said, you have had regard for the gourd, for which you
have not labored, neither made it grow; which came up in a night, and perished
in a night: {4:11} and should not I have regard for Nineveh, that great city,
wherein are more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between
their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
{O33)1} Micah 1. {1:1} The word of Yahweh that came to
Micah the Morashtite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah,
which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem. {1:2} Hear, you peoples, all of
you: hear, O earth, and all that therein is: and let the Lord Yahweh be witness
against you, the Lord from his holy temple. {1:3} For, behold, Yahweh comes
forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of
the earth. {1:4} And the mountains shall be melted under him, and the valleys
shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, as waters that are poured down a steep
place. {1:5} For the transgression of the law of Jacob is all this, and for the
sins of the house of
{O33)2} Micah 2. {2:1} A curse to them that devise works against
law and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practice it,
because it is in the power of their hand. {2:2} And they covet fields, and
seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his
house, even a man and his heritage. {2:3} Therefore thus said Yahweh: Behold,
against this family do I devise an evil, from which you shall not remove your
necks, neither shall you walk proudly; for it is an evil time. {2:4} In that
day shall they take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful
lamentation, [and] say, We are utterly ruined: he changes the portion of my
people: how does he remove [it] from me! to the rebellious he divides our
fields. {2:5} Therefore you shall have none that shall cast the line by lot in
the Ekklesia of Yahweh. {2:6} Prophesy you not, [thus] they prophesy. They
shall not prophesy to these: reproaches shall not depart. {2:7} shall it be said,
O house of Jacob, Is the Spirit of Yahweh straitened? are these his doings? Do
not my words do good to him that walks uprightly? {2:8} But of late my people
is risen up as the enemy: you strip the robe from off the garment from them
that pass by securely [as men] with distain in war. {2:9} The women of my
people you cast out from their pleasant houses; from their young children you
take away my glory for ever. {2:10} Arise you, and depart; for this is not your
resting-place; because of uncleanness that destroys, even with a grievous
destruction. {2:11} If a man walking in a spirit of falsehood do lie, [saying],
I will prophesy unto you of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the
prophet of this people. {2:12} I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of you; I
will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep
of Bozrah, as a flock in the midst of their pasture; they shall make great
noise by reason of [the multitude of] men. {2:13} The breaker is gone up before
them: they have broken forth and passed on to the gate, and are gone out
thereat; and their king is passed on before them, and Yahweh at the head of
them.
{O33)3} MIcah 3. {3:1} And I said, Hear, I pray you, you
heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of
{O33)4} Micah 4. {4:1} But in the latter days it shall come
to pass, that the mountain of Yahweh's house shall be established on the top of
the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and peoples shall flow
unto it. {4:2} And many nations shall go and say, Come you, and let us go up to
the mountain of Yahweh, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach
us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths. For out of Zion shall go forth
the law, and the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem; {4:3} and he will judge between
many peoples, and will decide concerning strong nations afar off: and they
shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks;
nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any
more. {4:4} But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig-tree;
and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of Yahweh of hosts has spoken
it. {4:5} For all the peoples walk every one in the name of his god; and we
will walk in the name of Yahweh our God for ever and ever. {4:6} In that day,
said Yahweh, will I assemble that which is lame, and I will gather that which
is driven away, and that which I have afflicted; {4:7} and I will make that
which was lame a remnant, and that which was cast far off a strong nation: and Yahweh
will reign over them in mount Zion from here on even for ever. {4:8} And you, O
tower of the flock, the hill of the daughter of
{O33)5} Micah 5. {5:1} Now shall you gather yourself in
troops, O daughter of troops: he has laid siege against us; they shall smite
the judge of
{O33)6} Micah 6. {6:1} Hear you now what Yahweh said: Arise,
contend you before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice. {6:2}
Hear, O you mountains, Yahweh's controversy, and you enduring foundations of
the earth; for Yahweh has a controversy with his people, and he will contend
with
{O33)7} Micah 7. {7:1} A curse is me! for I am as when they
have gathered the summer fruits, as the grape gleanings of the vintage: there
is no cluster to eat; my soul desires the first-ripe fig. {7:2} The godly man
is perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men: they all lie
in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net. {7:3} Their
hands are upon that which is evil to do it diligently; the prince asks, and the
judge [is ready] for a reward; and the great man, he utters the evil desire of
his soul: thus they weave it together. {7:4} The best of them is as a brier;
the most upright is [worse] than a thorn hedge: the day of your watchmen, even
your visitation, is come; now shall be their perplexity. {7:5} Trust you not in
a neighbor; put you not confidence in a friend; keep the doors of your mouth
from her that lies in your bosom. {7:6} For the son dishonors the father, the
daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her
mother-in-law; a man's enemies are the men of his own house. {7:7} But as for
me, I will look unto Yahweh; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God
will hear me. {7:8} Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall
arise; when I sit in darkness, Yahweh will be a light unto me. {7:9} I will
bear the indignation of Yahweh, because I have sinned against him, until he
plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the
light, [and] I shall behold his righteousness. {7:10} Then mine enemy shall see
it, and shame shall cover her who said unto me, Where is Yahweh your God? Mine
eyes shall see [my desire] upon her; now shall she be trodden down as the mire
of the streets. {7:11} A day for building your walls! in that day shall the
decree be far removed. {7:12} In that day shall they come unto you from Assyria
and the cities of
{o34)1} Nahum 1. {1:1} The burden of
{O34)2}
Nahum 2. {2:1} He that dashes in pieces is come up against you: keep the
fortress, watch the way, make your loins strong, fortify your power mightily.
{2:2} For Yahweh restored the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of
{O34)3} Nahum 3. {3:1} A curse to the bloody city! it is all
full of lies and rapine; the prey departs not. {3:2} The noise of the whip, and
the noise of the rattling of wheels, and prancing horses, and bounding
chariots, {3:3} the horseman mounting, and the flashing sword, and the
glittering spear, and a multitude of slain, and a great heap of corpses, and
there is no end of the bodies; they stumble upon their bodies;- {3:4} because
of the multitude of the prostitutions of the well-favored prostitute, the
mistress of witchcrafts, that sells nations through her prostitutions, and
families through her witchcrafts. {3:5} Behold, I am against you, said Yahweh
of hosts, and I will uncover your skirts upon your face; and I will show the
nations your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame. {3:6} And I will cast
abominable filth upon you, and make you vile, and will set you as a
gazing-stock. {3:7} And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon you
shall flee from you, and say,
(O35)1} Habakkuk 1. {1:1} The burden which Habakkuk the prophet
did see. {1:2} O Yahweh, how long shall I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out
unto you of violence, and you will not save. {1:3} Why do you show me works against
law, and look upon perverseness? for destruction and violence are before me;
and there is strife, and contention rises up. {1:4} Therefore the law is
slacked, and justice does never go forth; for the wicked does compass about the
righteous; therefore justice goes forth perverted. {1:5} Behold you among the
nations, and look, and wonder marvelously; for I am working a work in your
days, which you will not believe though it be told you. {1:6} For, lo, I raise
up the Chaldeans, that ruthless and cruel nation, that march through the
breadth of the earth, to possess dwelling-places that are not theirs. {1:7}
They are terrible and dreadful; their judgment and their dignity proceed from
themselves. {1:8} Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more
fierce than the evening wolves; and their horsemen press proudly on: behold,
their horsemen come from far; they fly as an eagle that hurries to devour.
{1:9} They come all of them for violence; the set of their faces is forwards;
and they gather captives as the sand. {1:10} behold, he scoffs at kings, and
princes are a derision unto him; he derides every stronghold; for he heaps up
dust, and takes it. {1:11} Then shall he sweep by [as] a wind, and shall pass
over, and be guilty, [even] he whose might is his god. {1:12} are not you from
everlasting, O Yahweh my God, my Holy One? we shall not die. O Yahweh, you have
ordained him for judgment; and you, O Rock, have established him for
correction. {1:13} you that are of purer eyes than to behold evil, and that Can
not look on perverseness, Therefore look you upon them that deal treacherously,
and hold your peace when the wicked swallows up the man that is more righteous
than he; {1:14} and make men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things,
that have no ruler over them? {1:15} He takes up all of them with the angle, he
catches them in his net, and gathers them in his drag: therefore he rejoices
and is glad. {1:16} Therefore he sacrifice unto his net, and burns incense unto
his drag; because by them his portion is fat, and his food plenteous. {1:17}
shall he therefore empty his net, and spare not to slay the nations
continually?
{O35)2} Habakkuk 1. {2:1} I will stand upon my watch, and set me
upon the tower, and will look forth to see what he will speak with me, and what
I shall answer concerning my complaint. {2:2} And Yahweh answered me, and said,
Write the vision, and make it plain upon tablets, that he may run that read
[about] it. {2:3} For the vision is yet
for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and shall not lie:
though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not delay.
{2:4} Behold, his soul is puffed up, it is not upright in him; but the
righteous shall live by his faith. {2:5} behold, furthermore, wine is
treacherous, a haughty man, that keeps not at home; who enlarges his desire as
Sheol, and he is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathers unto him all
nations, and heaps unto him all peoples. {2:6} shall not all these take up a
parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, A curse to
him that increases that which is not his! how long? and that loads himself with
pledges! {2:7} shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite you, and awake
that shall vex you, and you shall be for booty unto them? {2:8} Because you
have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples shall plunder you,
because of men's blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and
to all that dwell therein. {2:9} A curse to him that gets an evil gain for his
house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand
of evil! {2:10} you have devised shame to your house, by cutting off many
peoples, and have sinned against your soul. {2:11} For the stone shall cry out
of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it. {2:12} A curse to
him that builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by works against law!
{2:13} Behold, is it not of Yahweh of hosts that the peoples labor for the
fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity? {2:14} For the earth shall
be filled with the knowledge of the glory of Yahweh, as the waters cover the
sea. {2:15} A curse unto him that gives his neighbor drink, [to you] that adds
your venom, and makes him drunk also, that you may look on their nakedness!
{2:16} you are filled with shame, and not glory: drink you also, and be as one
uncircumcised; the cup of Yahweh's right hand shall come round unto you, and
foul shame shall be upon your glory. {2:17} For the violence done to Lebanon
shall cover you, and the destruction of the beasts, which made them afraid;
because of men's blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and
to all that dwell therein. {2:18} What profit [in] the graven image, that the
maker of it has graven it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he
that fashioned its form trusts therein, to make dumb idols? {2:19} A curse unto
him that said to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise! shall this teach?
Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in
the midst of it. {2:20} But Yahweh is in his holy temple: let all the earth
keep silence before him.
{O35)3} Habakkuk 3. {3:1} A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, set
to Shigionoth. {3:2} O Yahweh, I have heard the report of you, and am afraid: O
Yahweh, revive your work in the midst of the years; In the midst of the years
make it known; In wrath remember mercy. {3:3} God came from Teman, And the Holy
One from
{O36)1} Zephaniah 1. {1:1} The word of Yahweh which came unto
Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of
Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah. {1:2} I will
utterly consume all things from off the face of the ground, said Yahweh. {1:3}
I will consume man and beast; I will consume the birds of the heavens, and the
fishes of the sea, and the stumbling blocks with the wicked; and I will cut off
man from off the face of the ground, said Yahweh. {1:4} And I will stretch out
my hand upon Judah, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut
off the remnant of Baal from this place, [and] the name of the Chemarim with
the priests; {1:5} and them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops;
and them that worship, that swear to Yahweh and swear by Malcam; {1:6} and them
that are turned back from following Yahweh; and those that have not sought Yahweh,
nor inquired after him. {1:7} Hold your peace at the presence of the Lord Yahweh;
for the day of Yahweh is at hand: for Yahweh has prepared a sacrifice, he has
consecrated his guests. {1:8} And it shall come to pass in the day of Yahweh's
sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, and the king's sons, and all such as
are clothed with foreign apparel. {1:9} And in that day I will punish all those
that leap over the threshold, that fill their master's house with violence and
deceit. {1:10} And in that day, said Yahweh, there shall be the noise of a cry
from the fish gate, and a wailing from the second quarter, and a great crashing
from the hills. {1:11} Wail, you inhabitants of Maktesh; for all the people of
{O36)2} Zephaniah 2. {2:1} Gather yourselves together, behold,
gather together, O nation that has no shame; {2:2} before the decree bring
forth, [before] the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of Yahweh
come upon you, before the day of Yahweh's anger come upon you. {2:3} Seek you Yahweh,
all you meek of the earth, that have kept his ordinances; seek righteousness,
seek meekness: it may be you will be hid in the day of Yahweh's anger. {2:4}
For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation; they shall drive out
{O36)3}
Zephaniah 3. {3:1} A curse to
her that is rebellious and polluted! to the oppressing city! {3:2} She obeyed
not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in Yahweh; she drew
not near to her God. {3:3} Her princes in the midst of her are roaring lions;
her judges are evening wolves; they leave nothing till the morrow. {3:4} Her
prophets are light and treacherous persons; her priests have profaned the
sanctuary, they have done violence to the law. {3:5} Yahweh in the midst of her
is righteous; he will not do works against law; every morning does he bring his
justice to light, he fails not; but the unjust knows no shame. {3:6} I have cut
off nations; their battlements are desolate; I have made their streets waste,
so that none passes by; their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, so
that there is no inhabitant. {3:7} I said, Only fear you me; receive
correction; so her dwelling shall not be cut off, [according to] all that I
have appointed concerning her: but they rose early and corrupted all their
doings. {3:8} Therefore wait you for me, said Yahweh, until the day that I rise
up to the prey; for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may
assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce
anger; for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy. {3:9}
For then will I turn to the peoples of a pure language, that they may all call
upon the name of Yahweh, to serve him with one consent. {3:10} From beyond the
rivers of
{O37)1} Haggai 1.
{1:1} In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth moon, in the
first day of the moon, came the word of Yahweh by Haggai the prophet unto
Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of
Jehozadak, the high priest, saying, {1:2} Thus speaks Yahweh of hosts, saying,
This people say, It is not the time [for us] to come, the time for Yahweh's
house to be built. {1:3} Then came the word of Yahweh by Haggai the prophet,
saying, {1:4} Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your ceiled houses,
while this house lies waste? {1:5} Now therefore thus said Yahweh of hosts:
Consider your ways. {1:6} you have sown much, and bring in little; you eat, but
you have not enough; you drink, but you are not filled with drink; you clothe
you, but there is none warm; and he that earns wages earns wages [to put it]
into a bag with holes. {1:7} Thus said Yahweh of hosts: Consider your ways.
{1:8} Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will
take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, said Yahweh. {1:9} you looked for
much, and, lo, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I did blow upon
it. Why? said Yahweh of hosts. Because of my house that lies waste, while you
run every man to his own house. {1:10} Therefore for your sake the heavens
withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit. {1:11} And I called for a
drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the grain, and upon the
new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground brings forth, and
upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labor of the hands. {1:12} Then
Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high
priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of Yahweh their
God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as Yahweh their God had sent him; and
the people did fear before Yahweh. {1:13} Then spoke Haggai Yahweh's messenger
in Yahweh's message unto the people, saying, I am with you, said Yahweh. {1:14}
And Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor
of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and
the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and did work on the
house of Yahweh of hosts, their God, {1:15} in the four and twentieth day of
the moon, in the sixth [moon], in the second year of Darius the king.
{O37)2} Haggai 2. {2:1} In the seventh [moon], in the one and
twentieth [day] of the moon, came the word of Yahweh by Haggai the prophet,
saying, {2:2} Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah,
and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to the remnant of the
people, saying, {2:3} Who is left among you that saw this house in its former
glory? and how do you see it now? is it not in your eyes as nothing? {2:4} yet
now be strong, O Zerubbabel, said Yahweh; and be strong, O Joshua, son of
Jehozadak, the high priest; and be strong, all you people of the land, said Yahweh,
and work: for I am with you, said Yahweh of hosts, {2:5} [according to] the
word that I covenanted with you when you came out of Egypt, and my Spirit abode
among you: fear you not. {2:6} For thus said Yahweh of hosts: yet once, it is a
little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the
dry land; {2:7} and I will shake all nations; and the precious things of all
nations shall come; and I will fill this house with glory, said Yahweh of
hosts. {2:8} The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, said Yahweh of hosts.
{2:9} The latter glory of this house shall be greater than the former, said Yahweh
of hosts; and in this place will I give peace, said Yahweh of hosts. {2:10} In
the four and twentieth [day] of the ninth [moon], in the second year of Darius,
came the word of Yahweh by Haggai the prophet, saying, {2:11} Thus said Yahweh
of hosts: Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying, {2:12} If one bear
holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt do touch bread, or
pottage, or wine, or oil, or any food, shall it become holy? And the priests
answered and said, No. {2:13} Then said Haggai, If one that is unclean by
reason of a dead body touch any of these, shall it be unclean? And the priests
answered and said, It shall be unclean. {2:14} Then answered Haggai and said,
So is this people, and so is this nation before me, said Yahweh; and so is
every work of their hands; and that which they offer there is unclean. {2:15}
And now, I pray you, consider from this day and backward, before a stone was
laid upon a stone in the temple of Yahweh. {2:16} Through all that time, when
one came to a heap of twenty [measures], there were but ten; when one came to
the wine vat to draw out fifty [vessels], there were but twenty. {2:17} I smote
you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the work of your hands;
yet you [turned] not to me, said Yahweh. {2:18} Consider, I pray you, from this
day and backward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth [moon], since
the day that the foundation of Yahweh's temple was laid, consider it. {2:19} Is
the seed yet in the barn? behold, the vine, and the fig-tree, and the
pomegranate, and the olive-tree have not brought forth; from this day will I
bless [you]. {2:20} And the word of Yahweh came the second time unto Haggai in
the four and twentieth [day] of the moon, saying, {2:21} Speak to Zerubbabel,
governor of Judah, saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth; {2:22} and I
will overthrow the throne of kingdoms; and I will destroy the strength of the
kingdoms of the nations; and I will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride
in them; and the horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the
sword of his brother. {2:23} In that day, said Yahweh of hosts, will I take
you, O Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel, said Yahweh, and will make
you as a signet; for I have chosen you, said Yahweh of hosts.
{O38)1} Zechariah
1. {1:1} In the eighth moon, in
the second year of Darius, came the word of Yahweh unto Zechariah the son of
Berechiah, the son of Iddo, the prophet, saying, {1:2} Yahweh was sore
displeased with your fathers. {1:3} Therefore say you unto them, Thus said Yahweh
of hosts: Return unto me, said Yahweh of hosts, and I will return unto you,
said Yahweh of hosts. {1:4} Be you not as your fathers, unto whom the former
prophets cried, saying, Thus said Yahweh of hosts, Return you now from your
evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hear unto me,
said Yahweh. {1:5} Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live
for ever? {1:6} But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the
prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? and they turned and said, Like as
Yahweh of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to
our doings, so has he dealt with us. {1:7} Upon the four and twentieth day of
the eleventh moon, which is the moon Shebat, in the second year of Darius, came
the word of Yahweh unto Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, the
prophet, saying, {1:8} I saw in the night, and, behold, a man riding upon a red
horse, and he stood among the myrtle-trees that were in the bottom; and behind
him there were horses, red, sorrel, and white. {1:9} Then said I, O my lord,
what are these? And the messenger that talked with me said unto me, I will show
you what these are. {1:10} And the man that stood among the myrtle-trees
answered and said, These are they whom Yahweh has sent to walk to and fro
through the earth. {1:11} And they answered the messenger of Yahweh that stood
among the myrtle-trees, and said, We have walked to and fro through the earth,
and, behold, all the earth sits still, and is at rest. {1:12} Then the
messenger of Yahweh answered and said, O Yahweh of hosts, how long will you not
have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which you have had
indignation these threescore and ten years? {1:13} And Yahweh answered the
messenger that talked with me with good words, [even] comfortable words. {1:14}
So the messenger that talked with me said unto me, Cry you, saying, Thus said Yahweh
of hosts: I am jealous for Jerusalem and for
{O38)2} Zechariah 1. {2:1} And I lifted up mine eyes, and saw,
and, behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand. {2:2} Then said I, Where
do you go? And he said unto me, To measure
{O38)3} Zechariah 3. {3:1} And he showed me Joshua the high
priest standing before the messenger of Yahweh, and Satan standing at his right
hand to be his adversary. {3:2} And Yahweh said unto Satan, Yahweh rebuke you,
O Satan; behold, Yahweh that has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you: is not this a
brand plucked out of the fire? {3:3} Now Joshua was clothed with filthy
garments, and was standing before the messenger. {3:4} And he answered and
spoke unto those that stood before him, saying, Take the filthy garments from
off him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused your works against law to
pass from you, and I will clothe you with rich apparel. {3:5} And I said, Let
them set a clean turban upon his head. So they set a clean turban upon his
head, and clothed him with garments; and the messenger of Yahweh was standing
by. {3:6} And the messenger of Yahweh protested unto Joshua, saying, {3:7} Thus
said Yahweh of hosts: If you will walk in my ways, and if you will keep my
charge, then you also shall judge my house, and shall also keep my courts, and
I will give you a place of access among these that stand by. {3:8} Hear now, O
Joshua the high priest, you and your fellows that sit before you; for they are
men that are a sign: for, behold, I will bring forth my servant the Branch.
{3:9} For, behold, the stone that I have set before Joshua; upon one stone are
seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the graving there, said Yahweh of hosts, and
I will remove the works against law of that land in one day. {3:10} In that
day, said Yahweh of hosts, shall you invite every man his neighbor under the
vine and under the fig-tree.
{O38)4} Zechariah 4. {4:1} And the messenger that talked with me
came again, and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep. {4:2} And
he said unto me, What sees you? And I said, I have seen, and, behold, a
candlestick all of gold, with its bowl upon the top of it, and its seven lamps
thereon; there are seven pipes to each of the lamps, which are upon the top
there; {4:3} and two olive-trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl,
and the other upon the left side there. {4:4} And I answered and spoke to the
messenger that talked with me, saying, What are these, my lord? {4:5} Then the
messenger that talked with me answered and said unto me, Know you not what
these are? And I said, No, my lord. {4:6} Then he answered and spoke unto me,
saying, This is the word of Yahweh unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor
by power, but by my Spirit, said Yahweh of hosts. {4:7} Who are you, O great
mountain? before Zerubbabel [you shall become] a plain; and he shall bring
forth the top stone with shoutings of Grace, grace, unto it. {4:8} Furthermore
the word of Yahweh came unto me, saying, {4:9} The hands of Zerubbabel have
laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it; and you
shall know that Yahweh of hosts has sent me unto you. {4:10} For who has
despised the day of small things? for these seven shall rejoice, and shall see
the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel; [these are] the eyes of Yahweh, which
run to and fro through the whole earth. {4:11} Then answered I, and said unto
him, What are these two olive-trees upon the right side of the candlestick and
upon the left side there? {4:12} And I answered the second time, and said unto
him, What are these two olive-branches, which are beside the two golden spouts,
that empty the golden [oil] out of themselves? {4:13} And he answered me and
said, Know you not what these are? And I said, No, my lord. {4:14} Then said
he, These are the two anointed ones, that stand by the Lord of the whole earth.
{O38)5} Zechariah 5. {5:1} Then again I lifted up mine eyes, and
saw, and, behold, a flying roll. {5:2} And he said unto me, What sees you? And
I answered, I see a flying roll; the length of it is twenty cubits, and the
breadth of item cubits. {5:3} Then said he unto me, This is the A curse that
goes forth over the face of the whole land: for every one that steals shall be
cut off on the one side according to it; and every one that swears shall be cut
off on the other side according to it. {5:4} I will cause it to go forth, said Yahweh
of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of
him that swears falsely by my name; and it shall abide in the midst of his
house, and shall consume it with the timber of it and the stones there. {5:5}
Then the messenger that talked with me went forth, and said unto me, Lift up
now your eyes, and see what is this that goes forth. {5:6} And I said, What is
it? And he said, This is the ephah that goes forth. He said furthermore, This
is their appearance in all the land {5:7} (and, behold, there was lifted up a
talent of lead); and this is a woman sitting in the midst of the ephah. {5:8}
And he said, This is Wickedness: and he cast her down into the midst of the
ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth there. {5:9} Then lifted I
up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there came forth two women, and the wind
was in their wings; now they had wings like the wings of a stork; and they
lifted up the ephah between earth and heaven. {5:10} Then said I to the
messenger that talked with me, Where do these bear the ephah? {5:11} And he
said unto me, To build her a house in the
{O38)6} Zechariah 6. {6:1} And again I lifted up mine eyes, and
saw, and, behold, there came four chariots out from between two mountains; and
the mountains were mountains of brass. {6:2} In the first chariot were red
horses; and in the second chariot black horses; {6:3} and in the third chariot
white horses; and in the fourth chariot grizzled strong horses. {6:4} Then I
answered and said unto the messenger that talked with me, What are these, my
lord? {6:5} And the messenger answered and said unto me, These are the four
winds of heaven, which go forth from standing before the Lord of all the earth.
{6:6} [The chariot] wherein are the black horses goes forth toward the north
country; and the white went forth after them; and the grizzled went forth
toward the south country. {6:7} And the strong went forth, and sought to go that
they might walk to and fro through the earth: and he said, Get you from here,
walk to and fro through the earth. So they walked to and fro through the earth.
{6:8} Then cried he to me, and spoke unto me, saying, Behold, they that go
toward the north country have quieted my spirit in the north country. {6:9} And
the word of Yahweh came unto me, saying, {6:10} Take of them of the captivity,
even of Heldai, of Tobijah, and of Jedaiah; and come you the same day, and go
into the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah, where they are come from
Babylon; {6:11} behold, take [of them] silver and gold, and make crowns, and
set them upon the head of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest; {6:12}
and speak unto him, saying, Thus speaks Yahweh of hosts, saying, Behold, the
man whose name is the Branch: and he shall grow up out of his place; and he
shall build the temple of Yahweh; {6:13} even he shall build the temple of Yahweh;
and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he
shall be a priest upon his throne; and the counsel of peace shall be between
them both. {6:14} And the crowns shall be to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to
Jedaiah, and to Hen the son of Zephaniah, for a memorial in the
{O38)7} Zechariah 7. {7:1} And it came to pass in the fourth
year of king Darius, that the word of Yahweh came unto Zechariah in the fourth
[day] of the ninth moon, even in Chislev. {7:2} Now [they of] Beth-el had sent
Sharezer and Regem-melech, and their men, to entreat the favor of Yahweh, {7:3}
[and] to speak unto the priests of the house of Yahweh of hosts, and to the
prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth moon, separating myself, as I have
done these so many years? {7:4} Then came the word of Yahweh of hosts unto me,
saying, {7:5} Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests,
saying, When you fasted and grieveed in the fifth and in the seventh [moon],
even these seventy years, did you at all fast unto me, even to me? {7:6} And
when you eat, and when you drink, do not you eat for yourselves, and drink for
yourselves? {7:7} [Should you] not [hear] the words which Yahweh cried by the
former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and the cities
of it round about her, and the South and the lowland were inhabited? {7:8} And
the word of Yahweh came unto Zechariah, saying, {7:9} Thus has Yahweh of hosts
spoken, saying, Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every
man to his brother; {7:10} and oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the
alien, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in
your heart. {7:11} But they refused to hear, and pulled away the shoulder, and
stopped their ears, that they might not hear. {7:12} behold, they made their
hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which Yahweh
of hosts had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets: therefore there came
great wrath from Yahweh of hosts. {7:13} And it is come to pass that, as he
cried, and they would not hear, so they shall cry, and I will not hear, said Yahweh
of hosts; {7:14} but I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the nations
which they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after them, so that no
man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate.
{O38)8}
Zechariah 8. {8:1} And the word
of Yahweh of hosts came [to me], saying, {8:2} Thus said Yahweh of hosts: I am
jealous for
{O38)9} Zechariah 9. {9:1} The burden of the word of Yahweh upon
the
{O38)10} Zechariah 10. {10:1} Ask you of Yahweh rain in the time of
the latter rain, [even of] Yahweh that makes lightnings; and he will give them
showers of rain, to every one grass in the field. {10:2} For the idols [for
worship] have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie; and they have
told false dreams, they comfort in vain: therefore they go their way like sheep,
they are afflicted, because there is no shepherd. {10:3} Mine anger is kindled
against the shepherds, and I will punish the he-goats; for Yahweh of hosts has
visited his flock, the house of Judah, and will make them as his goodly horse
in the battle. {10:4} From him shall come forth the corner-stone, from him the
nail, from him the battle bow, from him every ruler together. {10:5} And they
shall be as mighty men, treading down [their enemies] in the mire of the
streets in the battle; and they shall fight, because Yahweh is with them; and
the riders on horses shall be confounded. {10:6} And I will strengthen the
house of
{O38)11} Zechariah 11. {11:1} Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the
fire may devour your cedars. {11:2} Wail, O fir-tree, for the cedar is fallen,
because the goodly ones are destroyed: wail, O you oaks of
{O38)12} Zechariah 12. {12:1} The burden of the word of Yahweh
concerning
{O38)13} Zechariah 13. {13:1} In that day there shall be a fountain
opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of
{O38)14} Zechariah 14.
{14:1} Behold, a day of Yahweh comes, when your spoil shall be divided
in the midst of you. {14:2} For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to
battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women
ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue
of the people shall not be cut off from the city. {14:3} Then shall Yahweh go
forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
{14:4} And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is
before Jerusalem on the east; and the mount of Olives shall be cleft in the
midst of it toward the east and toward the west, [and there shall be] a very
great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half
of it toward the south. {14:5} And you shall flee by the valley of my
mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azel; behold, you
shall flee, like as you fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah
king of Judah; and Yahweh my God shall come, and all the holy ones with you.
{14:6} And it shall come to pass in that day, that there shall not be light;
the bright ones shall withdraw themselves: {14:7} but it shall be one day which
is known unto Yahweh; not day, and not night; but it shall come to pass, that
at evening time there shall be light. {14:8} And it shall come to pass in that
day, that living waters shall go out from
{O39)1} Malachi 1. {1:1} The burden of the word of Yahweh to
{O39)2} Malachi 2. {2:1} And now, O you priests, this
commandment is for you. {2:2} If you will not hear, and if you will not lay it
to heart, to give glory unto my name, said Yahweh of hosts, then will I send
the curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings; behold, I have cursed them
already, because you do not lay it to heart. {2:3} Behold, I will rebuke your
seed, and will spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your feasts; and
you shall be taken away with it. {2:4} And you shall know that I have sent this
commandment unto you, that my covenant may be with Levi, said Yahweh of hosts.
{2:5} My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him that
he might fear; and he feared me, and stood in awe of my name. {2:6} The law of
truth was in his mouth, and [illegal] works outside the law was not found in
his lips: he walked with me in peace and uprightness, and turned many away from
works against law. {2:7} For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they
should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of hosts.
{2:8} But you are turned aside out of the way; you have caused many to stumble
in the law; you have corrupted the covenant of Levi, said Yahweh of hosts.
{2:9} Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the
people, according as you have not kept my ways, but have had respect of persons
in the law. {2:10} Have we not all one father? has not one God created us? why
do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant
of our fathers? {2:11} Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is
committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of Yahweh
which he agape loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god. {2:12} Yahweh
will cut off, to the man that does this, him that wakes and him that answers,
out of the tents of Jacob, and him that offers an offering unto Yahweh of
hosts. {2:13} And this again you do: you cover the altar of Yahweh with tears,
with weeping, and with sighing, insomuch that he regards not the offering any
more, neither receives it with good will at your hand. {2:14} yet you say,
Therefore? Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your
youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion,
and the wife of your covenant. {2:15} And did he not make one, although he had
the residue of the Spirit? And Therefore one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore
take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of
his youth. {2:16} For I hate putting away, said Yahweh, the God of Israel, and
him that covers his garment with violence, said Yahweh of hosts: therefore take
heed to your spirit, that you deal not treacherously. {2:17} you have wearied Yahweh
with your words. yet you say, Wherein have we wearied him? In that you say,
Every one that does evil is good in the sight of Yahweh, and he delights in
them; or where is the God of justice?
{O39)3} Malachi 3. {3:1} Behold, I send my messenger, and he
shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly
come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold,
he comes, said Yahweh of hosts. {3:2} But who can abide the day of his coming?
and who shall stand when he appears? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like
fuller's soap: {3:3} and he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and
he will purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver; and they
shall offer unto Yahweh offerings in righteousness. {3:4} Then shall the
offering of
{O39)4} Malachi 4. {4:1} For, behold, the day comes, it burns
as a furnace; and all the proud, and all that work wickedness, shall be
stubble; and the day that comes shall burn them up, said Yahweh of hosts, that
it shall leave them neither root nor branch. {4:2} But unto you that fear my
name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings; and you
shall go forth, and gambol as calves of the stall. {4:3} And you shall tread
down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the
day that I make, said Yahweh of hosts. {4:4} Remember you the law of Moses my
servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all
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{N1)1} Matthew Chapter one. The Good news According to Matthew {1:1} The book of the generation of Yehsus
Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. {1:2} Abraham begot Isaac; and Isaac begot
Jacob; and Jacob begot Judah and his brethren; {1:3} and Judah begot Perez and
Zerah of Tamar; and Perez begot Hezron; and Hezron begot Ram; {1:4} and Ram
begot Amminadab; and Amminadab begot Nahshon; and Nahshon begot Salmon; {1:5}
and Salmon begot Boaz of Rahab; and Boaz begot Obed of Ruth; and Obed begot
Jesse; {1:6} and Jesse begot David the king.
And David begot Solomon of her [that had been the wife] of Uriah; {1:7}
and Solomon begot Rehoboam; and Rehoboam begot Abijah; and Abijah begot Asa;
{1:8} and Asa begot Jehoshaphat; and Jehoshaphat begot Joram; and Joram begot
Uzziah; {1:9} and Uzziah begot Jotham; and Jotham begot Ahaz; and Ahaz begot
Hezekiah; {1:10} and Hezekiah begot Manasseh; and Manasseh begot Amon; and Amon
begot Josiah; {1:11} and Josiah begot Jechoniah and his brethren, at the time
of the carrying away to Babylon.
{1:12} And after the carrying away to Babylon, Jechoniah begot
Shealtiel; and Shealtiel begot Zerubbabel; {1:13} and Zerubbabel begot Abiud;
and Abiud begot Eliakim; and Eliakim begot Azor; {1:14} and Azor begot Sadoc;
and Sadoc begot Achim; and Achim begot Eliud; {1:15} and Eliud begot Eleazar;
and Eleazar begot Matthan; and Matthan begot Jacob; {1:16} and Jacob begot
Joseph the husband of Maria, of whom was born Yehsus, who is called
Christ. {1:17} So all the generations
from Abraham unto David are fourteen generations; and from David unto the
carrying away to
{n1)2} Matthew Chapter Two. {2:1} Now when Yehsus was born in Bethlehem
of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, Wise-men from the east came to
Jerusalem, saying, {2:2} Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we saw
his star in the east, and are come to worship him. {2:3} And when Herod the
king heard it, he was troubled, and all
{N1)3} Matthew Chapter three. {3:1} And in those days comes John The
Immerser [in Water], preaching in the wilderness of
{N1)4} Matthew Chapter Four. {4:1} Then was Yehsus led up of the Spirit
into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. {4:2} And when he had fasted
forty days and forty nights, he afterward hungered. {4:3} And the tempter came
and said unto him, If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become
bread. {4:4} But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by
bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. {4:5}
Then the devil takes him into the holy city; and he set him on the pinnacle of
the temple, {4:6} and said unto him, If you are the Son of God, cast yourself
down: for it is written, He shall give his messengers charge concerning you:
and, On their hands they shall bear you up, Lest haply you dash your foot against
a stone. {4:7} Yehsus said unto him,
Again it is written, you shall not make trial of the Lord your God. {4:8}
Again, the devil takes him unto an exceeding high mountain, and shows him all
the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; {4:9} and he said unto him,
All these things will I give you, if you will fall down and worship me. {4:10}
Then said Yehsus unto him, Get you from here, Satan: for it is written, you
shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve. {4:11} Then the
devil leaves him; and behold, messengers came and ministered unto him. {4:12} Now when he heard that John was
delivered up, he withdrew into Galilee; {4:13} and leaving Nazareth, he came
and dwelt in Capernaum, which is by the sea, in the borders of Zebulun and
Naphtali: {4:14} that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the
prophet, saying, {4:15} The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, Toward
the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles, {4:16} The people that sat
in darkness Saw a great light, And to them that sat in the region and shadow of
death, To them did light spring up.
{4:17} From that time began Yehsus to preach, and to say, Repent you;
for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
{4:18} And walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw two brethren, Simon who
is called Petros, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they
were fishers. {4:19} And he said unto them, Come you after me, and I will make
you fishers of men. {4:20} And they immediately left the nets, and followed
him. {4:21} And going on from there he saw two other brethren, James the [son]
of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father,
mending their nets; and he called them. {4:22} And they immediately left the
boat and their father, and followed him.
{4:23} And Yehsus went about in all
{N1)5} Matthew Chapter Five. {5:1} And seeing the multitudes, he went up
into the mountain: and when he had sat down, his disciples came unto him: {5:2}
and he opened his mouth and taught them, saying, {5:3} Blessed are the poor in spirit: for
theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
{5:4} Blessed are they that grieve: for they shall be comforted. {5:5} Blessed are the meek: for they shall
inherit the earth. {5:6} Blessed are
they that hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. {5:7} Blessed are the merciful: for they
shall obtain mercy. {5:8} Blessed are
the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
{5:9} Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called sons of
God. {5:10} Blessed are they that
have been persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of
heaven. {5:11} Blessed are you when [men] shall reproach you, and persecute
you, and say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. {5:12} Rejoice,
and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for also they
persecuted the prophets that were before you. {5:13} you are the salt of the earth: but
if the salt have lost its savor, wherewith shall it be salted? Salt mixed with
impurities and lost is savor, is good for nothing, but to be cast out and
trodden under foot of men. {5:14} you are the light of the world. A city set on
a hill cannot be hid. {5:15} Neither do [men] light a lamp, and put it under
the bushel, but on the stand; and it shines unto all that are in the house.
{5:16} Even so let your light shine before men; that they may see your good
works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven. {5:17} Think not that I came to destroy
the [written] law [through Moses] or the prophets: I came not to destroy, but
to fulfill. {5:18} For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass away,
one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass away from the [written] law
[through Moses], till all things be accomplished. {5:19} Anyone who therefore
shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, shall be
called least in the kingdom of heaven: but anyone who shall do and teach them,
he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. {5:20} For I say unto you,
that except your righteousness, shall exceed [the righteousness] of the scribes
and Pharisees, you shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of heaven. {5:21} you have heard that it was said to
them of old time, you shall not kill; and anyone who shall kill shall be in
danger of the judgment: {5:22} but I say unto you, that every one who is angry
with his brother shall be in danger of the judgment; and anyone who shall say
to his brother, You are worthless, shall be in danger of the council; and anyone
who shall say, you fool, shall be in danger of the hell of fire. {5:23} If
therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your
brother has anything against you, {5:24} leave there your gift before the
altar, and go your way, first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and
offer your gift. {5:25} Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with
him in the way; lest haply the adversary deliver you to the judge, and the
judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison. {5:26} Verily I
say unto you, you shall by no means come out there, till you have paid the last
farthing.
{5:27} you have heard that it
was said, you shall not commit adultery: {5:28} but I say unto you, that every
one [a man tempted] that looks on a [married] woman [of the other man] to lust [to
fulfill his great desire] after her [with intent] has [already] committed
adultery with her already in his heart. {5:29} And if your right eye causes you
to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from you: for it is profitable for you
that one of your members should perish, and not your whole body be cast into
hell. {5:30} And if your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, and cast
it from you: for it is profitable for you that one of your members should
perish, and not your whole body go into hell.
{5:31} It was said also [in
the Pharisee Halakhah], Anyone who shall put away his wife, let him give her a
writing of [a legal separation] of divorcement: {5:32} but I say unto you, that
every one that puts away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, will be
guilty of causing her to be made an adulteress: and anyone who shall marry her
when she is [lawfully or unlawfully] put away commits adultery. {5:33} Again, you have heard that it was
said to them of old time, you shall not forswear yourself, but shall perform
unto the Lord your oaths: {5:34} but I say unto you, swear not at all; neither
by the heaven, for it is the throne of God; {5:35} nor by the earth, for it is
the footstool of his feet; nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great
King. {5:36} Neither shall you swear by your head, for you Can not make one
hair white or black. {5:37} But let your speech be, yes-yes, or no-no; and what ever is more than these is of the
evil [one]. {5:38} you have heard
that it was said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: {5:39} but I say
unto you, resist not him that is evil: but anyone who smites you on your right
cheek, turn to him the other also. {5:40} And if any man would go to law with
you, and take away your coat, let him have your cloak also. {5:41} And anyone
who shall compel you to go one mile, go with him two. {5:42} Give to him that
asks you, and from him that would borrow of you turn not you away. {5:43} you have heard that it was said [in
the unwritten Halakhah Pharisee law], you shall agape love your neighbor, and
hate your enemy: {5:44} but I say unto you, agape love your enemies, and pray
for them that persecute you; {5:45} that you may be sons of your Father who is
in heaven: for he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends
rain on the just and the unjust. {5:46} For if you agape love them that agape
love you, what reward have you? do not even the tax collectors the same? {5:47}
And if you salute your brethren only, what do you more [than others?] do not
even the Gentiles the same? {5:48} you therefore shall be perfect, as your
heavenly Father is perfect.
{N1)6} Matthew Chapter Six. {6:1} Take heed that you do not your
righteousness before men, to be seen of them: else you have no reward with your
Father who is in heaven. {6:2} When therefore you do genuine benevolence, sound
not a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the
streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have
received their reward. {6:3} But when you do genuine benevolence, let not your
left hand know what your right hand does: {6:4} that your genuine benevolence
may be in secret: and your Father who sees in secret shall recompense you. {6:5} And when you pray, you shall not be
as the hypocrites: for they [selfishly for affection] philo love to stand and
pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen
of men. Verily I say unto you, They have received their reward. {6:6} But you,
when you pray, enter into your inner chamber, and having shut your door, pray
to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret shall
recompense you. {6:7} And in praying use not vain repetitions, as the Gentiles
do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. {6:8} Be
not therefore like unto them: for your Father knows what things you have need
of, before you ask him. {6:9} After this manner therefore pray you. Our Father
who in heaven is, Hallowed be your name. {6:10} Your kingdom come. Your will be
done, as in heaven, so on earth. {6:11} Give us this day our daily bread.
{6:12} And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. {6:13}
And bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil [one.] {6:14}
For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive
you. {6:15} But if you forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your
Father forgive your trespasses. {6:16}
Furthermore when you fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for
they disfigure their faces, that they may be seen of men to fast. Verily I say
unto you, They have received their reward. {6:17} But you, when you fast,
anoint your head, and wash your face; {6:18} that you be not seen of men to
fast, but of your Father who is in secret: and your Father, who sees in secret,
shall recompense you. {6:19} Lay not up
for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where
thieves break through and steal: {6:20} but lay up for yourselves treasures in
heaven, where neither moth nor rust does consume, and where thieves do not
break through nor steal: {6:21} for where your treasure is, there will your
heart be also. {6:22} The lamp of the body is the eye: if therefore your eye be
single, your whole body shall be full of light. {6:23} But if your eye be evil,
your whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in
you be darkness, how great is the darkness! {6:24} No man can serve two
masters; for either he will hate the one, and agape love the other; or else he
will hold to one, and despise the other. you cannot serve God and mammon.
{6:25} Therefore I say unto you, be not anxious for your life, what you shall
eat, or what you shall drink; nor yet for your body, what you shall put on. Is
not the life more than the food, and the body than the raiment? {6:26} Behold
the birds of the heaven, that they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather
into barns; and your heavenly Father feeds them. Are not you of much more value
then they? {6:27} And which of you by being anxious can add one cubit unto the
measure of his life? {6:28} And why are you anxious concerning clothing?
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they
spin: {6:29} yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not
arrayed like one of these. {6:30} But if God does so clothe the grass of the
field, which to-day is, and to-morrow is cast into the oven, [shall he] not
much more [clothe] you, O you of little faith? {6:31} Be not therefore anxious,
saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, With what shall we be
clothed? {6:32} For after all these things do the Gentiles seek; for your
heavenly Father knows that you have need of all these things. {6:33} But seek
you first his kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be
added unto you. {6:34} Be not therefore anxious for the morrow: for the morrow
will be anxious for itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil there.
(n1)7} Matthew Chapter Seven. {7:1} Judge not, that you be not judged.
{7:2} For with what judgment you judge [others], you shall be judged: and with
what measure you make, it shall be measured unto you. {7:3} And why behold you
the splinter that is in your brother's eye, but consider not the timber that is in your own eye? {7:4}
Or how will you say to your brother, Let me cast out the splinter out of your
eye; and lo, the timber is in your own eye? {7:5} you hypocrite, cast out first
the timber out of your own eye; and then shall you see clearly to cast out the
splinter out of your brother's eye.
{7:6} Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast your
pearls before the swine, lest haply they trample them under their feet, and turn
and rip you apart. {7:7} Ask, and it
shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened
unto you: {7:8} for every one that asks receives; and he that seeks finds; and
to him that knocks it shall be opened. {7:9} Or what man is there of you, who,
if his son shall ask him for a loaf, will give him a stone; {7:10} or if he
shall ask for a fish, will give him a serpent? {7:11} If you then, being evil,
know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father
who is in heaven give good things to them that ask him? {7:12} All things
therefore what ever you would that men should do unto you, even so do you also
unto them: for this is the [written] law [through Moses] and the prophets. {7:13}
Enter you in by the hard to find and the hard to get through gate: for wide is
the gate, and broad is the way, that leads to destruction, and many are they
that enter in there. {7:14} For hard to find and hard to get through is the
gate, and narrow is the way, that leads unto life, and few are they that find
it. {7:15} Beware of false prophets,
who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves. {7:16}
By their fruits you shall know them. Do [men] gather grapes of thorns, or figs
of thistles? {7:17} Even so every good tree brings forth good fruit; but the
corrupt tree brings forth evil fruit. {7:18} A good tree cannot bring forth
evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. {7:19} Every
tree that brings not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
{7:20} Therefore by their fruits you shall know them. {7:21} Not every one that
says unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that
does the will of my Father who is in heaven. {7:22} Many will say to me in that
day, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy by your name, and by your name cast out
demons, and by your name do many mighty works? {7:23} And then will I profess
unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, you that work against law. {7:24} Every one therefore that hears
these words of mine, and does them, shall be likened unto a wise man, who built
his house in the unconquerable mountain fortress [Petra]: {7:25} and the rain
descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house;
and if fell not: for it was founded in the unconquerable mountain fortress
[Petra]. {7:26} And every one that hears these words of mine, and does them
not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, who built his house in the sand:
{7:27} and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and
smote upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall there. {7:28} And it came to pass, when Yehsus
had finished these words, the multitudes were astonished at his teaching:
{7:29} for he taught them as [one] having authority, and not as their
scribes.
{N1)8} Matthew Chapter Eight {8:1} And when he was come down from the
mountain, great multitudes followed him. {8:2} And behold, there came to him a
leper and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if you will, you can make me clean.
{8:3} And he stretched forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be you
made clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed. {8:4} And Yehsus said
unto him, See you tell no man; but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer
the gift that Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them. {8:5} And when he was entered into
Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, asking him, {8:6} and saying, Lord,
my servant lies in the house sick of the palsy, grievously tormented. {8:7} And
he said unto him, I will come and heal him. {8:8} And the centurion answered
and said, Lord, I am not worthy that you should come under my roof; but only
say the word, and my servant shall be healed. {8:9} For I also am a man under
authority, having under myself soldiers: and I say to this one, Go, and he
goes; and to another, Come, and he comes; and to my slave, Do this, and he does
it. {8:10} And when Yehsus heard it, he marveled, and said to them that
followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in
Israel. {8:11} And I say unto you, that many shall come from the east and the
west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of
heaven: {8:12} but the sons of the kingdom shall be cast forth into the outer
darkness: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth. {8:13} And Yehsus
said unto the centurion, Go your way; as you have believed, [so] be it done
unto you. And the servant was healed in that hour. {8:14} And when Yehsus was come into the
house of Petros, he saw his wife's mother lying sick of a fever. {8:15} And he
touched her hand, and the fever left her; and she arose, and ministered unto
him. {8:16} And when even was come, they brought unto him many possessed with
demons: and he cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all that were sick:
{8:17} that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet,
saying: Himself took our infirmities, and bare our diseases. {8:18} Now when Yehsus saw great multitudes
about him, he gave commandments to depart unto the other side. {8:19} And there
came a scribe, and said unto him, Teacher, I will follow you where ever you go.
{8:20} And Yehsus said unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the
heaven [have] nests; but the Son of man has no where to lay his head. {8:21}
And another of the disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and
bury my father. {8:22} But Yehsus said unto him, Follow me; and leave the dead
to bury their own dead. {8:23} And
when he was entered into a boat, his disciples followed him. {8:24} And behold,
there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the boat was covered with
the waves: but he was asleep. {8:25} And they came to him, and awoke him,
saying, Save, Lord; we perish. {8:26} And he said unto them, Why are you
fearful, O you of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the
sea; and there was a great calm. {8:27} And the men marveled, saying, What
manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him? {8:28} And when he was come to the other
side into the country of the Gadarenes, there met him two possessed with
demons, coming forth out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man could
pass by that way. {8:29} And behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do
with you, you Son of God? are you come here to torment us before the time?
{8:30} Now there was afar off from them a herd of many swine feeding. {8:31}
And the demons beg him, saying, If you cast us out, send us away into the herd
of swine. {8:32} And he said unto them, Go. And they came out, and went into
the swine: and behold, the whole herd rushed down the steep into the sea, and
perished in the waters. {8:33} And they that fed them fled, and went away into
the city, and told everything, and what was befallen to them that were
possessed with demons. {8:34} And behold, all the city came out to meet Yehsus:
and when they saw him, they beg [him] that he would depart from their borders.
{N1)9} Matthew Chapter Nine. {9:1} And he entered into a boat, and
crossed over, and came into his own city. {9:2} And behold, they brought to him
a man sick of the palsy, lying on a bed: and Yehsus seeing their faith said
unto the sick of the palsy, Son, be of good cheer; your sins are forgiven.
{9:3} And behold, certain of the scribes said within themselves, This man
blasphemes. {9:4} And Yehsus knowing their thoughts said, Therefore think you
evil in your hearts? {9:5} For which is easier, to say, Your sins are forgiven;
or to say, Arise, and walk? {9:6} But that you may know that the Son of man has
authority on earth to forgive sins (then said he to the sick of the palsy),
Arise, and take up your bed, and go up unto your house. {9:7} And he arose, and
departed to his house. {9:8} But when the multitudes saw it, they were afraid,
and glorified God, who had given such authority unto men. {9:9} And as Yehsus passed by from there,
he saw a man, called Matthew, sitting at the place of toll: and he said unto
him, Follow me. And he arose, and followed him. {9:10} And it came to pass, as he sat at
meat in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down
with Yehsus and his disciples. {9:11} And when the Pharisees saw it, they said
unto his disciples, Why [does] your Teacher eat with the tax collectors and
sinners? {9:12} But when he heard it, he said, They that are whole have no need
of a physician, but they that are sick. {9:13} But go you and learn what [this]
means, I desire mercy, and not sacrifice, for I came not to call the righteous,
but sinners. {9:14} Then come to him
the disciples of John, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast oft, but your
disciples fast not? {9:15} And Yehsus said unto them, Can the sons of the bride
chamber grieve, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come,
when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then will they fast.
{9:16} And no man puts a piece of undressed cloth upon an old garment; for that
which should fill it up takes from the garment, and a worse rent is made.
{9:17} Neither do [men] put new wine into old wine-skins: else the skins burst,
and the wine is spilled, and the skins perish: but they put new wine into fresh
wine-skins, and both are preserved.
{9:18} While he spoke these things unto them, behold, there came a
ruler, and worshipped him, saying, My daughter is even now dead: but come and
lay your hand upon her, and she shall live. {9:19} And Yehsus arose, and
followed him, and [so did] his disciples. {9:20} And behold, a woman, who had
an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the border of his
garment: {9:21} for she said within herself, If I do but touch his garment, I
shall be made whole. {9:22} But Yehsus turning and seeing her said, Daughter,
be of good cheer; your faith has made you whole. And the woman was made whole
from that hour. {9:23} And when Yehsus came into the ruler's house, and saw the
flute-players, and the crowd making a tumult, {9:24} he said, Give place: for
the damsel is not dead, but sleeps. And they laughed at him. {9:25} But when
the crowd was put forth, he entered in, and took her by the hand; and the
damsel arose. {9:26} And the fame hereof went forth into all that land. {9:27} And as Yehsus passed by from there,
two blind men followed him, crying out, and saying, Have mercy on us, you son
of David. {9:28} And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to
him: and Yehsus said unto them, Believe you that I am able to do this? They say
unto him, behold, Lord. {9:29} Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to
your faith be it done unto you. {9:30} And their eyes were opened. And Yehsus
strictly charged them, saying, See that no man know it. {9:31} But they went
forth, and spread abroad his fame in all that land. {9:32} And as they went forth, behold,
there was brought to him a man who could
not talk and possessed with a demon. {9:33} And when the demon was cast out,
the dumb man spoke: and the multitudes marveled, saying, It was never so seen
in
{N1)10}
Matthew Chapter Ten. {10:1} And
he called unto him his twelve disciples, and gave them authority over unclean
spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of disease and all manner of
sickness. {10:2} Now the names of the
twelve apostles are these: The first, Simon, who is called Petros, and Andrew
his brother; James the [son] of Zebedee, and John his brother; {10:3} Philip,
and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the tax collector; James the [son] of
Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus; {10:4} Simon the Cananaean, and Judas Iscariot, who
also betrayed him. {10:5} These
twelve Yehsus sent forth, and charged them, saying, Go not into [any] way of
the Gentiles, and enter not into any city of the Samaritans: {10:6} but go
rather to the lost sheep of the house of
{N1)11} Matthew Chapter Eleven. {11:1} And it came to pass when Yehsus had
finished commanding his twelve disciples, he departed there to teach and preach
in their cities. {11:2} Now when John heard in the prison the works of the
Christ, he sent by his disciples {11:3} and said unto him, are you he that
comes, or look we for another? {11:4} And Yehsus answered and said unto them,
Go and tell John the things which you hear and see: {11:5} the blind receive
their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, and
the dead are raised up, and the poor have good tidings preached to them. {11:6}
And blessed is he, anyone who shall find no occasion of stumbling in me. {11:7} And as these went their way, Yehsus
began to say unto the multitudes concerning John, What went you out into the
wilderness to behold? a reed shaken with the wind? {11:8} But what went you out
to see? a man clothed in soft [raiment]? Behold, they that wear soft [raiment]
are in king's houses. {11:9} But Therefore went you out? to see a prophet?
behold, I say unto you, and much more than a prophet. {11:10} This is he, of
whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before your face, Who shall prepare
your way before you. {11:11} Verily I
say unto you, Among them that are born of women there has not arisen a greater
than John the Immerser [in water]: yet he that is but little in the kingdom of
heaven is greater than he. {11:12} And from the days of John the Immerser [in
water] until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and men of violence
take it by force. {11:13} For all the prophets and the law [through Moses],
prophesied until John. {11:14} And if you are willing to receive [it,] this is
Elijah, that is to come. {11:15} He that has ears to hear, let him hear.
{11:16} But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto children
sitting in the marketplaces, who call unto their fellows {11:17} and say, We
piped unto you, and you did not dance; we wailed, and you did not grieve.
{11:18} For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He has a
demon. {11:19} The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold, a
gluttonous man and a winebibber, a friend of tax collectors and sinners! And
wisdom is justified by her works.
{11:20} Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty
works were done, because they repented not. {11:21} A curse unto you, Corazon!
A curse unto you,
{N1)12} Matthew Chapter Twelve. {12:1} At that season Yehsus went on the
Sabbath day through the grain fields; and his disciples were hungry and began
to pluck ears and to eat. {12:2} But the Pharisees, when they saw it, said unto
him, Behold, your disciples do that which it is not lawful [through our
unwritten Halakhah law] to do upon the Sabbath. {12:3} But he said unto them,
Have you not read what David did, when he was hungry, and they that were with
him; {12:4} how he entered into the house of God, and ate the showbread, which
it was not lawful [written through Moses] for him to eat, neither for them that
were with him, but only for the priests? {12:5} Or have you not read in the law
[written through Moses], that on the Sabbath day the priests in the temple
profane the Sabbath, and are guiltless? {12:6} But I say unto you, that one
greater than the temple is here. {12:7} But if you had known what this means, I
desire mercy, and not sacrifice, you would not have condemned the guiltless. {12:8}
For the Son of man is lord of the Sabbath.
{12:9} And he departed there, and went into their synagogue: {12:10} and
behold, a man having a withered hand. And they asked him, saying, Is it [in the
Pharisee unwritten Halakhah law], lawful to heal on the Sabbath day? that they
might accuse him. {12:11} And he said unto them, What man shall there be of
you, that shall have one sheep, and if this fall into a pit on the Sabbath day,
will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out? {12:12} How much then is a man of
more value than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath day.
{12:13} Then said he to the man, Stretch forth your hand. And he stretched it
forth; and it was restored whole, as the other. {12:14} But the Pharisees went
out, and took counsel against him, how they might destroy him. {12:15} And Yehsus perceiving [it]
withdrew from there: and many followed him; and he healed them all, {12:16} and
charged them that they should not make him known: {12:17} that it might be
fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying, {12:18} Behold,
my servant whom I have chosen; My agape beloved in whom my soul is well
pleased: I will put my Spirit upon him, And he shall declare judgment to the
Gentiles. {12:19} He shall not strive, nor cry aloud; Neither shall any one
hear his voice in the streets. {12:20} A bruised reed shall he not break, And
smoking flax shall he not quench, Till he send forth judgment unto victory.
{12:21} And in his name shall the Gentiles hope. {12:22} Then was brought unto him one
possessed with a demon, blind and dumb: and he healed him, insomuch that the
dumb man spoke and saw. {12:23} And all the multitudes were amazed, and said,
Can this be the son of David? {12:24} But when the Pharisees heard it, they
said, This man does not cast out demons, but by Beelzebub the prince of the
demons. {12:25} And knowing their thoughts he said unto them, Every kingdom
divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house
divided against itself shall not stand: {12:26} and if Satan cast out Satan, he
is divided against himself; how then shall his kingdom stand? {12:27} And if I
by Beelzebub cast out demons, by whom do your sons cast them out? therefore
shall they be your judges. {12:28} But if I by the Spirit of God cast out
demons, then is the
{N1)13} Matthew Chapter Thirteen. {13:1} On that day went Yehsus out of the
house, and sat by the sea side. {13:2} And there were gathered unto him great
multitudes, so that he entered into a boat, and sat; and all the multitude
stood on the beach. {13:3} And he spoke to them many things in parables, saying,
Behold, the sower went forth to sow; {13:4} and as he sowed, some [seeds] fell
by the way side, and the birds came and devoured them: {13:5} and others fell
upon the rocky places, where they had not much earth: and immediately they
sprang up, because they had no deepness of earth: {13:6} and when the sun was
risen, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.
{13:7} And others fell upon the thorns; and the thorns grew up and choked them:
{13:8} and others fell upon the good ground, and yielded fruit, some a
hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. {13:9} He that has ears, let him
hear. {13:10} And the disciples came,
and said unto him, Why speak you unto them in parables? {13:11} And he answered
and said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom
of heaven, but to them it is not given. {13:12} For anyone who has, to him
shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but anyone who has not, from him
shall be taken away even that which he has. {13:13} Therefore speak I to them
in parables; because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do
they understand. {13:14} And unto them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah,
which said, By hearing you shall hear, and shall in no wise understand; And seeing
you shall see, and shall in no wise perceive: {13:15} For this people's heart
is waxed gross, And their ears are dull of hearing, And their eyes they have
closed; Lest haply they should perceive with their eyes, And hear with their
ears, And understand with their heart, And should turn again, And I should heal
them. {13:16} But blessed are your
eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear. {13:17} For verily I say unto
you, that many prophets and righteous men desired to see the things which you see,
and saw them not; and to hear the things which you hear, and heard them not.
{13:18} Hear then you the parable of the Sower. {13:19} When any one hears the
word of the kingdom, and understands it not, [then] comes the evil [one], and
snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is he that was sown
by the way side. {13:20} And he that was sown upon the rocky places, this is he
that hears the word, and immediately with joy receives it; {13:21} yet has he
not root in himself, but endures for a while; and when tribulation or
persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles. {13:22} And he
that was sown among the thorns, this is he that hears the word; and the cares
of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becomes
unfruitful. {13:23} And he that was sown upon the good ground, this is he that
hears the word, and understands it; who verily bears fruit, and brings forth,
some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
{13:24} Another parable set he before them, saying, The kingdom of
heaven is likened unto a man that sowed good seed in his field: {13:25} but
while men slept, his enemy came and sowed [poison] tares (DARNEL) also among
the wheat, and went away. {13:26} But when the blade sprang up [it looked like
wheat but when] it brought forth fruit, and then appeared the [poison black
seeds the] tares also. {13:27} And the slaves of the householder came and said
unto him, Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? where then has it
tares? {13:28} And he said unto them, An enemy has done this. And the slaves
say unto him, Will you then that we go and gather them up? {13:29} But he said,
No; lest haply while you gather up the tares, you root up the wheat with them.
{13:30} Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of the
harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather up first the tares, and bind them in
bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn. {13:31} Another parable set he before
them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like unto a grain of mustard seed, which
a man took, and sowed in his field: {13:32} which indeed is less than all
seeds; but when it is grown, it is greater than the herbs, and becomes a tree,
so that the birds of the heaven come and lodge in the branches there. {13:33} Another parable spoke he unto them;
The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three
measures of meal, till it was all leavened.
{13:34} All these things spoke Yehsus in parables unto the multitudes;
and outside a parable spoke he nothing unto them: {13:35} that it might be
fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in
parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world. {13:36} Then he left the multitudes, and
went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Explain unto us
the parable of the tares of the field. {13:37} And he answered and said, He
that sows the good seed is the Son of man; {13:38} and the field is the world;
and the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom; and the tares are the
sons of the evil [one]; {13:39} and the enemy that sowed them is the devil: and
the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are messengers. {13:40} As
therefore the tares are gathered up and burned with fire; so shall it be in the
end of the world. {13:41} The Son of man shall send forth his messengers, and
they shall gather out of his kingdom all who do things that cause stumbling,
and them that do work against law, {13:42} and shall cast them into the furnace
of fire: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth. {13:43} Then
shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He
that has ears, let him hear. {13:44}
The kingdom of heaven is like unto a treasure hidden in the field; which a man
found, and hid; and in his joy he goes and sells all that he has, and buys that
field. {13:45} Again, the kingdom of
heaven is like unto a man that is a merchant seeking goodly pearls: {13:46} and
having found one pearl of great price, he went and sold all that he had, and
bought it. {13:47} Again, the kingdom
of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every
kind: {13:48} which, when it was filled, they drew up on the beach; and they
sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but the bad they cast away.
{13:49} So shall it be in the end of the world: the messengers shall come
forth, and sever the wicked from among the righteous, {13:50} and shall cast
them into the furnace of fire: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of
teeth. {13:51} Have you understood
all these things? They say unto him, behold. {13:52} And he said unto them,
Therefore every scribe who has been made a disciple to the kingdom of heaven is
like unto a man that is a householder, who brings forth out of his treasure
things new and old. {13:53} And it
came to pass, when Yehsus had finished these parables, he departed there. {13:54} And coming into his own country he
taught them in their synagogue, insomuch that they were astonished, and said,
Where has this man this wisdom, and these mighty works? {13:55} Is not this the
carpenter's son? is not his mother called Maria? and his brethren, James, and
Joseph, and Simon, and Judas? {13:56} And his sisters, are they not all with
us? Where then has this man all these things? {13:57} And they were offended in
him. But Yehsus said unto them, A prophet is not outside honor, save in his own
country, and in his own house. {13:58} And he did not many mighty works there
because of their unbelief.
{N1)14} Matthew Chapter
Fourteen. {14:1} At that season Herod
the tetrarch heard the report concerning Yehsus, {14:2} and said unto his
servant, This is John the Immerser [in water]; he is risen from the dead; and
therefore do these powers work in him. {14:3} For Herod had laid hold on John,
and bound him, and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother
Philip's wife. {14:4} For John said unto him, It is not lawful for you to have
her. {14:5} And when he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude,
because they counted him as a prophet. {14:6} But when Herod's birthday came,
the daughter of Herodias danced in the midst, and pleased Herod. {14:7}
Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her what ever she should ask. {14:8}
And she, being put forward by her mother, said, Give me here on a platter the
head of John the Immerser [in water]. {14:9} And the king was grieved; but for
the sake of his oaths, and of them that sat at meat with him, he commanded it
to be given; {14:10} and he sent and beheaded John in the prison. {14:11} And
his head was brought on a platter, and given to the damsel: and she brought it
to her mother. {14:12} And his disciples came, and took up the corpse, and
buried him; and they went and told Yehsus.
{14:13} Now when Yehsus heard [it], he withdrew from there in a boat, to
a desert place apart: and when the multitudes heard [there,] they followed him
on foot from the cities. {14:14} And he came forth, and saw a great multitude,
and he had compassion on them, and healed their sick. {14:15} And when even was
come, the disciples came to him, saying, The place is desert, and the time is
already past; send the multitudes away, that they may go into the villages, and
buy themselves food. {14:16} But Yehsus said unto them, They have no need to go
away; give you them to eat. {14:17} And they say unto him, We have here but
five loaves, and two fishes. {14:18} And he said, Bring them here to me.
{14:19} And he commanded the multitudes to sit down on the grass; and he took
the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and
brake and gave the loaves to the disciples, and the disciples to the
multitudes. {14:20} And they all ate, and were filled: and they took up that
which remained over of the broken pieces, twelve baskets full. {14:21} And they
that did eat were about five thousand men, besides women and children. {14:22} And immediately he constrained the
disciples to enter into the boat, and to go before him unto the other side,
till he should send the multitudes away. {14:23} And after he had sent the
multitudes away, he went up into the mountain apart to pray: and when even was
come, he was there alone. {14:24} But the boat was now in the midst of the sea,
distressed by the waves; for the wind was contrary. {14:25} And in the fourth
watch of the night he came unto them, walking upon the sea. {14:26} And when
the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, It is a
ghost; and they cried out for fear. {14:27} But immediately Yehsus spoke unto
them, saying Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid. {14:28} And Petros
answered him and said, Lord, if it be you, bid me come unto you upon the
waters. {14:29} And he said, Come. And Petros went down from the boat, and
walked upon the waters to come to Yehsus. {14:30} But when he saw the wind, he
was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried out, saying, Lord, save me. {14:31}
And immediately Yehsus stretched forth his hand, and took hold of him, and said
unto him, O you of little faith, Therefore did you doubt? {14:32} And when they
were gone up into the boat, the wind ceased. {14:33} And they that were in the
boat worshipped him, saying, Of a truth you are the Son of God. {14:34} And when they had crossed over,
they came to the land, unto Gennesaret. {14:35} And when the men of that place
knew him, they sent into all that region round about, and brought unto him all
that were sick, {14:36} and they beg him that they might only touch the border
of his garment: and as many as touched were made whole.
{N1)15}
Matthew Chapter Fifteen. {15:1}
Then there come to Yehsus from Jerusalem Pharisees and scribes, saying, {15:2}
Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not
their hands when they eat bread. {15:3} And he answered and said unto them, Why
do you also transgress the commandment of God because of your tradition? {15:4}
For God said, Honor your father and your mother: and, He that speaks evil of
father or mother, let him die the death. {15:5} But you say, anyone who shall
say to his father or his mother, That wherewith you might have been profited by
me is given [to God]; {15:6} he shall not honor his father. And you have made
void the word of God because of your tradition. {15:7} you hypocrites, well did
Isaiah prophesy of you, saying, {15:8} This people honors me with their lips;
But their heart is far from me. {15:9} But in vain do they worship me, Teaching
[as their] instructions the precepts of men.
{15:10} And he called to him the multitude, and said unto them, Hear,
and understand: {15:11} Not that which enters into the mouth defiles the man;
but that which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man. {15:12} Then
came the disciples, and said unto him, Know you that the Pharisees were
offended, when they heard this saying? {15:13} But he answered and said, Every
plant which my heavenly Father planted not, shall be rooted up. {15:14} Let
them alone: they are blind guides. And if the blind guide the blind, both shall
fall into a pit. {15:15} And Petros answered and said unto him, Declare unto us
the parable. {15:16} And he said, Are you also even yet outside understanding?
{15:17} Perceive you not, that what ever goes into the mouth passes into the
belly, and is cast out into the drain? {15:18} But the things which proceed out
of the mouth come forth out of the heart; and they defile the man. {15:19} For
out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications,
thefts, false witness, railings: {15:20} these are the things which defile the
man; but to eat with unwashed hands defiles not the man. {15:21} And Yehsus went out there, and
withdrew into the parts of
{N1)16} Matthew Chapter Sixteen. {16:1} And the Pharisees and Sadducees came,
and trying him asked him to show them a sign from heaven. {16:2} But he
answered and said unto them, When it is evening, you say, [It will be] fair
weather: for the heaven is red. {16:3} And in the morning, [It will be] foul
weather to-day: for the heaven is red and lowering. you know how to discern the
face of the heaven; but you cannot [discern] the signs of the times. {16:4} An
evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign; and there shall no sign be
given unto it, but the sign of Jonah. And he left them, and departed. {16:5} And the disciples came to the other
side and forgot to take bread. {16:6} And Yehsus said unto them, Take heed and
beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees. {16:7} And they reasoned
among themselves, saying, We took no bread. {16:8} And Yehsus perceiving it
said, O you of little faith, why reason you among yourselves, because you have
no bread? {16:9} Do you not yet perceive, neither remember the five loaves of
the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up? {16:10} Neither the seven
loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets you took up? {16:11} How is
it that you do not perceive that I spoke not to you concerning bread? But
beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees. {16:12} Then understood
they that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the teaching
of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
{16:13} Now when Yehsus came into the parts of Caesarea Philippi, he
asked his disciples, saying, Who do men say that the Son of man is? {16:14} And
they said, Some [say] John the Immerser [in water]; some, Elijah; and others, Jeremiah,
or one of the prophets.
{16:15} He said unto them,
But who say you that I am? {16:16} And Simon Petros [The Small Stone] answered
and said, you are the Christ, the Son of the living God. {16:17} And Yehsus answered and said unto
him, Blessed are you, Simon son
of-Jonah: for flesh and blood has not revealed it unto you, but my Father who
is in heaven. {16:18} And I also say unto you, that you are Petros [a precious Small
Stone] but on this [unconquerable
mountain fortress] of Petra, I will edify [the court of] my Ekklesia; and [in
the life or death warfare from] the gates of Hades shall not prevail against
her [my Ekklesia]. {16:19} I will
give unto you [my Ekklesia] the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and what ever
you [my Ekklesia] shall bind on earth is already bound in heaven; and what ever
you [my Ekklesia] shall loose on earth shall be what is already loosed in heaven. {16:20} Then charged he the disciples that
they should tell no man that he was the Christ.
{16:21} From that time began Yehsus
to show unto his disciples, that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many
things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and the
third day be raised up. {16:22} And Petros took him, and began to rebuke him,
saying, Be it far from you, Lord: this shall never happen you. {16:23} But he
turned, and said unto Petros, Get you behind me, Satan: you are a
stumbling-block unto me: for you mind not the things of God, but the things of
men.
{16:24} Then said Yehsus unto
his disciples, If any man would come after me, let him deny himself, and take
up his cross, and follow me. {16:25} For anyone who would save his life shall
lose it: and anyone who shall lose his life for my sake shall find it. {16:26}
For what shall a man be profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and forfeit
his life? or what shall a man give in exchange for his life? {16:27} For the Son
of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his messengers; and then
shall he render unto every man according to his works.
{16:28} Verily I say unto
you, there are some of them that stand here, who shall in no wise taste of
death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.
{N1)17} Matthew Chapter Seventeen. {17:1} And after six days Yehsus takes with
him Petros, and James, and John his brother, and brings them up into a high
mountain apart: {17:2} and he was transfigured before them; and his face did
shine as the sun, and his garments became white as the light. {17:3} And
behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elijah talking with him. {17:4} And
Petros answered, and said unto Yehsus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: if
you will, I will make here three tabernacles; one for you, and one for Moses,
and one for Elijah. {17:5} While he was yet speaking, behold, a bright cloud
overshadowed them: and behold, a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my
agape beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear you him. {17:6} And when the
disciples heard it, they fell on their face, and were sore afraid. {17:7} And Yehsus
came and touched them and said, Arise, and be not afraid. {17:8} And lifting up
their eyes, they saw no one, save Yehsus only. {17:9} And as they were coming down from
the mountain, Yehsus commanded them, saying, Tell the vision to no man, until
the Son of man be risen from the dead. {17:10} And his disciples asked him,
saying, Why then say the scribes that Elijah must first come? {17:11} And he
answered and said, Elijah indeed comes, and shall restore all things: {17:12}
but I say unto you, that Elijah is come already, and they knew him not, but did
unto him what ever they would. Even so shall the Son of man also suffer of
them. {17:13} Then understood the disciples that he spoke unto them of John the
Immerser [in water]. {17:14} And when
they were come to the multitude, there came to him a man, kneeling to him,
saying, {17:15} Lord, have mercy on my son: for he is epileptic, and suffers
grievously; for oft-times he falls into the fire, and off-times into the water.
{17:16} And I brought him to your disciples, and they could not cure him.
{17:17} And Yehsus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how
long shall I be with you? how long shall I bear with you? bring him here to me.
{17:18} And Yehsus rebuked him; and the demon went out of him: and the boy was
cured from that hour. {17:19} Then
came the disciples to Yehsus apart, and said, Why could we not cast it out?
{17:20} And he said unto them, Because of your little faith: for verily I say
unto you, If you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you shall say unto this
mountain, Remove from here to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall
be impossible unto you. {17:21} [This not in some manuscripts "But this
kind goes not out save by prayer and fasting."] {17:22} And while they abode in
{N1)18} Matthew Chapter Eighteen. {18:1} In that hour came the disciples unto
Yehsus, saying, Who then is greatest in the kingdom of heaven? {18:2} And he
called to him a little child, and set him in the midst of them, {18:3} and
said, Verily I say unto you, Except you turn, and become [humble] as little
children, you shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of heaven. {18:4} Anyone
who therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is the
greatest in the kingdom of heaven. {18:5} And who so shall receive one such
little child [that humbles self] in my name receives me: {18:6} But who so
shall cause one of these little [humble] ones that believe on me to stumble, it
is profitable for him that a great millstone should be hanged about his neck,
and [that] he should be sunk in the depth of the sea. {18:7} A curse unto the world because of
occasions of stumbling! for it must needs be that the occasions come; but a
curse to that man through whom the occasion comes! {18:8} And if your hand or
your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off, and cast it from you: it is good
for you to enter into life maimed or halt, rather than having two hands or two
feet to be cast into the eternal fire. {18:9} And if your eye causes you to
stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from you: it is good for you to enter into
life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the hell of
fire. {18:10} See that you despise not one of these little [humble] ones; for I
say unto you, that in heaven their messengers do always behold the face of my
Father who is in heaven. {18:11} [For the Son of man came to save that which
was lost.] {18:12} How think you? if any man have a hundred sheep, and one of
them be gone astray, does he not leave the ninety and nine, and go unto the
mountains, and seek that which goes astray? {18:13} And if so be that he find
it, verily I say unto you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety and
nine which have not gone astray. {18:14} Even so it is not the will of your
Father who is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish. {18:15} And if your brother sin against
you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone: if he hear you, you have
gained your brother. {18:16} But if he hear [you] not, take with you one or two
more, that at the mouth of two witnesses or three every word may be
established. {18:17} And if he refuse to hear them, tell it unto the Ekklesia:
and if he refuse to hear the Ekklesia also, let him be unto you as the Gentile
and the tax collector. {18:18} Verily I say unto you, what things so ever you
[the Ekklesia] shall bind on earth shall be what is [already] bound in heaven;
and what things so ever you [the Ekklesia] shall loose on earth shall be what
is [already] loosed in heaven.
{18:19} Again I say unto you,
that if two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall
ask, it shall be done for them of my Father who is in heaven. {18:20} For where
two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of
them. {18:21} Then came Petros and
said to him, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him?
until seven times? {18:22} Yehsus said unto him, I say not unto you, Until
seven times; but, Until seventy times seven. {18:23} Therefore is the kingdom
of heaven likened unto a certain king, who would make a reckoning with his slaves.
{18:24} And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, that owed
him ten thousand talents. {18:25} But forasmuch as he had not [wherewith] to
pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all
that he had, and payment to be made. {18:26} The slave therefore fell down and
worshipped him, saying, Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay you all. {18:27}
And the lord of that slave, being moved with compassion, released him, and
forgave him the debt. {18:28} But that slave went out, and found one of his
fellow-slaves, who owed him a hundred shillings: and he laid hold on him, and
took [him] by the throat, saying, Pay what you owe. {18:29} So his fellow-slave
fell down and beg him, saying, Have patience with me, and I will pay you.
{18:30} And he would not: but went and cast him into prison, till he should pay
that which was due. {18:31} So when his fellow-slave saw what was done, they
were exceeding sorry, and came and told unto their lord all that was done.
{18:32} Then his lord called him unto him, and said to him, you wicked slave, I
forgave you all that debt, because you begged me: {18:33} should not you also
have had mercy on your fellow-Slave, even as I had mercy on you? {18:34} And
his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all
that was due. {18:35} So shall also my heavenly Father do unto you, if you
forgive not every one his brother from your hearts.
{N1)19} Matthew Chapter Nineteen. {19:1} And it came to pass when Yehsus had
finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of
Judea beyond the Jordan; {19:2} and great multitudes followed him; and he
healed them there. {19:3} And there
came unto him Pharisees, trying him, and saying, Is it [the Jewish unwritten
oral Halakhah] lawful [for a man] to put away his wife for every cause? {19:4}
And he answered and said, Have you not read [what is written], that he who made
[them] from the beginning made them male and female, {19:5} and said, For this
cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife;
and the two shall become one flesh? {19:6} So that they are no more two, but
one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder.
{19:7} They say unto him, Why then did Moses command to give a bill of
divorcement, and to put [her] away? {19:8} He said unto them, Moses for your
hardness of heart suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning
it has not been so. {19:9} And I say unto you, Anyone who shall put away his
wife, except for fornication, and shall marry another, [cause his wife] to
commit adultery: and he that marries her when she is put away [also] commits
adultery. {19:10} The disciples say unto him, If the case of the man is so with
his wife, it is not expedient to marry. {19:11} But he said unto them, Not all
men can receive this saying, but they to whom it is given. {19:12} For there
are eunuchs that were so born from their mother's womb: and there are eunuchs
that were made eunuchs by men: and there are eunuchs that made themselves
eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive it, let
him receive it. {19:13} Then were
there brought unto him little children that he should lay his hands on them,
and pray: and the disciples rebuked them. {19:14} But Yehsus said, Suffer the
little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for to such belongs the
kingdom of heaven. {19:15} And he laid his hands on them, and departed
there. {19:16} And behold, one came
to him and said, Teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal
life? {19:17} And he said unto him, Why ask you me concerning that which is
good? One there is who is good: but if you would enter into life, keep the
commandments. {19:18} He said unto him, Which? And Yehsus said, you shall not
kill, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not bear
false witness, {19:19} Honor your father and mother; and, you shall agape love
your neighbor as yourself. {19:20} The young man said unto him, All these
things have I observed: what lack I yet? {19:21} Yehsus said unto him, If you
would be perfect, go, sell that which you have, and give to the poor, and you
shall have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me. {19:22} But when the young
man heard the saying, he went away sorrowful; for he was one that had great
possessions. {19:23} And Yehsus said
unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, It is hard for a rich man to enter
into the kingdom of heaven. {19:24} And again I say unto you, It is easier for
a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the
{N1)20} Matthew Chapter Twenty. {20:1} For the kingdom of heaven is like unto
a man that was a householder, who went out early in the morning to hire
laborers into his vineyard. {20:2} And when he had agreed with the laborers for
a shilling a day, he sent them into his vineyard. {20:3} And he went out about
the third hour, and saw others standing in the marketplace idle; {20:4} and to
them he said, Go you also into the vineyard, and what ever is right I will give
you. And they went their way. {20:5} Again he went out about the sixth and the
ninth hour, and did likewise. {20:6} And about the eleventh [hour] he went out,
and found others standing; and he said unto them, Why stand you here all the day
idle? {20:7} They say unto him, Because no man has hired us. He said unto them,
Go you also into the vineyard. {20:8} And when even was come, the lord of the
vineyard said unto his steward, Call the laborers, and pay them their hire,
beginning from the last unto the first. {20:9} And when they came that [were
hired] about the eleventh hour, they received every man a shilling. {20:10} And
when the first came, they supposed that they would receive more; and they
likewise received every man a shilling. {20:11} And when they received it, they
murmured against the householder, {20:12} saying, These last have spent [but]
one hour, and you have made them equal unto us, who have borne the burden of
the day and the scorching heat. {20:13} But he answered and said to one of
them, Friend, I do you no wrong: did not you agree with me for a shilling?
{20:14} Take up that which is yours, and go your way; it is my will to give
unto this last, even as unto you. {20:15} Is it not lawful for me to do what I
will with mine own? or is your eye evil, because I am good? {20:16} So the last
shall be first, and the first last.
{20:17} And as Yehsus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve
disciples apart, and on the way he said unto them, {20:18} Behold, we go up to
Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be delivered unto the chief priests and
scribes; and they shall condemn him to death, {20:19} and shall deliver him
unto the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify: and the third day he
shall be raised up. {20:20} Then came
to him the mother of the sons of Zebedee with her sons, worshipping [him], and
asking a certain thing of him. {20:21} And he said unto her, What would you?
She said unto him, Command that these my two sons may sit, one on your right
hand, and one on your left hand, in your kingdom. {20:22} But Yehsus answered
and said, you know not what you ask. Are you able to drink the cup that I am
about to drink? They say unto him, We are able. {20:23} He said unto them, My
cup indeed you shall drink: but to sit on my right hand, and on [my] left hand,
is not mine to give; but [it is for them] for whom it has been prepared of my
Father. {20:24} And when the ten heard it, they were moved with indignation
concerning the two brethren. {20:25} But Yehsus called them unto him, and said,
you know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great
ones exercise authority over them. {20:26} Not so shall it be among you: but
anyone who would become great among you shall be your slave; {20:27} and anyone
who would be first among you shall be your slave: {20:28} even as the Son of
man came not to be served unto, but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for
many. {20:29} And as they went out
from
{N1)21} Matthew Chapter
Twenty-One.. {21:1} And when they drew
near unto Jerusalem, and came unto Bethphage, unto the mount of Olives, then Yehsus
sent two disciples, {21:2} saying unto them, Go into the village that is over
against you, and immediately you shall find an donkey tied, and a colt with
her: loose [them], and bring [them] unto me. {21:3} And if any one say anything
unto you, you shall say, The Lord has need of them; and immediately he will
send them. {21:4} Now this is come to pass, that it might be fulfilled which
was spoken through the prophet, saying, {21:5} Tell you the daughter of Zion,
Behold, your King comes unto you, Meek, and riding upon an ass, And upon a colt
the foal of an ass. {21:6} And the
disciples went, and did even as Yehsus appointed them, {21:7} and brought the
ass, and the colt, and put on them their garments; and he sat thereon. {21:8}
And the most part of the multitude spread their garments in the way; and others
cut branches from the trees, and spread them in the way. {21:9} And the
multitudes that went before him, and that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to
the son of David: Blessed [is] he that comes in the name of the Lord; Hosanna
in the highest. {21:10} And when he was come into
{N1)22} Matthew Chapter
Twenty-Two. {22:1} And Yehsus answered
and spoke again in parables unto them, saying, {22:2} The kingdom of heaven is
likened unto a certain king, who made a marriage feast for his son, {22:3} and
sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the marriage feast:
and they would not come. {22:4} Again he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell
them that are bidden, Behold, I have made ready my dinner; my oxen and my
fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come to the marriage feast.
{22:5} But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his own farm,
another to his merchandise; {22:6} and the rest laid hold on his servants, and
treated them shamefully, and killed them. {22:7} But the king was wroth; and he
sent his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned their city. {22:8}
Then said he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they that were bidden
were not worthy. {22:9} Go you therefore unto the partings of the highways, and
as many as you shall find, bid to the marriage feast. {22:10} And those
servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they
found, both bad and good: and the wedding was filled with guests. {22:11} But
when the king came in to behold the guests, he saw there a man who had not on a
wedding-garment: {22:12} and he said unto him, Friend, how came you in here not
having a wedding-garment? And he was speechless. {22:13} Then the king said to
the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and cast him out into the outer darkness;
there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth. {22:14} For many are
called, but few chosen. {22:15} Then
went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might ensnare him in [his] talk.
{22:16} And they send to him their disciples, with the Herodians, saying,
Teacher, we know that you are true, and teach the way of God in truth, and
cares not for any one: for you regards not the person of men. {22:17} Tell us
therefore, What think you? Is it [the unwritten Halakhah] lawful to give
tribute unto Caesar, or not? {22:18} But Yehsus perceived their wickedness, and
said, Why make you trial of me, you hypocrites? {22:19} Show me the tribute
money. And they brought unto him a denarius. {22:20} And he said unto them,
Whose is this image and superscription? {22:21} They say unto him, Caesar's.
Then said he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's;
and unto God the things that are God's. {22:22} And when they heard it, they
marveled, and left him, and went away.
{22:23} On that day there came to him Sadducees, they that say that
there is no resurrection: and they asked him, {22:24} saying, Teacher, Moses
said, If a man die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and
raise up seed unto his brother. {22:25} Now there were with us seven brethren:
and the first married and deceased, and having no seed left his wife unto his
brother; {22:26} in like manner the second also, and the third, unto the
seventh. {22:27} And after them all, the woman died. {22:28} In the
resurrection therefore whose wife shall she be of the seven? for they all had
her. {22:29} But Yehsus answered and said unto them, you do err, not knowing
the scriptures, nor the power of God. {22:30} For in the resurrection they
neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as messengers in heaven.
{22:31} But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have you not read that
which was spoken unto you by God, saying, {22:32} I am the God of Abraham, and
the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not [the God] of the dead, but
of the living. {22:33} And when the multitudes heard it, they were astonished
at his teaching. {22:34} But the
Pharisees, when they heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, gathered
themselves together. {22:35} And one of them, a [unwritten oral law the
Halakhah law of the heart] lawyer, asked him a question, trying him: {22:36}
Teacher, which is the great commandment in the [Halakhah] law? {22:37} And he
said unto him, you shall Agape love the Lord your God with all your heart, and
with all your soul, and with all your mind. {22:38} This is the great and first
commandment. {22:39} And a second like [unto it] is this, you shall Agape love
your neighbor as yourself. {22:40} On these two commandments the whole law
hangs, and the prophets. {22:41} Now
while the Pharisees were gathered together, Yehsus asked them a question,
{22:42} saying, What think you of the Christ? whose son is he? They say unto
him, [The son] of David. {22:43} He said unto them, How then does David in the
Spirit call him Lord, saying; {22:44} The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit you on my
right hand, Till I put your enemies underneath your feet? {22:45} If David then calls him Lord, how
is he his son? {22:46} And no one was able to answer him a word, neither durst
any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.
{N1)23} Matthew Chapter
Twenty-Three. {23:1} Then spoke Yehsus
to the multitudes and to his disciples, {23:2} saying, The scribes and the
Pharisees sit on Moses seat: {23:3} all things therefore what ever they bid
you, [these] do and observe: but do not you after their works; for they say,
and do not. {23:4} behold, they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne,
and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with
their finger. {23:5} But all their works they do to be seen of men: for they
make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders [of their garments],
{23:6} and philo love the chief place at feasts, and the chief seats in the
synagogues, {23:7} and the salutations in the marketplaces, and to be called of
men, Rabbi. {23:8} But be not you called Rabbi: for one is your teacher, and
all you are brethren. {23:9} And call no man your father on the earth: for one
is your Father, [even] he who is in heaven. {23:10} Neither be you called
masters: for one is your master, [even] the Christ. {23:11} But he that is
greatest among you shall be your servant. {23:12} And anyone who shall exalt
himself shall be humbled; and anyone who shall humble himself shall be
exalted. {23:13} But a curse unto
you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you shut the kingdom of heaven
against men: for you enter not in yourselves, neither suffer you them that are
entering in to enter. {23:14} A curse unto you, scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites! for you devour widows' houses, even while for a pretence you make
long prayers: therefore you shall receive greater condemnation. {23:15} A curse unto you, scribes and
Pharisees, hypocrites! for you compass sea and land to make one proselyte; and
when he is become so, you make him twofold more a son of hell than
yourselves. {23:16} A curse unto you,
you blind guides, that say, Anyone who shall swear by the temple, it is
nothing; but anyone who shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor.
{23:17} you fools and blind: for which is greater, the gold, or the temple that
has sanctified the gold? {23:18} And, Anyone who shall swear by the altar, it
is nothing; but anyone who shall swear by the gift that is upon it, he is a
debtor. {23:19} you blind: for which is greater, the gift, or the altar that
sanctifies the gift? {23:20} He therefore that swears by the altar, swears by
it, and by all things thereon. {23:21} And he that swears by the temple, swears
by it, and by him that dwells therein. {23:22} And he that swears by the
heaven, swears by the throne of God, and by him that sits there on. {23:23} A curse unto you, scribes and
Pharisees, hypocrites! for you tithe mint and anise and cummin, and have left
undone the weightier matters of the [written] law [through Moses], justice, and
mercy, and faith: but these you ought to have done, and not to have left the
other undone. {23:24} you blind guides that strain out the gnat, and swallow
the camel! {23:25} A curse unto you,
scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you cleanse the outside of the cup and
of the platter, but within they are full from extortion and excess. {23:26} you
blind Pharisee, cleanse first the inside of the cup and of the platter, that
the outside of it may become clean also.
{23:27} A curse unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are
like unto whited sepulchers, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are
full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. {23:28} Even so you also
outwardly appear righteous unto men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and
work against law. {23:29} A curse unto
you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you build the sepulchers of the
prophets, and garnish the tombs of the righteous, {23:30} and say, If we had
been in the days of our fathers, we should not have been partakers with them in
the blood of the prophets. {23:31} Therefore you witness to yourselves, that
you are sons of them that slew the prophets. {23:32} Fill you up then the
measure of your fathers. {23:33} you serpents, you offspring of vipers, how
shall you escape the judgment of hell? {23:34} Therefore, behold, I send unto
you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: some of them shall you kill and
crucify; and some of them shall you scourge in your synagogues, and persecute
from city to city: {23:35} that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed
on the earth, from the blood of Abel the righteous unto the blood of Zachariah
son of Barachiah, whom you slew between the sanctuary and the altar. {23:36}
Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation. {23:37} O
{N1)24} Matthew Chapter Twenty-five. {24:1} And Yehsus went out from the temple,
and was going on his way; and his disciples came to him to show him the
buildings of the temple. {24:2} But he answered and said unto them, See you not
all these things? Verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone
upon another that shall not be thrown down.
{24:3} And as he sat on the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him
privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what [shall be] the
sign of your coming, and of the end of the world? {24:4} And Yehsus answered
and said unto them, Take heed that no man lead you astray. {24:5} For many
shall come in my name, saying, I am the Christ; and shall lead many astray.
{24:6} And you shall hear of wars and rumors of wars; see that you be not
troubled: for [these things] must needs come to pass; but the end is not yet.
{24:7} For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and
there shall be famines and earthquakes in divers places. {24:8} But all these
things are the beginning of travail. {24:9} Then shall they deliver you up unto
tribulation, and shall kill you: and you shall be hated of all the nations for
my name's sake. {24:10} And then shall many stumble, and shall deliver up one
another, and shall hate one another. {24:11} And many false prophets shall
arise, and shall lead many astray. {24:12} And because works against law shall
be multiplied, the agape love of the many shall wax cold. {24:13} But he that
endures to the end, the same shall be saved. {24:14} And this good news of the
kingdom shall be preached in the whole world for a testimony unto all the
nations; and then shall the end come.
{24:15} When therefore you see the abomination of desolation, which was
spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let him that reads
understand), {24:16} then let them that are in Judea flee unto the mountains:
{24:17} let him that is on the housetop not go down to take out things that are
in his house: {24:18} and let him that is in the field not return back to take
his cloak. {24:19} But A curse unto them that are with child and to them that
give suck in those days! {24:20} And pray you that your flight be not in the
winter, neither on a Sabbath: {24:21} for then shall be great tribulation, such
as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever shall
be. {24:22} And except those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been
saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened. {24:23} Then if
any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is the Christ, or, Here; believe [it] not.
{24:24} For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show
great signs and wonders; so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.
{24:25} Behold, I have told you beforehand. {24:26} If therefore they shall say
unto you, Behold, he is in the wilderness; go not forth: Behold, he is in the
inner chambers; believe [it] not. {24:27} For as the lightning comes forth from
the east, and is seen even unto the west; so shall be the coming of the Son of
man. {24:28} Where so ever the carcass is, there will the eagles be gathered
together. {24:29} But immediately
after the tribulation of those days the sun shall be darkened, and the moon
shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers
of the heavens shall be shaken: {24:30} and then shall appear the sign of the
Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth grieve, and
they shall see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and
great glory. {24:31} And he shall send forth his messengers with a great sound
of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds,
from one end of heaven to the other.
{24:32} Now from the fig tree learn her parable: when her branch is now
become tender, and puts forth its leaves, you know that the summer is near;
{24:33} even so you also, when you see all these things, know you that he is
near, [even] at the doors. {24:34} Verily I say unto you, This generation shall
not pass away, till all these things be accomplished. {24:35} Heaven and earth
shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. {24:36} But of that day and
hour knows no one, not even the messengers of heaven, neither the Son, but the
Father only. {24:37} And as [were] the days of Noah, so shall be the coming of
the Son of man. {24:38} For as in those days which were before the flood they
were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that
Noah entered into the ark, {24:39} and they knew not until the flood came, and
took them all away; so shall be the coming of the Son of man. {24:40} Then
shall two man be in the field; one is taken, and one is left: {24:41} two women
[shall be] grinding at the mill; one is taken, and one is left. {24:42} Watch
therefore: for you know not on what day your Lord comes. {24:43} But know this,
that if the master of the house had known in what watch the thief was coming,
he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken
through. {24:44} Therefore be you also ready; for in an hour that you think not
the Son of man comes. {24:45} Who
then is the faithful and wise slave, whom his lord has set over his household,
to give them their food in due season? {24:46} Blessed is that slave, whom his
lord when he comes shall find so doing. {24:47} Verily I say unto you, that he
will set him over all that he has. {24:48} But if that evil slave shall say in
his heart, My lord tarries; {24:49} and shall begin to beat his fellow-slaves,
and shall eat and drink with the drunk; {24:50} the lord of that servant shall
come in a day when he expects not, and in an hour when he knows not, {24:51}
and shall cut him asunder, and appoint his portion with the hypocrites: there
shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth. {N1)25} Matthew 25. {25:1} Then shall the kingdom of heaven be
likened unto ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went forth to meet the
bridegroom. {25:2} And five of them were foolish, and five were wise. {25:3}
For the foolish, when they took their lamps, took no oil with them: {25:4} but
the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. {25:5} Now while the
bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. {25:6} But at midnight there
is a cry, Behold, the bridegroom! Come you forth to meet him. {25:7} Then all
those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps. {25:8} And the foolish said unto
the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are going out. {25:9} But the wise
answered, saying, Perhaps there will not be enough for us and you: go you
rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves. {25:10} And while they went
away to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to
the marriage feast: and the door was shut. {25:11} Afterward came also the
other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. {25:12} But he answered and
said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not. {25:13} Watch therefore, for you
know not the day nor the hour.
{25:14} For [it is] as [when] a man, going
into another country, called his own slaves, and delivered unto them his goods.
{25:15} And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one; to
each according to his several ability; and he went on his journey. {25:16}
Immediately he that received the five talents went and traded with them, and
made other five talents. {25:17} In like manner he also that [received] the two
gained other two. {25:18} But he that received the one went away and dug in the
earth, and hid his lord's money. {25:19} Now after a long time the lord of
those slaves comes, and makes a reckoning with them. {25:20} And he that received
the five talents came and brought other five talents, saying, Lord, you
delivered unto me five talents: lo, I have gained other five talents. {25:21}
His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful slave: you have been
faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things; enter you into the
joy of your lord. {25:22} And he also that [received] the two talents came and
said, Lord, you delivered unto me two talents: lo, I have gained other two
talents. {25:23} His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful slave:
you have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things;
enter you into the joy of your lord. {25:24} And he also that had received the
one talent came and said, Lord, I knew you that you are a hard man, reaping
where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not scatter; {25:25} and I
was afraid, and went away and hid your talent in the earth: lo, you have your
own. {25:26} But his lord answered and said unto him, you wicked and slothful slave,
you knew that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I did not scatter;
{25:27} you ought therefore to have put my money to the bankers, and at my
coming I should have received back mine own with interest. {25:28} Take you
away therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him that has the ten
talents. {25:29} For unto every one that has shall be given, and he shall have
abundance: but from him that has not, even that which he has shall be taken
away. {25:30} And cast you out the unprofitable slave into the outer darkness:
there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth. {25:31} But when the Son of man shall come
in his glory, and all the messengers with him, then shall he sit on the throne
of his glory: {25:32} and before him shall be gathered all the nations: and he
shall separate them one from another, as the shepherd separates the sheep from
the goats; {25:33} and he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats
on the left. {25:34} Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come,
you blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the
foundation of the world: {25:35} for I was hungry, and you gave me to eat; I
was thirsty, and you gave me drink; I was a stranger, and you took me in;
{25:36} naked, and you clothed me; I was sick, and you visited me; I was in
prison, and you came unto me. {25:37} Then shall the righteous answer him,
saying, Lord, when saw we you hungry, and fed you? or athirst, and gave you
drink? {25:38} And when saw we you a stranger, and took you in? or naked, and
clothed you? {25:39} And when saw we you sick, or in prison, and came unto you?
{25:40} And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you,
Inasmuch as you did it unto one of these my brethren, [even] these least, you
did it unto me. {25:41} Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand,
Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the
devil and his messengers: {25:42} for I was hungry, and you did not give me to
eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me no drink; {25:43} I was a stranger, and you
took me not in; naked, and you clothed me not; sick, and in prison, and you
visited me not. {25:44} Then shall they also answer, saying, Lord, when saw we
you hungry, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did
not minister unto you? {25:45} Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say
unto you, Inasmuch as you did it not unto one of these least, you did it not
unto me. {25:46} And these shall go away into eternal punishment: but the righteous
into eternal life.
{N1)26}
Matthew Chapter Twenty-Six.
{26:1} And it came to pass, when Yehsus had finished all these words, he
said unto his disciples, {26:2} you know that after two days the Passover
comes, and the Son of man is delivered up to be crucified. {26:3} Then were
gathered together the chief priests, and the elders of the people, unto the
court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas; {26:4} and they took counsel
together that they might take Yehsus by subtlety, and kill him. {26:5} But they
said, Not during the feast, lest a tumult arise among the people. {26:6} Now when Yehsus was in Bethany, in
the house of Simon the leper, {26:7} there came unto him a woman having an
alabaster cruse of exceeding precious ointment, and she poured it upon his
head, as he sat at meat. {26:8} But when the disciples saw it, they had
indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste? {26:9} For this [ointment]
might have been sold for much, and given to the poor. {26:10} But Yehsus
perceiving it said unto them, Why trouble you the woman? for she has wrought a
good work upon me. {26:11} For you have the poor always with you; but me you
have not always. {26:12} For in that she poured this ointment upon my body, she
did it to prepare me for burial. {26:13} Verily I say unto you, Where so ever
this good news shall be preached in the whole world, that also which this woman
has done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her. {26:14} Then one of the twelve, who was
called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests, {26:15} and said, What are
you willing to give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they weighed unto
him thirty pieces of silver. {26:16} And from that time he sought opportunity
to deliver him [unto them.] {26:17}
Now on the first [of the preparation day] of unleavened bread the disciples
came to Yehsus, saying, Where will you that we make ready for you to eat the
Passover? {26:18} And he said, Go into the city to such a man, and say unto
him, The Teacher said, My time is at hand; I keep [my] Passover at your house
with my disciples. {26:19} And the disciples did as Yehsus appointed them; and
they made ready the Passover [Seder].
{26:20} Now when the beginning of night [the supper hour] was come, he
was sitting at meat with the twelve disciples; {26:21} and as they were eating,
he said, Verily I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me. {26:22} And
they were exceeding sorrowful, and began to say unto him every one, Is it I,
Lord? {26:23} And he answered and said, He that dipped his hand with me in the
dish, the same shall betray me. {26:24} The Son of man goes, even as it is
written of him: but a curse unto that man through whom the Son of man is
betrayed! good were it for that man if he had not been born. {26:25} And Judas,
who betrayed him, answered and said, Is it I, Rabbi? He said unto him, you have
said. {26:26} And as they were eating
[the first Seder], Yehsus took bread, and blessed, and brake it; and he gave to
the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body. {26:27} And he took a cup,
and gave thanks, and gave to them, saying, Drink all of it; {26:28} for this is
my blood of the covenant, which is [divided or] poured out for many unto
remission of sins. {26:29} But I say unto you, I shall not drink from here on
of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my
Father's kingdom. {26:30} And when
they had sung a hymn, they went out unto the mount of Olives. {26:31} Then said Yehsus unto them, All
you shall be offended in me this night: for it is written, I will smite the
shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad. {26:32} But
after I am raised up, I will go before you into
{N1)27} Matthew Chapter
Twenty-seven {27:1} Now when morning
was come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel
against Yehsus to put him to death: {27:2} and they bound him, and led him
away, and delivered him up to Pilate the governor. {27:3} Then Judas, who betrayed him, when
he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought back the thirty pieces
of silver to the chief priests and elders, {27:4} saying, I have sinned in that
I betrayed innocent blood. But they said, What is that to us? see you [to it].
{27:5} And he cast down the pieces of silver into the sanctuary, and departed;
and he went away and hanged himself. {27:6} And the chief priests took the
pieces of silver, and said, It is not [Halakhah] lawful to put them into the
treasury, since it is the price of blood. {27:7} And they took counsel, and
bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in. {27:8} Therefore
that field was called, the field of blood, unto this day. {27:9} Then was
fulfilled that which was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet, saying, And they
took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was priced, whom
[certain] of the children of Israel did price; {27:10} and they gave them for
the potter's field, as the Lord appointed me. {27:11} Now Yehsus stood before the
governor: and the governor asked him, saying, are you the King of the Jews? And
Yehsus said unto him, you say. {27:12} And when he was accused by the chief
priests and elders, he answered nothing. {27:13} Then said Pilate unto him,
Hear you not how many things they witness against you? {27:14} And he gave him
no answer, not even to one word: insomuch that the governor marveled greatly.
{27:15} Now at the feast the governor was wont to release unto the multitude
one prisoner, whom they would. {27:16} And they had then a notable prisoner,
called Barabbas. {27:17} When therefore they were gathered together, Pilate
said unto them, Whom will you that I release unto you? Barabbas, or Yehsus who
is called Christ? {27:18} For he knew that for envy they had delivered him up.
{27:19} And while he was sitting on the judgment-seat, his wife sent unto him,
saying, Have you nothing to do with that righteous man; for I have suffered
many things this day in a dream because of him. {27:20} Now the chief priests
and the elders persuaded the multitudes that they should ask for Barabbas, and
destroy Yehsus. {27:21} But the governor answered and said unto them, Which of
the two will you that I release unto you? And they said, Barabbas. {27:22}
Pilate said unto them, What then shall I do unto Yehsus who is called Christ?
They all say, Let him be crucified. {27:23} And he said, Why, what evil has he
done? But they cried out exceedingly, saying, Let him be crucified. {27:24} So
when Pilate saw that he prevailed nothing, but rather that a tumult was
arising, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am
innocent of the blood of this righteous man; see you [to it]. {27:25} And all
the people answered and said, His blood [be] on us, and on our children.
{27:26} Then released he unto them Barabbas; but Yehsus he scourged and
delivered to be crucified. {27:27}
Then the soldiers of the governor took Yehsus into the Praetorium, and gathered
unto him the whole band. {27:28} And they stripped him, and put on him a
scarlet robe. {27:29} And they platted a crown of thorns and put it upon his
head, and a reed in his right hand; and they kneeled down before him, and
mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews! {27:30} And they spat upon him, and
took the reed and smote him on the head. {27:31} And when they had mocked him,
they took off from him the robe, and put on him his garments, and led him away
to crucify him. {27:32} And as they
came out, they found a man of
Study the resurrection in all
the good news records Mat 28:1 Mark 16:1; Luke 24:1 John 20:1. False Bible translations that change the
resurrection moment from sunset to sunrise will change and Cripple the good
news of Christ and rip from the Bible records the power of the good news of God
to convince that the Bible is from God.
{N1)28}
Matthew Chapter Twenty-Eight.
{28:1} Now late on the Sabbath day, at dusk as it began to light up
night towards the [day] one of the solar seven day Sabbaton, came Maria
Magdalene and the other Maria to see the sepulcher. {28:2} And behold, there was a great earthquake; for
an messenger of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled away the
stone, and sat upon on it. { 28:3} His appearance was as lightning, and his
raiment white as snow: {28:4} and for fear of him the watchers did quake, and
became as dead men. {28:5} And the messenger answered and said unto the women,
Fear not you; for I know that you seek Yehsus, who has been crucified. {28:6}
He is not here; for he is risen, even as he said. Come, see the place where the
Lord lay. {28:7} And go quickly, and tell his disciples, He is risen from the
dead; and lo, he goes before you into
{N2)1} Mark Chapter One. The Good news According to Holy Person
Mark {1:1} The beginning of the good
news of Yehsus Christ, the Son of God. {1:2} Even as it is written in Isaiah
the prophet, Behold, I send my messenger before your face, Who shall prepare
your way. {1:3} The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make you ready the
way of the Lord, Make his paths straight; {1:4} John came, who immersed [in
water] in the wilderness and preached the [water] immersion [in water] of
repentance unto remission of sins. {1:5} And there went out unto him all the
country of Judea, and all they of
{N2)2} Mark Chapter Two. {2:1} And when he entered again into
{N2)3} Mark Chapter Three. {3:1} And he entered again into the
synagogue; and there was a man there who had his hand withered. {3:2} And they
watched him, whether he would heal him on the Sabbath day; that they might
accuse him. {3:3} And he said unto the man that had his hand withered, Stand
forth. {3:4} And he said unto them, Is it lawful [through Moses] on the Sabbath
day to do good, or to do harm? to save a life, or to kill? But they held their
peace. {3:5} And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being
grieved at the hardening of their heart, he said unto the man, Stretch forth
your hand. And he stretched it forth; and his hand was restored. {3:6} And the
Pharisees went out, and immediately with the Herodians took counsel against
him, how they might destroy him. {3:7} And Yehsus with his disciples withdrew
to the sea: and a great multitude from Galilee followed; and from Judea, {3:8}
and from Jerusalem, and from Idumaea, and beyond the Jordan, and about Tyre and
Sidon, a great multitude, hearing what great things he did, came unto him.
{3:9} And he spoke to his disciples, that a little boat should wait on him
because of the crowd, lest they should throng him: {3:10} for he had healed
many; insomuch that as many as had plagues pressed upon him that they might
touch him. {3:11} And the unclean spirits, when so ever they beheld him, fell
down before him, and cried, saying, you are the Son of God. {3:12} And he
charged them much that they should not make him known. {3:13} And he goes up
into the mountain, and calls unto him whom he himself would; and they went unto
him. {3:14} And he appointed twelve, that they might be with him, and that he
might send them forth to preach, {3:15} and to have authority to cast out
demons: {3:16} and Simon he surnamed Petros; {3:17} and James the [son] of
Zebedee, and John the brother of James; and them he surnamed Boanerges, which
is, Sons of thunder: {3:18} and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and
Matthew, and Thomas, and James the [son] of Alphaeus, and Thaddeus, and Simon
the Cananaean, {3:19} and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him. And he comes
into a house. {3:20} And the multitude comes together again, so that they could
not so much as eat bread. {3:21} And when his friends heard it, they went out
to lay hold on him: for they said, He is beside himself. {3:22} And the scribes
that came down from
{N2)4} Mark Chapter Four. {4:1} And again he began to teach by the
sea side. And there is gathered unto him a very great multitude, so that he
entered into a boat, and sat in the sea; and all the multitude were by the sea
on the land. {4:2} And he taught them many things in parables, and said unto
them in his teaching, {4:3} Hear: Behold, the sower went forth to sow: {4:4}
and it came to pass, as he sowed, some [seed] fell by the way side, and the
birds came and devoured it. {4:5} And other fell on the rocky [ground], where
it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no deepness
of earth: {4:6} and when the sun was risen, it was scorched; and because it had
no root, it withered away. {4:7} And other fell among the thorns, and the
thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit. {4:8} And others fell
into the good ground, and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing; and brought
forth, thirty fold, and sixty fold, and a hundredfold. {4:9} And he said, Who
has ears to hear, let him hear. {4:10} And when he was alone, they that were
about him with the twelve asked of him the parables. {4:11} And he said unto
them, Unto you is given the mystery of the
{N2)5} Mark Chapter Five. {5:1} And they came to the other side of the
sea, into the country of the Gerasenes. {5:2} And when he was come out of the
boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,
{5:3} who had his dwelling in the tombs: and no man could any more bind him,
no, not with a chain; {5:4} because that he had been often bound with fetters
and chains, and the chains had been rent asunder by him, and the fetters broken
in pieces: and no man had strength to tame him. {5:5} And always, night and
day, in the tombs and in the mountains, he was crying out, and cutting himself
with stones. {5:6} And when he saw Yehsus from afar, he ran and worshipped him;
{5:7} and crying out with a loud voice, he said, What have I to do with you, Yehsus,
you Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, torment me not. {5:8} For he
said unto him, Come forth, you unclean spirit, out of the man. {5:9} And he
asked him, What is your name? And he said unto him, My name is Legion; for we
are many. {5:10} And he beg him much that he would not send them away out of
the country. {5:11} Now there was there on the mountain side a great herd of
swine feeding. {5:12} And they beg him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we
may enter into them. {5:13} And he gave them leave. And the unclean spirits
came out, and entered into the swine: and the herd rushed down the steep into
the sea, [in number] about two thousand; and they were drowned in the sea.
{5:14} And they that fed them fled, and told it in the city, and in the
country. And they came to see what it was that had come to pass. {5:15} And
they come to Yehsus, and behold him that was possessed with demons sitting,
clothed and in his right mind, [even] him that had the legion: and they were
afraid. {5:16} And they that saw it declared unto them how it befell him that
was possessed with demons, and concerning the swine. {5:17} And they began to
ask him to depart from their borders. {5:18} And as he was entering into the
boat, he that had been possessed with demons beg him that he might be with him.
{5:19} And he suffered him not, but said unto him, Go to your house unto your
friends, and tell them how great things the Lord has done for you, and [how] he
had mercy on you. {5:20} And he went his way, and began to publish in
{N2)6} Mark Chapter Six. {6:1} And he went out from there; and he
comes into his own country; and his disciples follow him. {6:2} And when the
Sabbath was come, he began to teach in the synagogue: and many hearing him were
astonished, saying, Where has this man these things? and, What is the wisdom
that is given unto this man, and [what mean] such mighty works wrought by his
hands? {6:3} Is not this the carpenter, the son of Maria, and brother of James,
and Joses, and Judas, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they
were offended in him. {6:4} And Yehsus said unto them, A prophet is not outside
honor, save in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house.
{6:5} And he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon a
few sick folk, and healed them. {6:6} And he marveled because of their
unbelief. And he went round about the villages teaching. {6:7} And he calls
unto him the twelve, and began to send them forth by two and two; and he gave
them authority over the unclean spirits; {6:8} and he charged them that they
should take nothing for [their] journey, save a staff only; no bread, no
wallet, no money in their purse; {6:9} but [to go] shod with sandals: and,
[said he], put not on two coats. {6:10} And he said unto them, Where so ever
you enter into a house, there abide till you depart there. {6:11} And what ever
place shall not receive you, and they hear you not, as you go forth there,
shake off the dust that is under your feet for a testimony unto them. {6:12}
And they went out, and preached that [men] should repent. {6:13} And they cast
out many demons, and anointed with oil many that were sick, and healed them.
{6:14} And king Herod heard [there]; for his name had become known: and he
said, John the Immerser [in water] is risen from the dead, and therefore do
these powers work in him. {6:15} But others said, It is Elijah. And others
said, [It is] a prophet, [even] as one of the prophets. {6:16} But Herod, when
he heard [there], said, John, whom I beheaded, he is risen. {6:17} For Herod
himself had sent forth and laid hold upon John, and bound him in prison for the
sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife; for he had married her. {6:18} For
John said unto Herod, It is not lawful [through Moses] for you to have your
brother's wife. {6:19} And Herodias set herself against him, and desired to
kill him; and she could not; {6:20} for Herod feared John, knowing that he was
a righteous and holy man, and kept him safe. And when he heard him, he was much
perplexed; and he heard him gladly. {6:21} And when a convenient day was come,
that Herod on his birthday made a supper to his lords, and the high captains,
and the chief men of Galilee; {6:22} and when the daughter of Herodias herself
came in and danced, she pleased Herod and them that sat at meat with him; and
the king said unto the girl, Ask of me what ever you will, and I will give it
you. {6:23} And he swore unto her, What ever you shall ask of me, I will give
it you, unto the half of my kingdom. {6:24} And she went out, and said unto her
mother, What shall I ask? And she said, The head of John the Immerser [in
water]. {6:25} And she came in immediately with haste unto the king, and asked,
saying, I will that you forthwith give me on a platter the head of John the
Immerser [in water]. {6:26} And the king was exceeding sorry; but for the sake
of his oaths, and of them that sat at meat, he would not reject her. {6:27} And
immediately the king sent forth a soldier of his guard, and commanded to bring
his head: and he went and beheaded him in the prison, {6:28} and brought his
head on a platter, and gave it to the damsel; and the damsel gave it to her
mother. {6:29} And when his disciples heard [there], they came and took up his
corpse, and laid it in a tomb. {6:30} And the apostles gather themselves
together unto Yehsus; and they told him all things, what ever they had done,
and what ever they had taught. {6:31} And he said unto them, Come you
yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a while. For there were many
coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat. {6:32} And they
went away in the boat to a desert place apart. {6:33} And [the people] saw them
going, and many knew [them], and they ran together there on foot from all the
cities, and out run them. {6:34} And he came forth and saw a great multitude,
and he had compassion on them, because they were as sheep not having a
shepherd: and he began to teach them many things. {6:35} And when the day was
now far spent, his disciples came unto him, and said, The place is desert, and
the day is now far spent; {6:36} send them away, that they may go into the
country and villages round about, and buy themselves somewhat to eat. {6:37}
But he answered and said unto them, Give you them to eat. And they say unto
him, shall we go and buy two hundred shillings' worth of bread, and give them
to eat? {6:38} And he said unto them, How many loaves have you? go [and] see.
And when they knew, they say, Five, and two fishes. {6:39} And he commanded
them that all should sit down by companies upon the green grass. {6:40} And
they sat down in ranks, by hundreds, and by fifties. {6:41} And he took the
five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake
the loaves; and he gave to the disciples to set before them; and the two fishes
divided he among them all. {6:42} And they all ate, and were filled. {6:43} And
they took up broken pieces, twelve basketfuls, and also of the fishes. {6:44}
And they that ate the loaves were five thousand men. {6:45} And immediately he
constrained his disciples to enter into the boat, and to go before [him] unto
the other side to
{N2)7} Mark Chapter Seven. {7:1} And there are gathered together unto
him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, who had come from
{N2)8} Mark Chapter Eight. {8:1} In those days, when there was again a
great multitude, and they had nothing to eat, he called unto him his disciples,
and said unto them, {8:2} I have compassion on the multitude, because they
continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: {8:3} and if I send
them away fasting to their home, they will faint on the way; and some of them
are come from far. {8:4} And his disciples answered him, Where shall one be
able to fill these men with bread here in a desert place? {8:5} And he asked
them, How many loaves have you? And they said, Seven. {8:6} And he commands the
multitude to sit down on the ground: and he took the seven loaves, and having
given thanks, he brake, and gave to his disciples, to set before them; and they
set them before the multitude. {8:7} And they had a few small fishes: and
having blessed them, he commanded to set these also before them. {8:8} And they
ate, and were filled: and they took up, of broken pieces that remained over,
seven baskets. {8:9} And they were about four thousand: and he sent them away.
{8:10} And immediately he entered into the boat with his disciples, and came
into the parts of Dalmanutha. {8:11} And the Pharisees came forth, and began to
question with him, seeking of him a sign from heaven, trying him. {8:12} And he
sighed deeply in his spirit, and said, Why does this generation seek a sign?
verily I say unto you, There shall no sign be given unto this generation.
{8:13} And he left them, and again entering into [the boat] departed to the
other side. {8:14} And they forgot to take bread; and they had not in the boat
with them more than one loaf. {8:15} And he charged them, saying, Take heed,
beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod. {8:16} And they
reasoned one with another, saying, We have no bread. {8:17} And Yehsus
perceiving it said unto them, Why reason you, because you have no bread? do you
not yet perceive, neither understand? have you your heart hardened? {8:18}
Having eyes, see you not? and having ears, hear you not? and do you not
remember? {8:19} When I brake the five loaves among the five thousand, how many
baskets full of broken pieces took you up? They say unto him, Twelve. {8:20}
And when the seven among the four thousand, how many basketfuls of broken
pieces took you up? And they say unto him, Seven. {8:21} And he said unto them,
Do you not yet understand? {8:22} And they come unto
{N2)9} Mark Chapter Nine. {9:1} And he said unto them, Verily I say
unto you, There are some here of them that stand [by], who shall in no wise
taste of death, till they see the kingdom of God come with power. {9:2} And
after six days Yehsus takes with him Petros, and James, and John, and brings
them up into a high mountain apart by themselves: and he was transfigured
before them; {9:3} and his garments became glistering, exceeding white, so as
no fuller on earth can whiten them. {9:4} And there appeared unto them Elijah
with Moses: and they were talking with Yehsus. {9:5} And Petros answers and
said to Yehsus, Rabbi, it is good for us to be here: and let us make three
tabernacles; one for you, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah. {9:6} For he
knew not what to answer; for they became sore afraid. {9:7} And there came a
cloud overshadowing them: and there came a voice out of the cloud, This is my
agape beloved Son: hear you him. {9:8} And suddenly looking round about, they
saw no one any more, save Yehsus only with themselves. {9:9} And as they were
coming down from the mountain, he charged them that they should tell no man
what things they had seen, save when the Son of man should have risen again
from the dead. {9:10} And they kept the saying, questioning among themselves what
the rising again from the dead should mean. {9:11} And they asked him, saying,
[How is it] that the scribes say that Elijah must first come? {9:12} And he
said unto them, Elijah indeed comes first, and restores all things: and how is
it written of the Son of man, that he should suffer many things and be set at
nothing? {9:13} But I say unto you, that Elijah is come, and they have also
done unto him what ever they would, even as it is written of him. {9:14} And
when they came to the disciples, they saw a great multitude about them, and
scribes questioning with them. {9:15} And immediately all the multitude, when
they saw him, were greatly amazed, and running to him saluted him. {9:16} And
he asked them, What question you with them? {9:17} And one of the multitude
answered him, Teacher, I brought unto you my son, who has a dumb spirit; {9:18}
and where so ever it takes him, it dashes him down: and he foams, and grinds
his teeth, and pines away: and I spoke to your disciples that they should cast
it out; and they were not able. {9:19} And he answers them and said, O
faithless generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I bear with
you? bring him unto me. {9:20} 20 And
they brought him unto him: and when he saw him, straightway the spirit tare him
grievously; and he fell on the ground, and wallowed foaming [at the
mouth].{9:21} And he asked his father, How long time is it since this has come
unto him? And he said, From a child.
{9:22} And oft-times it has cast him both into the fire and into the waters, to
destroy him: but if you Can do anything, have compassion on us, and help us.
{9:23} And Yehsus said unto him, If you Can! All things are possible to him
that believes. {9:24} Immediately the father of the child cried out, and said,
I believe; help you mine unbelief. {9:25} And when Yehsus saw that a multitude
came running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying unto him, you dumb
and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him, and enter no more into him.
{9:26} And having cried out, and torn him much, he came out: and [the boy]
became as one dead; insomuch that the majority said, He is dead. {9:27} But Yehsus
took him by the hand, and raised him up; and he arose. {9:28} And when he was
come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, [How is it] that we
could not cast it out? {9:29} And he said unto them, This kind can come out by
nothing, save by prayer. {9:30} And they went forth from there, and passed
through
{N2)10} Mark Chapter Ten. {10:1} And he arose from there and comes
into the borders of Judea and beyond the
{N2)11} Mark Chapter Eleven. {11:1} And when they draw near unto
Jerusalem, unto Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount of Olives, he sends two of
his disciples, {11:2} and said unto them, Go your way into the village that is
over against you: and immediately as you enter into it, you shall find a colt
tied, whereon no man ever yet sat; loose him, and bring him. {11:3} And if any
one say unto you, Why do you this? say you, The Lord has need of him; and
immediately he will send him back here. {11:4} And they went away, and found a
colt tied at the door outside in the open street; and they loose him. {11:5}
And certain of them that stood there said unto them, What do you, loosing the
colt? {11:6} And they said unto them even as Yehsus had said: and they let them
go. {11:7} And they bring the colt unto Yehsus, and cast on him their garments;
and he sat upon him. {11:8} And many spread their garments upon the way; and
others branches, which they had cut from the fields. {11:9} And they that went
before, and they that followed, cried, Hosanna; Blessed [is] he that comes in
the name of the Lord: {11:10} Blessed [is] the kingdom that comes, [the
kingdom] of our father David: Hosanna in the highest. {11:11} And he entered
into Jerusalem, into the temple; and when he had looked round about upon all
things, it being now eventide, he went out unto Bethany with the twelve.
{11:12} And on the morrow, when they were come out from
{N2)12} Mark Chapter Twelve. {12:1} And he began to speak unto them in
parables. A man planted a vineyard, and set a hedge about it, and dug a pit for
the winepress, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into
another country. {12:2} And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a slave,
that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruits of the vineyard. {12:3}
And they took him, and beat him, and sent him away empty. {12:4} And again he
sent unto them another slave; and him they wounded in the head, and handled
shamefully. {12:5} And he sent another; and him they killed: and many others; beating
some, and killing some. {12:6} He had yet one, a agape beloved son: he sent him
last unto them, saying, They will reverence my son. {12:7} But those husbandmen
said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the
inheritance shall be ours. {12:8} And they took him, and killed him, and cast
him forth out of the vineyard. {12:9} What therefore will the lord of the
vineyard do? he will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the
vineyard unto others. {12:10} Have you not read even this scripture: The stone
which the builders rejected, The same was made the head of the corner; {12:11}
This was from the Lord, And it is marvelous in our eyes? {12:12} And they sought to lay hold on
him; and they feared the multitude; for they perceived that he spoke the
parable against them: and they left him, and went away. {12:13} And they send
unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, that they might catch
him in talk. {12:14} And when they
were come, they say unto him, Teacher, we know that you are true, and cares not
for any one; for you regards not the person of men, but of a truth teach the
way of God: Is it [Halakhah] lawful to give tribute unto Caesar, or not?
{12:15} shall we give, or shall we not give? But he, knowing their hypocrisy,
said unto them, Why make you trial of me? bring me a denarius [coin], that I
may see it. {12:16} And they brought it. And he said unto them, Whose is this
image and superscription? And they said unto him, Caesar's. {12:17} And Yehsus
said unto them, Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God
the things that are God's. And they marveled greatly at him. {12:18} And there
come unto him Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection; and they asked
him, saying, {12:19} Teacher, Moses wrote unto us, If a man's brother die, and
leave a wife behind him, and leave no child, that his brother should take his
wife, and raise up seed unto his brother. {12:20} There were seven brethren:
and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed; {12:21} and the second took
her, and died, leaving no seed behind him; and the third likewise: {12:22} and
the seven left no seed. Last of all the woman also died. {12:23} In the
resurrection whose wife shall she be of them? for the seven had her to wife.
{12:24} Yehsus said unto them, Is it not for this cause that you err, that you
know not the scriptures, nor the power of God? {12:25} For when they shall rise
from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as
messengers in heaven. {12:26} But as touching the dead, that they are raised;
have you not read in the book of Moses, in [the place concerning] the Bush, how
God spoke unto him, saying, I [am] the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac,
and the God of Jacob? {12:27} He is not the God of the dead, but of the living:
you do greatly err. {12:28} And one of the scribes came, and heard them
questioning together, and knowing that he had answered them well, asked him,
What commandment is the first of all? {12:29} Yehsus answered, The first is,
Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God, the Lord is one: {12:30} and you shall agape
love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with
all your mind, and with all your strength. {12:31} The second is this, you
shall agape love your neighbor as yourself. There is none other commandment
greater than these. {12:32} And the scribe said unto him, Of a truth, Teacher,
you have well said that he is one; and there is none other but he: {12:33} and
to agape love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with
all the strength, and to agape love his neighbor as himself, is much more than
all whole burnt-offerings and sacrifices. {12:34} And when Yehsus saw that he
answered discreetly, he said unto him, you are not far from the
{N2)13} Mark Chapter Thirteen. {13:1} And as he went forth out of the
temple, one of his disciples said unto him, Teacher, behold, what manner of
stones and what manner of buildings! {13:2} And Yehsus said unto him, Sees you
these great buildings? there shall not be left here one stone upon another,
which shall not be thrown down. {13:3} And as he sat on the mount of Olives
over against the temple, Petros and James and John and Andrew asked him
privately, {13:4} Tell us, when shall these things be? and what [shall be] the
sign when these things are all about to be accomplished? {13:5} And Yehsus
began to say unto them, Take heed that no man lead you astray. {13:6} Many
shall come in my name, saying, I am [he]; and shall lead many astray. {13:7}
And when you shall hear of wars and rumors of wars, be not troubled: [these
things] must needs come to pass; but the end is not yet. {13:8} For nation
shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there shall be earthquakes
in divers places; there shall be famines: these things are the beginning of
intolerable anguish. {13:9} But take you heed to yourselves: for they shall
deliver you up to councils; and in synagogues shall you be beaten; and before
governors and kings shall you stand for my sake, for a testimony unto them.
{13:10} And the good news must first be preached unto all the nations. {13:11}
And when they lead you [to judgment], and deliver you up, be not anxious
beforehand what you shall speak: but what ever shall be given you in that hour
that you speak; for it is not you that speak, but the Holy Spirit. {13:12} And
brother shall deliver up brother to death, and the father his child; and
children shall rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.
{13:13} And you shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that
endures to the end, the same shall be saved. {13:14} But when you see the
abomination of desolation standing where he ought not (let him that reads
understand), then let them that are in Judea flee unto the mountains: {13:15}
and let him that is on the housetop not go down, nor enter in, to take anything
out his house: {13:16} and let him that is in the field not return back to take
his cloak. {13:17} But a curse unto them that are with child and to them that
give suck in those days! {13:18} And pray you that it be not in the winter.
{13:19} For those days shall be tribulation, such as there has not been the
like from the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never
shall be. {13:20} And except the Lord had shortened the days, no flesh would
have been saved; but for the elect's sake, whom he chose, he shortened the
days. {13:21} And then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is the Christ;
or, Lo, there; believe [it] not: {13:22} for there shall arise false Christs
and false prophets, and shall show signs and wonders, that they may lead
astray, if possible, the elect. {13:23} But take you heed: behold, I have told
you all things beforehand. {13:24} But in those days, after that tribulation,
the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, {13:25} and
the stars shall be falling from heaven, and the powers that are in the heavens
shall be shaken. {13:26} And then shall they see the Son of man coming in
clouds with great power and glory. {13:27} And then shall he send forth the
messengers, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the
uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven. {13:28} Now from
the fig tree learn her parable: when her branch is now become tender, and put
forth its leaves, you know that the summer is near; {13:29} even so you also,
when you see these things coming to pass, know you that he is near, [even] at
the doors. {13:30} Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away,
until all these things be accomplished. {13:31} Heaven and earth shall pass
away: but my words shall not pass away. {13:32} But of that day or that hour
knows no one, not even the messengers in heaven, neither the Son, but the
Father. {13:33} Take you heed, watch and pray: for you know not when the time
is. {13:34} [It is] as [when] a man, sojourning in another country, having left
his house, and given authority to his servants, to each one his work, commanded
also the porter to watch. {13:35} Watch therefore: for you know not when the
lord of the house comes, whether at even, or at midnight, or at cockcrowing, or
in the morning; {13:36} lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. {13:37} And
what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.
{N2)14} Mark Chapter Fourteen. {14:1} Now after two days was [the feast of]
the Passover and the unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes
sought how they might take him with subtlety, and kill him: {14:2} for they
said, Not during the feast, lest haply there shall be a tumult of the people.
{14:3} And while he was in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat
at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster cruse of ointment of pure nard
very costly; [and] she brake the cruse, and poured it over his head. {14:4} But
there were some that had indignation among themselves, [saying], To what
purpose has this waste of the ointment been made? {14:5} For this ointment
might have been sold for above three hundred shillings, and given to the poor.
And they murmured against her. {14:6} But Yehsus said, Let her alone; why
trouble you her? she has wrought a good work on me. {14:7} For you have the
poor always with you, and when so ever you will you can do them good: but me
you have not always. {14:8} She has done what she could; she has anointed my
body beforehand for the burying. {14:9} And verily I say unto you, Where so
ever the good news shall be preached throughout the whole world, that also
which this woman has done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her. {14:10} And
Judas Iscariot, he that was one of the twelve, went away unto the chief
priests, that he might deliver him unto them. {14:11} And they, when they heard
it, were glad, and promised to give him money. And he sought how he might
conveniently deliver him [unto them].
{14:12} And on the first day
of unleavened bread, when they sacrificed the Passover, his disciples say unto
him, Where will you that we go and make ready that you may eat the Passover?
{14:13} And he sends two of his disciples, and said unto them, Go into the
city, and there shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water: follow him;
{14:14} and where so ever he shall enter in, say to the master of the house,
The Teacher said, Where is the guest-chamber, where I shall eat my Passover
with my disciples? {14:15} And he will himself show you a large upper room
furnished [and] ready: and there make ready for us.
{14:16} And the disciples
went forth, and came into the city, and found as he had said unto them: and
they made ready the Passover [of Yehsus]. {14:17} And when it was beginning of
night he comes with the twelve. {14:18}
And as they sat and were eating, Yehsus said, Verily I say unto you, One of you
shall betray me, [even] he that eats with me. {14:19} They began to be
sorrowful, and to say unto him one by one, Is it I? {14:20} And he said unto
them, [It is] one of the twelve, he that dips with me in the dish. {14:21} For
the Son of man goes, even as it is written of him: but a curse unto that man through
whom the Son of man is betrayed! good were it for that man if he had not been
born. {14:22} And as they were eating, he took bread, and when he had blessed,
he brake it, and gave to them, and said, Take you: this is my body. {14:23} And
he took a cup, and when he had given thanks [and divided], he [had] gave to
them: and they drank of it all. {14:24} And he said unto them, This is my blood
of the covenant, which is poured out for many. {14:25} Verily I say unto you, I
shall no more drink of the fruit of the vine, until that day when I [will] drink
it new in the kingdom of God. {14:26} And when they had sung a hymn, they went
out unto the mount of Olives. {14:27} And Yehsus said unto them, All you shall
be lose faith in me: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the
sheep shall be scattered abroad. {14:28} Howbeit, after I am raised up, I will
go before you into
{14:29} But Petros said unto
him, Although all shall lose faith, yet will
{N2)15} Mark Chapter Fifteen.
{15:1} And immediately in the morning the chief priests with the elders and
scribes, and the whole council, held a consultation, and bound Yehsus, and
carried him away, and delivered him up to Pilate. {15:2} And Pilate asked him,
are you the King of the Jews? And he answering said unto him, [as] you say.
{15:3} And the chief priests accused him of many things. {15:4} And Pilate
again asked him, saying, Answer you nothing? behold how many things they accuse
you of. {15:5} But Yehsus no more answered anything; insomuch that Pilate
marveled. {15:6} Now at the feast he used to release unto them one prisoner,
whom they asked of him. {15:7} And there was one called Barabbas, [lying] bound
with them that had made insurrection, men who in the insurrection had committed
murder. {15:8} And the multitude went up and began to ask him [to do] as he was
wont to do unto them. {15:9} And Pilate answered them, saying, Will you that I
release unto you the King of the Jews? {15:10} For he perceived that for envy
the chief priests had delivered him up. {15:11} But the chief priests stirred
up the multitude, that he should rather release Barabbas unto them. {15:12} And
Pilate again answered and said unto them, What then shall I do unto him whom
you call the King of the Jews? {15:13} And they cried out again, Crucify him.
{15:14} And Pilate said unto them, Why, what evil has he done? But they cried
out exceedingly, Crucify him. {15:15} And Pilate, wishing to content the
multitude, released unto them Barabbas, and delivered Yehsus, when he had
scourged him, to be crucified. {15:16} And the soldiers led him away within the
court, which is the Praetorium; and they call together the whole band. {15:17}
And they clothe him with purple, and platting a crown of thorns, they put it on
him; {15:18} and they began to salute him, Hail, King of the Jews! {15:19} And
they smote his head with a reed, and spat upon him, and bowing their knees
worshipped him. {15:20} And when they had mocked him, they took off from him
the purple, and put on him his garments. And they lead him out to crucify him.
{15:21} And they compel one passing by, Simon of Cyrene, coming from the
country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to go [with them], that he might
bear his cross. {15:22} And they bring him unto the place
{N2)16} Mark 16. Chapter Sixteen. {16:1} And very
early [morning] when [day] One of the Sabbaton [is half past], they [the women]
come to the tomb when the sun was risen. {16:2} And they were saying among
themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the tomb? {16:3}
and looking up, they see that the stone is rolled back: for it was exceeding
great. {16:4} And entering into the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the
right side, arrayed in a white robe; and they were amazed. {16:5} And he said
unto them, Be not amazed: you seek Yehsus, the Nazarene, who has been
crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold, the place where they laid him!
{16:6} But go, tell his disciples and Petros, He goes before you into
Mark {16:8} Now [Yehsus]
rising early, [at dusk of the evening] at the first of the [seven day solar] Sabbaton
he appeared first to Maria Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons.
{16:9} She went and told them that had been with him, as they grieved and wept.
{16:10} And they, when they heard that he was alive, and had been seen of her,
disbelieved. {16:11} And after these things he was manifested in another form
unto two of them, as they walked, on their way into the country. {16:12} And
they went away and told it unto the rest: neither believed they them. {16:13}
And afterward he was manifested unto the eleven themselves as they sat at meat;
and he upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they
believed not them that had seen him after he was risen. {16:14} And he said
unto them, Go you into all the world, and preach the good news to the whole
creation. {16:15} He that believes and is immersed [in water] shall be saved;
but he that disbelieves shall be condemned. {16:16} And these signs shall
accompany them that believe: in my name shall they cast out demons; they shall
speak with new tongues; {16:17} they shall take up serpents, and if they drink
any deadly thing, it shall in no wise hurt them; they shall lay hands on the
sick, and they shall recover. {16:18} So then the Lord Yehsus, after he had
spoken unto them, was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand
of God. {16:19} And they went forth, and preached everywhere, the Lord working
with them, and confirming the word by the signs that followed. Amen.
{N3)1} Luke Chapter One. The Good news According To The Holy Good News
Writer Luke {1:1} Forasmuch as many
have taken in hand to draw up a narrative concerning those matters which have
been fulfilled among us, {1:2} even as they delivered them unto us, who from
the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word, {1:3} it seemed good
to me also, having traced the course of all things accurately from the first,
to write unto you in [giving you the] order, most excellent Theophilus; {1:4}
that you might know the certainty concerning the [the order in] things wherein
you were instructed. {1:5} There was in the days of Herod, king of
{N3)2} Luke Chapter Two. {2:1} Now it came to pass in those days,
there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be
enrolled. {2:2} This was the first enrolment made when Quirinius was governor
of
{N3)3} Luke Chapter
Three. {3:1} Now in the fifteenth year
of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and
Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region
of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene, {3:2} in the high
priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came unto John the son of
Zacharias in the wilderness. {3:3} And he came into all the region round about
the Jordan, preaching the immersion of repentance unto remission of sins; {3:4}
as it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, The voice of
one crying in the wilderness, Make you ready the way of the Lord, Make his
paths straight. {3:5} Every valley shall be filled, And every mountain and hill
shall be brought low; And the crooked shall become straight, And the rough ways
smooth; {3:6} And all flesh shall see the salvation of God. {3:7} He said
therefore to the multitudes that went out to be immersed of him [in water], you
offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? {3:8} Bring
forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within
yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able
of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham. {3:9} And even now the axe
also lies at the root of the trees: every tree therefore that brings not forth
good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. {3:10} And the multitudes
asked him, saying, What then must we do? {3:11} And he answered and said unto
them, He that has two coats, let him impart to him that has none; and he that
has food, let him do likewise. {3:12} And there came also tax collectors to be
immersed [in water], and they said unto him, Teacher, what must we do? {3:13}
And he said unto them, Extort no more than that which is appointed you. {3:14}
And soldiers also asked him, saying, And we, what must we do? And he said unto
them, Extort from no man by violence, neither accuse [any one] wrongfully; and
be content with your wages. {3:15} And as the people were in expectation, and
all men reasoned in their hearts concerning John, whether haply he were the
Christ; {3:16} John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed immerse you with
water; but there comes he that is mightier than I, the latchet of whose shoes I
am not worthy to unloose: he shall immerse you in the Holy Spirit and [in]
fire: {3:17} whose fan is in his hand, thoroughly to cleanse his
threshing-floor, and to gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will
burn up with unquenchable fire. {3:18} With many other exhortations therefore
preached he good tidings unto the people; {3:19} but Herod the tetrarch, being
reproved by him for Herodias his brother's wife, and for all the evil things
which Herod had done, {3:20} added this also to them all, that he shut up John
in prison. {3:21} Now it came to pass, when all the people were immersed [in
water], that, Yehsus also having been immersed in water], and praying, the
heaven was opened, {3:22} and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form, as a
dove, upon him, and a voice came out of heaven, you are my agape beloved Son;
in you I am well pleased. {3:23} And Yehsus himself, when he began [to teach],
was about thirty years of age, being the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, the
[son] of Heli, {3:24} the [son] of Matthat, the [son] of Levi, the [son] of
Melchi, the [son] of Jannai, the [son] of Joseph, {3:25} the [son] of
Mattathias, the [son] of Amos, the [son] of Nahum, the [son] of Esli, the [son]
of Naggai, {3:26} the [son] of Maath, the [son] of Mattathias, the [son] of
Semein, the [son] of Josech, the [son] of Joda, {3:27} the [son] of Joanan, the
[son] of Rhesa, the [son] of Zerubbabel, the [son] of Shealtiel, the [son] of Neri,
{3:28} the [son] of Melchi, the [son] of Addi, the [son] of Cosam, the [son] of
Elmadam, the [son] of Er, {3:29} the [son] of Yehsus, the [son] of Eliezer, the
son of Jorim, the [son] of Matthat, the [son] of Levi, {3:30} the [son] of
Symeon, the [son] of Judas, the [son] of Joseph, the [son] of Jonam, the [son]
of Eliakim, {3:31} the [son] of Melea, the [son] of Menna, the [son] of
Mattatha, the [son] of Nathan, the [son] of David, {3:32} the [son] of Jesse,
the [son] of Obed, the [son] of Boaz, the [son] of Salmon, the [son] of
Nahshon, {3:33} the [son] of Amminadab, the [son] of Arni, the [son] of Hezron,
the [son] of Perez, the [son] of Judah, {3:34} the [son] of Jacob, the [son] of
Isaac, the [son] of Abraham, the [son] of Terah, the [son] of Nahor, {3:35} the
[son] of Serug, the [son] of Reu, the [son] of Peleg, the [son] of Eber, the
[son] of Shelah {3:36} the [son] of Cainan, the [son] of Arphaxad, the [son] of
Shem, the [son] of Noah, the [son] of Lamech, {3:37} the [son] of Methuselah,
the [son] of Enoch, the [son] of Jared, the [son] of Mahalaleel, the [son] of
Cainan, {3:38} the [son] of Enos, the [son] of Seth, the [son] of Adam, the
[son] of God.
{N3)4} Luke Chapter Four. {4:1} And Yehsus, full of the Holy Spirit,
returned from the
{N3)5} Luke Chapter
Five. {5:1} Now it came to pass, while
the multitude pressed upon him and heard the word of God, that he was standing
by the lake of Gennesaret; {5:2} and he saw two boats standing by the lake: but
the fishermen had gone out of them, and were washing their nets. {5:3} And he
entered into one of the boats, which was Simon's, and asked him to put out a
little from the land. And he sat down and taught the multitudes out of the
boat. {5:4} And when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Put out into the
deep, and let down your nets for a catch. {5:5} And Simon answered and said,
Master, we toiled all night, and took nothing: but at your word I will let down
the nets. {5:6} And when they had done this, they enclosed a great multitude of
fishes; and their nets were breaking; {5:7} and they beckoned unto their
partners in the other boat, that they should come and help them. And they came,
and filled both the boats, so that they began to sink. {5:8} But Simon Petros,
when he saw it, fell down at Yehsus' knees, saying, Depart from me; for I am a
sinful man, O Lord. {5:9} For he was amazed, and all that were with him, at the
catch of the fishes which they had taken; {5:10} and so were also James and
John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. And Yehsus said unto
Simon, Fear not; from here on you shall catch men. {5:11} And when they had
brought their boats to land, they left all, and followed him. {5:12} And it
came to pass, while he was in one of the cities, behold, a man full of leprosy:
and when he saw Yehsus, he fell on his face, and beg him, saying, Lord, if you
will, you Can make me clean. {5:13} And he stretched forth his hand, and
touched him, saying, I will; be you made clean. And immediately the leprosy
departed from him. {5:14} And he charged him to tell no man: but go your way,
and show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing, according as
Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them. {5:15} But so much the more went
abroad the report concerning him: and great multitudes came together to hear,
and to be healed of their infirmities. {5:16} But he withdrew himself in the
deserts, and prayed. {5:17} And it came to pass on one of those days, that he
was teaching; and there were Pharisees and doctors of the [Halakhah, the oral]
law sitting by, who were come out of every village of Galilee and Jerusalem and
Jerusalem: and the power of the Lord was with him to heal. {5:18} And behold,
men bring on a bed a man that was palsied: and they sought to bring him in, and
to lay him before him. {5:19} And not finding by what [way] they might bring
him in because of the multitude, they went up to the housetop, and let him down
through the tiles with his couch into the midst before Yehsus. {5:20} And
seeing their faith, he said, Man, your sins are forgiven you. {5:21} And the
scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, Who is this that speaks
blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone? {5:22} But Yehsus perceiving
their reasonings, answered and said unto them, Why reason you in your hearts?
{5:23} Which is easier, to say, Your sins are forgiven you; or to say, Arise
and walk? {5:24} But that you may know that the Son of man has authority on
earth to forgive sins (he said unto him that was palsied), I say unto you,
Arise, and take up your couch, and go unto your house. {5:25} And immediately
he rose up before them, and took up that whereon he lay, and departed to his
house, glorifying God. {5:26} And amazement took hold on all, and they
glorified God; and they were filled with fear, saying, We have seen strange
things to-day. {5:27} And after these things he went forth, and beheld a tax
collector, named Levi, sitting at the place of toll, and said unto him, Follow
me. {5:28} And he forsook all, and rose up and followed him. {5:29} And Levi
made him a great feast in his house: and there was a great multitude of tax
collectors and of others that were sitting at meat with them. {5:30} And the
Pharisees and their scribes murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do you
eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners? {5:31} And Yehsus answering
said unto them, They that are in health have no need of a physician; but they
that are sick. {5:32} I am not come to call the righteous but sinners to
repentance. {5:33} And they said unto him, The disciples of John fast often,
and make supplications; likewise also the [disciples] of the Pharisees; but you
eat and drink. {5:34} And Yehsus said unto them, Can you make the sons of the
bride-chamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them? {5:35} But the days will
come; and when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, then will they
fast in those days. {5:36} And he spoke also a parable unto them: No man rends
a piece from a new garment and puts it upon an old garment; else he will rend
the new, and also the piece from the new will not agree with the old. {5:37}
And no man puts new wine into old wine-skins; else the new wine will burst the
skins, and itself will be spilled, and the skins will perish. {5:38} But new
wine must be put into fresh wine-skins. {5:39} And no man having drunk old
[wine] desires new; for he said, The old is good.
{N3)6} Luke Chapter Six. {6:1} Now it came to pass on a Sabbath,
that he was going through the grain fields; and his disciples plucked the ears,
and did eat, rubbing them in their hands. {6:2} But certain of the Pharisees
said, Why do you that which it is not [Halakhah] lawful to do on the Sabbath
day? {6:3} And Yehsus answering them said, Have you not read even this, what
David did, when he was hungry, he, and they that were with him; {6:4} how he
entered into the house of God, and took and ate the showbread, and gave also to
them that were with him; which it is not lawful [through Moses] to eat save for
the priests alone? {6:5} And he said unto them, The Son of man is lord of the
Sabbath. {6:6} And it came to pass on another Sabbath, that he entered into the
synagogue and taught: and there was a man there, and his right hand was
withered. {6:7} And the scribes and the Pharisees watched him, whether he would
heal on the Sabbath; that they might find how to accuse him. {6:8} But he knew
their thoughts; and he said to the man that had his hand withered, Rise up, and
stand forth in the midst. And he arose and stood forth. {6:9} And Yehsus said
unto them, I ask you, Is it lawful [through Moses] on the Sabbath to do good,
or to do harm? to save a life, or to destroy it? {6:10} And he looked round
about on them all, and said unto him, Stretch forth your hand. And he did [so]:
and his hand was restored. {6:11} But they were filled with madness; and
communed one with another what they might do to Yehsus.
{6:12} And it came to pass in
that [night of] day [one], that he went out into the mountain to pray; and he
continued all night in prayer to God. {6:13} And when it was day [light], he
called his disciples; and he chose from them twelve, whom also he named
apostles: {6:14} Simon, whom he also named Petros, and Andrew his brother, and
James and John, and Philip and Bartholomew,
{6:15} and Matthew and Thomas, and James [the son] of Alphaeus, and
Simon who was called the Zealot, {6:16} and Judas [the son] of James, and Judas
Iscariot, who became a traitor; {6:17} and he came down with them, and stood on
a level place, and a great multitude of his disciples, and a great number of
the people from all Judea and Jerusalem, and the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon,
who came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases; {6:18} and they that
were troubled with unclean spirits were healed. {6:19} And all the multitude
sought to touch him; for power came forth from him, and healed [them] all.
{6:20} And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed [are] you
poor: for yours is the
Woe [unto you], when all men
shall speak well of you! for in the same manner did their fathers to the false
prophets. {6:27} But I say unto you that
hear, agape Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you, {6:28} bless them
that curse you, pray for them that despitefully use you. {6:29} To him that
smites you on the [one] cheek offer also the other; and from him that takes
away your cloak withhold not your coat also. {6:30} Give to every one that asks
you; and of him that takes away your goods ask them not again. {6:31} And as
you would that men should do to you, do you also to them likewise. {6:32} And
if you agape love them that agape love you, what thank have you? for even
sinners agape love those that agape love them. {6:33} And if you do good to
them that do good to you, what thank have you? for even sinners do the same.
{6:34} And if you lend to them of whom you hope to receive, what thank have
you? even sinners lend to sinners, to receive again as much. {6:35} But agape
love your enemies, and do [them] good, and lend, never despairing; and your
reward shall be great, and you shall be sons of the Most High: for he is kind
toward the unthankful and evil. {6:36} Be you merciful, even as your Father is
merciful. {6:37} And judge not, and you shall not be judged: and condemn not,
and you shall not be condemned: release, and you shall be released: {6:38}
give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, shaken
together, running over, shall they give into your bosom. For with what measure
you mete it shall be measured to you again. {6:39} And he spoke also a parable
unto them, Can the blind guide the blind? shall they not both fall into a pit?
{6:40} The disciple is not above his teacher: but every one when he is
perfected shall be as his teacher. {6:41} And why behold you the mote that is
in your brother's eye, but consider not the beam that is in your own eye?
{6:42} Or how Can you say to your brother, Brother, let me cast out the mote
that is in your eye, when you yourself behold not the beam that is in your own
eye? you hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of your own eye, and then shall
you see clearly to cast out the mote that is in your brother's eye. {6:43} For
there is no good tree that brings forth corrupt fruit; nor again a corrupt tree
that brings forth good fruit. {6:44} For each tree is known by its own fruit.
For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.
{6:45} The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth that
which is good; and the evil [man] out of the evil [treasure] brings forth that
which is evil: for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speak. {6:46}
And why call you me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say? {6:47}
Every one that comes unto me, and hears my words, and does them, I will show
you to whom he is like: {6:48} he is like a man building a house, who dug and
went deep, and laid a foundation upon the rock: and when a flood arose, the
stream brake against that house, and could not shake it: because it had been
well built. {6:49} But he that hears, and does not, is like a man that built a
house upon the earth outside a foundation; against which the stream brake, and
immediately it fell in; and the ruin of that house was great.
{N3)7} Luke Chapter
Seven. {7:1} After he had ended all his
sayings in the ears of the people, he entered into
{N3)8} Luke Chapter
Eight. {8:1} And it came to pass soon
afterwards, that he went about through cities and villages, preaching and
bringing the good tidings of the kingdom of God, and with him the twelve, {8:2}
and certain women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Maria
that was called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out, {8:3} and
Joanna the wife of Chuzas Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many others, who
ministered unto them of their substance. {8:4} And when a great multitude came
together, and they of every city resorted unto him, he spoke by a parable:
{8:5} The sower went forth to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the
way side; and it was trodden under foot, and the birds of the heaven devoured
it. {8:6} And other fell on the rock; and as soon as it grew, it withered away,
because it had no moisture. {8:7} And other fell amidst the thorns; and the
thorns grew with it, and choked it. {8:8} And other fell into the good ground,
and grew, and brought forth fruit a hundredfold. As he said these things, he
cried, He that has ears to hear, let him hear. {8:9} And his disciples asked
him what this parable might be. {8:10} And he said, Unto you it is given to
know the mysteries of the
{N3)9} Luke Chapter
Nine. {9:1} And he called the twelve
together, and gave them power and authority over all demons, and to cure
diseases. {9:2} And he sent them forth to preach the
{N3)10} Luke Chapter Ten. {10:1} Now after these things the Lord
appointed seventy others, and sent them two and two before his face into every
city and place, where he himself was about to come. {10:2} And he said unto
them, The harvest indeed is plenteous, but the laborers are few: pray you
therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he send forth laborers into his
harvest. {10:3} Go your ways; behold, I send you forth as lambs in the midst of
wolves. {10:4} Carry no purse, no wallet, no shoes; and salute no man on the
way. {10:5} And into what ever house you shall enter, first say, Peace [be] to
this house. {10:6} And if a son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon
him: but if not, it shall turn to you again. {10:7} And in that same house
remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the laborer is worthy
of his hire. Go not from house to house. {10:8} And into what ever city you
enter, and they receive you, eat such things as are set before you: {10:9} and
heal the sick that are therein, and say unto them, The kingdom of God is come
near unto you. {10:10} But into what ever city you shall enter, and they
receive you not, go out into the streets of it and say, {10:11} Even the dust
from your city, that cleaves to our feet, we wipe off against you: nevertheless
know this, that the kingdom of God is come near. {10:12} I say unto you, it
shall be more tolerable in that day for
{N3)11} Luke Chapter Eleven. {11:1} And it came to pass, as he was
praying in a certain place, that when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto
him, Lord, teach us to pray, even as John also taught his disciples. {11:2} And
he said unto them, When you pray, say, Father, Hallowed be your name. Your
kingdom come. {11:3} Give us day by day our daily bread. {11:4} And forgive us
our sins; for we ourselves also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And
bring us not into temptation. {11:5} And he said unto them, Which of you shall
have a friend, and shall go unto him at midnight, and say to him, Friend, lend
me three loaves; {11:6} for a friend of mine is come to me from a journey, and
I have nothing to set before him; {11:7} and he from within shall answer and
say, Trouble me not: the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed;
I cannot rise and give you? {11:8} I say unto you, though he will not rise and
give him because he is his friend, yet because of his aggressive
insistence he will arise and give him as many as
he needs. {11:9} And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and
you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. {11:10} For every one
that asks receives; and he that seeks finds; and to him that knocks it shall be
opened. {11:11} And of which of you that is a father shall his son ask a loaf,
and he give him a stone? or a fish, and he for a fish give him a serpent?
{11:12} Or [if] he shall ask an egg, will he give him a scorpion? {11:13} If
you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much
more shall [your] heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
{11:14} And he was casting out a demon [that was] dumb. And it came to pass,
when the demon was gone out, the dumb man spoke; and the multitudes marveled.
{11:15} But some of them said, By Beelzebub the prince of the demons cast he
out demons. {11:16} And others, trying [him], sought of him a sign from heaven.
{11:17} But he, knowing their thoughts, said unto them, Every kingdom divided
against itself is brought to desolation; and a house [divided] against a house
falls. {11:18} And if Satan also is divided against himself, how shall his
kingdom stand? because you say that I cast out demons by Beelzebub. {11:19} And
if I by Beelzebub cast out demons, by whom do your sons cast them out?
therefore shall they be your judges. {11:20} But if I by the finger of God cast
out demons, then is the
{N3)12} Luke Chapter Twelve. {12:1} In the mean time, when the many
thousands of the multitude were gathered together, insomuch that they trod one
upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware you of
the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. {12:2} But there is nothing
covered up, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.
{12:3} Therefore what ever you have said in the darkness shall be heard in the
light; and what you have spoken in the ear in the inner chambers shall be
proclaimed upon the housetops. {12:4} And I say unto you my friends, Be not
afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can
do. {12:5} But I will warn you whom you shall fear: Fear him, who after he has
killed has power to cast into hell; behold, I say unto you, Fear him. {12:6}
Are not five sparrows sold for two pence? and not one of them is forgotten in
the sight of God. {12:7} But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear
not: you are of more value than many sparrows. {12:8} And I say unto you, Every
one who shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess
before the messengers of God: {12:9} but he that denies me in the presence of
men shall be denied in the presence of the messengers of God. {12:10} And every
one who shall speak a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him:
but unto him that blasphemes against the Holy Spirit it shall not be forgiven.
{12:11} And when they bring you before the synagogues, and the rulers, and the
authorities, be not anxious how or what you shall answer, or what you shall
say: {12:12} for the Holy Spirit shall teach you in that very hour what you
ought to say. {12:13} And one out of the multitude said unto him, Teacher, bid
my brother divide the inheritance with me. {12:14} But he said unto him, Man,
who made me a judge or a divider over you? {12:15} And he said unto them, Take
heed, and keep yourselves from all covetousness: for a man's life consists not
in the abundance of the things which he possesses. {12:16} And he spoke a
parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth
plentifully: {12:17} and he reasoned within himself, saying, What shall I do,
because I have not where to bestow my fruits? {12:18} And he said, This will I
do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all
my grain and my goods. {12:19} And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have much
goods laid up for many years; take your ease, eat, drink, be merry. {12:20} But
God said unto him, you foolish one, this night is your soul required of you;
and the things which you have prepared, whose shall they be? {12:21} So is he
that lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God. {12:22} And he
said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Be not anxious for [your]
life, what you shall eat; nor yet for your body, what you shall put on. {12:23}
For the life is more than the food, and the body than the raiment. {12:24}
Consider the ravens, that they sow not, neither reap; which have no
store-chamber nor barn; and God feeds them: of how much more value are you than
the birds! {12:25} And which of you by being anxious can add a cubit unto the
measure of his life? {12:26} If then you are not able to do even that which is
least, why are you anxious concerning the rest? {12:27} Consider the lilies,
how they grow: they toil not, neither do they spin; yet I say unto you, Even
Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. {12:28} But if God
does so clothe the grass in the field, which to-day is, and to-morrow is cast
into the oven; how much more [shall he clothe] you, O you of little faith?
{12:29} And seek not you what you shall eat, and what you shall drink, neither
be you of doubtful mind. {12:30} For all these things do the nations of the
world seek after: but your Father knows that you have need of these things.
{12:31} yet seek you his kingdom, and these things shall be added unto you.
{12:32} Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give
you the kingdom. {12:33} Sell that which you have, and give genuine
benevolence; make for yourselves purses which wax not old, a treasure in the
heavens that fails not, where no thief draws near, neither moth destroys.
{12:34} For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. {12:35} Let
your loins be girded about, and your lamps burning; {12:36} and be you
yourselves like unto men looking for their lord, when he shall return from the
marriage feast; that, when he comes and knocks, they may immediately open unto
him. {12:37} Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he comes shall find
watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them sit
down to meat, and shall come and serve them. {12:38} And if he shall come in
the second watch, and if in the third, and find [them] so blessed are those
[servants]. {12:39} But know this, that if the master of the house had known in
what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and not have left his
house to be broken through. {12:40} Be you also ready: for in an hour that you
think not the Son of man comes. {12:41} And Petros said, Lord, speak you this
parable unto us, or even unto all? {12:42} And the Lord said, Who then is the
faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall set over his household, to give
them their portion of food in due season? {12:43} Blessed is that slave, whom
his lord when he comes shall find so doing. {12:44} Of a truth I say unto you,
that he will set him over all that he has. {12:45} But if that slave shall say
in his heart, My lord delays his coming; and shall begin to beat the
menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunk;
{12:46} the lord of that slave shall come in a day when he expects not, and in
an hour when he knows not, and shall cut him asunder, and appoint his portion
with the unfaithful. {12:47} And that slave, who knew his lord's will, and made
not ready, nor did according to his will, shall be beaten with many [stripes];
{12:48} but he that knew not, and did things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten
with few [stripes]. And to whom so ever much is given, of him shall much be
required: and to whom they commit much, of him will they ask the more. {12:49}
I came to cast fire upon the earth; and what do I desire, if it is already
kindled? {12:50} But I have a [certain kind of] immersion to be immersed with;
and how am I straitened till it be accomplished! {12:51} Think you that I am
come to give peace in the earth? I tell you, No; but rather division: {12:52}
for there shall be from here on five in one house divided, three against two,
and two against three. {12:53} They shall be divided, father against son, and
son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother;
mother in law against her daughter in law, and daughter in law against her
mother in law. {12:54} And he said to the multitudes also, When you see a cloud
rising in the west, immediately you say, There comes a shower; and so it comes
to pass. {12:55} And when [you see] a south wind blowing, you say, There will
be a scorching heat; and it comes to pass. {12:56} you hypocrites, you know how
to interpret the face of the earth and the heaven; but how is it that you know
not how to interpret this time? {12:57} And why even of yourselves judge you
not what is right? {12:58} For as you are going with your adversary before the
judge, on the way give diligence to be settled with him; lest haply he drag you
unto the judge, and the judge shall deliver you to the officer, and the officer
shall cast you into prison. {12:59} I say unto you, you shall by no means come
out there, till you have paid the very last mite.
{N3)13} Luke Chapter Thirteen. {13:1} Now there were some present at that
very season who told him of the Galilaeans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with
their sacrifices. {13:2} And he answered and said unto them, Think you that
these Galilaeans were sinners above all the Galilaeans, because they have
suffered these things? {13:3} I tell you, No: but, except you repent, you shall
all in like manner perish. {13:4} Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in
Siloam fell, and killed them, think you that they were offenders above all the
men that dwell in Jerusalem? {13:5} I tell you, No: but, except you repent, you
shall all likewise perish. {13:6} And he spoke this parable; A certain man had
a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came seeking fruit thereon, and
found none. {13:7} And he said unto the vinedresser, Behold, these three years
I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why does it
also cumber the ground? {13:8} And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it
alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it: {13:9} and if it
bear fruit there on, [well]; but if not, you shall cut it down. {13:10} And he
was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath day. {13:11} And behold, a
woman that had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years; and she was bowed
together, and could in no wise lift herself up. {13:12} And when Yehsus saw
her, he called her, and said to her, Woman, you are loosed from your infirmity.
{13:13} And he laid his hands upon her: and immediately she was made straight,
and glorified God. {13:14} And the ruler of the synagogue, being moved with
indignation because Yehsus had healed on the Sabbath, answered and said to the
multitude, There are six days in which men ought to work: in them therefore
come and be healed, and not on the day of the Sabbath. {13:15} But the Lord
answered him, and said, you hypocrites, does not each one of you on the Sabbath
loose his ox or his donkey from the stall, and lead him away to watering?
{13:16} And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan had
bound, lo, [these] eighteen years, to have been loosed from this bond on the
day of the Sabbath? {13:17} And as he said these things, all his adversaries
were put to shame: and all the multitude rejoiced for all the glorious things
that were done by him. {13:18} He said therefore, Unto what is the
{N3)14} Luke Chapter Fourteen. {14:1} And it came to pass, when he went
into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread,
that they were watching him. {14:2} And behold, there was before him a certain
man that had the dropsy. {14:3} And Yehsus answering spoke unto the [Halakhah]
lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful [though Moses] to heal on the
Sabbath, or not? {14:4} But they held their peace. And he took him, and healed
him, and let him go. {14:5} And he said unto them, Which of you shall have an
donkey or an ox fallen into a well, and will not immediately draw him up on a
Sabbath day? {14:6} And they could not answer again unto these things. {14:7}
And he spoke a parable unto those that were bidden, when he marked how they
chose out the chief seats; saying unto them, {14:8} When you are bidden of any
man to a marriage feast, sit not down in the chief seat; lest haply a more
honorable man than you be bidden of him, {14:9} and he that bade you and him
shall come and say to you, Give this man place; and then you shall begin with
shame to take the low place. {14:10} But when you are bidden, go and sit down
in the low place; that when he that has bidden you comes, he may say to you, Friend,
go up higher: then shall you have glory in the presence of all that sit at meat
with you. {14:11} For everyone that exalts himself shall be humbled; and he
that humbles himself shall be exalted. {14:12} And he said to him also that had
bidden him, When you make a morning meal (Ariston) or a supper (evening meal), call not your
friends, nor your brethren, nor your kinsmen, nor rich neighbors; lest haply
they also bid you again, and a recompense be made you. {14:13} But when you
make a feast (doche dokh-ay), bid the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:
{14:14} and you shall be blessed; because they have not [wherewith] to
recompense you: for you shall be recompensed in the resurrection of the just.
{14:15} And when one of them that sat at meat with him heard these things, he
said unto him, Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the
{N3)15} Luke Chapter Fifteen. {15:1} Now all the tax collectors and
sinners were drawing near unto him to hear him. {15:2} And both the Pharisees
and the scribes murmured, saying, This man receives sinners, and eats with
them. {15:3} And he spoke unto them this parable, saying, {15:4} What man of
you, having a hundred sheep, and having lost one of them, does not leave the
ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he
find it? {15:5} And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders,
rejoicing. {15:6} And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his
neighbors, saying unto them, Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which
was lost. {15:7} I say unto you, that even so there shall be joy in heaven over
one sinner that repents, [more] than over ninety and nine righteous persons,
who need no repentance. {15:8} Or what woman having ten pieces of silver, if
she lose one piece, does not light a lamp, and sweep the house, and seek
diligently until she find it? {15:9} And when she has found it, she calls
together her friends and neighbors, saying, Rejoice with me, for I have found
the piece which I had lost. {15:10} Even so, I say unto you, there is joy in
the presence of the messengers of God over one sinner that repents. {15:11} And
he said, A certain man had two sons: {15:12} and the younger of them said to
his father, Father, give me the portion of [your] substance that falls to me.
And he divided unto them his living. {15:13} And not many days after, the
younger son gathered all together and took his journey into a far country; and
there he wasted his substance with riotous living. {15:14} And when he had
spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that country; and he began to be in
want. {15:15} And he went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that
country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. {15:16} And he would
fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man
gave unto him. {15:17} But when he came to himself he said, How many hired
servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish here with
hunger! {15:18} I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him,
Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight: {15:19} I am no more
worthy to be called your son: make me as one of your hired servants. {15:20}
And he arose, and came to his father. But while he was yet afar off, his father
saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and
kissed him. {15:21} And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against
heaven, and in your sight: I am no more worthy to be called your son. {15:22}
But the father said to his servants, Bring forth quickly the best robe, and put
it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet: {15:23} and bring
the fatted calf, [and] kill it, and let us eat, and make merry: {15:24} for
this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they
began to be merry. {15:25} Now his elder son was in the field: and as he came
and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing. {15:26} And he called
to him one of the servants, and inquired what these things might be. {15:27}
And he said unto him, Your brother is come; and your father has killed the fatted
calf, because he has received him safe and sound. {15:28} But he was angry, and
would not go in: and his father came out, and entreated him. {15:29} But he
answered and said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve you, and I
never transgressed a commandment of your; and [yet] you never gave me a kid,
that I might make merry with my friends: {15:30} but when this your son came,
who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed for him the fatted
calf. {15:31} And he said unto him, Son, you are ever with me, and all that is
mine is your. {15:32} But it was meet to make merry and be glad: for this your
brother was dead, and is alive [again]; and [was] lost, and is found.
{N3)16} Luke Chapter Sixteen. {16:1} And he said also unto the disciples,
There was a certain rich man, who had a steward; and the same was accused unto
him that he was wasting his goods. {16:2} And he called him, and said unto him,
What is this that I hear of you? render the account of your stewardship; for
you Can be no longer steward. {16:3} And the steward said within himself, What
shall I do, seeing that my lord takes away the stewardship from me? I have not
strength to dig; to beg I am ashamed. {16:4} I am resolved what to do, that,
when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.
{16:5} And calling to him each one of his lord's debtors, he said to the first,
How much owe you unto my lord? {16:6} And he said, A hundred measures of oil.
And he said unto him, Take your bond, and sit down quickly and write fifty.
{16:7} Then said he to another, And how much owe you? And he said, A hundred
measures of wheat. He said unto him, Take your bond, and write fourscore.
{16:8} And his lord commended the unrighteous steward because he had done
wisely: for the sons of this world are for their own generation wiser than the
sons of the light. {16:9} And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends by
means of the mammon of works outside the law; that, when it shall fail, they
may receive you into the eternal tabernacles. {16:10} He that is faithful in a
very little is faithful also in much: and he that is [illegal] in works outside
the law in a very little is [illegal] in works outside the law also in much.
{16:11} If therefore you have not been faithful in the [illegal)] works outside
the law of mammon, who will commit to your trust the true [riches]? {16:12} And
if you have not been faithful in that which is another's, who will give you
that which is your own? {16:13} No servant can serve two masters: for either he
will hate the one, and agape love the other; or else he will hold to one, and
despise the other. you cannot serve God and mammon. {16:14} And the Pharisees,
who were philo lovers of money, heard all these things; and they scoffed at
him. {16:15} And he said unto them, you are they that justify yourselves in the
sight of men; but God knows your hearts: for that which is exalted among men is
an abomination in the sight of God. {16:16} The [written] law [through Moses]
and the prophets [were] until John: from that time the good news of the
{N3)17} Luke Chapter Seventeen. {17:1} And he said unto his disciples, It
is impossible but that occasions of stumbling should come; but A curse unto
him, through whom they come! {17:2} It were well for him if a millstone were
hanged about his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, rather than that he
should cause one of these little ones to stumble. {17:3} Take heed to
yourselves: if your brother sin, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him. {17:4}
And if he sin against you seven times in the day, and seven times turn again to
you, saying, I repent; you shall forgive him. {17:5} And the apostles said unto
the Lord, Increase our faith. {17:6} And the Lord said, If you had faith as a
grain of mustard seed, you would say unto this sycamore tree, Be you rooted up,
and be you planted in the sea; and it would obey you. {17:7} But who is there
of you, having a slave plowing or keeping sheep, that will say unto him, when
he is come in from the field, Come immediately and sit down to meat; {17:8} and
will not rather say unto him, Make ready wherewith I may sup, and gird
yourself, and serve me, till I have eaten and drunk; and afterward you shall
eat and drink? {17:9} Does he thank the slave because he did the things that
were commanded? {17:10} Even so you also, when you shall have done all the
things that are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable slaves; we have done
that which it was our duty to do. {17:11} And it came to pass, as they were on
their way to
{N3)18} Luke Chapter Fifteen. {18:1} And he spoke a parable unto them to
the end that they ought always to pray, and not to faint; {18:2} saying, There
was in a city a judge, who feared not God, and regarded not man: {18:3} and
there was a widow in that city; and she came oft unto him, saying, Avenge me of
mine adversary. {18:4} And he would not for a while: but afterward he said
within himself, though I fear not God, nor regard man; {18:5} yet because this
widow troubles me, I will avenge her, lest she wear me out by her continual
coming. {18:6} And the Lord said, Hear what the unrighteous judge said. {18:7}
And shall not God avenge his elect, that cry to him day and night, and [yet] he
is longsuffering over them? {18:8} I say unto you, that he will avenge them
speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of man comes, shall he find faith on the
earth? {18:9} And he spoke also this parable unto certain who trusted in
themselves that they were righteous, and set all others at nothing: {18:10} Two
men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a tax
collector. {18:11} The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I
thank you, that I am not as the rest of men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers,
or even as this tax collector. {18:12} I fast twice in the sevens; I give
tithes of all that I get. {18:13} But the tax collector, standing afar off,
would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote his breast,
saying, God, be you merciful to me a sinner. {18:14} I say unto you, This man
went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that
exalts himself shall be humbled; but he that humbles himself shall be exalted.
{18:15} And they were bringing unto him also their babes, that he should touch
them: but when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them. {18:16} But Yehsus called
them unto him, saying, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid
them not: for to such belongs the
{N3)19} Luke Chapter Eighteen. {19:1} And he entered and was passing
through
{19:29} And it came to pass, when he drew
near unto Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount that is called Olivet, he sent
two of the disciples, {19:30} saying, Go your way into the village over against
[you]; in which as you enter you shall find a colt tied, whereon no man ever
yet sat: loose him, and bring him. {19:31} And if any one ask you, Why do you
loose him? thus shall you say, The Lord has need of him. {19:32} And they that
were sent went away, and found even as he had said unto them. {19:33} And as
they were loosing the colt, the owners of it said unto them, Why loose you the
colt? {19:34} And they said, The Lord has need of him. {19:35} And they brought
him to Yehsus: and they threw their garments upon the colt, and set Yehsus
thereon. {19:36} And as he went, they spread their garments in the way. {19:37}
And as he was now drawing near, [even] at the descent of the mount of Olives,
the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a
loud voice for all the mighty works which they had seen; {19:38} saying,
Blessed [is] the King that comes in the name of the Lord: peace in heaven, and
glory in the highest. {19:39} And some of the Pharisees from the multitude said
unto him, Teacher, rebuke your disciples. {19:40} And he answered and said, I
tell you that, if these shall hold their peace, the stones will cry out.
{19:41} And when he drew near, he saw the city and wept over it, {19:42}
saying, If you had known in this day, even you, the things which belong unto
peace! but now they are hid from your eyes. {19:43} For the days shall come
upon you, when your enemies shall cast up a bank about you, and compass you
round, and keep you in on every side, {19:44} and shall dash you to the ground,
and your children within you; and they shall not leave in you one stone upon
another; because you knew not the time of your visitation. {19:45} And he
entered into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold, {19:46} saying
unto them, It is written, And my house shall be a house of prayer: but you have
made it a den of robbers. {19:47} And he was teaching daily in the temple. But
the chief priests and the scribes and the principal men of the people sought to
destroy him: {19:48} and they could not find what they might do; for the people
all hung upon him, listening.
{N3)20} Luke Chapter Twenty. {20:1} And it came to pass, on one of the
days, as he was teaching the people in the temple, and preaching the good news,
there came upon him the chief priests and the scribes with the elders; {20:2}
and they spoke, saying unto him, Tell us: By what authority do you these
things? or who is he that gave you this authority? {20:3} And he answered and
said unto them, I also will ask you a question; and tell me: {20:4} The immersion
of John, was it from heaven, or from men? {20:5} And they reasoned with
themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say, Why did you not
believe him? {20:6} But if we shall say, From men; all the people will stone
us: for they are persuaded that John was a prophet. {20:7} And they answered,
that they knew not where [it was]. {20:8} And Yehsus said unto them, Neither
tell I you by what authority I do these things. {20:9} And he began to speak
unto the people this parable: A man planted a vineyard, and let it out to
husbandmen, and went into another country for a long time. {20:10} And at the
season he sent unto the husbandmen a servant, that they should give him of the
fruit of the vineyard: but the husbandmen beat him, and sent him away empty.
{20:11} And he sent yet another servant: and him also they beat, and handled
him shamefully, and sent him away empty. {20:12} And he sent yet a third: and
him also they wounded, and cast him forth. {20:13} And the lord of the vineyard
said, What shall I do? I will send my beloved son; it may be they will
reverence him. {20:14} But when the husbandmen saw him, they reasoned one with
another, saying, This is the heir; let us kill him, that the inheritance may be
ours. {20:15} And they cast him forth out of the vineyard, and killed him. What
therefore will the lord of the vineyard do unto them? {20:16} He will come and
destroy these husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto others. And when they
heard it, they said, God forbid. {20:17} But he looked upon them, and said,
What then is this that is written, The stone which the builders rejected, The
same was made the head of the corner?
{20:18} Every one that falls on that stone shall be broken to pieces;
but on whom so ever it shall fall, it will scatter him as dust. {20:19} And the
scribes and the chief priests sought to lay hands on him in that very hour; and
they feared the people: for they perceived that he spoke this parable against
them. {20:20} And they watched him, and sent forth spies, who feigned
themselves to be righteous, that they might take hold of his speech, so as to
deliver him up to the rule and to the authority of the governor. {20:21} And
they asked him, saying, Teacher, we know that you say and teach rightly, and
accepts not the person [of any], but of a truth teach the way of God: {20:22}
Is it [Halakhah] lawful for us to give tribute unto Caesar, or not? {20:23} But
he perceived their craftiness, and said unto them, {20:24} Show me a denarius.
Whose image and superscription has it? And they said, Caesar's. {20:25} And he
said unto them, Then render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto
God the things that are God's. {20:26} And they were not able to take hold of
the saying before the people: and they marveled at his answer, and held their
peace. {20:27} And there came to him certain of the Sadducees, they that say
that there is no resurrection; {20:28} and they asked him, saying, Teacher,
Moses wrote unto us, that if a man's brother die, having a wife, and he be
childless, his brother should take the wife, and raise up seed unto his
brother. {20:29} There were therefore seven brethren: and the first took a
wife, and died childless; {20:30} and the second: {20:31} and the third took
her; and likewise the seven also left no children, and died. {20:32} Afterward
the woman also died. {20:33} In the resurrection therefore whose wife of them
shall she be? for the seven had her to wife. {20:34} And Yehsus said unto them,
The sons of this world marry, and are given in marriage: {20:35} but they that
are accounted worthy to attain to that world, and the resurrection from the
dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: {20:36} for neither can they
die any more: for they are equal unto the messengers; and are sons of God,
being sons of the resurrection. {20:37} But that the dead are raised, even
Moses showed, in [the place concerning] the Bush, when he calls the Lord the
God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. {20:38} Now he is
not the God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him. {20:39} And
certain of the scribes answering said, Teacher, you have well said. {20:40} For
they durst not any more ask him any question. {20:41} And he said unto them,
How say they that the Christ is David's son? {20:42} For David himself said in
the book of Psalms, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit you on my right hand,
{20:43} Till I make your enemies the footstool of your feet. {20:44} David therefore calls him Lord,
and how is he his son? {20:45} And in the hearing of all the people he said
unto his disciples, {20:46} Beware of the scribes, who desire to walk in long
robes, and philo love salutations in the marketplaces, and chief seats in the
synagogues, and chief places at feasts; {20:47} who devour widows' houses, and
for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater condemnation.
{N3)21} Luke Chapter Twenty-One. {21:1} And he looked up, and saw the rich
men that were casting their gifts into the treasury. {21:2} And he saw a
certain poor widow casting in there two mites. {21:3} And he said, Of a truth I
say unto you, This poor widow cast in more than they all: {21:4} for all these
did of their superfluity cast in unto the gifts; but she of her want did cast
in all the living that she had. {21:5} And as some spoke of the temple, how it
was adorned with goodly stones and offerings, he said, {21:6} As for these
things which you behold, the days will come, in which there shall not be left
here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down. {21:7} And they
asked him, saying, Teacher, when therefore shall these things be? and what
[shall be] the sign when these things are about to come to pass? {21:8} And he
said, Take heed that you be not led astray: for many shall come in my name,
saying, I am [he]; and, The time is at hand: go you not after them. {21:9} And
when you shall hear of wars and tumults, be not terrified: for these things
must needs come to pass first; but the end is not immediately. {21:10} Then
said he unto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against
kingdom; {21:11} and there shall be great earthquakes, and in divers places
famines and pestilences; and there shall be terrors and great signs from
heaven. {21:12} But before all these things, they shall lay their hands on you,
and shall persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and prisons,
bringing you before kings and governors for my name's sake. {21:13} It shall
turn out unto you for a testimony. {21:14} Settle it therefore in your hearts,
not to meditate beforehand how to answer: {21:15} for I will give you a mouth
and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to withstand or to
gainsay. {21:16} But you shall be delivered up even by parents, and brethren,
and kinsfolk, and friends; and [some] of you shall they cause to be put to
death. {21:17} And you shall be hated of all men for my name's sake. {21:18}
And not a hair of your head shall perish. {21:19} In your patience you shall
win your souls. {21:20} But when you see
{N3)22} Luke Chapter Twenty-Two. {22:1} Now [when adjusting the first moon
Abib to begin nearest to the vernal Equinox] the feast of unleavened bread drew
near, which is called "the Passover." {22:2} And the chief priests and
the scribes sought how they might put him to death; for they feared the people.
{22:3} And Satan entered into Judas who was called Iscariot, being of the
number of the twelve. {22:4} And he went away, and communed with the chief
priests and captains, how he might deliver him unto them. {22:5} And they were
glad, and covenanted to give him money. {22:6} And he consented, and sought
opportunity to deliver him unto them in the absence of the multitude.
{22:7} And the [beginning
night the fourteenth day of the moon Abib]
the [preparation] day of unleavened bread came [the first the night of the day to kill
the lambs] on which the Passover must be sacrificed. {22:8} And he sent Petros
and John, saying, Go and make ready for us [my] Passover, that we may eat. {22:9}
And they said unto him, Where will you that we make ready? {22:10} And he said
unto them, Behold, when you are entered into the city, there shall meet you a
man bearing a pitcher of water; follow him into the house where into he goes.
{22:11} And you shall say unto the master of the house, The Teacher said unto
you, Where is the guest chamber, where I shall eat [my] Passover with my
disciples? {22:12} And he will show you a large upper room furnished: there
make ready. {22:13} And they went, and
found as he had said unto them: and they made ready the Passover [of Yehsus].
{22:14} And when the [supper] hour was come, he reclining, and the apostles
with him. {22:15} And he said unto them, With a great desire I have desired to
eat my Passover with you before I suffer: {22:16} for I say unto you, I shall
not eat it [my Passover again], until it be fulfilled, [I will eat this
Passover with you] in the
{N3)23} Luke Chapter Twenty-Three. {23:1} And the whole company of them rose up,
and brought him before Pilate. {23:2} And they began to accuse him, saying, We
found this man perverting our nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar,
and saying that he himself is Christ a king. {23:3} And Pilate asked him,
saying, are you the King of the Jews? And he answered him and said, you say.
{23:4} And Pilate said unto the chief priests and the multitudes, I find no
fault in this man. {23:5} But they were the more urgent, saying, He stirs up
the people, teaching throughout all Judea, and beginning from Galilee even unto
this place. {23:6} But when Pilate heard it, he asked whether the man were a
Galilean. {23:7} And when he knew that he was of Herod's jurisdiction, he sent
him unto Herod, who himself also was at
{N3)24} Luke Chapter Twenty-Four.
The Beginning of the New Testament and the
change from the Old Testament lunar calendar to the all solar Calendar.
{24:1} but on day One of the Sabbatonˎ
at early dark they came unto the tomb bringing the spices which they had
prepared.
But late evening on the
[night] of the solar day Mia [day one] of the Sabbaton, they came unto the
tomb, bringing the spices which they had prepared. {24:2} And they found the
stone rolled away from the tomb. {24:3} And they entered in, and found not the
body of the Lord Yehsus. {24:4} And it came to pass, while they were perplexed
thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling apparel: {24:5} and as
they were affrighted and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto
them, Why seek you the living among the dead? {24:6} He is not here, but is
risen: remember how he spoke unto you when he was yet in
{24:8} And they remembered his words,
{24:9} and returned from the tomb, and told all these things to the eleven, and
to all the rest. {24:10} Now they were Maria Magdalene, and Joanna, and Maria
the [mother] of James: and the other women with them told these things unto the
apostles. {24:11} And these words appeared in their sight as idle talk; and
they disbelieved them. {24:12} But Petros arose, and ran unto the tomb; and
stooping and looking in, he sees the
linen cloths by themselves; and he departed to his home, wondering at
that which was come to pass. {24:13}
And behold, two of them were going that very day to a village named Emmaus,
which was threescore furlongs from
{24:36} And as they spoke these things, he
himself stood in the midst of them, and said unto them, Peace [be] unto you.
{24:37} But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they beheld a
spirit. {24:38} And he said unto them, Why are you troubled? and Therefore do
questionings arise in your heart? {24:39} See my hands and my feet, that it is
I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit has not flesh and bones, as you
behold me having. {24:40} And when he had said this, he showed them his hands
and his feet. {24:41} And while they still disbelieved for joy, and wondered,
he said unto them, Have you here anything to eat? {24:42} And they gave him a
piece of a broiled fish. {24:43} And he took it, and ate before them. {24:44}
And he said unto them, These are my words which I spoke unto you, while I was yet
with you, that all things must needs be fulfilled, which are written in the law
of Moses, and the prophets, and the Psalms, concerning me. {24:45} Then opened he their mind, that
they might understand the scriptures; {24:46} and he said unto them, Thus it is
written, that the Christ should suffer, and rise again from the dead the third
day; {24:47} and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in
his name unto all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem. {24:48} you are witnesses of these things.
{24:49} And behold, I send forth the
promise of my Father upon you: but tarry you in the city, until you be clothed with power from on high.
{24:50} And he led them out until [they were] over against
{N4)1} John Chapter One. The Good news According to The Holy
Person of John {1:1} In the beginning
was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. {1:2} The same
was in the beginning with God. {1:3} All things were made through him; and outside
him was not anything made that has been made. {1:4} In him was life; and the
life was the light of men. {1:5} And the light shines in the darkness; and the
darkness apprehended it not. {1:6} There came a man, sent from God, whose name
was John. {1:7} The same came for witness, that he might bear witness of the
light, that all might believe through him. {1:8} He was not the light, but
[came] that he might bear witness of the light. {1:9}
There was the true light, [even the light] which lights every man, coming into
the world. {1:10} He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and
the world knew him not. {1:11} He came unto his own, and they that were his own
received him not. {1:12} But as many as received him, to them gave he the right
to become children of God, [even] to them that believe on his name: {1:13} who
were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man,
but of God. {1:14} And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld
his glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father), full of grace and
truth. {1:15} John bears witness of him, and cries, saying, This was he of whom
I said, He that comes after me is become before me: for he was before me.
{1:16} For of his fullness we all received, and grace for grace. {1:17} For the
law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Yehsus Christ. {1:18}
No man has seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of
the Father, he has declared [him]. {1:19} And this is the witness of John, when
the Jews sent unto him from
{N4)2} John Chapter Two. {2:1} And the third day there was a
marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Yehsus was there: {2:2} and Yehsus
also was bidden, and his disciples, to the marriage. {2:3} And when the wine
failed, the mother of Yehsus said unto him, They have no wine. {2:4} And Yehsus
said unto her, Woman, what have I to do with you? mine hour is not yet come.
{2:5} His mother said unto the servants, What ever he says unto you, do it.
{2:6} Now there were six water pots of stone set there after the Jews' manner
of purifying, containing two or three firkins apiece. {2:7} Yehsus said unto
them, Fill the water pots with water. And they filled them up to the brim.
{2:8} And he said unto them, Draw out now, and bear unto the ruler of the
feast. And they bare it. {2:9} And when the ruler of the feast tasted the water
now become wine, and knew not where it was (but the servants that had drawn the
water knew), the ruler of the feast calls the bridegroom, {2:10} and said unto
him, Every man sets on first the good wine; and when [men] have drunk freely,
[then] that which is worse: you have kept the good wine until now. {2:11} This
beginning of his signs did Yehsus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested his glory;
and his disciples believed on him. {2:12} After this he went down to
{N4)3} John Chapter Three. {3:1} Now there was a man of the Pharisees,
named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: {3:2} the same came unto him by night,
and said to him, Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God; for no
one can do these signs that you do, except God be with him. {3:3} Yehsus
answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except one be born
anew, he cannot see the
{N4)4} John Chapter Four. {4:1} When therefore the Lord knew that the
Pharisees had heard that Yehsus was making and immersing more disciples than
John {4:2} (although Yehsus himself immersed not, but his disciples [immersed
in water] ), {4:3} he left Judea, and departed again into Galilee. {4:4} And he
must needs pass through
{N4)5} John Chapter Five. {5:1} After these things there was a feast
of the Jews; and Yehsus went up to
{N4)6} John. Chapter Six. {6:1} After these things Yehsus went away to
the other side of the sea of Galilee, which is [the sea] of Tiberius. {6:2} And
a great multitude followed him, because they beheld the signs which he did on
them that were sick. {6:3} And Yehsus went up into the mountain, and there he
sat with his disciples. {6:4} Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at
hand. {6:5} Yehsus therefore lifting up his eyes, and seeing that a great
multitude comes unto him, said unto Philip, Where are we to buy bread, that
these may eat? {6:6} And this he said to prove him: for he himself knew what he
would do. {6:7} Philip answered him, Two hundred shillings' worth of bread is
not sufficient for them, that every one may take a little. {6:8} One of his
disciples, Andrew, [the] brother of Simon Petros, said unto him, {6:9} There is
a young man here, who has five barley loaves, and two fishes: but what are
these among so many? {6:10} Yehsus said, Make the people sit down. Now there
was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number about five
thousand. {6:11} Yehsus therefore took the loaves; and having given thanks, he
distributed to them that were set down; likewise also of the fishes as much as
they would. {6:12} And when they were filled, he said unto his disciples,
Gather up the broken pieces which remain over, that nothing be lost. {6:13} So
they gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with broken pieces from the
five barley loaves, which remained over unto them that had eaten. {6:14} When
therefore the people saw the sign which he did, they said, This is of a truth
the prophet that comes into the world. {6:15} Yehsus therefore perceiving that
they were about to come and take him by force, to make him king, withdrew again
into the mountain himself alone. {6:16} And when evening came, his disciples
went down unto the sea; {6:17} and they entered into a boat, and were going
over the sea unto
{N4)7} John Chapter Seven. {7:1} And after these things Yehsus walked
in Galilee: for he would not walk in
{N4)8}
John Chapter Eight.
Translation notes. In all the entire Bible, the sin of Adultery is on
the same severity and on the same parallel as the sin of murder. Death and a
world of misery is caused directly from “adultery” which is the cause of a
multitude of suffering by the innocent caused directly from adultery or
fornication. The following record is
-not found written in two hundred and sixty seven of the most ancient and the
most trusted manuscripts of the Bible. It is believed that this addition to the
ancient Bible manuscripts is made by the Catholic Church to promote their false
doctrine against Capitol Punishment and to make adultery or fornication acceptable
as just another small sin. These verses should
not be in the Ekklesia Bible translation. We add this record to be deliberated
and decided by the entire Ekklesia. The entire Ekklesia must decide this
question of the validity of these following verses in the Ekklesia Bible
translations.
{8:1} but Jesus went unto the mount of Olives.
{8:2} And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the
people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them. {8:3} And the scribes
and the Pharisees bring a woman taken in adultery; and having set her in the
midst, {8:4} they say unto him, Teacher, this woman has been taken in adultery,
in the very act. {8:5} Now in the law Moses commanded us to stone such: what
then say you of her? {8:6} And this they said, trying him, that they might have
[where] to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the
ground. {8:7} But when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and
said unto them, He that is outside sin among you, let him first cast a stone at
her. {8:8} And again he stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground.
{8:9} And they, when they heard it, went out one by one, beginning from the
eldest, [even] unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman, where
she was, in the midst. {8:10} And Jesus lifted up himself, and said unto her,
Woman, where are they? did no man condemn you? {8:11} And she said, No man,
Lord. And Jesus said, Neither do I condemn you: go your way; from here on sin
no more. (End of spurious verses).
John {8:12} Again therefore Yehsus
spoke unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that follows me shall
not walk in the darkness, but shall have the light of life. {8:13} The
Pharisees therefore said unto him, you bears witness of yourself; your witness
is not true. {8:14} Yehsus answered and said unto them, Even if I bear witness
of myself, my witness is true; for I know where I came, and where I go; but you
know not where I come, or where I go. {8:15} you judge after the flesh; I judge
no man. {8:16} behold and if I judge, my judgment is true; for I am not alone,
but I and the Father that sent me. {8:17} behold and in your law it is written
[on your hearts], that the witness of two men is true. {8:18} I am he that
bears witness of myself, and the Father that sent me bears witness of me.
{8:19} They said therefore unto him, Where is your Father? Yehsus answered, you
know neither me, nor my Father: if you knew me, you would know my Father also.
{8:20} These words spoke he in the treasury, as he taught in the temple: and no
man took him; because his hour was not yet come. {8:21} He said therefore again
unto them, I go away, and you shall seek me, and shall die in your sin: where I
go, you cannot come. {8:22} The Jews therefore said, Will he kill himself, that
he said, Where I go, you cannot come? {8:23} And he said unto them, you are
from beneath; I am from above: you are of this world; I am not of this world.
{8:24} I said therefore unto you, that you shall die in your sins: for except
you believe that I am [he], you shall die in your sins. {8:25} They said
therefore unto him, Who are you? Yehsus said unto them, Even that which I have
also spoken unto you from the beginning. {8:26} I have many things to speak and
to judge concerning you: howbeit he that sent me is true; and the things which
I heard from him, these speak I unto the world. {8:27} They perceived not that
he spoke to them of the Father. {8:28} Yehsus therefore said, When you have
lifted up the Son of man, then shall you know that I am [he], and [that] I do
nothing of myself, but as the Father taught me, I speak these things. {8:29}
And he that sent me is with me; he has not left me alone; for I do always the
things that are pleasing to him. {8:30} As he spoke these things, many believed
on him. {8:31} Yehsus therefore said to those Jews that had believed him, If
you abide in my word, [then] are you truly my disciples; {8:32} and you shall
know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. {8:33} They answered unto
him, We are Abraham's seed, and have never yet been in bondage to any man: how
say you, you shall be made free? {8:34} Yehsus answered them, Verily, verily, I
say unto you, Every one that commits sin is the slave to sin. {8:35} And the
slave [to sin] abides not in the house for ever: the son abides for ever.
{8:36} If therefore the Son shall make you free, you shall be free indeed.
{8:37} I know that you are Abraham's seed: yet you seek to kill me, because my
word has not free course in you. {8:38} I speak the things which I have seen
with [my] Father: and you also do the things which you heard from [your]
father. {8:39} They answered and said unto him, Our father is Abraham. Yehsus
said unto them, If you were Abraham's children, you would do the works of
Abraham. {8:40} But now you seek to kill me, a man that has told you the truth,
which I heard from God: this did not Abraham. {8:41} you do the works of your
father. They said unto him, We were not born of fornication; we have one
Father, [even] God. {8:42} Yehsus said unto them, If God were your Father, you
would agape love me: for I came forth and am come from God; for neither have I
come of myself, but he sent me. {8:43} Why do you not understand my speech?
[Even] because you cannot hear my word. {8:44} you are of [your] father the
devil, and the lusts of your father it is your will to do. He was a murderer
from the beginning, and stands not in the truth, because there is no truth in
him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own: for he is a liar, and the
father there. {8:45} But because I say the truth, you believe me not. {8:46}
Which of you convicts me of sin? If I say truth, why do you not believe me?
{8:47} He that is of God hears the words of God: for this cause you hear [them]
not, because you are not of God. {8:48} The Jews answered and said unto him,
Say we not well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon? {8:49} Yehsus
answered, I have not a demon; but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me.
{8:50} But I seek not mine own glory: there is one that seeks and judges.
{8:51} Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my word, he shall never
see death. {8:52} The Jews said unto him, Now we know that you have a demon.
Abraham died, and the prophets; and you say, If a man keep my word, he shall
never taste of death. {8:53} are you greater than our father Abraham, who died?
and the prophets died: whom make you yourself? {8:54} Yehsus answered, If I
glorify myself, my glory is nothing: it is my Father that glorifies me; of whom
you say, that he is your God; {8:55} and you have not known him: but I know
him; and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be like unto you, a liar: but
I know him, and keep his word. {8:56} Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my
day; and he saw it, and was glad. {8:57} The Jews therefore said unto him, you
are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham? {8:58} Yehsus said unto
them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was born, I am. {8:59}
They took up stones therefore to cast at him: but Yehsus hid himself, and went
out of the temple.
{N4)9}
John Chapter Nine. {9:1} And as
he passed by, he saw a man blind from his birth. {9:2} And his disciples asked
him, saying, Rabbi, who sinned, this man, or his parents, that he should be
born blind? {9:3} Yehsus answered, Neither did this man sin, nor his parents:
but that the works of God should be made manifest in him. {9:4} We must work
the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night comes, when no man
can work. {9:5} When I am in the world, I am the light of the world. {9:6} When
he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and
anointed his eyes with the clay, {9:7} and said unto him, Go, wash in the pool
of Siloam (which is by interpretation, Sent). He went away therefore, and
washed, and came seeing. {9:8} The neighbors therefore, and they that saw him
aforetime, that he was a beggar, said, Is not this he that sat and begged?
{9:9} Others said, It is he: others said, No, but he is like him. He said, I am
[he]. {9:10} They said therefore unto him, How then were your eyes opened?
{9:11} He answered, The man that is called Yehsus made clay, and anointed mine
eyes, and said unto me, Go to Siloam, and wash: so I went away and washed, and
I received sight. {9:12} And they said unto him, Where is he? He said, I know
not. {9:13} They bring to the Pharisees him that aforetime was blind. {9:14}
Now it was the Sabbath on the day when Yehsus made the clay, and opened his
eyes. {9:15} Again therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he received his
sight. And he said unto them, He put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed, and I
see. {9:16} Some therefore of the Pharisees said, This man is not from God,
because he keeps not the Sabbath. But others said, How can a man that is a
sinner do such signs? And there was division among them. {9:17} They say
therefore unto the blind man again, What say you of him, in that he opened your
eyes? And he said, He is a prophet. {9:18} The Jews therefore did not believe
concerning him, that he had been blind, and had received his sight, until they
called the parents of him that had received his sight, {9:19} and asked them,
saying, Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?
{9:20} His parents answered and said, We know that this is our son, and that he
was born blind: {9:21} but how he now sees, we know not; or who opened his
eyes, we know not: ask him; he is of age; he shall speak for himself. {9:22}
These things said his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had
agreed already, that if any man should confess him [to be] Christ, he should be
put out of the synagogue. {9:23} Therefore said his parents, He is of age; ask
him. {9:24} So they called a second time the man that was blind, and said unto
him, Give glory to God: we know that this man is a sinner. {9:25} He therefore
answered, Whether he is a sinner, I know not: one thing I know, that, whereas I
was blind, now I see. {9:26} They said therefore unto him, What did he to you?
How opened he your eyes? {9:27} He answered them, I told you even now, and you
did not hear; Therefore would you hear it again? would you also become his
disciples? {9:28} And they reviled him, and said, you are his disciple; but we
are disciples of Moses. {9:29} We know that God has spoken unto Moses: but as
for this man, we know not where he is. {9:30} The man answered and said unto
them, Why, herein is the marvel, that you know not where he is, and [yet] he
opened mine eyes. {9:31} We know that God hears not sinners: but if any man be
a worshipper of God, and do his will, him he hears. {9:32} Since the world
began it was never heard that any one opened the eyes of a man born blind.
{9:33} If this man were not from God, he could do nothing. {9:34} They answered
and said unto him, you was altogether born in sins, and do you teach us? And
they cast him out. {9:35} Yehsus heard that they had cast him out; and finding
him, he said, Do you believe on the Son of God? {9:36} He answered and said,
And who is he, Lord, that I may believe on him? {9:37} Yehsus said unto him,
you have both seen him, and he it is that speaks with you. {9:38} And he said,
Lord, I believe. And he worshipped him. {9:39} And Yehsus said, For judgment
came I into this world, that they that see not may see; and that they that see
may become blind. {9:40} Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these
things, and said unto him, Are we also blind? {9:41} Yehsus said unto them, If
you were blind, you would have no sin: but now you say, We see: your sin
remains.
{N4)10} John Chapter Ten. {10:1} Verily, verily, I say unto you, He
that enters not by the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbs up some
other way, the same is a thief and a robber. {10:2} But he that enters in by
the door is the shepherd of the sheep. {10:3} To him the porter opens; and the
sheep hear his voice: and he calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.
{10:4} When he has put forth all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep
follow him: for they know his voice. {10:5} And a stranger will they not
follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.
{10:6} This parable spoke Yehsus unto them: but they understood not what things
they were which he spoke unto them. {10:7} Yehsus therefore said unto them
again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep. {10:8} All
that came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them.
{10:9} I am the door; by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall
go in and go out, and shall find pasture. {10:10} The thief comes not, but that
he may steal, and kill, and destroy: I came that they may have life, and may
have [it] abundantly. {10:11} I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd lays
down his life for the sheep. {10:12} He that is a hireling, and not a shepherd,
whose own the sheep are not, behold the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep, and
flees, and the wolf snatches them, and scatters [them]: {10:13} [he flees]
because he is a hireling, and cares not for the sheep. {10:14} I am the good
shepherd; and I know mine own, and mine own know me, {10:15} even as the Father
knows me, and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep. {10:16}
And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and
they shall hear my voice: and they shall become one flock, one shepherd.
{10:17} Therefore does the Father agape love me, because I lay down my life,
that I may take it again. {10:18} No one takes it away from me, but I lay it
down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again.
This commandment received I from my Father. {10:19} There arose a division
again among the Jews because of these words. {10:20} And many of them said, He
has a demon, and is mad; why hear you him? {10:21} Others said, These are not
the sayings of one possessed with a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the
blind? {10:22} And it was the feast of the dedication at
{N4)11} John Chapter Eleven. {11:1} Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus
of Bethany, of the
{n4)12}
John Chapter Twelve. {12:1} Yehsus
therefore six days before the Passover came to
{N4)13} John Chapter Thirteen. {13:1} Now before the feast of the Passover,
Yehsus knowing that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world
unto his Father, having agape loved his own that were in the world, he agape
loved them unto the end. {13:2} And during supper, the devil having already put
into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's [son], to betray him, {13:3} [Yehsus],
knowing that the Father had given all the things into his hands, and that he
came forth from God, and goes unto God, {13:4} rising from supper, and lays
aside his garments; and he took a towel, and girded himself. {13:5} Then he
pours water into the basin, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe
them with the towel wherewith he was girded. {13:6} So he comes to Simon
Petros. He said unto him, Lord, do you wash my feet? {13:7} Yehsus answered and
said unto him, What I do you know not now; but you shall understand hereafter.
{13:8} Petros said unto him, you shall never wash my feet. Yehsus answered him,
If I wash you not, you have no part with me. {13:9} Simon Petros said unto him,
Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head. {13:10} Yehsus said to
him, He that is bathed needs not save to wash his feet, but is clean every
whit: and you are clean, but not all. {13:11} For he knew him that should
betray him; therefore said he, you are not all clean. {13:12} So when he had
washed their feet, and taken his garments, and sat down again, he said unto
them, Know you what I have done to you? {13:13} you call me, Teacher, and,
Lord: and you say well; for so I am. {13:14} If I then, the Lord and the
Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet.
{13:15} For I have given you an example, that you also should do as I have done
to you. {13:16} Verily, verily, I say unto you, a slave is not greater than his
lord; neither one that is sent greater than he that sent him. {13:17} If you
know these things, blessed are you if you do them. {13:18} I speak not of you
all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled: He
that eats my bread lifted up his heel against me. {13:19} From here on I tell
you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, you may believe that
I am [he]. {13:20} Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that receives whom so
ever I send receives me; and he that receives me receives him that sent me.
{13:21} When Yehsus had thus said, he was troubled in the spirit, and
testified, and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, that one of you shall
betray me. {13:22} The disciples looked one on another, doubting of whom he
spoke. {13:23} There was at the table reclining in Yehsus' bosom one of his
disciples, whom Yehsus agape loved. {13:24} Simon Petros therefore beckons to
him, and said unto him, Tell [us] who it is of whom he speak. {13:25} He
leaning back, as he was, on Yehsus' breast said unto him, Lord, who is it?
{13:26} Yehsus therefore answered, He it is, for whom I shall dip the sop, and
give it him. So when he had dipped the sop, he takes and gives it to Judas,
[the son] of Simon Iscariot. {13:27} And after the sop, then entered Satan into
him. Yehsus therefore said unto him, What you do, do quickly. {13:28} Now no
man at the table knew for what intent he spoke this unto him. {13:29} For some
thought, because Judas had the bag, that Yehsus said unto him, Buy what things
we have need of for the feast; or, that he should give something to the poor.
{13:30} He then having received the sop went out immediately: and it was night.
{13:31} When therefore he was gone out, Yehsus said, Now is the Son of man
glorified, and God is glorified in him; {13:32} and God shall glorify him in
himself, and immediately shall he glorify him. {13:33} Little children, yet a
little while I am with you. you shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews,
Where I go, you cannot come; so now I say unto you. {13:34} A new commandment I
give unto you, that you agape love one another; even as I have agape loved you,
that you also agape love one another. {13:35} By this shall all men know that
you are my disciples, if you have agape love one to another. {13:36} Simon
Petros said unto him, Lord, Where are your going? Yehsus answered, Where I go,
you Can not follow now; but you shall follow afterwards. {13:37} Petros said
unto him, Lord, why cannot I follow you even now? I will lay down my life for
you. {13:38} Yehsus answered, Will you lay down your life for me? Verily,
verily, I say unto you, The cock shall not crow, till you have denied me
thrice.
{N4)14}
John Chapter Fourteen. {14:1}
Let not your heart be troubled: believe in God, believe also in me. {14:2} In
my Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you;
for I go to prepare a place for you. {14:3} And if I go and prepare a place for
you, I come again, and will receive you unto myself; that where I am, [there]
you may be also. {14:4} And where I go, you know the way. {14:5} Thomas said
unto him, Lord, we know not where you go; how know we the way? {14:6} Yehsus
said unto him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one comes unto the
Father, but by me. {14:7} If you had known me, you would have known my Father
also: from here on you know him, and have seen him. {14:8} Philip said unto
him, Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us. {14:9} Yehsus said unto
him, Have I been so long time with you, and do you not know me, Philip? he that
has seen me has seen the Father; how say you, Show us the Father? {14:10}
Believe you not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I
say unto you I speak not from myself: but the Father abiding in me does his
works. {14:11} Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or
else believe me for the very works' sake. {14:12} Verily, verily, I say unto
you, he that believes on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater
[works] than these shall he do; because I go unto the Father. {14:13} And what
ever you shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified
in the Son. {14:14} If you shall ask anything in my name, that will I do.
{14:15} If you agape love me, you will keep my commandments. {14:16} And I will
pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may be with
you for ever, {14:17} [even] the Spirit of truth: whom the world cannot receive;
for it beholds him not, neither knows him: you know him; for he abides with
you, and shall be in you. {14:18} I will not leave you desolate: I come unto
you. {14:19} yet a little while, and the world beholds me no more; but you
behold me: because I live, you shall live also. {14:20} In that day you shall
know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. {14:21} He that has
my commandments, and keeps them, he it is that agape loves me: and he that
agape loves me shall be agape loved of my Father, and I will agape love him,
and will manifest myself unto him. {14:22} Judas (not Iscariot) said unto him,
Lord, what is come to pass that you will manifest yourself unto us, and not
unto the world? {14:23} Yehsus answered and said unto him, If a man agape love
me, he will keep my word: and my Father will agape love him, and we will come
unto him, and make our abode with him. {14:24} He that agape loves me not keeps
not my words: and the word which you hear is not mine, but the Father's who
sent me. {14:25} These things have I spoken unto you, while [yet] abiding with
you. {14:26} But the Comforter, [even] the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will
send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance
all that I said unto you. {14:27} Peace I leave with you; my peace I give unto
you: not as the world gives, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled,
neither let it be fearful. {14:28} you heard how I said to you, I go away, and
I come unto you. If you agape loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I go
unto the Father: for the Father is greater than
{N4)15} John Chapter Fifteen. {15:1} I am the true vine, and my Father is
the husbandman. {15:2} Every branch in me that bears not fruit, he takes it
away: and every [branch] that bears fruit, he cleans it, that it may bear more
fruit. {15:3} Already you are clean because of the word which I have spoken
unto you. {15:4} Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of
itself, except it abide in the vine; so neither can you, except you abide in
me. {15:5} I am the vine, you are the branches: He that abides in me, and I in
him, the same bears much fruit: for apart from me you can do nothing. {15:6} If
a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and they
gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. {15:7} If you
abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask what ever you will, and it shall be
done unto you. {15:8} Herein is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit;
and [so] shall you be my disciples. {15:9} Even as the Father has agape loved
me, I also have agape loved you: abide you in my agape love. {15:10} If you
keep my commandments, you shall abide in my agape love; even as I have kept my
Father's commandments, and abide in his agape love. {15:11} These things have I
spoken unto you, that my joy may be in you, and [that] your joy may be made
full. {15:12} This is my commandment, that you agape love one another, even as
I have agape loved you. {15:13} No man has agape love Greater than this, that a
man lay down his life for his friends. {15:14} you are my friends, if you do
the things which I command you. {15:15} No longer do I call you slaves; for the
slave knows not what his lord does: but I have called you friends; for all
things that I heard from my Father, I have made known unto you. {15:16} you did
not choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear
fruit, and [that] your fruit should abide: that what ever you shall ask of the
Father in my name, he may give it you. {15:17} These things I command you, that
you may agape love one another. {15:18} If the world hates you, you know that
it has hated me before [it hated] you. {15:19} If you were of the world, the
world would philo love its own: but because you are not of the world, but I
chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. {15:20} Remember the
word that I said unto you, a slave is not greater than his lord. If they
persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they kept my word, they will
keep yours also. {15:21} But all these things will they do unto you for my
name's sake, because they know not him that sent me. {15:22} If I had not come
and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no excuse for
their sin. {15:23} He that hates me hates my Father also. {15:24} If I had not
done among them the works which none other did, they had not had sin: but now
have they both seen and hated both me and my Father. {15:25} But [this comes to
pass], that the word may be fulfilled that is written in His law, They hated me
outside a cause. {15:26} But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto
you from the Father, [even] the Spirit of truth, which proceeds from the
Father, he shall bear witness of me: {15:27} and you also bear witness, because
you have been with me from the beginning.
{N4)16} John Chapter Sixteen. {16:1} These things have I spoken unto you,
that you should not be caused to stumble. {16:2} They shall put you out of the
synagogues: behold, the hour comes, that anyone who kills you shall think that
he offers service unto God. {16:3} And these things will they do, because they
have not known the Father, nor me. {16:4} But these things have I spoken unto
you, that when their hour is come, you may remember them, how that I told you.
And these things I said not unto you from the beginning, because I was with
you. {16:5} But now I go unto him that sent me; and none of you asks me, Where
are your going? {16:6} But because I have spoken these things unto you, sorrow
has filled your heart. {16:7} Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is
expedient for you that I go away; for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come
unto you; but if I go, I will send him unto you. {16:8} And he, when he is
come, will convict the world in respect of sin, and of righteousness, and of
judgment: {16:9} of sin, because they believe not on me; {16:10} of
righteousness, because I go to the Father, and you behold me no more; {16:11}
of judgment, because the prince of this world has been judged. {16:12} I have
yet many things to say unto you, but you cannot bear them now. {16:13} Howbeit
when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he shall guide you into all the truth:
for he shall not speak from himself; but what things so ever he shall hear,
[these] shall he speak: and he shall declare unto you the things that are to
come. {16:14} He shall glorify me: for he shall take of mine, and shall declare
[it] unto you. {16:15} All things what ever the Father has are mine: therefore
said I, that he takes of mine, and shall declare [it] unto you. {16:16} A
little while, and you behold me no more; and again a little while, and you
shall see me. {16:17} [Some] of his disciples therefore said one to another,
What is this that he said unto us, A little while, and you behold me not; and
again a little while, and you shall see me: and, Because I go to the Father?
{16:18} They said therefore, What is this that he said, A little while? We know
not what he said. {16:19} Yehsus perceived that they were desirous to ask him,
and he said unto them, Do you inquire among yourselves concerning this, that I
said, A little while, and you behold me not, and again a little while, and you
shall see me? {16:20} Verily, verily, I say unto you, that you shall weep and
lament, but the world shall rejoice: you shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow
shall be turned into joy. {16:21} A woman when she is in travail has sorrow,
because her hour is come: but when she is delivered of the child, she remembers
no more the anguish, for the joy that a man is born into the world. {16:22} And
you therefore now have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall
rejoice, and your joy no one takes away from you. {16:23} And in that day you
shall ask me no question. Verily, verily, I say unto you, if you shall ask
anything of the Father, he will give it you in my name. {16:24} Until now, you
have asked nothing in my name: ask, and you shall receive, that your joy may be
made full. {16:25} These things have I spoken unto you in dark sayings: the
hour comes, when I shall no more speak unto you in dark sayings, but shall tell
you plainly of the Father. {16:26} In that day you shall ask in my name: and I
say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you; {16:27} for the Father
himself philo loves you, because you have philo loved me, and have believed
that I came forth from the Father. {16:28} I came out from the Father, and am
come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go unto the Father. {16:29}
His disciples say, Lo, now speak you plainly, and speak no dark saying. {16:30}
Now know we that you know all things, and needs not that any man should ask
you: by this we believe that you came forth from God. {16:31} Yehsus answered
them, Do you now believe? {16:32} Behold, the hour comes, behold, is come, that
you shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and
[yet] I am not alone, because the Father is with me. {16:33} These things have
I spoken unto you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have
tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome [sin and tribulation] of the
world.
(N4)17}
John Chapter Seventeen. {17:1}
These things spoke Yehsus; and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, Father,
the hour is come; glorify your Son, that the son may glorify you: {17:2} even
as you gave him authority over all flesh, that to all whom you have given him,
he should give eternal life. {17:3} And this is life eternal, that they should
know you, the only true God, and [that they know] him whom you did send, [even]
Yehsus Christ. {17:4} I glorified you on the earth, having accomplished the
work which you have given me to do. {17:5} And now, Father, glorify you me with
your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world was. {17:6}
I manifested your name unto the men whom you gave me out of the world: your
they were, and you gave them to me; and they have kept your word. {17:7} Now
they know that all things what ever you have given me are from you: {17:8} for
the words which you gave me I have given unto them; and they received [them],
and knew of a truth that I came forth from you, and they believed that you did
send me. {17:9} I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for those whom
you have given me; for they are yours: {17:10} and all things that are mine are
yours, and yours are mine: and I am glorified in them. {17:11} And I am no more
in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to you. Holy Father, keep
them in your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we
[are]. {17:12} While I was with them, I kept them in your name which you have
given me: and I guarded them, and not one of them perished, but the son of
eternal damnation; that the scripture might be fulfilled. {17:13} But now I
come to you; and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy
made full in themselves. {17:14} I have given them your word; and the world
hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
{17:15} I pray not that you should take them from the world, but that you
should keep them from the evil [one]. {17:16} They are not of the world even as
I am not of the world. {17:17} Sanctify them in the truth: your word is truth.
{17:18} As you did send me into the world, even so sent I them into the world.
{17:19} And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be
sanctified in truth. {17:20} Neither for these only do I pray, but for them
also that believe on me through their word; {17:21} that they may all be one;
even as you, Father, [are] in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us:
that the world may believe that you did send me. {17:22} And the glory which
you have given me I have given unto them; that they may be one, even as we
[are] one; {17:23} I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into
one; that the world may know that you did send me, and agape loves them, even
as you agape love me. {17:24} Father, I desire that they also whom you have
given me be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory, which you have
given me: for you agape loved me before the foundation of the world. {17:25} O
righteous Father, the world knew you not, but I knew you; and these knew that
you did send me; {17:26} and I made known unto them your name, and will make it
known; that the agape love where with you agape loved me may be in them, and I
in them.
{lave} John Chapter Eighteen {18:1} When Yehsus had spoken these words,
he went forth with his disciples over the brook Kidron, where was a garden,
into which he entered, himself and his disciples. {18:2} Now Judas also, who
betrayed him, knew the place: for Yehsus oft-times resorted there with his
disciples. {18:3} Judas then, having received the band [of soldiers], and
officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, comes there with lanterns
and torches and weapons. {18:4} Yehsus therefore, knowing all the things that
were coming upon him, went forth, and said unto them, Whom seek you? {18:5}
They answered him, Yehsus of Nazareth. Yehsus said unto them, I am [he]. And
Judas also, who betrayed him, was standing with them. {18:6} When therefore he
said unto them, I am [he], they went backward, and fell to the ground. {18:7}
Again therefore he asked them, Whom seek you? And they said, Yehsus of
Nazareth. {18:8} Yehsus answered, I told you that I am [he]; if therefore you
seek me, let these go their way: {18:9} that the word might be fulfilled which
he spoke, Of those whom you have given me I lost not one. {18:10} Simon Petros
therefore having a sword drew it, and struck the salve of the high priest, and
cut off his right ear. Now the slave’s name was Malchus. {18:11} Yehsus
therefore said unto Petros, Put up the sword into the sheath: the cup which the
Father has given me, shall I not drink it? {18:12} So the band and the chief
captain, and the officers of the Jews, seized Yehsus and bound him, {18:13} and
led him to Annas first; for he was father in law to Caiaphas, who was high priest
that year. {18:14} Now Caiaphas was he that gave counsel to the Jews, that it
was expedient that one man should die for the people. {18:15} And Simon Petros
followed Yehsus, and [so did] another disciple. Now that disciple was known
unto the high priest, and entered in with Yehsus into the court of the high
priest; {18:16} but Petros was standing at the door outside. So the other
disciple, who was known unto the high priest, went out and spoke unto her that
kept the door, and brought in Petros. {18:17} The maid therefore that kept the
door said unto Petros, are you also [one] of this man's disciples? He said, I
am not. {18:18} Now the servants and the officers were standing [there], having
made a fire of coals; for it was cold; and they were warming themselves: and
Petros also was with them, standing and warming himself. {18:19} The high
priest therefore asked Yehsus of his disciples, and of his teaching. {18:20} Yehsus
answered him, I have spoken openly to the world; I ever taught in synagogues,
and in the temple, where all the Jews come together; and in secret spoke I
nothing. {18:21} Why ask you me? Ask them that have heard [me], what I spoke
unto them: behold, these know the things which I said. {18:22} And when he had
said this, one of the officers standing by struck Yehsus with his hand, saying,
Answer you the high priest in this manner? {18:23} Yehsus answered him, If I
have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil: but if well, why smite you me?
{18:24} Annas therefore sent him bound unto Caiaphas the high priest. {18:25}
Now Simon Petros was standing and warming himself. They said therefore unto
him, are you also [one] of his disciples? He denied, and said, I am not.
{18:26} One of the servants of the high priest, being a kinsman of him whose
ear Petros cut off, said, Did not I see you in the garden with him? {18:27}
Petros therefore denied again: and immediately the cock crew. {18:28} They lead
Yehsus therefore from Caiaphas into the Praetorium: and it was early; and they
themselves entered not into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but
might eat the Passover. {18:29} Pilate therefore went out unto them, and said,
What accusation bring you against this man? {18:30} They answered and said unto
him, If this man were not an evildoer, we should not have delivered him up unto
you. {18:31} Pilate therefore said unto them, Take him yourselves, and judge
him according to your [oral Halakhah] law. The Jews said unto him, It is not
[Roman] lawful for us to put any man to death: {18:32} that the word of Yehsus
might be fulfilled, which he spoke, signifying by what manner of death he
should die. {18:33} Pilate therefore entered again into the Praetorium, and
called Yehsus, and said unto him, are you the King of the Jews? {18:34} Yehsus
answered, Say you this of yourself, or did others tell it you concerning me?
{18:35} Pilate answered, Am I a Jew? your own nation and the chief priests
delivered you unto me: what have you done? {18:36} Yehsus answered, My kingdom
is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants
fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not
from here. {18:37} Pilate therefore said unto him, are you a king then? Yehsus
answered, you say that I am a king. To this end have I been born, and to this
end am I come into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every
one that is of the truth hears my voice. {18:38} Pilate said unto him, What is
truth? And when he had said this, he went out again unto the Jews, and said
unto them, I find no crime in him. {18:39} But you have a custom, that I should
release unto you one at the Passover: will you therefore that I release unto
you the King of the Jews? {18:40} They cried out therefore again, saying, Not
this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber.)
{N4)19} John Chapter Nineteen. {19:1} Then Pilate therefore took Yehsus,
and scourged him. {19:2} And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it
on his head, and arrayed him in a purple garment; {19:3} and they came unto
him, and said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they struck him with their hands.
{19:4} And Pilate went out again, and said unto them, Behold, I bring him out
to you, that you may know that I find no crime in him. {19:5} Yehsus therefore
came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment. And [Pilate] said
unto them, Behold, the man! {19:6} When therefore the chief priests and the
officers saw him, they cried out, saying, Crucify [him], crucify [him]! Pilate
said unto them, Take him yourselves, and crucify him: for I find no crime in
him. {19:7} The Jews answered him, We have an [unwritten Halakhah] law, and by
that [oral] law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God. {19:8}
When Pilate therefore heard this saying, he was the more afraid; {19:9} and he
entered into the Praetorium again, and said unto Yehsus, From where are you?
But Yehsus gave him no answer. {19:10} Pilate therefore said unto him, Speak
you not unto me? Know you not that I have power to release you, and have power
to crucify you? {19:11} Yehsus answered him, you would have no power against
me, except it were given you from above: therefore he that delivered me unto
you has greater sin. {19:12} Upon this Pilate sought to release him: but the
Jews cried out, saying, If you release this man, you are not Caesar's friend:
every one that makes himself a king speaks against Caesar. {19:13} When Pilate
therefore heard these words, he brought Yehsus out, and sat down on the
judgment-seat at a place called The Pavement, but in Hebrew, Gabbatha. {19:14}
Now it was the Preparation [to kill] the Passover: [the hour to kill] was about
the sixth hour [of the day]. And he said unto the Jews, Behold, your King!
{19:15} They therefore cried out, Away with [him], away with [him], crucify
him! Pilate said unto them, shall I crucify your King? The chief priests
answered, We have no king but Caesar. {19:16} Then therefore he delivered him
unto them to be crucified. {19:17} They took Yehsus therefore: and he went out,
bearing the cross for himself, unto the place called The place of a skull,
which is called in Hebrew,
The Beginning of the New
Testament and change from the lunar calendar to only the solar Calendar.
The resurrection of the Yehsus
and is anointed Christ at the resurrection and
the
Note John will record that
Christ will ascend up to the Father (see verse 17). The Hebrew writer explains
what happened after Christ ascends up to the Father. At the resurrection
moment. The in the book of (Hebrews chapter one ): verse five start the Revelation
of what happens when God resurrects the
son Yehsus Christ following in the record of John when Christ resurrect he ascends
up to the Father to be exulted by the Father as "Ho Theos" or
almighty God. Hebrew one and five begin
the revelation The
(N4)20} John Chapter Twenty. {20:1} Now early [evening], yet it was dark
on the day Mia [day one] of the solar sevens., comes Maria Magdalene, unto the
tomb, and sees the stone taken away from the tomb. {20:2} She runs therefore,
and comes to Simon Petros, and to the other disciple whom Yehsus philo loved,
and said unto them, They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we know
not where they have laid him. {20:3} Petros therefore went forth, and the other
disciple, and they went toward the tomb. {20:4} And they ran both together: and
the other disciple outran Petros, and came first to the tomb; {20:5} and
stooping and looking in, he sees the linen cloths lying; yet entered he not in.
{20:6} Simon Petros therefore also comes, following him, and entered into the
tomb; and he sees the linen cloths lying, {20:7} and the napkin, that was upon
his head, not lying with the linen cloths, but rolled up in a place by itself.
{20:8} Then entered in therefore the other disciple also, who came first to the
tomb, and he saw, and believed. {20:9} For as yet they knew not the scripture,
that he must rise from the dead. {20:10} So the disciples went away again unto
their own home.
{20:11} But Maria was
standing outside at the tomb weeping: so, as she wept, she stooped and looked
into the tomb; {20:12} and she sees two messengers in white sitting, one at the
head, and one at the feet, where the body of Yehsus had lain. {20:13} And they
say unto her, Woman, why weep you? She said unto them, Because they have taken
away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him. {20:14} When she had
thus said, she turned herself back, and sees Yehsus standing, and [because it
was dark] knew not that it was Yehsus. {20:15} Yehsus said unto her, Woman, why
weep you? whom seek you? She, supposing him to be the gardener, said unto him,
Sir, if you have taken him from here, tell me where you have laid him, and I
will take him away. {20:16} Yehsus said unto her, Maria. She turns herself, and
said unto him in Hebrew, Rabboni; which is to say, Teacher. {20:17} Yehsus said
to her, Touch me not; because I am not yet ascended unto the Father: but go
unto my brethren, and say to them, I ascend unto my Father and your Father, and
my God and your God. {20:18} Maria Magdalene comes and tells the disciples, I
have seen the Lord; and [that] he had said these things unto her.
{20:19} When therefore it was
[eight days later on the same] evening, on the next [resurrection] day, the day
one of the Sabbaton, and when the doors were shut where the disciples were, for
fear of the Jews, Yehsus came and stood in the midst, and said unto them, Peace
[be] unto you. {20:20} And when he had said this, he showed unto them his hands
and his side. The disciples therefore were glad, when they saw the Lord.
{20:21} Yehsus therefore said to them again, Peace [be] unto you: as the Father
has sent me, even so send I you. {20:22} And when he had said this, he breathed
on them, and said unto them, Receive you the Holy Spirit: {20:23} whose so ever
sins you forgive, they are forgiven unto them; whose so ever [sins] you retain,
they are retained. {20:24} But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was
not with them when Yehsus came. {20:25} The other disciples therefore said unto
him, We have seen the Lord. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his
hands the print of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not
believe.
{20:26} And after eight days
again [on a solar cycle of the resurrection moment] his disciples were within,
and Thomas with them. Yehsus comes, the doors being shut, and stood in the
midst, and said, Peace [be] unto you. {20:27} Then said he to Thomas, Reach
here your finger, and see my hands; and reach [here] your hand, and put it into
my side: and be not faithless, but believing. {20:28} Thomas answered and said
unto him, My Lord and my God. {20:29} Yehsus said unto him, because you have
seen me, you have believed: blessed [are] they that have not seen, and [yet]
have believed. {20:30} Many other signs therefore did Yehsus in the presence of
the disciples, which are not written in this book: {20:31} but these are
written, that you may believe that Yehsus is the Christ, the Son of God; and
that believing you may have life in his name.
{N4)21} John Chapter Twenty-One. {21:1} After these things Yehsus manifested
himself again to the disciples at the
{21:15} So when they had
eaten [Ariston or the morning meal], Yehsus said to Simon Petros, Simon, [son]
of Jonah, [Do] you agape love me more than these [fish]? He said unto him,
behold, Lord; you know that I philo love you. He said unto him, Feed my lambs.
{21:16} He said to him again a second time, Simon, [son] of John, [Do] you agape love me? He [Petros] said unto him, behold, Lord; you know that I
philo love you. He said unto him, Tend
my sheep. {21:17} He said unto him the third time, Simon, [son] of Jonah, [do
you] "philo love me?" Petros was grieved because he said unto him the
third time, "[Do] you philo Love you me?" And he [Petros] said unto
him, Lord, you know all things; you know that I philo love you. Yehsus said
unto him, Feed my sheep.
{21:18} Verily, verily, I say
unto you, When you was young, you gird yourself, and walk where you would: but
when you shall be old, you shall stretch forth your hands, and another shall
gird you, and carry you where you would not. {21:19} Now this he spoke,
signifying by what manner of death he should glorify God. And when he had
spoken this, he said unto him, "Follow me!" {21:20} Petros, turning
about, sees the disciple whom Yehsus agape loved following; who also leaned
back on his breast at the supper, and said, Lord, who is he that betrays you?
{21:21} Petros therefore seeing him said to Yehsus, Lord, and what shall this
man do? {21:22} Yehsus said unto him, If I will that he tarry till I come, what
[is that] to you? "Follow you me!" {21:23} This saying therefore went
forth among the brethren, that that disciple should not die: yet Yehsus said
not unto him, that he should not die; but, If I will that he tarry till I come,
what [is that] to you? {21:24} This is the disciple that bears witness of these
things, and wrote these things: and we know that his witness is true. {21:25}
And there are also many other things which Yehsus did, the which if they should
be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself would not contain
the books that should be written.
{N5)1} Acts Chapter One.
The Acts of the
Apostles. {1:1} The former treatise I
made, O Theophilus, concerning all that Yehsus began both to do and to teach,
{1:2} until the day in which he was received up, after that he had given
commandment through the Holy Spirit unto the apostles whom he had chosen: {1:3}
To whom he also showed himself alive after his passion by many proofs,
appearing unto them by the space of forty days, and speaking the things
concerning the kingdom of God: {1:4} and, being assembled together with them,
he charged them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of
the Father, which, [he said], you heard from me: {1:5} For John indeed immersed
with water; but you shall be immersed in the Holy Spirit not many days from
here. {1:6} They therefore, when they were come together, asked him, saying,
Lord, do you at this time restore the kingdom to
{N5)2} Acts Chapter Two. {2:1} And [at dusk] when the day [Mia] of
Pentecost was being filled up to the full, they were all together in one place.
{2:2} And suddenly there came from heaven a sound as of the rushing of a mighty
wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. {2:3} And there
appeared unto them tongues parting asunder, like as of fire; and it sat upon
each one of them. {2:4} And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and
began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them utterance. {2:5}
Now there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under
heaven. {2:6} And when this [astronomical miracle] was told abroad, the
multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them
speaking in his own language. {2:7} And they were all amazed and marveled,
saying, Behold, are not all these that speak Galileans? {2:8} And how hear we,
every man in our own dialect [of our language] wherein we were born? {2:9}
Parthians and Medes and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, in Judea and
Cappadocia, in Pontus and Asia, {2:10} in Phrygia and Pamphylia, in Egypt and
the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and aliens from Rome, both Jews and
proselytes, {2:11} Cretans and Arabians, we hear them speaking in our languages
the mighty works of God. {2:12} And they were all amazed, and were perplexed,
saying one to another, What means this? {2:13} But others mocking said, They
are filled with new wine. {2:14} But Petros, standing up with the eleven,
lifted up his voice, and spoke forth unto them, [saying], you men of Judea, and
all you that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and give ear unto my
words. {2:15} For these are not drunk, as you suppose; seeing it is [but] the
third hour of the [night of Pentecost] day. {2:16} but this is that which has
been spoken through the prophet Joel: {2:17} And it shall be in the last days,
said God, I will pour forth of my Spirit upon all flesh: And your sons and your
daughters shall prophesy, And your young men shall see visions, And your old
men shall dream dreams: {2:18} behold and on my servants and on my handmaidens
in those days Will I pour forth of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy. {2:19}
And I will show wonders in the heaven above, And signs on the earth beneath;
Blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke: {2:20} The sun shall be turned into
darkness, And the moon into blood, Before the day of the Lord come, That great
and notable [day]. {2:21} And it shall be, that anyone who shall call on the
name of the Lord shall be saved. {2:22}
you men of Israel, hear these words: Yehsus of Nazareth, a man approved of God
unto you by mighty works and wonders and signs which God did by him in the
midst of you, even as you yourselves know; {2:23} him, being delivered up by
the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, you by the hand of lawless
men did crucify and slay: {2:24} whom God raised up, having loosed the pangs of
death: because it was not possible that he should be held of it. {2:25} For
David said concerning him, I beheld the Lord always before my face; For he is
on my right hand, that I should not be moved: {2:26} Therefore my heart was
glad, and my tongue rejoiced; Furthermore my flesh also shall dwell in hope:
{2:27} Because you will not leave my soul in Hell, Neither will you give your
Holy One to see corruption. {2:28} you made known unto me the ways of life; you
shall make me full of gladness with your countenance. {2:29} Brethren, I may
say unto you freely of the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried,
and his tomb is with us unto this day. {2:30} Being therefore a prophet, and
knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins
he would set [one] upon his throne; {2:31} he foreseeing [this] spoke of the
resurrection of the Christ, that neither was he left unto Hell, nor did his
flesh see corruption. {2:32} This Yehsus did God raise up, where we all are
witnesses. {2:33} Being therefore by the right hand of God exalted, and having
received of the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured forth
this, which you see and hear. {2:34} For David ascended not into the heavens:
but he said himself, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit you on my right hand,
{2:35} Till I make your enemies the footstool of your feet. {2:36} Let all the house of
{N5)3} Acts Chapter
Three. {3:1} Now Petros and John were
going up into the temple at the hour of prayer, [being] the ninth [hour of
morning]. {3:2} And a certain man that was lame from his mother's womb was
carried, whom they laid daily at the door of the temple which is called
Beautiful, to ask genuine benevolence of them that entered into the temple; {3:3}
who seeing Petros and John about to go into the temple, asked to receive an
genuine benevolence. {3:4} And Petros, fastening his eyes upon him, with John,
said, Look on us. {3:5} And he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive
something from them. {3:6} But Petros said, Silver and gold have I none; but
what I have, that give I you. In the name of Yehsus Christ of
{N5)4} Acts Chapter Four. {4:1} And as they spoke unto the people, the
priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came upon them, {4:2}
being sore troubled because they taught the people, and proclaimed in Yehsus
the resurrection from the dead. {4:3} And they laid hands on them, and put them
in ward unto the morrow: for it was now eventide. {4:4} But many of them that
heard the word believed; and the number of the men came to be about five
thousand. {4:5} And it came to pass on the morrow, that their rulers and elders
and scribes were gathered together in
{N5)5} Acts Chapter Five. {5:1} But a certain man named Ananias, with
Sapphira his wife, sold a possession, {5:2} and kept back [part] of the price,
his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the
apostles' feet. {5:3} But Petros said, Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart
to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back [part] of the price of the land?
{5:4} While it remained, did it not remain your own? and after it was sold, was
it not in your power? How is it that you have conceived this thing in your
heart? you has not lied unto men, but unto God. {5:5} And Ananias hearing these
words fell down and gave up the ghost: and great fear came upon all that heard
it. {5:6} And the young men arose and wrapped him round, and they carried him
out and buried him. {5:7} And it was about the space of three hours after, when
his wife, not knowing what was done, came in. {5:8} And Petros answered unto
her, Tell me whether you sold the land for so much. And she said, behold, for
so much. {5:9} But Petros [said] unto her, How is it that you have agreed
together to try the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them that have
buried your husband are at the door, and they shall carry you out. {5:10} And
she fell down immediately at his feet, and gave up the ghost: and the young men
came in and found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her by her
husband. {5:11} And great fear came upon the whole Ekklesia, and upon all that
heard these things. {5:12} And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and
wonders wrought among the people; and they were all with one accord in
Solomon's porch. {5:13} But of the rest durst no man join himself to them:
howbeit the people magnified them; {5:14} and believers were the more added to
the Lord, multitudes both of men and women; {5:15} insomuch that they even
carried out the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that,
as Petros came by, at the least his shadow might overshadow some one of them.
{5:16} And there also came together the multitudes from the cities round about
{N5)6}
Acts Chapter Six. {6:1} Now in
these days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, there arose a
murmuring of the Grecian Jews against the Hebrews, because their widows were
neglected in the daily ministration. {6:2} And the twelve called the multitude
of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not fit that we should forsake the
word of God, and serve tables. {6:3} Look you out therefore, brethren, from
among you seven men of good report, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we
may appoint over this business. {6:4} But we will continue steadfastly in
prayer, and in the ministry of the word. {6:5} And the saying pleased the whole
multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit,
and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaus a
proselyte of Antioch; {6:6} whom they set before the apostles: and when they
had prayed, they laid their hands upon them. {6:7} And the word of God
increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in
{6:8} And Stephen, full of
grace and power, wrought great wonders and signs among the people. {6:9} But
there arose certain of them that were of the synagogue called [the synagogue]
of the Libertines, and of the Cyrenians, and of the Alexandrians, and of them
of Cilicia and
{N5)7} Acts Chapter
Seven. {7:1} And the high priest said,
Are these things so? {7:2} And he said, Brethren and fathers, hear: The God of
glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he
dwelt in Haran, {7:3} and said unto him, Get you out of your land, and from
your kindred, and come into the land which I shall show you. {7:4} Then came he
out of the land of the Chaldeans, and dwelt in Haran: and from there, when his
father was dead, [God] removed him into this land, wherein you now dwell: {7:5}
and he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on:
and he promised that he would give it to him in possession, and to his seed
after him, when [as yet] he had no child. {7:6} And God spoke on this wise,
that his seed should sojourn in a strange land, and that they should bring them
into bondage, and treat them ill, four hundred years. {7:7} And the nation to
which they shall be in bondage will I judge, said God: and after that shall
they come forth, and serve me in this place. {7:8} And he gave him the covenant
of circumcision: and so [Abraham] begot Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth
day; and Isaac [begot] Jacob, and Jacob the twelve patriarchs. {7:9} And the
patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him into Egypt: and God
was with him, {7:10} and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him
favor and wisdom before Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over
Egypt and all his house. {7:11} Now there came a famine over all
{7:57} But they cried out
with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and rushed upon him with one accord;
{7:58} and they cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses
laid down their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul. {7:59} And they
stoned Stephen, calling upon [the Lord], and saying, Lord Yehsus, receive my
spirit. {7:60} And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not
this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
{N5)8} Acts Chapter
Eight. {8:1} And Saul was consenting
unto his death. And there arose on that day a great persecution against the
Ekklesia which was in
{8:14} Now when the apostles
that were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they
sent unto them Petros and John: {8:15} who, when they were come down, prayed
for them, that they might receive the Holy Spirit: {8:16} for as yet it was
fallen upon none of them: only they had been immersed into the name of the Lord
Yehsus. {8:17} Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy
Spirit. {8:18} Now when Simon saw that through the laying on of the apostles'
hands the Holy Spirit was given, he offered them money, {8:19} saying, Give me
also this power, that on whom so ever I lay my hands, he may receive the Holy
Spirit. {8:20} But Petros said unto him, Your silver perish with you, because
you have thought to obtain the gift of God with money. {8:21} you have neither
part nor lot in this matter: for your heart is not right before God. {8:22}
Repent therefore of this your wickedness, and pray the Lord, if perhaps the
thought of your heart shall be forgiven you. {8:23} For I see that you are in
the gall of bitterness and in the bond of work against law. {8:24} And Simon
answered and said, Pray you for me to the Lord, that none of the things which
you have spoken come upon me. {8:25} They therefore, when they had testified
and spoken the word of the Lord, returned to
{N5)9} Acts Chapter Nine. {9:1} But Saul, yet breathing threatening
and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,
{9:2} and asked of him letters to Damascus unto the synagogues, that if he
found any that were of "The Way," whether men or women, he might
bring them bound to Jerusalem. {9:3} And as he journeyed, it came to pass that
he drew near unto
{N5)10} Acts Chapter Ten. {10:1} Now [there was] a certain man in
Caesarea, Cornelius by name, a centurion of the band called the Italian [band],
{10:2} a devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, who gave much
genuine benevolence to the people, and prayed to God always. {10:3} He saw in a
vision openly, as it were about the ninth hour of the day, an messenger of God
coming in unto him, and saying to him, Cornelius. {10:4} And he, fastening his
eyes upon him, and being affrighted, said, What is it, Lord? And he said unto
him, Your prayers and your genuine benevolence are gone up for a memorial
before God. {10:5} And now send men to Joppa, and fetch one Simon, who is
surnamed Petros: {10:6} he lodges with one Simon a tanner, whose house is by
the sea side. {10:7} And when the messenger that spoke unto him was departed,
he called two of his household-servants, and a devout soldier of them that
waited on him continually; {10:8} and having rehearsed all things unto them, he
sent them to Joppa. {10:9} Now on the morrow, as they were on their journey,
and drew near unto the city, Petros went up upon the housetop to pray, about
the sixth hour: {10:10} and he became hungry, and desired to eat: but while
they made ready, he fell into a trance; {10:11} and he beholds the heaven
opened, and a certain vessel descending, as it were a great sheet, let down by
four corners upon the earth: {10:12} wherein were all manner of four footed
beasts and creeping things of the earth and birds of the heaven. {10:13} And
there came a voice to him, Rise, Petros; kill and eat. {10:14} But Petros said,
Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common and unclean.
{10:15} And a voice [came] unto him again the second time, What God has
cleansed, make not you common. {10:16} And this was done thrice: and
immediately the vessel was received up into heaven. {10:17} Now while Petros
was much perplexed in himself what the vision which he had seen might mean,
behold, the men that were sent by Cornelius, having made inquiry for Simon's
house, stood before the gate, {10:18} and called and asked whether Simon, who
was surnamed Petros, were lodging there. {10:19} And while Petros thought on
the vision, the Spirit said unto him, Behold, three men seek you. {10:20} But
arise, and get you down, and go with them, nothing doubting: for I have sent
them. {10:21} And Petros went down to the men, and said, Behold, I am he whom
you seek: what is the cause Therefore you are come? {10:22} And they said,
Cornelius a centurion, a righteous man and one that fears God, and well
reported of by all the nation of the Jews, was warned [of God] by a holy
messenger to send for you into his house, and to hear words from you. {10:23}
So he called them in and lodged them. And on the morrow he arose and went forth
with them, and certain of the brethren from Joppa accompanied him. {10:24} And
on the morrow they entered into
{N5)11} Acts Chapter Eleven. {11:1} Now the apostles and the brethren
that were in
{N5)12} Acts Chapter Twelve. {12:1} Now about that time Herod the king
put forth his hands to afflict certain of the Ekklesia. {12:2} And he killed
James the brother of John with the sword. {12:3} And when he saw that it
pleased the Jews, he proceeded to seize Petros also. And [those] were the days
of unleavened bread. {12:4} And when he had taken him, he put him in prison,
and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to guard him; intending after
the Passover to bring him forth to the people. {12:5} Petros therefore was kept
in the prison: but prayer was made earnestly of the Ekklesia unto God for him.
{12:6} And when Herod was about to bring him forth, the same night Petros was
sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and guards before the
door kept the prison. {12:7} And behold, an messenger of the Lord stood by him,
and a light shined in the cell: and he smote Petros on the side, and awoke him,
saying, Rise up quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands. {12:8} And the
messenger said unto him, Gird yourself, and bind on your sandals. And he did
so. And he said unto him, Cast your garment about you, and follow me. {12:9}
And he went out, and followed; and he knew not that it was true which was done
by the messenger, but thought he saw a vision. {12:10} And when they were past
the first and the second guard, they came unto the iron gate that leads into
the city; which opened to them of its own accord: and they went out, and passed
on through one street; and immediately the messenger departed from him. {12:11}
And when Petros was come to himself, he said, Now I know of a truth, that the
Lord has sent forth his messenger and delivered me out of the hand of Herod,
and from all the expectation of the people of the Jews. {12:12} And when he had
considered [the thing], he came to the house of Maria the mother of John whose
surname was Mark; where many were gathered together and were praying. {12:13}
And when he knocked at the door of the gate, a maid came to answer, named
Rhoda. {12:14} And when she knew Petros's voice, she opened not the gate for
joy, but ran in, and told that Petros stood before the gate. {12:15} And they
said unto her, you are mad. But she confidently affirmed that it was even so.
And they said, It is his messenger. {12:16} But Petros continued knocking: and
when they had opened, they saw him, and were amazed. {12:17} But he, beckoning
unto them with the hand to hold their peace, declared unto them how the Lord
had brought him forth out of the prison. And he said, Tell these things unto
James, and to the brethren. And he departed, and went to another place. {12:18}
Now as soon as it was day, there was no small stir among the soldiers, what was
become of Petros. {12:19} And when Herod had sought for him, and found him not,
he examined the guards, and commanded that they should be put to death. And he
went down from Judea to
{N5)13} Acts Chapter Thirteen. {13:1} Now there were at Antioch, in the
Ekklesia that was [there], prophets and teachers, Barnabas, and Symeon that was
called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen the foster-brother of Herod the
tetrarch, and Saul. {13:2} And as they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the
Holy Spirit said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called
them. {13:3} Then, when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on
them, they sent them away. {13:4} So they, being sent forth by the Holy Spirit,
went down to
{13:42} And as they went out,
they beg that these words might be spoken to them the [evening] between the
solar sevens ["The Sabbaton Between" "the exact resurrection
moment of the Christ"]. {13:43} Now when the synagogue broke up, many of
the Jews and of the devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas; who, speaking
to them, urged them to continue in the grace of God.
{13:44} And the [evening
between] of the oncoming solar sevens, almost the whole city was gathered
together to hear the word of God. {13:45} But when the Jews saw the multitudes,
they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken
by Paul, and blasphemed. {13:46} And Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, and
said, It was necessary that the word of God should first be spoken to you.
Seeing you thrust it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life,
lo, we turn to the Gentiles. {13:47} For so has the Lord commanded us,
[saying], I have set you for a light of the Gentiles, That you should be for
salvation unto the entire earth.
{13:48} And as the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified
the word of God: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed. {13:49}
And the word of the Lord was spread abroad throughout all the region. {13:50}
But the Jews urged on the devout women of honorable estate, and the chief men
of the city, and stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and cast
them out of their borders. {13:51} But they shook off the dust of their feet
against them, and came unto Iconium. {13:52} And the disciples were filled with
joy with the Holy Spirit.
{N5)14}
Acts Chapter Fourteen. {14:1} And
it came to pass in Iconium that they entered together into the synagogue of the
Jews, and so spoke that a great multitude both of Jews and of Greeks believed.
{14:2} But the Jews that were disobedient stirred up the souls of the Gentiles,
and made them evil affected against the brethren. {14:3} Long time therefore
they tarried [there] speaking boldly in the Lord, who bare witness unto the
word of his grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands. {14:4}
But the multitude of the city was divided; and part held with the Jews, and
part with the apostles. {14:5} And when there was made an onset both of the
Gentiles and of the Jews with their rulers, to treat them shamefully and to
stone them, {14:6} they became aware of it, and fled unto the cities of
Lycaonia, Lystra and Derbe, and the region round about: {14:7} and there they
preached the good news. {14:8} And at Lystra there sat a certain man, impotent
in his feet, a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked. {14:9} The
same heard Paul speaking, who, fastening eyes upon him, and seeing that he had
faith to be made whole, {14:10} said with a loud voice, Stand upright on your
feet. And he leaped up and walked. {14:11} And when the multitude saw what Paul
had done, they lifted up their voice, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The
gods are come down to us in the likeness of men. {14:12} And they called
Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercury, because he was the chief speaker. {14:13}
And the priest of Jupiter whose [temple] was before the city, brought oxen and garlands
unto the gates, and would have done sacrifice with the multitudes. {14:14} But
when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of it, they rent their garments,
and sprang forth among the multitude, crying out {14:15} and saying, Sirs, why
do you these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you
good tidings, that you should turn from these vain things unto a living God,
who made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all that in them is: {14:16}
who in the generations gone by suffered all the nations to walk in their own
ways. {14:17} And yet He left not himself outside witness, in that he did good
and gave you from heaven rains and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with
food and gladness. {14:18} And with these sayings scarce restrained they the
multitudes from doing sacrifice unto them. {14:19} But there came Jews there
from
{N5)15} Acts Chapter Fifteen. {15:1} And certain men came down from
{N5)16} Acts Chapter Sixteen.
{16:1} And he came also to Derbe and to Lystra: and behold, a certain
disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewess that believed; but his
father was a Greek. {16:2} The same was well reported of by the brethren that were at Lystra and
Iconium. {16:3} Him would Paul have to go forth with him; and he took and
circumcised him because of the Jews that were in those parts: for they all knew
that his father was a Greek. {16:4} And as they went on their way through the
cities, they delivered them the decrees to keep which had been ordained of the
apostles and elders that were at
{N5)17} Acts Chapter
Seventeen. {17:1} Now when they had
passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a
synagogue of the Jews: {17:2} and Paul, as his custom was, went in unto them,
and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures, {17:3} opening
and alleging that it behooved the Christ to suffer, and to rise again from the
dead; and that this Yehsus, whom, [said he,] I proclaim unto you, is the
Christ. {17:4} And some of them were persuaded, and consorted with Paul and
Silas, and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a
few. {17:5} But the Jews, being moved with jealousy, took unto them certain
vile fellows of the rabble, and gathering a crowd, set the city on an uproar;
and assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them forth to the
people. {17:6} And when they found them not, they dragged Jason and certain
brethren before the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned the
world upside down are come here also; {17:7} whom Jason has received: and these
all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king,
[one] Yehsus. {17:8} And they troubled the multitude and the rulers of the
city, when they heard these things. {17:9} And when they had taken security
from Jason and the rest, they let them go. {17:10} And the brethren immediately
sent away Paul and Silas by night unto
{N5)18} Acts Chapter Eighteen. {18:1} After these things he departed from
{N5)19} Acts Chapter Nineteen. {19:1} And it came to pass, that, while
Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper country came to
Ephesus, and found certain disciples: {19:2} and he said unto them, Did you
receive the Holy Spirit when you believed? And they [said] unto him, No, we did
not so much as hear whether the Holy Spirit was [given]. {19:3} And he said,
Into what then were you immersed [in water]? And they said, Into John's
immersion [in water]. {19:4} And Paul said, John immersed [in water] with the
immersion of repentance, saying unto the people that they should believe on him
that should come after him, that is, on [the immersion in water of] Yehsus. {19:5} And when they heard this, they
were immersed [in water] into the name of the Lord Yehsus. {19:6} And when Paul
had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Spirit came on them; and they spoke with
languages, and prophesied. {19:7} And they were in all about twelve men. {19:8}
And he entered into the synagogue, and spoke boldly for the space of three moons,
reasoning and persuading [as to] the things concerning the
{N5)20}
Acts Chapter Twenty. {20:1} And
after the uproar ceased, Paul having sent for the disciples and exhorted them,
took leave of them, and departed to go into Macedonia. {20:2} And when he had
gone through those parts, and had given them much exhortation, he came into
{N5)21}
Acts Chapter Twenty-One. {21:1}
And when it came to pass that were parted from them and had set sail, we came
with a straight course unto Cos, and the next day unto Rhodes, and from there
unto Patara: {21:2} and having found a ship crossing over unto
{N5)22}
Acts Chapter Twenty-Two. {22:1}
Brethren and fathers, hear you the defense which I now make unto you. {22:2}
And when they heard that he spoke unto them in the Hebrew language, they were
the more quiet: and he said, {22:3} I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but
brought up in this city, at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the
strict manner of the [Pharisee Halakhah the unwritten oral] law [through Moses]
of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as you all are this day: {22:4} and
I persecuted [through the Pharisee oral law the Halakah] [or The Walk] unto the
death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women. {22:5} As also
the high priest does bear me witness, and all the estate of the elders: from
whom also I received letters unto the brethren, and journeyed to
{N5)23} Acts Chapter Twenty-Three. {23:1} And Paul, looking steadfastly on
the council, said, Brethren, I have lived before God in all good conscience until
this day. {23:2} And the high priest Ananias commanded them that stood by him
to smite him on the mouth. {23:3} Then said Paul unto him, God shall smite you,
you whited wall: and sits you to judge me according to the [Halakhah] law and
command me to be smitten contrary to the [Halakhah] law? {23:4} And they that
stood by said, you Revile God's high priest? {23:5} And Paul said, I knew not,
brethren, that he was high priest: for it is written, you shall not speak evil
of a ruler of your people. {23:6} But when Paul perceived that the one part
were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Brethren,
I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees: touching the hope and resurrection of the
dead I am called in question. {23:7} And when he had so said, there arose a
dissension between the Pharisees and Sadducees; and the assembly was divided.
{23:8} For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither messenger,
nor spirit; but the Pharisees confess both. {23:9} And there arose a great clamor:
and some of the scribes of the Pharisees part stood up, and strove, saying, We
find no evil in this man: and what if a spirit has spoken to him, or an
messenger? {23:10} And when there arose a great dissension, the chief captain,
fearing lest Paul should be torn in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to
go down and take him by force from among them, and bring him into the castle.
{23:11} And the night following the Lord stood by him, and said, Be of good
cheer: for as you have testified concerning me at
{N5)24}
Acts Chapter Twenty-Four. {24:1}
And after five days the high priest Ananias came down with certain elders, and
[with] an orator, one Tertullus; and they informed the governor against Paul.
{24:2} And when he was called, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, Seeing
that by you we enjoy much peace, and that by the providence evils are corrected
for this nation, {24:3} we accept it in all ways and in all places, most
excellent Felix, with all thankfulness. {24:4} But, that I be not further
tedious unto you, I entreat you to hear us of your clemency a few words. {24:5}
For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of insurrections
among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the
Nazarenes: {24:6} who furthermore determined to profane the temple: on whom
also we laid hold: [and we would have judged him according to our [Halakhah]
law] {24:7} [But the chief captain Lysias came, and with great violence took him
away out of our hands,] {24:8} [commanding his accusers to come before you.]
from whom you will be able, by examining him yourself, to take knowledge of all
these things where we accuse him. {24:9} And the Jews also joined in the
charge, affirming that these things were so. {24:10} And when the governor had
beckoned unto him to speak, Paul answered, Forasmuch as I know that you have
been of many years a judge unto this nation, I cheerfully make my defense:
{24:11} Seeing that you Can take knowledge that it is not more than twelve days
since I went up to worship at Jerusalem: {24:12} and neither in the temple did
they find me disputing with any man or stirring up a crowd, nor in the
synagogues, nor in the city. {24:13} Neither can they prove to you the things
where they now accuse me. {24:14} But this I confess unto you, that after
"The Way" which they call a sect, so serve I the God of our fathers,
believing all things which are according to the law [through Moses], and which
are written in the prophets; {24:15} having hope toward God, which these also
themselves look for, that there shall be a resurrection both of the just and
unjust. {24:16} Herein I also exercise myself to have a conscience void of
offence toward God and men always. {24:17} Now after some years I came to bring
genuine benevolence to my nation, and offerings: {24:18} amidst which they
found me purified in the temple, with no crowd, nor yet with tumult: but [there
were] certain Jews from
{N5)26} Acts Chapter Twenty-Six. {26:1} And Agrippa said unto Paul, you are
permitted to speak for yourself. Then Paul stretched forth his hand, and made
his defense: {26:2} I think myself happy, king Agrippa, that I am to make my
defense before you this day touching all the things where I am accused by the
Jews: {26:3} especially because you are expert in all customs and questions
which are among the Jews: Therefore I ask you to hear me patiently. {26:4} My
manner of life then from my youth up, which was from the beginning among mine
own nation and at Jerusalem, know all the Jews; {26:5} having knowledge of me
from the first, if they be willing to testify, that after the strictest sect of
our religion I lived a Pharisee. {26:6} And now I stand [here] to be judged for
the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers; {26:7} unto which
[promise] our twelve tribes, earnestly serving [God] night and day, hope to
attain. And concerning this hope I am accused by the Jews, O king! {26:8} Why
is it judged incredible with you, if God does raise the dead? {26:9} I verily
thought with myself that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of
Yehsus of Nazareth. {26:10} And this I also did in Jerusalem: and I both shut
up many of the Holy People in prisons, having received authority from the chief
priests, and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them. {26:11}
And punishing them oftentimes in all the synagogues, I strove to make them
blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto
foreign cities. {26:12} Whereupon as I journeyed to Damascus with the authority
and commission of the chief priests, {26:13} at midday, O king, I saw on the way
a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me
and them that journeyed with me. {26:14} And when we were all fallen to the
earth, I heard a voice saying unto me in the Hebrew language, Saul, Saul, why
persecute you me? it is hard for you to kick against the goad. {26:15} And I
said, Who are you, Lord? And the Lord said [in Hebrew], I am Yehsus whom you
persecute. {26:16} But arise, and stand upon your feet: for to this end have I
appeared unto you, to appoint you a minister and a witness both of the things
wherein you have seen me, and of the things wherein I will appear unto you;
{26:17} delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom I send
you, {26:18} to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and
from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive remission of sins and
an inheritance among them that are sanctified by faith in me. {26:19}
Therefore, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision:
{26:20} but declared both to them of Damascus first and at Jerusalem, and
throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should
repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance. {26:21} For this
cause the Jews seized me in the temple, and determined to kill me. {26:22}
Having therefore obtained the help that is from God, I stand unto this day
testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and
Moses did say should come; {26:23} how that the Christ must suffer, [and] how
that he first by the resurrection of the dead should proclaim light both to the
people and to the Gentiles. {26:24} And as he thus made his defense, Festus
said with a loud voice, Paul, you are mad; your much learning is turning you
mad. {26:25} But Paul said, I am not mad, most excellent Festus; but speak
forth words of truth and soberness. {26:26} For the king knows of these things,
unto whom also I speak freely: for I am persuaded that none of these things is
hidden from him; for this has not been done in a corner. {26:27} King Agrippa,
believe you the prophets? I know that you believe. {26:28} And Agrippa [said]
unto Paul, With but little persuasion you would fain make me a Christian.
{26:29} And Paul [said], I would to God, that whether with little or with much,
not you only, but also all that hear me this day, might become such as I am,
except these bonds. {26:30} And the king rose up, and the governor, and
Bernice, and they that sat with them: {26:31} and when they had withdrawn, they
spoke one to another, saying, This man does nothing worthy of death or of
bonds. {26:32} And Agrippa said unto Festus, This man might have been set at
liberty, if he had not appealed unto Caesar.
{N5)27} Acts Chapter Twenty-Seven. {27:1} And when it was determined that we
should sail for
{N5)28} Acts Chapter TwentyEight. {28:1} And when we were escaped, then we
knew that the island was called Melita. {28:2} And the barbarians showed us
common kindness; for they kindled a fire, and received us all, because of the
present rain, and because of the cold. {28:3} But when Paul had gathered a
bundle of sticks and laid them on the fire, a viper came out by reason of the
heat, and fastened on his hand. {28:4} And when the barbarians saw the
[venomous] creature hanging from his hand, they said one to another, No doubt
this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped from the sea, yet Justice
has not suffered to live. {28:5} Howbeit he shook off the creature into the
fire, and took no harm. {28:6} But they expected that he would have swollen, or
fallen down dead suddenly: but when they were long in expectation and beheld
nothing amiss came to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a
god. {28:7} Now in the neighborhood of that place were lands belonging to the
chief man of the island, named Publius, who received us, and entertained us
three days courteously. {28:8} And it was so, that the father of Publius lay
sick of fever and dysentery: unto whom Paul entered in, and prayed, and laying
his hands on him healed him. {28:9} And when this was done, the rest also that
had diseases in the island came, and were cured: {28:10} who also honored us
with many honors; and when we sailed, they put on board such things as we
needed. {28:11} And after three moons we set sail in a ship of
{N6)1} Romans Chapter
One. The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to
the Romans {1:1} Paul, a slave of
Yehsus Christ, called [to be] an apostle, separated unto the good news of God,
{1:2} which he promised before through his prophets in the holy scriptures,
{1:3} concerning his Son, who was born of the seed of David according to the
flesh, {1:4} who was declared [to be] the Son of God with power, according to
the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead; [even] Yehsus Christ
our Lord, {1:5} through whom we received grace and apostleship, unto obedience
of faith among all the nations, for his name's sake; {1:6} among whom are you
also called [to be] Yehsus Christ's: {1:7} To all that are in Rome, agape
beloved of God, called [to be] Holy People: Grace to you and peace from God our
Father and the Lord Yehsus Christ. {1:8} First, I thank my God through Yehsus
Christ for you all, that your faith is proclaimed throughout the entire
world. {1:9} For God is my witness,
whom I serve in my spirit in the good news of his Son, how unceasingly I make
mention of you, always in my prayers {1:10} making request, if by any means now
at length I may be prospered by the will of God to come unto you. {1:11} For I
long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end you
may be established; {1:12} that is, that I with you may be comforted in you,
each of us by the other's faith, both yours and mine. {1:13} And I would not have you ignorant,
brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you (and was hindered here),
that I might have some fruit in you also, even as in the rest of the Gentiles.
{1:14} I am debtor both to Greeks and to Barbarians, both to the wise and to
the foolish. {1:15} So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the good news
to you also that are in
{N6)2} Romans Chapter Two. {2:1} Therefore you are outside excuse, O
man, anyone who you are that judges: for wherein you judges another, you
condemn yourself; for you that judge do practice the same things. {2:2} And we
know that the judgment of God is according to truth against them that practice
such things. {2:3} And reckons you this, O man, who judge them that practice
such things, and do the same, that you shall escape the judgment of God? {2:4}
Or despise you the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering,
not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance? {2:5} but after your
hardness and impenitent heart treasures up for yourself wrath in the day of
wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God; {2:6} who will render to
every man according to his works: {2:7} to them that by patience in well-doing
seek for glory and honor and incorruption, eternal life: {2:8} but unto them
that are factious, and obey not the truth, but [you who] obey [illegal] works
against the law, [shall be] wrath and indignation, {2:9} tribulation and
anguish, upon every soul of man that works evil, of the Jew first, and also of
the Greek; {2:10} but glory and honor and peace to every man that works good,
to the Jew first, and also to the Greek: {2:11} for there is no respect of
persons with God. {2:12} For as many as have sinned outside [the written] law
[through Moses] shall also perish outside the [written] law [through Moses]:
and as many as have sinned under the [written] law [through Moses] shall be judged by the [written] law [through
Moses]; {2:13} for not the hearers of the law [through Moses] are just before God, but the doers of the law
[through Moses] shall be justified:
{2:14} (for when Gentiles that have not the law [through Moses] do by nature the things of the law [through
Moses], these, not having the law [through Moses], are the law [through
Moses] unto themselves; {2:15} in that
they show the work of the [written] law [through Moses] written in their
hearts, their conscience bearing witness with, and their thoughts one with
another accusing or else excusing [them]); {2:16} in the day when God shall
judge the secrets of men, according to my good news, by Yehsus Christ. {2:17}
But if you bear the name of a Jew, and rests upon the law [through Moses], and
glories in God, {2:18} and know his will, and approves the things that are excellent,
being instructed out of the [written] law [through Moses], {2:19} and are
confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light of them that are
in darkness, {2:20} a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having in
the [written] law [through Moses] the
form of knowledge and of the truth; {2:21} you therefore that teach another,
teach you not yourself? you that preach a man should not steal, do you steal?
{2:22} you that say a man should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? you
that abhor idols, do you rob temples? {2:23} you who glories in the [written]
law [through Moses], through your transgression of the [written] law of the law
[written through Moses] you dishonor
God? {2:24} For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of
you, even as it is written. {2:25} For circumcision indeed profited, if you be
a doer of the [written] law [through Moses]: but if you be a transgressor of
the [written] law [through Moses], your circumcision is become un-circumcision.
{2:26} If therefore the uncircumcision keep the ordinances of the [written] law
[through Moses], shall not his uncircumcision be reckoned for circumcision?
{2:27} and shall not the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfill the
[written] law [through Moses], judge you, who with the letter and circumcision
are a transgressor of the [written] law [through Moses]? {2:28} For he is not a
Jew who is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision which is outward in the
flesh: {2:29} but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of
the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of
God.
{N6)3}
Romans. Chapter Three. {3:1} What
advantage then has the Jew? or what is the profit of circumcision? {3:2} Much
every way: first of all, that they were entrusted with the [written] oracles of
God. {3:3} For what if some were outside
faith? shall their want of faith make of none effect the faithfulness' of God?
{3:4} God forbid: behold, let God be found true, but every man a liar; as it is
written, That you might be justified in your words, And might prevail when you
come into judgment. {3:5} But if our
righteousness commends the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God
unrighteous who visits with wrath? (I speak after the manner of men.) {3:6} God
forbid: for then how shall God judge the world? {3:7} But if the truth of God
through my lie abounded unto his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?
{3:8} and why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we
say), Let us do evil, that good may come? whose condemnation is just. {3:9}
What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we before laid to the
charge both of Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin; {3:10} as it is
written, There is none righteous, no, not one; {3:11} There is none that
understands, There is none that seeks after God; {3:12} They have all turned
aside, they are together become unprofitable; There is none that does good, no,
not, so much as one: {3:13} Their throat is an open sepulcher; With their
tongues they have used deceit: The poison of asps is under their lips: {3:14}
Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: {3:15} Their feet are swift to
shed blood; {3:16} Destruction and misery are in their ways; {3:17} And the way
of peace have they not known: {3:18} There is no fear of God before their
eyes. {3:19} Now we know that what
things so ever the [written] law [though Moses] said, it speaks to them that
are under the [written] law [through Moses]; that every mouth may be stopped,
and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God: {3:20} because by
the works of the [written] law [through Moses]
shall no flesh be justified in his sight; for through the [written] law
[through Moses comes] the knowledge of sin. {3:21} But now apart from the
[written] law [through Moses] a righteousness of God has been manifested, being
witnessed by the [written] law [through Moses]
and the prophets; {3:22} even the righteousness of God through [the]
faith of Yehsus Christ unto all them that believe; for there is no distinction
[in the written law through Christ]; {3:23} for all have sinned, and fall short
of the glory of God; {3:24} [of past sins] being justified freely by his grace
through the redemption that is in Christ Yehsus: {3:25} whom God set forth [to
be] a propitiation, through faith, in his blood, to show his righteousness
because of the passing over of the sins done aforetime, in the forbearance of
God; {3:26} for the showing, [I say], of his righteousness at this present
time: that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him that has faith in
Yehsus. {3:27} Where then is the boasting? Is [boasting] excluded? By what
manner of [written] law? of works [of the written law through Moses]? No: but [the
boasting is] by the law of faith. {3:28} We reckon therefore that a man is
justified by [the law of] faith apart from the works of the [written] law
[through Moses]. {3:29} Or is God [the God] of Jews only? is he not [the God]
of Gentiles also? behold, of Gentiles also: {3:30} if so be that God is one,
and he shall justify the circumcision by [the written] law [through Moses] and
the uncircumcision through [the law of] faith. {3:31} Do we then make the
[written] law [through Moses] of none effect through [the law of] faith? God
forbid: No, we establish the [written] law [through Moses].
{N6)4} Romans Chapter Four. {4:1} What then shall we say that Abraham,
our forefather, has found according to the flesh? {4:2} For if Abraham was
justified by works, he has where to glory; but not toward God. {4:3} For what
said the scripture? And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for
righteousness. {4:4} Now to him that works [through the written law of Moses],
the reward is not reckoned as of grace, but as of debt. {4:5} But to him that
worked not [in past tense], but [present tense] believes on him that justifies
the ungodly, his faith is reckoned for righteousness. {4:6} Even as David also
pronounce blessing upon the man, unto whom God reckons righteousness apart from
works [through Moses], {4:7} [saying], Blessed are they whose [illegal] works
against law are forgiven, And whose sins are covered. {4:8} Blessed is the man
to whom, the Lord will not reckon sin.
{4:9} Is this blessing then pronounced upon the circumcision, or upon
the uncircumcision also? for we say, To Abraham his faith was reckoned for
righteousness. {4:10} How then was it reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or
in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision: {4:11} and he
received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith
which he had while he was in uncircumcision; that he might be the father of all
them that believe, though they be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might
be reckoned unto them; {4:12} and the father of circumcision to them who not
only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of
our father Abraham which he had in uncircumcision. {4:13} For not through the
[written] law [through Moses] was the promise to Abraham or to his seed that he should be heir of the
world, but through the righteousness [works] of the law of] faith. {4:14} For
if they that are of the [written] law [through Moses] are heirs, [works of]
faith is made void, and the promise is made of none effect: {4:15} for the
[written] law [through Moses] works wrath; but where there is no law [from
God], neither is there transgression of the law. {4:16} For this cause [it is
the law] of faith, that [it may be] according to grace; to the end that the
promise may be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the [written]
law [through Moses], but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is
the father of us all {4:17} (as it is written, A father of many nations have I made
you) before him whom he believed, [even] God, who gives life to the dead, and
calls the things that are not, as though they were. {4:18} Who in hope believed
against hope, to the end that he might become a father of many nations,
according to that which had been spoken, So shall your seed be. {4:19} And
outside being weakened in faith he considered his own body now as good as dead
(he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb; {4:20}
yet, looking unto the promise of God, he wavered not through unbelief, but
waxed strong through faith, giving glory to God, {4:21} and being fully assured
that what he had promised, he was able also to perform. {4:22} Therefore also
it was reckoned unto him for good works. {4:23} Now it was not written for his
sake alone, that it was reckoned unto him; {4:24} but for our sake also, unto
whom it shall be reckoned, who believe on him that raised Yehsus our Lord from
the dead, {4:25} who was delivered up for our trespasses, and [he] was raised
for our justification [to Passover or to make sinless] .
{N6)5}
Romans Chapter Five. {5:1} Being
therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Yehsus
Christ; {5:2} through whom also we have had our access by faith into this grace
wherein we stand; and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. {5:3} And not
only so, but we also rejoice in our tribulations: knowing that tribulation
works steadfastness; {5:4} and steadfastness, approvedness; and approvedness,
hope: {5:5} and hope puts not to shame; because the agape love of God has been
shed abroad in our hearts through the Holy Spirit which was given unto us.
{5:6} For while we were yet weak, in due season Christ died for the ungodly.
{5:7} For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: for perhaps for the good
man some one would even dare to die. {5:8} But God reveals his own agape love
toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. {5:9} Much
more then, being now justified by his blood, shall we be saved from the wrath
[of God] through him. {5:10} For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled
to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, shall we be
saved by his life; {5:11} and not only so, but we also rejoice in God through
our Lord Yehsus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.
{5:12} Therefore, as through one man sin entered into the world, and death
through sin; and so death passed unto all men, for that all sinned:-- {5:13}
for until the [written] law [from God] sin was in the world; but sin is not
imputed when there is no law. {5:14} Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until
Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the likeness of Adam's
transgression of the law, who is a figure of him that was to come. {5:15} But
not as the trespass, so also [is] the free gift. For if by the trespass of the
one the many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of
the one man, Yehsus Christ, abound unto the many. {5:16} And not as through one
that sinned, [so] is the gift: for the judgment [came] of one unto
condemnation, but the free gift [came] of many trespasses unto justification.
{5:17} For if, by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; much
more shall they that receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of
righteousness reign in life through the one, [even] Yehsus Christ. {5:18} So
then as through one trespass [the judgment came] unto all men to condemnation;
even so through one act of righteousness [the free gift came] unto all men to
justification of life. {5:19} For as through [Adam] the one man's disobedience
the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one shall the
many be made righteous. {5:20} And the [written] law [through Moses] came in
besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace did
abound more exceedingly: {5:21} that, as sin reigned in death, even so might
grace reign through [works of] righteousness unto eternal life through Yehsus
Christ our Lord.
{n6)6} Romans Chapter Six. {6:1} What shall we say then? shall we
continue in sin, that grace may abound? {6:2} God forbid. We who died to sin,
how shall we any longer live therein? {6:3} Or are you ignorant that all we who
were immersed [in water] into Christ Yehsus were immersed into his death? {6:4}
We were buried [in water] therefore with him through immersion [in water] unto
death: that like as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the
Father, so we also might [be spiritually resurrected to] walk in newness of
life. {6:5} For if we have become united with [him] in the likeness of his
death, we shall be also [in the likeness] of his resurrection; {6:6} knowing
this, that our old man was crucified with [him], that the body of sin might be
done away, that so we [through the resurrection] should no longer be in bondage
to sin; {6:7} for he that has died [from sin] is justified from sin. {6:8} But
if we died [from sin] with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him;
{6:9} knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dies no more; death no more has dominion over him. {6:10}
For the death that he died, he died unto sin once: but the life that he lives,
he lives unto God. {6:11} Even so reckon you also yourselves to be dead unto
sin, but alive unto God in Christ Yehsus. {6:12} Let not sin therefore reign in
your mortal body, that you should obey the lusts there: {6:13} neither present
your members unto sin [as] instruments of [illegal] works against the law; but
present yourselves unto God, as alive from the dead, and your members [as]
instruments of good works unto God. {6:14} For sin shall not have dominion over
you: for you are not under [written] law [through Moses], but under grace.
{6:15} What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the [written] law
[through Moses], but under grace? God forbid. {6:16} Know you not, that to whom
you present yourselves [as] servants unto obedience, his servants you are whom
you obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto [legal] works of the
law [through Moses]? {6:17} But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were
servants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching
whereunto you were delivered; {6:18} and being made free from sin, you became
servants of righteousness (which is legal
works of the law). {6:19} I speak after the manner of men because of the
infirmity of your flesh: for as you presented your members [as] servants to
uncleanness and to work against law unto works of lawlessness, even so now
present your members [as] servants to lawful works unto sanctification. {6:20}
For when you were servants of sin, you were free in regard [to legal works] of
the [written] law [through Moses]. {6:21} What fruit then had you at that time
in the things where you are now ashamed? for the end of those things [illegal
or lawless works] is death. {6:22} But now being made free from sin and become
servants to God, you have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end eternal
life. {6:23} For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal
life in Christ Yehsus our Lord.
{N6)7} Romans Chapter Seven. {7:1} Or are you ignorant, brethren (for I
speak to men who know the [written] law [through Moses]), that the [written]
law [through Moses] has dominion over a man for so long time as he lives? {7:2}
For the woman that has a husband is bound by [written] law [through Moses] to
the husband while he lives; but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the
[written] law of the husband. {7:3} So then if, while the husband lives, she be
joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if the husband
dies, she is free from the [written] law [through Moses], so that she is no
adulteress, though she be [sexually] joined to another man. {7:4} Therefore, my
brethren, you also were made dead to the [written] law [through Moses] through
the body of Christ; that you should be joined to another [law of Faith], [even]
to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit unto God.
{7:5} For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were through
the [written] law [of Moses], wrought in our members to bring forth fruit unto
death. {7:6} But now we have been discharged from the [written] law [through
Moses], having died to that wherein we were held; so that we serve in newness
of the spirit, and not in oldness of the [written] letter. {7:7} What shall we
say then? Is the [written] law [through Moses] sin? God forbid. Howbeit, I had not known sin, except through
the [written] law [through Moses]: for I had not known coveting, except the
[written] law [through Moses] had said,
you shall not covet: {7:8} but sin,
finding occasion, wrought in me through the commandment all manner of coveting:
for apart from the [written] law [through Moses] sin [is] dead. {7:9} And I was
[physically] alive [but] apart from the [written] law [through Moses] once [by
the Pharisee oral] law [of the Halakhah]: but when the commandment came, sin
revived, and I died; {7:10} and the commandment, which [was] unto life, this I
found [to be] unto death: {7:11} for [my] sin, finding occasion, through the
commandment [in my Pharisee oral law had] deceived me, and through [Learning
truth] it slew me. {7:12} So that [it
is] the [written] law [through Moses that] is holy, and the commandment holy,
and righteous, and good. {7:13} Did then
that which is good become death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might be
shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good; --that
through the commandment sin might become exceeding sinful. {7:14} For we know
that the [written] law [through Moses] is spiritual: but [through my old oral
law of the Phairsee] I am carnal, sold under sin. {7:15} For that which I do I
know not: for not what I would, that do I practice; but what I hate, that I do.
{7:16} But if what I would not, that I do, I consent unto the [written] law
[through Moses] that it is good. {7:17} So now [in my old oral law of the
Pharisee] it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me. {7:18} For I
know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing: for to will is
present with me, but to do that which is good [is] not [normal]. {7:19} For the
good which I would, I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I practice.
{7:20} But if what I would not, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin
which dwells in me. {7:21} I find then the [written] law [through Moses], that,
to me who would do good, evil is present. {7:22} For I delight in the [written]
law of God [through Moses] after the inward man: {7:23} but I see a different
[natural] law in my members, warring against the [old Pharisee unwritten] law
of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the [written] law of sin
[through Moses] which [natural law] is in my members. {7:24} Wretched man that
I am! who shall deliver me out of the body of this death? {7:25} I thank God
through Yehsus Christ our Lord. So then I of myself with the mind [of the holy
Spirit], indeed, serve the law of God [through faith]; but with the flesh the
[written] law of sin [through Moses].
{N6)8}
Romans Chapter Eight. {8:1} There
is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Yehsus. For the law
of [Faith] in the Spirit of life in Christ Yehsus made me free from the
[written] law [through Moses] of sin and of death. {8:2} For what the law
[through Moses] could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God,
sending his own Son in the likeness of
sinful flesh and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: {8:3} that the ordinances
of the law [of faith] might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh,
but after the Spirit. {8:4} For they that are after the flesh mind the things
of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
{8:5} For the mind of the flesh is death; but the mind of the Spirit is life
and peace: {8:6} because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is
not subject to the law [of faith] of God, neither indeed can it be: {8:7} and
they that are in the flesh cannot please God. {8:9} But you are not in the flesh
but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any
man has not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. {8:9} And if Christ is in
you, the body is dead because of sin; but the spirit is life because of
righteous works. {8:10} But if the Spirit of him that raised up Yehsus from the
dead dwells in you, he that raised up Christ Yehsus from the dead shall give
life also to your mortal bodies through his Spirit that dwells in you. {8:11}
So then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh:
{8:12} for if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if [you live] by the Spirit you put to death the
deeds of the body, you shall live. {8:13} For as many as are led by the Spirit of
God, these are sons of God. {8:14} For you received not the spirit of bondage
again unto fear; but you received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba,
Father. {8:15} The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit, that we are
children of God: {8:16} and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and
joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with [him], that we may be
also glorified with [him]. {8:17} For I reckon that the sufferings of this
present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be
revealed to us-ward. {8:18} For the earnest expectation of the creation waits
for the revealing of the sons of God. {8:19} For the creation was subjected to
vanity, not of its own will, but by reason of him who subjected it, in hope
{8:20} that the creation itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of
corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God. {8:21} For we
know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.
{8:22} And not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first-fruits of the
Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for [our] adoption,
[to wit], the redemption of our body. {8:23} For in hope we were saved: but
hope that is seen is not hope: for who hopes for that which he sees? {8:24} But
if we hope for that which we see not, [then] do we with patience wait for it.
{8:25} And in like manner the Spirit also helps our infirmity: for we know not
how to pray as we ought; but the Spirit himself makes intercession for [us]
with groanings which cannot be uttered; {8:26} and he that searches the hearts
knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because he makes intercession for the
Holy People according to [the will of] God. {8:27} And we know that to them
that agape love God all things work together for good, [even] to them that are
called according to [his] purpose. {8:28} For [those] whom he knew before, he
also foreordained [to be] conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be
the firstborn among many brethren: {8:29} and [those] whom he foreordained, them
he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and [those] whom he
justified, them he also glorified. {8:30} What then shall we say to these
things? If God [is] for us, who [is] against us? {8:31} He that spared not his
own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also with him freely
give us all things? {8:32} Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect?
It is God that justifies; {8:33} who is he that condemns? It is Christ Yehsus
that died, behold rather, that was raised from the dead, who is at the right
hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. {8:34} Who shall separate us
from the agape love of Christ? shall tribulation, or anguish, or persecution,
or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? {8:36} Even as it is written, For
your sake we are killed all the day long; We were accounted as sheep for the
slaughter. {8:36} No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through
him that agape loved us. {8:37} For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor
life, nor messengers, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to
come, nor powers, {8:38} nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall
be able to separate us from the agape love of God, which is in Christ Yehsus
our Lord.
{N6)9} Romans Chapter Nine. {9:1} I say the truth in Christ, I lie not,
my conscience bearing witness with me in the Holy Spirit, {9:2} that I have
great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart. {9:3} For I could wish that I
myself were anathema from Christ for my brethren's sake, my kinsmen according
to the flesh: {9:4} who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, and the glory,
and the covenants, and the giving of the [written] law [through Moses], and the
service [of God], and the promises; {9:5} whose are the fathers, and of whom is
Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God blessed for ever.
Amen. {9:6} But [it is] not as though
the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all
{N6)10} Romans Chapter Ten. {10:1} Brethren, my heart's desire and my
supplication to God is for them, that they may be saved. {10:2} For I bear them
witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. {10:3}
For being ignorant of God's righteous works, and seeking to establish their
own, they did not subject themselves to the righteous works of God. {10:4} For
Christ is the end of the [written] law [through Moses] unto righteous works to
every one that believes. {10:5} For Moses writes that the man that does righteous works which is of the law shall
live thereby. {10:6} But the righteous works which is [by law] of faith said thus, Say not in your heart,
Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down:) {10:7} or, Who
shall descend into the abyss? (That is, to bring Christ up from the dead.)
{10:8} But what said it? The word is near you, in your mouth, and in your
heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach {10:9} because if you shall
confess with your mouth Yehsus [is] Lord, and shall believe in your heart that
God raised him from the dead, you shall be saved: {10:10} for with the heart
man believes unto righteous works; and with the mouth confession is made unto
salvation. {10:11} For the scripture said, Anyone who believes on him shall not
be put to shame. {10:12} For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek: for
the same [Lord] is Lord of all, and is rich unto all that call upon him:
{10:13} for, Anyone who shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
{10:14} How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how
shall they believe in him whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear
outside a preacher? {10:15} and how shall they preach, except they be sent?
even as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that bring glad
tidings of good things! {10:16} But they did not all hear to the glad tidings.
For Isaiah said, Lord, who has believed our report? {10:17} So belief [comes]
of hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ. {10:18} But I say, Did they not
hear? behold, verily, Their sound went out into all the earth, And their words
unto the ends of the world. {10:19}
But I say, Did
{N6)11} Romans Chapter Eleven. {11:1} I say then, Did God cast off his
people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the
tribe of Benjamin. {11:2} God did not cast off his people which he knew before.
Or know you not what the scripture said of Elijah? how he pleads with God
against
{N6)12} Romans Chapter Twelve. {12:1} I ask you therefore, brethren, by the
mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to
God, [which is] your spiritual service. {12:2} And be not fashioned according
to this world: but be you transformed by the renewing of your mind, and you may
prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God. {12:3} For I
say, through the grace that was given me, to every man that is among you, not
to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think as to
think soberly, according as God has dealt to each man a measure of faith.
{12:4} For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members have
not the same office: {12:5} so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and
severally members one of another. {12:6} And having gifts differing according
to the grace that was given to us, whether prophecy, [let us prophesy]
according to the proportion of our faith; {12:7} or ministry, [let us give ourselves]
to our ministry; or he that teaches, to his teaching; {12:8} or he that
exhorts, to his exhorting: he that gives, [let him do it] with liberality; he
that rules, with diligence; he that shows mercy, with cheerfulness'. {12:9} Let
agape love be outside hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which
is good. {12:10} In philo love of the brethren be tenderly affectionate one to
another; in honor preferring one another; {12:11} in diligence not slothful;
fervent in spirit; serving the Lord; {12:12} rejoicing in hope; patient in
tribulation; continuing steadfastly in prayer; {12:13} communicating to the
necessities of the Holy People; given to hospitality. {12:14} Bless them that
persecute you; bless, and curse not. {12:15} Rejoice with them that rejoice;
weep with them that weep. {12:16} Be of the same mind one toward another. Set
not your mind on high things, but condescend to things that are lowly. Be not
wise in your own conceits. {12:17} Render to no man evil for evil. Take thought
for things honorable in the sight of all men. {12:18} If it be possible, as
much as in you lies, be at peace with all men. {12:19} Avenge not yourselves,
agape beloved, but give place unto the wrath [of God]: for it is written,
Vengeance belongs unto me; I will recompense, said the Lord. {12:20} But if
your enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him to drink: for in so doing
you shall heap coals of fire upon his head. {12:21} Be not overcome of evil,
but overcome evil with good.
{N6)13} Romans Chapter Thirteen. {13:1} Let every soul be in subjection to
the higher powers: for there is no power but of God; and the [powers] that be
are ordained of God. {13:2} Therefore he that resists the power, withstands the
ordinance of God: and they that withstand shall receive to themselves judgment.
{13:3} For rulers are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. And would
you have no fear of the power? do that which is good, and you shall have praise
from the same: {13:4} for he is a minister of God to you for good. But if you
do that which is evil, be afraid; for he bears not the sword in vain: for he is
a minister of God, an avenger for wrath to him that does evil. {13:5} Therefore
[you] must needs be in subjection, not only because of the wrath, but also for
conscience' sake. {13:6} For this cause you pay tribute also; for they are
ministers of God's service, attending continually upon this very thing. {13:7}
Render to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute [is due]; custom to whom
custom; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor. {13:8} Owe no man anything,
save to agape love one another: for he that agape loves his neighbor has
fulfilled the law [through Moses]. {13:9} For this, you shall not commit
adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and if
there be any other commandment, it is summed up in this word, namely, you shall
agape love your neighbor as yourself. {13:10} Agape Love works no ill to his
neighbor: Agape love therefore is the fulfillment of the law [through faith].
{13:11} And this, knowing the season, that already it is time for you to awake
out of sleep: for now is salvation nearer to us than when we [first] believed.
{13:12} The night is far spent, and the day is at hand: let us therefore cast
off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. {13:13} Let us
walk becomingly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in
chambering and wantonness, not in strife and jealousy. {13:14} But put you on
the Lord Yehsus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to [fulfill] the
lusts [there].
{n6)14} Romans Chapter Fourteen. {14:1} But him that is weak in faith
receive you, [him, yet] not for decision of scruples. {14:2} One man has faith
to eat all things: but he that is weak eats herbs. {14:3} Let not him that eats
set at nothing him that eats not; and let not him that eats not judge him that
eats: for God has received him. {14:4} Who are you that judges the servant of
another? to his own lord he stands or falls. behold, he shall be made to stand;
for the Lord has power to make him stand. {14:5} One man esteems [holy] one day
above another: another esteems every day [alike]. Let each man be fully assured
in his own mind. {14:6} He that regards [holy] the day, regards it unto the
Lord: and he that eats, eats unto the Lord, for he gives God thanks; and he
that eats not, unto the Lord he eats not, and gives God thanks. {14:7} For none
of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself. {14:8} For whether we live,
we live unto the Lord; or whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live
therefore, or die, we are the Lord's. {14:9} For to this end Christ died and
lived [again], that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living. {14:10}
But you, why do you judge your brother? or you again, why do you set at nothing
your brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment-seat of God. {14:11}
For it is written, As I live, said the Lord, to me every knee shall bow, And
every tongue shall confess to God.
{14:12} So then each one of us shall give account of himself to God.
{14:13} Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge you this
rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother's way, or an occasion
of falling. {14:14} I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Yehsus, that nothing
is unclean of itself: save that to him who accounts anything to be unclean, to
him it is unclean. {14:15} For if because of meat your brother is grieved, you
walk no longer in agape love. Destroy not with your meat him for whom Christ
died. {14:16} Let not then your good be evil spoken of: {14:17} for the
{N6)15} Romans Chapter Fifteen. {15:1} Now we that are strong ought to bear
the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. {15:2} Let each one
of us please his neighbor for that which is good, unto edifying. {15:3} For
Christ also pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them
that reproached you fell upon me. {15:4} For what ever things were written
aforetime were written for our learning, that through patience and through
comfort of the scriptures we might have hope. {15:5} Now the God of patience
and of comfort grant you to be of the same mind one with another according to
Christ Yehsus: {15:6} that with one accord you may with one mouth glorify the
God and Father of our Lord Yehsus Christ. {15:7} Therefore receive you one
another, even as Christ also received you, to the glory of God. {15:8} For I
say that Christ has been made a minister of the circumcision for the truth of
God, that he might confirm the promises [given] unto the fathers, {15:9} and
that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it is written, Therefore
will I give praise unto you among the Gentiles, And sing unto your name. {15:10} And again he said, Rejoice, you
Gentiles, with his people. {15:11}
And again, Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles; And let all the peoples praise
him. {15:12} And again, Isaiah said, There
shall be the root of Jesse, And he that arises to rule over the Gentiles; On
him shall the Gentiles hope. {15:13}
Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may
abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit. {15:14} And I myself also am
persuaded of you, my brethren, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled
with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another. {15:15} But I write the
more boldly unto you in some measure, as putting you again in remembrance,
because of the grace that was given me of God, {15:16} that I should be a minister
of Christ Yehsus unto the Gentiles, ministering the good news of God, that the
offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, being sanctified by the
Holy Spirit. {15:17} I have therefore my glorifying in Christ Yehsus in things
pertaining to God. {15:18} For I will not dare to speak of any things save
those which Christ wrought through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by
word and deed, {15:19} in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the
Holy Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and round about even unto Illyricum, I
have fully preached the good news of Christ; {15:20} behold, making it my aim
so to preach the good news, not where Christ was [already] named, that I might
not build upon another man's foundation; {15:21} but, as it is written, They
shall see, to whom no tidings of him came, And they who have not heard shall
understand. {15:22} Therefore also I
was hindered these many times from coming to you: {15:23} but now, having no
more any place in these regions, and having these many years a longing to come
unto you, {15:24} when so ever I go unto Spain (for I hope to see you in my
journey, and to be brought on my way there by you, if first in some measure I
shall have been satisfied with your company)-- {15:25} but now, I [say], I go
unto Jerusalem, ministering unto the Holy People. {15:26} For it has been the
good pleasure of
{N6)16}
Romans Sixteen. {16:1} I commend
unto you Phoebe our sister, who is a servant of the Ekklesia that is at
Cenchreae: {16:2} that you receive her in the Lord, worthily of the Holy
People, and that you assist her in what ever matter she may have need of you:
for she herself also has been a helper of many, and of mine own self. {16:3}
Salute Prisca and Aquila my fellow-workers in Christ Yehsus, {16:4} who for my
life laid down their own necks; unto whom not only I give thanks, but also all
the Ekklesias of the Gentiles: {16:5} and [salute] the Ekklesia that is in
their house. Salute Epaenetus my agape beloved, who is the first-fruits of
{N7)1} First Corinthians Chapter One.. The First Epistle of the Apostle Paul to the
Corinthians. {1:1} Paul, called [to
be] an apostle of Yehsus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our
brother, {1:2} unto the Ekklesia of God which is at Corinth, [even] them that
are sanctified in Christ Yehsus, called [to be] Holy People, with all that call
upon the name of our Lord Yehsus Christ in every place, their [Lord] and ours:
{1:3} Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Yehsus Christ.
{1:4} I thank my God always concerning you, for the grace of God which was
given you in Christ Yehsus; {1:5} that in everything you were enriched in him,
in all utterance and all knowledge; {1:6} even as the testimony of Christ was
confirmed in you: {1:7} so that you come behind in no gift; waiting for the
revelation of our Lord Yehsus Christ; {1:8} who shall also confirm you unto the
end, [that you be] un-reprove able in the day of our Lord Yehsus Christ. {1:9}
God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son Yehsus
Christ our Lord. {1:10} Now I ask you, brethren, through the name of our Lord
Yehsus Christ, that you all speak the same thing and [that] there be no
divisions among you; but [that] you be perfected together in the same mind and
in the same judgment. {1:11} For it has been signified unto me concerning you,
my brethren, by them [that are of the household] of Chloe, that there are
contentions among you. {1:12} Now this I mean, that each one of you said, I am
of Paul; and I of Apollos: and I of Cephas; and I of Christ. {1:13} Is Christ
divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were you immersed [in water] into the
name of Paul? {1:14} I thank God that I immersed none of you, save Crispus and
Gaius; {1:15} lest any man should say that you were immersed [in water] into my
name. {1:16} And I immersed [in water] also the household of Stephanas:
besides, I know not whether I immersed any other. {1:17} For Christ sent me not
to immerse, but to preach the good news: not in wisdom of words, lest the cross
of Christ should be made void. {1:18} For the word of the cross is to them that
perish foolishness; but unto us who are saved it is the power of God. {1:19}
For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And the discernment
of the discerning will I bring to nothing.
{1:20} Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of
this world? has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? {1:21} For seeing
that in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom knew not God, it was
God's good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save them that
believe. {1:22} Seeing that Jews ask for signs, and Greeks seek after wisdom:
{1:23} but we preach Christ crucified, unto Jews a stumbling block, and unto
Gentiles foolishness; {1:24} but unto them that are called, both Jews and
Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. {1:25} Because the
foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than
men. {1:26} For behold your calling, brethren, that not many wise after the
flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, [are called]: {1:27} but God chose the
foolish things of the world, that he might put to shame them that are wise; and
God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things
that are strong; {1:28} and the base things of the world, and the things that
are despised, did God choose, [behold] and the things that are not, that he
might bring to nothing the things that are: {1:29} that no flesh should glory
before God. {1:30} But of him are you in Christ Yehsus, who was made unto us
wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption: {1:31}
that, according as it is written, He that glories, let him glory in the Lord.
{N7)2} First Corinthians Chapter Two. {2:1} And I, brethren, when I came unto you,
came not with Excellency of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the
testimony of God. {2:2} For I determined not to know anything among you, save
Yehsus Christ, and him crucified. {2:3} And I was with you in weakness, and in
fear, and in much trembling. {2:4} And my speech and my preaching were not in
persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
{2:5} that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power
of God. {2:6} We speak wisdom, however, among them that are full-grown: yet a
wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to
nothing: {2:7} but we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, [even] the [wisdom] that
has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds unto our glory: {2:8}
which none of the rulers of this world has known: for had they known it, they
would not have crucified the Lord of glory: {2:9} but as it is written, Things
which eye saw not, and ear heard not, And [which] entered not into the heart of
man, What ever things God prepared for them that agape love him. {2:10} But unto us God revealed [them]
through the Spirit: for the Spirit searches all things, behold, the deep things
of God. {2:11} For who among men knows the things of a man, save the spirit of
the man, which is in him? even so the things of God none knows, save the Spirit
of God. {2:12} But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit
which is from God; that we might know the things that were freely given to us
of God. {2:13} Which things also we speak, not in words which man's wisdom
teaches, but which the Spirit teaches; combining spiritual things with
spiritual [words]. {2:14} Now the natural man receives not the things of the
Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him; and he cannot know them,
because they are spiritually judged. {2:15} But he that is spiritual judges all
things, and he himself is judged of no man. {2:16} For who has known the mind
of the Lord, that he should instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
{N7)3} First Corinthians Chapter Three. {3:1} And I, brethren, could not speak unto
you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, as unto babes in Christ. {3:2} I fed
you with milk, not with meat; for you were not yet able [to bear it]: No, not
even now are you able; {3:3} for you are yet carnal: for whereas there is among
you jealousy and strife, are you not carnal, and do you not walk after the
manner of men? {3:4} For when one said, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos;
are you not men? {3:5} What then is Apollos? and what is Paul? Ministers
through whom you believed; and each as the Lord gave to him. {3:6} I planted,
Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. {3:7} So then neither is he that
plants anything, neither he that waters; but God that gives the increase. {3:8}
Now he that plants and he that waters are one: but each shall receive his own
reward according to his own labor. {3:9} For we are God's fellow-workers: you
are God's husbandry, God's building. {3:10} According to the grace of God which
was given unto me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation; and another
builds thereon. But let each man take heed how he builds thereon. {3:11} For
other foundation can no man lay than that which is laid, which is Yehsus
Christ. {3:12} But if any man builds on the foundation gold, silver, costly
stones, wood, hay, stubble; {3:13} each man's work shall be made manifest: for
the day shall declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself
shall prove each man's work of what sort it is. {3:14} If any man's work shall
abide which he built thereon, he shall receive a reward. {3:15} If any man's
work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet
so as through fire. {3:16} Know you not that you are a
{N7)4}
First Corinthians Chapter Four.
{4:1} Let a man so account of us, as of ministers of Christ, and
stewards of the mysteries of God. {4:2} Here, furthermore, it is required in
stewards, that a man be found faithful. {4:3} But with me it is a very small
thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment: behold, I judge not
mine own self. {4:4} For I know nothing against myself; yet am I not hereby
justified: but he that judges me is the Lord. {4:5} Therefore judge nothing
before the time, until the Lord come, who will both bring to light the hidden
things of darkness, and make manifest the counsels of the hearts; and then
shall each man have his praise from God. {4:6} Now these things, brethren, I
have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes; that in us
you might learn not [to go] beyond the things which are written; that no one of
you be puffed up for the one against the other. {4:7} For who makes you to
differ? and what have you that you did not receive? but if you did receive it,
why do you glory as if you had not received it? {4:8} Already are you filled,
already you are become rich, you have come to reign outside us: behold and I
would that you did reign, that we also might reign with you. {4:9} For, I
think, God has set forth us the apostles last of all, as men doomed to death:
for we are made a spectacle unto the world, both to messengers and men. {4:10}
We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but
you are strong; you have glory, but we have dishonor. {4:11} Even unto this
present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and
have no certain dwelling-place; {4:12} and we toil, working with our own hands:
being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure; {4:13} being defamed, we
entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, the off scouring of all things,
even until now. {4:14} I write not these things to shame you, but to admonish
you as my agape beloved children. {4:15} For though you have ten thousand
tutors in Christ, yet [have you] not many fathers; for in Christ Yehsus I begot
you through the good news. {4:16} I ask you therefore, be you imitators of me.
{4:17} For this cause have I sent unto you Timothy, who is my agape beloved and
faithful child in the Lord, who shall put you in remembrance of my ways which
are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every Ekklesia. {4:18} Now some
are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you. {4:19} But I will come to
you shortly, if the Lord will; and I will know, not the word of them that are
puffed up, but the power. {4:20} For the
{N7)5} First Corinthians Chapter Five. {5:1} It is actually reported that there is
fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the Gentiles,
that one [of you] has his father's wife. {5:2} And you are puffed up, and did
not rather grieve, that he that had done this deed might be taken away from
among you. {5:3} For I verily, being absent in body but present in spirit, have
already as though I were present judged him that has so wrought this thing,
{5:4} in the name of our Lord Yehsus, you being gathered together, and my
spirit, with the power of our Lord Yehsus, {5:5} to deliver such a one unto
Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day
of the Lord Yehsus. {5:6} Your glorying is not good. Know you not that a little
leaven leavening the whole lump? {5:7} Purge out the old leaven, that you may
be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For our Passover also has been
sacrificed, [even] Christ: {5:8} Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old
leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the
unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. {5:9} I wrote unto you in my epistle
to have no company with fornicators; {5:10} not at all [meaning] with the
fornicators of this world, or with the covetous and extortioners, or with
idolaters; for then must you needs go out of the world: {5:11} but as it is, I
wrote unto you not to keep company, if any man that is named a brother be a
fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner;
with such a one no, not to eat. {5:12} For what have I to do with judging them
that are outside? Do not you judge them that are within? {5:13} But them that
are outside God judges. Put away the wicked man from among yourselves.
{N7)6} First Corinthians Chapter Six. {6:1} Dare any of you, having a matter
against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the Holy
People? {6:2} Or know you not that the Holy People shall judge the world? and
if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
{6:3} Know you not that we shall judge messengers? how much more, things that
pertain to this life? {6:4} If then you have to judge things pertaining to this
life, do you set them to judge the Ekklesia those that are the unbelievers?
{6:5} I say [this] to move you to shame. What, cannot there be [found] among
you one wise man who shall be able to decide between his brethren, {6:6} but
brother goes to law [of the unrighteous] with brother, and that before unbelievers?
{6:7} No, already it is altogether a defect in you, that you have lawsuits one
with another. Why not rather take wrong? why not rather be defrauded? {6:8} No,
but you yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that [your] brethren. {6:9} Or
know you not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the
{N7)7} First Corinthians Chapter
Seven. {7:1} Now concerning the things
where you wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. {7:2} But, because
of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her
own husband. {7:3} Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise
also the wife unto the husband. {7:4} The wife has not power over her own body,
but the husband: and likewise also the husband has not power over his own body,
but the wife. {7:5} Defraud you not one the other, except it be by consent for
a season, that you may give yourselves unto prayer, and may be together again,
that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency. {7:6} But this I say by
way of concession, not of commandment. {7:7} yet I would that all men were even
as I myself. Howbeit each man has his own gift from God, one after this manner,
and another after that. {7:8} But I say to the unmarried and to widows, It is
good for them if they abide even as I. {7:9} But if they have not continence,
let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn. {7:10} But unto the
married I give charge, [behold] not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not
from her husband {7:11} (but should she depart, let her remain unmarried, or
else be reconciled to her husband); and that the husband leave not his wife.
{7:12} But to the rest say I, not the Lord: If any brother has an unbelieving
wife, and she is content to dwell with him, let him not leave her. {7:13} And
the woman that has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to dwell with her,
let her not leave her husband. {7:14} For the unbelieving husband is sanctified
in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the brother: else were
your children unclean; but now are they holy. {7:15} yet if the unbelieving
depart, let him depart: the brother or the sister is not under bondage in such
[cases]: but God has called us in peace. {7:16} For how know you, O wife,
whether you shall save your husband? Or how know you, O husband, whether you
shall save your wife? {7:17} Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as
God has called each, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all the Ekklesias
{7:18} Was any man called being circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised.
Has any been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised. {7:19}
Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing; but walk by keeping of
the commandments of God. {7:20} Let each man abide in that calling wherein he
was called. {7:21} Was you called being a bondservant? Care not for it: No,
even if you Can become free, use [it] rather. {7:22} For he that was called in
the Lord being a bondservant, is the Lord's freedman: likewise he that was
called being free, is Christ's bondservant. {7:23} you were bought with a
price; become not bondservants of men. {7:24} Brethren, let each man, wherein
he was called, therein abide with God. {7:25} Now concerning virgins I have no
commandment of the Lord: but I give my judgment, as one that has obtained mercy
of the Lord to be trustworthy. {7:26} I think therefore that this is good by
reason of the distress that is upon us, [namely,] that it is good for a man to
be as he is. {7:27} are you bound unto a wife? Seek not to be loosed. are you
loosed from a wife? Seek not a wife. {7:28} But should you marry, you have not
sinned; and if a virgin marry, she has not sinned. yet such shall have
tribulation in the flesh: and I would spare you. {7:29} But this I say,
brethren, the time is shortened, that from here on both those that have wives
may be as though they had none; {7:30} and those that weep, as though they wept
not; and those that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and those that buy,
as though they possessed not; {7:31} and those that use the world, as not using
it to the full: for the fashion of this world passes away. {7:32} But I would
have you to be free from cares. He that is unmarried is careful for the things
of the Lord, how he may please the Lord: {7:33} but he that is married is careful
for the things of the world, how he may please his wife, {7:34} and is divided.
[So] also the woman that is unmarried and the virgin is careful for the things
of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is
married is careful for the things of the world, how she may please her
husband. {7:35} [because of present
distress] But I say this for your own profit; not that I may set a snare before
you, but for what is seemly, and waiting on the Lord without distraction.
{7:36} But if any one think that he behaves unseemly to his virginity, if he be
beyond the flower of his age, and so it must be, let him do what he will, he
does not sin: let them marry. {7:37} [because of present distress] But he who stands firm in his heart, having
no need, but has authority over his own will, and has judged this in his heart
to keep his own virginity, he does well. {7:38}
So that he that marries, himself does well; and he that does not marry
[because of present distress] does better.
{7:39} A wife is bound for so long
time as her husband lives; but if the husband be dead, she is free to be
married to whom she will; only in the Lord. {7:40} But she is happier if she
abide as she is, after my judgment: and I think that I also have the Spirit of
God.
{N7)8} First Corinthians Chapter Eight. {8:1} Now concerning things sacrificed to
idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but agape love
edifies. {8:2} If any man think that he knows anything, he knows not yet as he
ought to know; {8:3} but if any man agape loves God, the same is known by him.
{8:4} Concerning therefore the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know
that no idol is [anything] in the world, and that there is no God but one.
{8:5} For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or on earth;
as there are gods many, and lords many; {8:6} yet to us there is one God, the
Father, of whom are all things, and we unto him; and one Lord, Yehsus Christ,
through whom are all things, and we through him. {8:7} Howbeit there is not in
all men that knowledge: but some, being used until now to the idol, eat as [of]
a thing sacrificed to an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.
{8:8} But food will not commend us to God: neither, if we eat not, are we the
worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better. {8:9} But take heed lest by any means
this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak. {8:10} For if a man
see you who have knowledge sitting at meat in an idol's temple, will not his
conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?
{8:11} For through your knowledge he that is weak perishes, the brother for
whose sake Christ died. {8:12} And thus, sinning against the brethren, and
wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ. {8:13}
Therefore, if meat causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no flesh for
evermore, that I cause not my brother to stumble.
{N7)9} First Corinthians Chapter
Nine. {9:1} Am I not free? Am I not an
apostle? Have I not seen Yehsus our Lord? Are not you my work in the Lord?
{9:2} If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for the seal
of mine apostleship are you in the Lord. {9:3} My defense to them that examine
me is this. {9:4} Have we no right to eat and to drink? {9:5} Have we no right
to lead about a wife that is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and
the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas? {9:6} Or I only and Barnabas, have we not
a right to forbear working? {9:7} What soldier ever serves at his own charges?
who plants a vineyard, and eats not the fruit there? Or who feeds a flock, and
eats not of the milk of the flock? {9:8} Do I speak these things after the
manner of men? or said not the [written] law [through Moses] also the same?
{9:9} For it is written in the law of Moses, you shall not muzzle the ox when
he treads out the corn. Is it for the oxen that God cares, {9:10} or said he it
assuredly for our sake? behold, for our sake it was written: because he that
plows ought to plow in hope, and he that threshes, [to thresh] in hope of
partaking. {9:11} If we sowed unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter
if we shall reap your carnal things? {9:12} If others partake of [this] right
over you, do not we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right; but we
bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the good news of Christ.
{9:13} Know you not that they that minister about sacred things eat [of] the
things of the temple, [and] they that wait upon the altar have their portion with
the altar? {9:14} Even so did the Lord ordain that they that proclaim the good
news should live of the good news. {9:15} But I have used none of these things:
and I write not these things that it may be so done in my case; for [it were]
good for me rather to die, than that any man should make my glorifying void.
{9:16} For if I preach the
good news, I have nothing to glory of; for necessity is laid upon me; for a
curse is unto me, if I preach not the good news. {9:17} For if I do this of
mine own will, I have a reward: but if not of mine own will, I have a
stewardship entrusted to me. {9:18} What then is my reward? That, when I preach
the good news, I may make the good news outside charge, so as not to use to the
full my right in the good news. {9:19} For though I was free from all [men,] I
brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more. {9:20} And to
the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to them that are under the
law [though Moses], as under the law, not being myself under the law [written
through Moses] to gain them that are under the law [written through Moses];
{9:21} to them that are outside law [written through Moses] , as outside law,
not being outside law to God, but under law to Christ [now being written], that
I might gain them that are outside law [of Christ]. {9:22} To the weak I became
weak, that I might gain the weak: I am become all things to all men, that I may
by all means save some. {9:23} And I do all things for the good news's sake,
that I may be a joint partaker there. {9:24} Know you not that they that run in
a race run all, but one receives the prize? Even so run; that you may attain.
{9:25} And every man that strives in the games exercises self-control in all
things. Now they [do it] to receive a corruptible crown; but we an
incorruptible. {9:26} I therefore so run, as not uncertainly; so fight I, as
not beating the air: {9:27} but I buffet my body, and bring it into slavery:
lest by any means, after that I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
{N7)10} First Corinthians Chapter Ten. {10:1} For I would not, brethren, have you
ignorant, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the
sea; {10:2} and were all immersed unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
{10:3} and did all eat the same spiritual food; {10:4} and did all drink the
same spiritual drink: for they drank of the spiritual, the unconquerable
mountain fortress [Petra] that followed
them: and the Petra [the unconquerable mountain fortress] was Christ. {10:5}
Howbeit with most of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in
the wilderness. {10:6} Now these things were our examples, to the intent we
should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. {10:7} Neither be you
idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat
and drink, and rose up to play. {10:8} Neither let us commit fornication, as
some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. {10:9}
Neither let us make trial of the Lord, as some of them made trial, and perished
by the serpents. {10:10} Neither murmur you, as some of them murmured, and
perished by the destroyer. {10:11} Now these things happened unto them by way
of example; and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the
ages are come. {10:12} So let him that thinks he stands take heed lest he fall
[and also perish by the destroyer]. {10:13} There has no temptation taken you
but such as man can bear: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be
tempted above that you are able; but will with the temptation make also the way
of escape, that you may be able to endure it. {10:14} Therefore, my agape
beloved, flee from idolatry. {10:15} I speak as to wise men; judge you what I
say. {10:16} The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a communion of the
blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a communion of the body of
Christ? {10:17} seeing that we, who are many, are one bread, one body: for we
are all partake of the one bread. {10:18} Behold
{N7)11} First Corinthians Chapter
Eleven. {11:1} Be you imitators of me,
even as I also am of Christ. {11:2} Now I praise you that you remember me in
all things, and hold fast the instructions, even as I delivered them to you.
{11:3} But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the
head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God. {11:4} Every man
praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonors his head. {11:5} But
every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled dishonors her head; for
it is one and the same thing as if she were shaven. {11:6} For if a woman is
not veiled, let her also be shorn: but if it is a shame to a woman to be shorn
or shaven, let her be veiled. {11:7} For a man indeed ought not to have his
head veiled, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is
the glory of the man. {11:8} For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of
the man: {11:9} for neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman
for the man: {11:10} for this cause ought the woman to have [a sign of]
authority on her head, because of the messengers. {11:11} Nevertheless, neither
is the woman outside the man, nor the man outside the woman, in the Lord.
{11:12} For as the woman is of the man, so is the man also by the woman; but
all things are of God. {11:13} Judge you in yourselves: is it seemly that a
woman pray unto God unveiled? {11:14} Does not even nature itself teach you,
that, if a man have long hair, it is a dishonor to him? {11:15} But if a woman
have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her [long] hair is given her for a
[veil or a] covering. {11:16} But if any man seems to be contentious, we have
no such custom, neither the Ekklesias of God.
{11:17} But in giving you this charge, I praise you not, that you come
together [it is] not for the better but for the worse. {11:18} For first of
all, when you come together [to deliberate] in the [court of the] Ekklesia, I
hear that divisions exist among you; and I partly believe it. {11:19} For there
must be also factions among you, that they that are approved may [through
deliberation] be made manifest among you. {11:20} Therefore when you assemble
yourselves together in one place, it is not possible to eat [what you call] a
"Lord's supper": {11:21} for in your eating each one takes before
[other] his own supper; and one is hungry, and another is drunk. {11:22} What,
have you not houses to eat and drink? or despise you the Ekklesia of God, and
put them to shame that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you?
In this I praise you not.
{11:23} For I received of the Lord that
which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Yehsus in the night in which he
was betrayed took bread; {11:24} and when he had given thanks, he brake it, and
said, This is my body, which for you is: this [to] do in remembrance of me.
{11:25} In like manner also the cup, after supper, saying, This cup is the new
covenant in my blood: this do, at the time you [are to] drink [it], in
remembrance of me. {11:26} For when ever you eat this bread, and drink the cup,
you reenact [to teach] the Lord's death till he come. {11:27} Therefore anyone
who shall eat the bread or drink the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner,
shall be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord. {11:28} But let a man prove
himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup. {11:29} For he
that eats and drinks [in an unworthy manner], eats and drinks judgment unto himself, if he not [reenact to] show
distinctly [truth in the death and resurrection] of the body. {11:30} For this
cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep. {11:31} But if
we examine self [in worship for right or wrong] we should not be judged.
{11:32} But when we are judged, we are chasten of the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world. {11:33} Therefore,
my brethren, when you come together to eat, wait one for another. {11:34} If
any man is hungry, let him eat at home; that your coming together be not unto
judgment. And the rest will I set in order when so ever I come.
{N7)12} First Corinthians Chapter
Twelve. {12:1} Now concerning spiritual
[gifts], brethren, I would not have you ignorant. {12:2} you know that when you
were Gentiles [you were] led away unto those dumb idols, how so ever you might
led. {12:3} Therefore I make known unto you, that no man speaking in the Spirit
of God said, Yehsus is anathema; and no man can say, Yehsus is Lord, but in the
Holy Spirit. {12:4} Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
{12:5} And there are diversities of ministrations, and the same Lord. {12:6}
And there are diversities of workings, but the same God, who works all things
in all. {12:7} But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit to
profit withal. {12:8} For to one is given through the Spirit the word of
wisdom; and to another the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit:
{12:9} to another faith, in the same Spirit; and to another gifts of healings,
in the one Spirit; {12:10} and to another workings of miracles; and to another
prophecy; and to another discerning of spirits; to another [divers] kinds of
tongues; and to another the interpretation of tongues: {12:11} but all these
works the one and the same Spirit, dividing to each one severally even as he
will. {12:12} For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members
of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ. {12:13} For in one
Spirit we were all immersed into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond
or free; and [we] were all made to drink of one Spirit. {12:14} For the body is
not one member, but many. {12:15} If the foot shall say, Because I am not the
hand, I am not of the body; it is not therefore not of the body. {12:16} And if
the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; it is not
therefore not of the body. {12:17} If the whole body were an eye, where were
the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? {12:18} But
now has God set the members each one of them in the body, even as it pleased
him. {12:19} And if they were all one member, where were the body? {12:20} But
now they are many members, but one body. {12:21} And the eye cannot say to the
hand, I have no need of you: or again the head to the feet, I have no need of
you. {12:22} No, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be more
feeble are necessary: {12:23} and those [parts] of the body, which we think to
be less honorable, upon these we bestow more abundant honor; and our uncomely
[parts] have more abundant comeliness; {12:24} whereas our comely [parts] have
no need: but God tempered the body together, giving more abundant honor to that
[part] which lacked; {12:25} that there should be no schism in the body; but
[that] the members should have the same care one for another. {12:26} And
whether one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; or [one] member is
honored, all the members rejoice with it. {12:27} Now you are the body of
Christ, and severally members there. {12:28} And God has set some in the
Ekklesia, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, then miracles,
then gifts of healings, helps, governments, [different] kinds of languages.
{12:29} Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all [workers
of] miracles? {12:30} have all gifts of healings? do all speak with [different]
languages? do all interpret? {12:31} But desire earnestly the greater gifts.
And furthermore a most excellent way show I unto you.
{N7)13}
First Corinthians Chapter Thirteen.
{13:1} If I speak with the language of men and of messengers, but have
not Agape love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. {13:2} And if
I have [the gift of] prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if
I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not agape love, I am
nothing. {13:3} And if I bestow all my goods to feed [the poor], and if I give
my body to be burned, but have not agape love, it profits me nothing. {13:4}
Agape love suffers long, [and agape] is kind; agape love envies not; agape love
vaunts not itself, is not puffed up, {13:5} agape love does not behave itself
unseemly, [agape] seeks not its own, is not provoked, [agape] takes not account
of evil; {13:6} [agape] rejoices not in [illegal] works against law, but
[agape] rejoices with the truth; {13:7} [agape]
bears all things, [agape] believes all things, [agape] hopes all things,
[agape] endures all things. {13:8} Agape Love never fails: but whether [there
be miracles of] prophecies, they shall be done away; whether [there be miracles
of different] Languages, they shall cease; whether [there be] miracles of
knowledge, it shall be done away. {13:9} For we know in part, and we prophesy
in part; {13:10} but when that which is perfect is come, that which is
[miracles] in part shall be done away. {13:11} When I was a child, I spoke as a
child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I
have put away childish things. {13:12} For now we see in a mirror, darkly; but
then face to face: now I know [through miracles of the Holy Spirit] in part; but then shall I know fully even as
also I was fully known. {13:13} But now abides faith, hope, agape love, these
three; and the greatest of these is the agape love.
{N7)14} First Corinthians Chapter
Fourteen. {14:1} Follow after agape
love; yet desire earnestly spiritual [gifts], but rather that you may prophesy.
{14:2} For he that speaks in a [unlearned] language speaks not unto men, but
unto God; for no man understands; but in the spirit he speaks mysteries. {14:3}
But he that prophesies speaks unto men edification, and exhortation, and
consolation. {14:4} He that speaks in a foreign language edifies himself; but
he that prophesies edifies the Ekklesia. {14:5} Now I would have you all speak
with foreign languages, but rather that you should prophesy: and greater is he
that prophesies than he that speaks with foreign languages, except he
interpret, that the Ekklesia may receive edifying. {14:6} But now, brethren, if
I come unto you speaking with foreign languages, what shall I profit you,
unless I speak to you either by way of revelation, or of knowledge, or of
prophesying, or of teaching? {14:7} Even things outside life, giving a voice,
whether pipe or harp, if they give not a distinction in the sounds, how shall
it be known what is piped or harped? {14:8} For if the trumpet give an
uncertain voice, who shall prepare himself for war? {14:9} So also you, unless
you utter by the tongue speech easy to be understood, how shall it be known
what is spoken? for you will be speaking into the air. {14:10} There are, it
may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and no [kind] is outside
signification. {14:11} If then I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be
to him that speaks a barbarian, and he that speaks will be a barbarian unto me.
{14:12} So also you, since you are zealous of spiritual [gifts], seek that you
may abound unto the edifying of the Ekklesia. {14:13} Therefore let him that
speaks in a foreign language pray that he may interpret. {14:14} For if I pray
in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful. {14:15} What
is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding
also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.
{14:16} Else if you bless with the spirit, how shall he that fills the place of
the unlearned say the Amen at your giving of thanks, seeing he knows not what
you say? {14:17} For you verily give thanks well, but the other is not edified.
{14:18} I thank God, I speak with [foreign] languages more than you all: {14:19}
howbeit in the Ekklesia I had rather speak five words with my understanding,
that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in a [foreign]
language. {14:20} Brethren, be not children in mind: yet in malice be you
babes, but in mind be men. {14:21} In the law [through the prophet Isaiah] it
is written, By men of strange languages and by the lips of strangers will I
speak unto this people; and not even thus will they hear me, said the Lord.
{14:22} Therefore [strange] languages are for a sign, not to them that believe,
but to the unbelieving: but prophesying [is for a sign], not to the
unbelieving, but to them that believe. {14:23} If therefore the whole Ekklesia
be assembled together and all speak with [foreign] languages, and there come in
men unlearned or unbelieving, will they not say that you are mad? {14:24} But
if all prophesy, and there come in one unbelieving or unlearned, he is reproved
by all, he is judged by all; {14:25} the secrets of his heart are made
manifest; and so he will fall down on his face and worship God, declaring that
God is among you indeed. {14:26} What is it then, brethren? When you come
together, each one has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has a foreign
language, has an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying. {14:27}
If any man speaks in a [foreign] language, [let it be] by two, or at the most
three, and [that] in turn; and let one interpret: {14:28} but if there be no
interpreter, let him keep silence in the Ekklesia; and let him speak to himself,
and to God. {14:29} And let the prophets speak [by] two or three, and let the
others discern. {14:30} But if a revelation be made to another sitting by, let
the first keep silence. {14:31} For you all can prophesy one by one, that all
may learn, and all may be exhorted; {14:32} and the spirits of the prophets are
subject to the prophets; {14:33} for God is not [a God] of confusion, but of
peace. As in all the Ekklesias of the Holy People, {14:34} let the women keep
silence in the Ekklesias: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but let
them be in subjection, as also said the [written] law [through Moses]. {14:35}
And if they would learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home: for
it is shameful for a woman to speak in the Ekklesia. {14:36} What? was it from
you that the word of God went forth? or came it unto you alone? {14:37} If any
man thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him take knowledge of the
things which I write unto you, that they are the commandment of the Lord.
{14:38} But if any man is ignorant, let him be ignorant. {14:39} Therefore, my
brethren, desire earnestly to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with foreign
Languages. {14:40} But let all things be done decently and in order.
{N7)15} First Corinthians Chapter
Fifteen. {15:1} Now I make known unto
you brethren, the good news which I preached unto you, which also you received,
wherein also you stand, {15:2} by which also you are saved, if you hold fast
the word which I preached unto you, except you believed in vain. {15:3} For I
delivered unto you first of all that which also I received: that Christ died
for our sins according to the scriptures; {15:4} and that he was buried; and
that he has been raised on the third day according to the scriptures; {15:5}
and that he appeared to Cephas [Petros]; then to the twelve; {15:6} then he
appeared to above five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part
remain until now, but some are fallen asleep; {15:7} then he appeared to James;
then to all the apostles; {15:8} and last of all, as to the [child] untimely
born, he appeared to me also. {15:9} For I am the least of the apostles, that
am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the Ekklesia of God.
{15:10} But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was
bestowed upon me was not found vain; but I labored more abundantly than they
all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. {15:11} Whether then
[it be] I or they, so we preach, and so you believed. {15:12} Now if Christ is
preached that he has been raised from the dead, how say some among you that
there is no resurrection of the dead? {15:13} But if there is no resurrection
of the dead, neither has Christ been raised: {15:14} and if Christ has not been
raised, then is our preaching vain, your faith also is vain. {15:15} behold, we
are found false witnesses of God; because we witnessed of God that he raised up
Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead are not raised. {15:16}
For if the dead are not raised, neither has Christ been raised: {15:17} and if
Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain; you are still in your sins.
{15:18} Then they also that are fallen asleep in Christ have perished. {15:19}
If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all men most pitiable.
{15:20} But now has Christ been raised from the dead, the first fruits of them
that are asleep. {15:21} For since by man [came] death, by man [came] also the
resurrection of the dead. {15:22} For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall
all be made alive. {15:23} But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits;
then they that are Christ's, at his coming. {15:24} Then [comes] the end, when
he shall deliver up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have
abolished all rule and all authority and power. {15:25} For he must reign, till
he has put all his enemies under his feet. {15:26} The last enemy that shall be
abolished is death. {15:27} For, He put all things in subjection under his
feet. But when he said, All things are put in subjection, it is evident that he
is excepted who did subject all things unto him. {15:28} And when all things
have been subjected unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subjected to
him that did subject all things unto him, that God may be all in all. {15:29}
Else what shall they do for being dead are they immersed [in water]? If the
dead are not raised at all, then for
them [that are the spiritual dead] why are they immersed [in water]? {15:30}
Why do we also stand in jeopardy every hour? {15:31} I protest by that
glorifying in you, brethren, which I have in Christ Yehsus our Lord, I die [a
death] daily. {15:32} If after the manner of men I fought with beasts at
{N7)16} First Corinthians Chapter Sixteen. {16:1} Now concerning the collection for
the Holy People, as I gave order to the Ekklesias of Galatia, so also do you.
{16:2} From the first [beginning of day One] of the [solar sevens of the]
Sabbaton let each one of you lay by him in store, as he may prosper, that no
collections be made when I come. {16:3} And when I arrive, whom so ever you
shall approve, them will I send with letters to carry your bounty unto
{N8)1} Second Corinthians Chapter One. The
Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians. {1:1} Paul, an apostle of Christ Yehsus
through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the Ekklesias of God
which is at Corinth, with all the Holy People that are in the whole of Achaia:
{1:2} Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Yehsus Christ.
{1:3} Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Yehsus Christ, the Father of
mercies and God of all comfort; {1:4} who comforts us in all our affliction,
that we may be able to comfort them that are in any affliction, through the
comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God. {1:5} For as the
sufferings of Christ abound unto us, even so our comfort also abounds through
Christ. {1:6} But whether we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and
salvation; or whether we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which works in
the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: {1:7} and our
hope for you is steadfast; knowing that, as you are partakers of the
sufferings, so also are you of the comfort. {1:8} For we would not have you
ignorant, brethren, concerning our affliction which befell [us] in Asia, that
we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, insomuch that we despaired
even of life: {1:9} behold, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within
ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raise the
dead: {1:10} who delivered us out of so great a death, and will deliver: on
whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us; {1:11} you also
helping together on our behalf by your supplication; that, for the gift
bestowed upon us by means of many, thanks may be given by many persons on our
behalf. {1:12} For our glorifying is this, the testimony of our conscience,
that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace
of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
{1:13} For we write no other things unto you, than what you read or even
acknowledge, and I hope you will acknowledge unto the end: {1:14} as also you
did acknowledge us in part, that we are your glorying, even as you also are
ours, in the day of our Lord Yehsus. {1:15} And in this confidence I was intent
to come first unto you, that you might have a second benefit; {1:16} and by you
to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come unto you, and of you
to be set forward on my journey unto Judea. {1:17} When I therefore was thus
intent, did I show fickleness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose
according to the flesh, that with me there should be the "yes yes"
and the "no no? {1:18} But as God is faithful, our word toward you is not
"yes" and "no." {1:19} For the Son of God, Yehsus Christ,
who was preached among you by us, [even] by me and Silvanus and Timothy, was
not behold and no, but in him is behold. {1:20} For how many so ever be the
promises of God, in him is the behold: Therefore also through him is the Amen,
unto the glory of God through us. {1:21} Now he that establishes us with you in
Christ, and anointed us, is God; {1:22} who also sealed us, and gave [us] the
earnest of the Spirit in our hearts. {1:23} But I call God for a witness upon
my soul, that to spare you I came not unto
{N8)2} Second Corinthians Chapter Two. {2:1} But I determined this for myself,
that I would not come again to you with sorrow. {2:2} For if I make you sorry,
who then is he that makes me glad but he that is made sorry by me? {2:3} And I
wrote this very thing, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of
whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is [the joy]
of you all. {2:4} For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto
you with many tears; not that you should be made sorry, but that you might know
the agape love that I have more abundantly unto you. {2:5} But if any has
caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow, not to me, but in part (that I press not
too heavily) to you all. {2:6} Sufficient to such a one is this punishment
which was [inflicted] by the many; {2:7} so that contrariwise you should rather
forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed
up with his overmuch sorrow. {2:8} Therefore I ask you to confirm [your] agape
love toward him. {2:9} For to this end also did I write, that I might know the
proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things. {2:10} But to whom you
forgive anything, I [forgive] also: for what I also have forgiven, if I have
forgiven anything, for your sakes [have I forgiven it] in the presence of
Christ; {2:11} that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan: for we are not
ignorant of his devices. {2:12} Now when I came to Troas for the good news of
Christ, and when a door was opened unto me in the Lord, {2:13} I had no relief
for my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but taking my leave of
them, I went forth into Macedonia. {2:14} But thanks be unto God, who always
leads us in triumph in Christ, and makes manifest through us the savor of his
knowledge in every place. {2:15} For we are a sweet savor of Christ unto God,
in them that are saved, and in them that perish; {2:16} to the one a savor from
death unto death; to the other a savor from life unto life. And who is
sufficient for these things? {2:17} For we are not as the many, corrupting the
word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, speak we
in Christ.
{N8)3} Second Corinthians Chapter Three. {3:1} Are we beginning again to commend
ourselves? or need we, as do some, epistles of commendation to you or from you?
{3:2} you are our epistle, written in our hearts, known and read of all men;
{3:3} being made manifest that you are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us,
written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of
stone, but in tables [that are] hearts of flesh. {3:4} And such confidence have
we through Christ to God-ward: {3:5} not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to
account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God; {3:6} who
also made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant; not of the letter, but
of the spirit: for the letter kills, but the spirit gives life. {3:7} But if
the ministration of death, written, [and] engraved on stones, came with glory,
so that the children of Israel could not look steadfastly upon the face of
Moses for the glory of his face; which [glory] was passing away: {3:8} how
shall not rather the ministration of the spirit be with glory? {3:9} For if the
ministration of condemnation has glory, much rather does the ministration of
righteousness exceed in glory. {3:10} For verily that which has been made
glorious has not been made glorious in this respect, by reason of the glory
that surpasses. {3:11} For if that which passes away [was] with glory, much
more that which remains[is] in glory. {3:12} Having therefore such a hope, we
use great boldness of speech, {3:13} and [are] not as Moses, [who] put a veil
upon his face, that the children of Israel should not look steadfastly on the
end of that which was passing away: {3:14} but their minds were hardened: for
until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains,
it not being revealed [to them] that it is done away in Christ. {3:15} But unto
this day, when so ever Moses is read, a veil lies upon their heart. {3:16} But
when so ever it shall turn to the Lord, the veil is taken away. {3:17} Now the
Lord is the Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, [there] is liberty.
{3:18} But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the
Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the
Lord the Spirit.
{N8)4} Second Corinthians Chapter
Four. {4:1} Therefore seeing we have
this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we faint not: {4:2} but we have
renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling
the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending
ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God. {4:3} And even if our
good news is veiled, it is veiled in them that perish: {4:4} in whom the god of
this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the good
news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn [upon
them]. {4:5} For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Yehsus as Lord, and
ourselves as your servants for Yehsus' sake. {4:6} Seeing it is God, that said,
Light shall shine out of darkness, who shined in our hearts, to give the light
of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Yehsus Christ. {4:7} But we
have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the
power may be of God, and not from ourselves; {4:8} [we are] pressed on every
side, yet not straitened; perplexed, yet not unto despair; {4:9} pursued, yet
not forsaken; smitten down, yet not destroyed; {4:10} always bearing about in
the body the dying of Yehsus, that the life also of Yehsus may be manifested in
our body. {4:11} For we who live are always delivered unto death for Yehsus'
sake, that the life also of Yehsus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.
{4:12} So then death works in us, but life in you. {4:13} But having the same
spirit of faith, according to that which is written, I believed, and therefore
did I speak; we also believe, and therefore also we speak; {4:14} knowing that
he that raised up the Lord Yehsus shall raise up us also with Yehsus, and shall
present us with you. {4:15} For all things [are] for your sakes, that the
grace, being multiplied through the many, may cause the thanksgiving to abound
unto the glory of God. {4:16} Therefore we faint not; but though our outward
man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day. {4:17} For our light
affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an
eternal weight of glory; {4:18} while we look not at the things which are seen,
but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are
temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
{N8)5} Second Corinthians Chapter
Five. {5:1} For we know that if the
earthly house of our tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God, a
house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens. {5:2} For verily in this we
groan, longing to be clothed upon with our habitation which is from heaven:
{5:3} if so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. {5:4} For indeed
we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened; not for that we would
be unclothed, but that we would be clothed upon, that what is mortal may be
swallowed up of life. {5:5} Now he that wrought us for this very thing is God,
who gave unto us the earnest of the Spirit. {5:6} Being therefore always of
good courage, and knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are
absent from the Lord {5:7} (for we walk by faith, not by sight); {5:8} we are
of good courage, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and
to be at home with the Lord. {5:9} Therefore also we make it our aim, whether
at home or absent, to be well-pleasing unto him. {5:10} For we must all be made
manifest before the judgment-seat of Christ; that each one may receive the
things [done] in the body, according to what he has done, whether [it be] good
or bad. {5:11} Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we
are made manifest unto God; and I hope that we are made manifest also in your
consciences. {5:12} We are not again commending ourselves unto you, but [speak]
as giving you occasion of glorying on our behalf, that you may have wherewith
to answer them that glory in appearance, and not in heart. {5:13} For whether
we are beside ourselves, it is unto God; or whether we are of sober mind, it is
unto you. {5:14} For the agape love of Christ constrains us; because we thus
judge, that one died for all, therefore all died; {5:15} and he died for all,
that they that live should no longer live unto themselves, but unto him who for
their sakes died and rose again. {5:16} Therefore we from here on know no man
after the flesh: even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we
know [him so] no more. {5:17} Therefore if any man is in Christ, [he is] a new
creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new. {5:18}
But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and
gave unto us the ministry of reconciliation; {5:19} to wit, that God was in
Christ reconciling the world unto himself, not reckoning unto them their
trespasses, and having committed unto us the word of reconciliation. {5:20} We
are ambassadors therefore on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by
us: we ask [you] on behalf of Christ, be you reconciled to God. {5:21} Him who
knew no sin he made [to be] sin on our behalf; that we might become the
righteousness of God in him.
{N8)6} Second Corinthians Chapter Six. {6:1} And working together [with him] we
entreat also that you receive not the grace of God in vain {6:2} (for he said,
At an acceptable time I heard unto you, And in a day of salvation did I succor
you: behold, now is the acceptable
time; behold, now is the day of salvation): {6:3} giving no occasion of
stumbling in anything, that our ministration be not blamed; {6:4} but in everything
commending ourselves, as ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in
necessities, in distresses, {6:5} in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in
labors, in watchings, in fastings; {6:6} in pureness, in knowledge, in long
suffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in agape love unfeigned, {6:7} in
the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armor of righteousness on the
right hand and on the left, {6:8} by glory and dishonor, by evil report and
good report; as deceivers, and [yet] true; {6:9} as unknown, and [yet] well known;
as dying, and behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; {6:10} as
sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having
nothing, and [yet] possessing all things. {6:11} Our mouth is open unto you, O
Corinthians, our heart is enlarged. {6:12} you are not straitened in us, but
you are straitened in your own affections. {6:13} Now for a recompense in like
kind (I speak as unto [my] children), be you also enlarged. {6:14} Be not
unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and
works against law? or what communion has light with darkness? {6:15} And what
concord has Christ with Belial? or what portion has a believer with an
unbeliever? {6:16} And what agreement has a
{N8)7} Second Corinthians Chapter
Seven. {7:1} Having therefore these
promises, agape beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh
and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. {7:2} Open your hearts to
us: we wronged no man, we corrupted no man, we took advantage of no man. {7:3}
I say it not to condemn [you]: for I have said before, that you are in our hearts
to die together and live together. {7:4} Great is my boldness of speech toward
you, great is my glorying on your behalf: I am filled with comfort, I overflow
with joy in all our affliction. {7:5} For even when we were come into
{N8)8}
Second Corinthians Chapter Eight.
{8:1} Furthermore, brethren, we make known to you the grace of God which
has been given in the Ekklesias of Macedonia; {8:2} how that in much proof of
affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the
riches of their liberality. {8:3} For according to their power, I bear witness,
behold and beyond their power, [they gave] of their own accord, {8:4} asking us
with much entreaty in regard of this grace and the fellowship in the
ministering to the Holy People: {8:5} and [this], not as we had hoped, but
first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of
God. {8:6} Insomuch that we exhorted Titus, that as he made a beginning before,
so he would also complete in you this grace also. {8:7} But as you abound in everything,
[in] faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and [in] all earnestness, and [in]
your agape love to us, [see] that you abound in this grace also. {8:8} I speak
not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the
sincerity also of your love. {8:9} For you know the grace of our Lord Yehsus
Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you
through his poverty might become rich. {8:10} And herein I give [my] judgment:
for this is expedient for you, who were the first to make a beginning a year
ago, not only to do, but also to will. {8:11} But now complete the doing also;
that as [there was] the readiness to will, so [there may be] the completion
also out of your ability. {8:12} For if the readiness is there, [it is]
acceptable according as [a man] has, not according as [he] has not. {8:13} For
[I say] not [this] that others may be eased [and] you distressed; {8:14} but by
equality: your abundance [being a supply] at this present time for their want,
that their abundance also may become [a supply] for your want; that there may
be equality: {8:15} as it is written, He that [gathered] much had nothing over;
and he that [gathered] little had no lack. {8:16} But thanks be to God, who
puts the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus. {8:17} For he
accepted indeed our exhortation; but being himself very earnest, he went forth
unto you of his own accord. {8:18} And we have sent together with him the
brother whose praise in the good news [is spread] through all the Ekklesias;
{8:19} and not only so, but who was also appointed by the Ekklesias to travel
with us in [the matter of] this grace, which is ministered by us to the glory
of the Lord, and [to show] our readiness: {8:20} Avoiding this, that any man should
blame us in [the matter of] this bounty which is ministered by us: {8:21} for
we take thought for things honorable, not only in the sight of the Lord, but
also in the sight of men. {8:22} and we have sent with them our brother, whom
we have many times proved earnest in many things, but now much more earnest, by
reason of the great confidence which [he has] in you. {8:23} Whether [any
inquire] about Titus, [he is] my partner and [my] fellow-worker to you-ward, or
our brethren, [they are] the messengers of the Ekklesias, [they are] the glory
of Christ. {8:24} Show you therefore unto them in the face of the Ekklesias the
proof of your agape love, and of our glorying on your behalf.
{N8)9} Second Corinthians Chapter Nine. {9:1} For as touching the ministering to the
Holy People, it is superfluous for me to write to you: {9:2} for I know your
readiness, of which I glory on your behalf to them of Macedonia, that Achaia
has been prepared for a year past; and your zeal has stirred up very many of
them. {9:3} But I have sent the brethren, that our glorying on your behalf may
not be made void in this respect; that, even as I said, you may be prepared:
{9:4} lest by any means, if there come with me any of Macedonia and find you
unprepared, we (that we say not, you) should be put to shame in this
confidence. {9:5} I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brethren,
that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your afore promised
bounty, that the same might be ready as a matter of bounty, and not of
extortion. {9:6} But this [I say,] He that sows sparingly shall reap also
sparingly; and he that sows bountifully shall reap also bountifully. {9:7}
[Let] each man [do] according as he has purposed in his heart: not grudgingly,
or of necessity: for God agape loves a cheerful giver. {9:8} And God is able to
make all grace abound unto you; that you, having always all sufficiency in
everything, may abound unto every good work: {9:9} as it is written, He has
scattered abroad, he has given to the poor; His righteousness abides for
ever. {9:10} And he that supplies
seed to the sower and bread for food, shall supply and multiply your seed for
sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness: {9:11} you being enriched
in everything unto all liberality, which works through us thanksgiving to God.
{9:12} For the ministration of this service not only fills up the measure of
the wants of the Holy People, but abounds also through many thanksgivings unto
God; {9:13} seeing that through the proving [of you] by this ministration they
glorify God for the obedience of your confession unto the good news of Christ,
and for the liberality of [your] contribution unto them and unto all; {9:14}
while they themselves also, with supplication on your behalf, long after you by
reason of the exceeding grace of God in you. {9:15} Thanks be to God for his
unspeakable gift.
{N8)10} Second Corinthians Ten. {10:1} Now I Paul myself entreat you by the
meekness and gentleness of Christ, I who in your presence am lowly among you,
but being absent am of good courage toward you: {10:2} behold, I ask you, that
I may not when present show courage with the confidence wherewith I count to be
bold against some, who count of us as if we walked according to the flesh.
{10:3} For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh
{10:4} (for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before
God to the casting down of strongholds), {10:5} casting down imaginations, and
every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing
every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ; {10:6} and being in
readiness to avenge all disobedience, when your obedience shall be made full.
{10:7} you look at the things that are before your face. If any man trusts in
himself that he is Christ's, let him consider this again with himself, that,
even as he is Christ's, so also are we. {10:8} For though I should glory
somewhat abundantly concerning our authority (which the Lord gave for building
you up, and not for casting you down), I shall not be put to shame: {10:9} that
I may not seem as if I would terrify you by my letters. {10:10} For, His
letters, they say, are weighty and strong; but his bodily presence is weak, and
his speech of no account. {10:11} Let such a one reckon this, that, what we are
in word by letters when we are absent, such [are we] also in deed when we are
present. {10:12} For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with
certain of them that commend themselves: but they themselves, measuring
themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are outside
understanding. {10:13} But we will not glory beyond [our] measure, but
according to the measure of the province which God apportioned to us as a
measure, to reach even unto you. {10:14} For we stretch not ourselves overmuch,
as though we reached not unto you: for we came even as far as unto you in the
good news of Christ: {10:15} not glorying beyond [our] measure, [that is,] in
other men's labors; but having hope that, as your faith grows, we shall be
magnified in you according to our province unto [further] abundance, {10:16} so
as to preach the good news even unto the parts beyond you, [and] not to glory
in another's province in regard of things ready to our hand. {10:17} But he
that boasts, let him boast [in] the Lord. {10:18} For not he that commends
himself is approved, but whom the Lord commends.
{N8)11} Second Corinthians Eleven. {11:1} Would that you could bear with me in
a little foolishness: but indeed you do bear with me. {11:2} For I am jealous
over you with a godly jealousy: for I espoused you to one husband, that I might
present you [as] a pure virgin to Christ. {11:3} But I fear, lest by any means,
as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, your minds should be corrupted
from the simplicity and the purity that is toward Christ. {11:4} For if he that
comes preaches another Yehsus, whom we did not preach, or [if] you receive a
different spirit, which you did not receive, or a different good news, which
you did not accept, you do well to bear with [him]. {11:5} For I reckon that I
am not a whit behind the very most chief apostles. {11:6} But though [I be]
rude in speech, yet [am I] not in knowledge; No, in every way have we made
[this] manifest unto you in all things. {11:7} Or did I commit a sin in abasing
myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you the good news of
God for nothing? {11:8} I robbed other Ekklesias, taking wages [of them] that I
might minister unto you; {11:9} and when I was present with you and was in
want, I was not a burden on any man; for the brethren, when they came from
Macedonia, supplied the measure of my want; and in everything I kept myself
from being burdensome unto you, and [so] will I keep [myself]. {11:10} As the
truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this glorying in the regions
of Achaia. {11:11} Therefore? because I agape love you not? God knows. {11:12}
But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them that
desire an occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.
{11:13} For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, fashioning
themselves into apostles of Christ. {11:14} And no marvel; for even Satan
fashions himself into an messenger of light. {11:15} It is no great thing
therefore if his ministers also fashion themselves as ministers of
righteousness, whose end shall be according to their works. {11:16} I say
again, let no man think me foolish; but if [you do], yet as foolish receive me,
that I also may glory a little. {11:17} That which I speak, I speak not after
the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of glorying. {11:18} Seeing
that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also. {11:19} For you bear with
the foolish gladly, being wise [yourselves]. {11:20} For you bear with a man,
if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you [captive], if
he exalts himself, if he smites you on the face. {11:21} I speak by way of
disparagement, as though we had been weak. yet where in so ever any is bold (I
speak in foolishness), I am bold also. {11:22} Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are
they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am
{N8)12} Second Corinthians Chapter
Twelve. {12:1} I must needs glory,
though it is not expedient; but I will come to visions and revelations of the
Lord. {12:2} I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I
know not; or whether out of the body, I know not; God knows), such a one caught
up even to the third heaven. {12:3} And I know such a man (whether in the body,
or apart from the body, I know not; God knows), {12:4} how that he was caught
up into
{N8)13} Second Corinthians Chapter
Thirteen. {13:1} This is the third time
I am coming to you. At the mouth of two witnesses or three shall every word
established. {13:2} I have said beforehand, and I do say beforehand, as when I
was present the second time, so now, being absent, to them that have sinned
heretofore, and to all the rest, that, if I come again, I will not spare;
{13:3} seeing that you seek a proof of Christ that speaks in me; who to
you-ward is not weak, but is powerful in you: {13:4} for he was crucified
through weakness, yet he lives through the power of God. For we also are weak
in him, but we shall live with him through the power of God toward you. {13:5}
Try your own selves, whether you are in the faith; prove your own selves. Or
know you not as to your own selves, that Yehsus Christ is in you? unless indeed
you be reprobate. {13:6} But I hope that you shall know that we are not
reprobate. {13:7} Now we pray to God that you do no evil; not that we may appear
approved, but that you may do that which is honorable, though we be as
reprobate. {13:8} For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
{13:9} For we rejoice, when we are weak, and you are strong: this we also pray
for, even your perfecting. {13:10} For this cause I write these things while
absent, that I may not when present deal sharply, according to the authority
which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for casting down. {13:11}
Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfected; be comforted; be of the same mind;
live in peace: and the God of agape love and peace shall be with you. {13:12}
Salute one another with a holy kiss. {13:13} All the Holy People salute you.
{13:14} The grace of the Lord Yehsus Christ, and the agape love of God, and the
communion of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.
{N9)1} Galatians Chapter One. The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the
Galatians {1:1} Paul, an apostle (not
from men, neither through man, but through Yehsus Christ, and God the Father,
who raised him from the dead), {1:2} and all the brethren that are with me,
unto the Ekklesias of Galatia: {1:3} Grace to you and peace from God the
Father, and our Lord Yehsus Christ, {1:4} who gave himself for our sins, that
he might deliver us out of this present evil world, according to the will of
our God and Father: {1:5} to whom [be] the glory for ever and ever. Amen. {1:6}
I marvel that you are so quickly removing from him that called you in the grace
of Christ unto a different good news; {1:7} which is not another [good news]
only there are some that trouble you, and would pervert the good news of
Christ. {1:8} But though we, or an messenger from heaven, should preach unto
you any good news other than that which we preached unto you, let him be
anathema. {1:9} As we have said before, so say I now again, if any man preach
unto you any good news other than that which you received, let him be anathema.
{1:10} For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? or am I striving to
please men? if I were still pleasing men, I should not be a slave of Christ.
{1:11} For I make known to you, brethren, as touching the good news which was
preached by me, that it is not after man. {1:12} For neither did I receive it
from man, nor was I taught it, but [it came to me] through revelation of Yehsus
Christ. {1:13} For you have heard of my manner of life in time past in the
Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the Ekklesia of God, and
made havoc of her: {1:14} and I advanced in the Jews' religion beyond many of
mine own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous for the
traditions of my fathers. {1:15} But when it was the good pleasure of God, who
separated me, [even] from my mother's womb, and called me through his grace,
{1:16} to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles;
immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood: {1:17} neither went I up to Jerusalem
to them that were apostles before me: but I went away into Arabia; and again I
returned unto Damascus. {1:18} Then after three years I went up to
{N9)2} Galatians Chapter Two. {2:1} Then after the space of fourteen years
I went up again to
{N9)3} Galatians Chapter Three. {3:1} O foolish Galatians, who did bewitch
you, before whose eyes Yehsus Christ was openly set forth crucified? {3:2} This
only would I learn from you. Received you the Spirit by the works of the
[written] law [through Moses], or by the hearing of faith? {3:3} Are you so
foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are you now perfected in the flesh? {3:4}
Did you suffer so many things in vain? if it be indeed in vain. {3:5} He
therefore that supplies to you the Spirit, and works miracles among you, [does
he it] by the works of the [written] law [through Moses], or by the hearing of
faith? {3:6} Even as Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for
righteousness. {3:7} Know therefore that they that are of faith, the same are
sons of Abraham. {3:8} And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the
Gentiles by faith, preached the good news beforehand unto Abraham, [saying,] In
you shall all the nations be blessed. {3:9} So then they that are of faith are
blessed with the faithful Abraham. {3:10} For as many as are of the works of
the [written] law [through Moses] are under a curse: for it is written, cursed
is every one who continues not in all things that are written in the book of
the [written] law [through Moses], to do them. {3:11} Now that no man is
justified by the [written] law [through Moses] before God, is evident: for, The
righteous shall live by [the written law of] faith; {3:12} and the [written]
law [through Moses] is not of faith; but, He that does them shall live in them.
{3:13} Christ redeemed us from the curse of the [written] law [through Moses],
having become a curse for us; for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangs
on a tree: {3:14} that upon the Gentiles might come the blessing of Abraham in
Christ Yehsus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
{3:15} Brethren, I speak after the manner of men: though it be but a man's
covenant, yet when it has been confirmed, no one makes it void, or adds
thereto. {3:16} Now to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed. He
said not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to your seed, which is
Christ. {3:17} Now this I say: A covenant confirmed beforehand by God, the
[written] law [through Moses], which came four hundred and thirty years after,
does not disannul, so as to make the promise of none effect. {3:18} For if the
inheritance is of the [ written] law [through Moses] it is no more the promise:
but God has granted it to Abraham by promise. {3:19} What then is the [written]
law [through Moses]? It was added because of transgression of the [written] law
[through Moses], till the seed should come to whom the promise has been made;
[and it was] ordained through messengers by the hand of a mediator. {3:20} Now
a mediator is not [a mediator] of one; but God is one. {3:21} Is the ]written]
law [through Moses] then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there
had been a given [though Moses] which
could make alive, verily [works of] righteousness would have been of the
[written] law [through Moses]. {3:22} But the scriptures shut up all things under sin, that the
promise by faith in Yehsus Christ might be given to them that believe. {3:23}
But before [the law of] faith came, we were kept in ward under the [written]
law [through Moses], shut up unto the [law of]
faith which should afterwards be revealed. {3:24} So that the [written] law
[through Moses] is become our tutor [to bring us] unto Christ, that we might be
justified by [the written law of] faith. {3:25} But now faith that is come, we
are no longer under a tutor. {3:26} For you are all sons of God, through faith,
in Christ Yehsus. {3:27} For as many of you as were immersed [in water] into
Christ did put on Christ. {3:28} There can be neither Jew nor Greek, there can
be neither bond nor free, there can be no male and female; for you all are one
[man] in Christ Yehsus. {3:29} And if you are Christ's, then are you Abraham's
seed, heirs according to promise.
{N9)4} Galatians Chapter Four. {4:1} But I say that so long as the heir is a
child, he differs nothing from a bond servant though he is lord of all; {4:2}
but is under guardians and stewards until the day appointed of the father.
{4:3} So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the
rudiments of the world: {4:4} but when the fullness of the time came, God sent
forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the [written] law [through Moses],
{4:5} that he might redeem them that were under the [written] law [through
Moses], that we might receive the adoption of sons. {4:6} And because you are
sons, God sent forth the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, Abba,
Father. {4:7} So that you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son,
then an heir through God. {4:8} Howbeit at that time, not knowing God, you were
in bondage to them that by nature are no gods: {4:9} but now that you have come
to know God, or rather to be known by God, how turn you back again to the weak
and beggarly rudiments, whereunto you desire to be in bondage over again?
{4:10} you observe days, and moons, and seasons, and years. {4:11} I am afraid
of you, lest by any means I have bestowed labor upon you in vain. {4:12} I ask
you, brethren, become as I [am], for I also [am become] as you [are]. you did
me no wrong: {4:13} but you know that because of an infirmity of the flesh I
preached the good news unto you the first time: {4:14} and that which was a
temptation to you in my flesh you despised not, nor rejected; but you received
me as an messenger of God, [even] as Christ Yehsus. {4:15} Where then is that
blessedness of yourselves? for I bear you witness, that, if possible, you would
have plucked out your eyes and given them to me. {4:16} So then am I become
your enemy, by telling you the truth? {4:17} They zealously seek you in no good
way; No, they desire to shut you out, that you may seek them. {4:18} But it is
good to be zealously sought in a good matter at all times, and not only when I
am present with you. {4:19} My little children, of whom I am again in travail
until Christ be formed in you-- {4:20} but I could wish to be present with you
now, and to change my tone; for I am perplexed about you. {4:21} Tell me, you
that desire to be under the [written] law [through Moses], do you not hear the
[written] law [through Moses]? {4:22} For it is written, that Abraham had two
sons, one by the handmaid, and one by the freewoman. {4:23} Howbeit the [son]
by the handmaid is born after the flesh; but the [son] by the freewoman [is
born] through promise. {4:24} Which things contain an allegory: for these
[women] are two covenants; one from mount Sinai, bearing children unto bondage,
which is Hagar. {4:25} Now this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia and answered to
the
{N9)5} Galatians Chapter Five. {5:1} For freedom did Christ set us free:
stand fast therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage. {5:2}
Behold, I Paul say unto you, that, if you receive circumcision, Christ will
profit you nothing. {5:3} behold, I testify again to every man that receives
circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole [written] law [through
Moses]. {5:4} you are severed from Christ, you would be justified by the
[written] law [through Moses]; you are fallen
away from grace. {5:5} For we through the Spirit by faith wait for the hope of
righteousness. {5:6} For in Christ Yehsus neither circumcision avails anything,
nor uncircumcision; but faith working through agape love. {5:7} you were
running well; who hindered you that you should not obey the truth? {5:8} This
persuasion [came] not of him that calls you. {5:9} A little leaven leavens the
whole lump. {5:10} I have confidence to you-ward in the Lord, that you will be
none otherwise intent: but he that troubles you shall bear his judgment, anyone
who he be. {5:11} But I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why am I
still persecuted? then has the stumbling-block of the cross been done away.
{5:12} I would that they that unsettle you would even go beyond circumcision.
{5:13} For you, brethren, were called for freedom; only [use] not your freedom
for an occasion to the flesh, but through agape love be servants one to
another. {5:14} For the whole [written] law [through Moses] is fulfilled in one
word, [even] in this: you shall agape love your neighbor as [you agape love]
yourself. {5:15} But if you bite and devour one another, take heed that you be
not consumed one of another. {5:16} But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you
shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. {5:17} For the flesh lust against the
Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are contrary the one to the
other; that you may not do the things that you would. {5:18} But if you are led
by the Spirit, you are not under the [written] law [through Moses]. {5:19} Now
the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]: fornication,
uncleanness, lasciviousness, {5:20} idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife,
jealousies, wraths, factions, divisions, parties, {5:21} envyings, drunkenness,
reveling, and such like; of which I forewarn you, even as I did forewarn you,
that they who practice such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. {5:22}
But the fruit of the Spirit is agape love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness,
goodness, faithfulness, {5:23} meekness, self-control; against such there is no
law. {5:24} And they that are of Christ Yehsus have crucified the flesh with
the passions and the lusts there. {5:25} If we live by the Spirit, by the
Spirit let us also walk. {5:26} Let us not become vainglorious, provoking one
another, envying one another.
{N9)6} Galatians Chapter Six. {6:1} Brethren, even if a man be overtaken
in any trespass, you who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of
gentleness; looking to yourself, lest you also be tempted. {6:2} Bear you one
another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. {6:3} For if a man thinks
himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself. {6:4} But let
each man prove his own work, and then shall he have his glorying in regard of
himself alone, and not of his neighbor. {6:5} For each man shall bear his own
burden. {6:6} But let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that
teaches in all good things. {6:7} Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for what
ever a man sows, that shall he also reap. {6:8} For he that sows unto his own
flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that sows unto the Spirit
shall of the Spirit reap eternal life. {6:9} And let us not be weary in
well-doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. {6:10} So then,
as we have opportunity, let us work that which is good toward all men, and
especially toward them that are of the household of the faith.
{6:11} See with how large
letters I write unto you with mine own hand. {6:12} As many as desire to make a
fair show in the flesh, they compel you to be circumcised; only that they may
not be persecuted for the cross of Christ. {6:13} For not even they who receive
circumcision do themselves keep the [written] law [though Moses]; but they
desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh. {6:14} But
far be it from me to glory, save in the cross of our Lord Yehsus Christ,
through which the world has been crucified unto me, and I unto the world.
{6:15} For neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new
creature. {6:16} And as many as shall walk by this rule, peace [be] upon them,
and mercy, and upon the Israel of God. {6:17} From here on, let no man trouble
me; for I bear branded on my body the marks of Yehsus. {6:18} The grace of our
Lord Yehsus Christ be with your spirit, brethren. Amen.
{N10)1} Ephesians Chapter One. The Epistle
to the Ephesians. By The Apostle Paul {1:1} Paul, an apostle of Christ Yehsus
through the will of God, to the Holy People that are at Ephesus, and the
faithful in Christ Yehsus: {1:2} Grace to you and peace from God our Father and
the Lord Yehsus Christ. {1:3} Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Yehsus
Christ, who hath blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly
[places] in Christ: {1:4} even as he chose us in him before the foundation of
the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in agape love:
{1:5} having foreordained us unto adoption as sons through Yehsus Christ unto
himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, {1:6} to the praise of the
glory of his grace, which he freely bestowed on us in the agape Beloved: {1:7}
in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our
trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, {1:8} which he made to abound
toward us in all wisdom and prudence, {1:9} making known unto us the mystery of
his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him {1:10} unto a
dispensation of the fullness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the
things in the heavens, and the things upon the earth; in him, [I say,] {1:11}
in whom also we were made a heritage, having been foreordained according to the
purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his will; {1:12} to
the end that we should be unto the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped
in Christ: {1:13} in whom you also, having heard the word of the truth, the good
news of your salvation,-- in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with
the Holy Spirit of promise, {1:14} which is an earnest of our inheritance, unto
the redemption of [God's] own possession, unto the praise of his glory. {1:15}
For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Yehsus which is
among you, and the agape love which [you show] toward all the Holy People,
{1:16} cease not to give thanks for you, making mention [of you] in my prayers;
{1:17} that the God of our Lord Yehsus Christ, the Father of glory, may give
unto you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him; {1:18}
having the eyes of your heart enlightened, that you may know what is the hope
of his calling, what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the Holy
People, {1:19} and what the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe,
according to that working of the strength of his might {1:20} which he wrought
in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and made him to sit at his right
hand in the heavenly [places], {1:21} far above all rule, and authority, and
power, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but
also in that which is to come: {1:22} and he put all things in subjection under
his feet, and gave him to be head over all things to the Ekklesia, {1:23} which
is his body, the fullness of him that fills all in all.
{N10)2} Ephesians 2. {2:1} And you [did he make alive,] when you
were dead through your trespasses and sins, {2:2} wherein you once walked
according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the powers of
the air, of the spirit that now works in the sons of disobedience; {2:3} among
whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the
flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the
rest:-- {2:4} but God, being rich in mercy, for his great agape love wherewith
he agape loved us, {2:5} even when we were dead through our trespasses, made
[past tense] us alive together with Christ [by grace have you been saved -past
tense], {2:6} and [in the past] raised us up with him, and made us to sit with
him in the heavenly [places], in Christ Yehsus: {2:7} that in the ages to come
[future tense] he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness
toward us in Christ Yehsus: {2:8} for by grace you [Ephesians] have been saved
[past tense] through [works of] faith; and that not of yourselves [past tense],
[faith that saves is ] the gift of God; {2:9} not of your [past] works [without
faith], that no man should glory. {2:10} For we are his workmanship, created in
Christ Yehsus for good works [through Faith, present tense], which God in the
past prepared that we should walk in them. {2:11} Therefore remember, that once
you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is
called Circumcision, in the flesh, made by hands; {2:12} that you [Gentiles]
were at that time [past] separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth
of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and
without God in the world. {2:13} But now in Christ Yehsus you [Gentiles] that
once were far off are [now] made close [together] in the blood of Christ. {2:14} For he is our
peace, who made both [the Jews and Gentiles as] one, and brake down the middle
wall of partition, {2:15} having abolished in the flesh the enmity, [even in]
the [written] law [through Moses] of commandments [contained] in ordinances;
that he might create in himself of the two one new man, [so] making peace;
{2:16} and might reconcile them both in one body unto God through the cross, having slain the
enmity thereby: {2:17} and he came and
preached peace to you that were far off, and peace to them that were near:
{2:18} for through him we both have our access in one Spirit unto the Father.
{2:19} So then you are no more strangers and aliens, but you are
fellow-citizens with the Holy People, and of the household of God, {2:20} being
built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Yehsus himself
being the chief corner stone; {2:21} in whom each several building, fitly
framed together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord; {2:22} in whom you also
are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.
{N10)3} Ephesians Chapter Three. {3:1} For this cause I Paul, the prisoner
of Christ Yehsus in behalf of you Gentiles,-- {3:2} if so be that you have
heard of the dispensation of that grace of God which was given me to you-ward;
{3:3} how that by revelation was made known unto me the mystery, as I wrote
before in few words, {3:4} whereby, when you read, you can perceive my
understanding in the mystery of Christ; {3:5} which in other generations was
not made known unto the sons of men, as it hath now been revealed unto his holy
apostles and prophets in the Spirit; {3:6} [to wit], that the Gentiles are
fellow-heirs, and fellow-members of the body, and fellow-partakers of the
promise in Christ Yehsus through the good news, {3:7} whereof I was made a
minister, according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me
according to the working of his power. {3:8} Unto me, who am less than the
least of all Holy People, was this grace given, to preach unto the Gentiles the
un-searchable riches of Christ; {3:9} and to make all men see what is the
dispensation of the mystery which for ages hath been hid in God who created all
things; {3:10} to the intent that now unto the principalities and the powers in
the heavenly [places] might be made known through the Ekklesia the manifold
wisdom of God, {3:11} according to the eternal purpose which he purposed in
Christ Yehsus our Lord: {3:12} in whom we have boldness and access in
confidence through our faith in him. {3:13} Therefore I ask that you may not
faint at my tribulations for you, which are your glory. {3:14} For this cause I
bow my knees unto the Father, {3:15} from whom every family in heaven and on
earth is named, {3:16} that he would grant you, according to the riches of his
glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward
man; {3:17} that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that
you, being rooted and grounded in agape love, {3:18} may be strong to apprehend
with all the Holy People what is the breadth and length and height and depth,
{3:19} and to know the agape love of Christ which passes knowledge, that you
may be filled unto all the fullness of God. {3:20} Now unto him that is able to
do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power
that works in us, {3:21} unto him [be] the glory in the Ekklesia and in Christ Yehsus
unto all generations for ever and ever. Amen.
{N10)4} Ephesians Chapter Four. {4:1} I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord,
ask you to walk worthily of the calling wherewith you were called, {4:2} with
all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in agape
love; {4:3} giving diligence to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of
peace. {4:4} [There is] one body, and one Spirit, even as also you were called
in one hope of your calling; {4:5} one Lord, one faith, one immersion [in
water], {4:6} one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and
in all. {4:7} But unto each one of us was the grace given according to the
measure of the gift of Christ. {4:8} Therefore he said, When he ascended on
high, he led captivity captive, And gave gifts unto men. {4:9} (Now this, He
ascended, what is it but that he also descended into the lowest parts of the
earth? {4:10} He that descended is the same also that ascended far above all
the heavens, that he might fill all things.) {4:11} And he gave some [to be]
apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and
teachers; {4:12} for the perfecting of the Holy People, unto the work of
ministering, unto the edifying of the body of Christ: {4:13} till we all attain
unto the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a
full grown man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ:
{4:14} that we may be no longer children, tossed to and fro and carried about
with every wind of instructions [they claim to be from God], by the sleight of
men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error; {4:15} but speaking truth in
agape love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, [even]
Christ; {4:16} from whom all the body fitly framed and knit together through that
which every joint supplies, according to the working in [due] measure of each
individual part, makes the increase of the body unto the building up of itself
in agape love. {4:17} This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you
no longer walk as the Gentiles also walk, in the vanity of their mind, {4:18}
being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because
of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their heart;
{4:19} who being past feeling gave themselves up to lasciviousness, to work all
uncleanness with greediness. {4:20} But you did not so learn Christ; {4:21} if
so be that you heard him, and were taught in him, even as truth is in Yehsus:
{4:22} that you put away, as concerning your former manner of life, the old
man, that waxes corrupt after the lusts of deceit; {4:23} and that you be
renewed in the spirit of your mind, {4:24} and put on the new man, that after
God hath been created in righteousness and holiness of truth. {4:25} Therefore,
putting away falsehood, speak you truth each one with his neighbor: for we are
members one of another. {4:26} Let not be angry and sin: let not the sun go
down upon your wrath: {4:27} neither give place to the devil. {4:28} Let him
that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his hands the
thing that is good, that he may have whereof to give to him that hath need.
{4:29} Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for
edifying as the need may be, that it may give grace to them that hear. {4:30}
And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed unto the day of
redemption. {4:31} Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and
railing, be put away from you, with all malice: {4:32} and be you kind one to
another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ
forgave you.
{N10)5} Ephesians Chapter Five. {5:1} Be you therefore imitators of God, as
agape beloved children; {5:2} and walk in agape love, even as Christ also agape
loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for
an odor of a sweet smell. {5:3} But fornication, and all uncleanness, or
covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becomes Holy People; {5:4}
nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, or jesting, which are not befitting: but
rather giving of thanks. {5:5} For this you know of a guarantee, that no
fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any
inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. {5:6} Let no man deceive you with
empty words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the sons
of disobedience. {5:7} Be not you therefore partakers with them; {5:8} For you
were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord: walk as children of light
{5:9} (for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and
truth), {5:10} proving what is well-pleasing unto the Lord; {5:11} and have no
fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them;
{5:12} for the things which are done by them in secret it is a shame even to
speak of. {5:13} But all things when they are reproved are made manifest by the
light: for everything that is made manifest is light. {5:14} Therefore [he]
said, Awake, thou that sleeps, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine
upon you. {5:15} Look therefore carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as
wise; {5:16} redeeming the time, because the days are evil. {5:17} Therefore be
you not foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. {5:18} And be not
drunken with wine, wherein is riot, but be filled with the Spirit; {5:19}
speaking one to another in Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and
making melody with your heart to the Lord; {5:20} giving thanks always for all
things in the name of our Lord Yehsus Christ to God, even the Father; {5:21}
subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ. {5:22} Wives, [be
in subjection] unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. {5:23} For the husband
is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the Ekklesia, [being]
himself the savior of the body. {5:24} But as the Ekklesia is subject to
Christ, so [let] the wives also [be] to their husbands in everything.
{5:25} Husbands, agape love
your wives, even as Christ also agape loves his Ekklesia, and gave himself up
for her; {5:26} that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing
of water with the word, {5:27} that he might present his Ekklesia to himself a
glorious [Ekklesia], not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she
should be holy and without blemish. {5:28} Even so ought husbands also to agape
love their own wives as their own bodies. He that agape loves his own wife
agape loves himself: {5:29} for no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes
and cherishes it, even as Christ also the Ekklesia; {5:30} because we are
members of his body. {5:31} For this cause shall a man leave his father and
mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh.
{5:32} This mystery is great: but I speak in regard of Christ and of the
Ekklesia. {5:33} Nevertheless do you also severally [agape] love each one his
own wife even as himself; and [let] the wife [see] that she [agape love] in
reverence of her husband.
{N10)6} Ephesians Chapter Six. {6:1} Children, obey your parents in the
Lord: for this is right. {6:2} Honor your father and mother (which is the first
commandment with promise), {6:3} that it may be well with thee, and thou may
live long on the earth. {6:4} And, you fathers, provoke not your children to
wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord. {6:5}
Bondmen, be obedient unto them that according to the flesh are your masters,
with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ; {6:6} not
in the way of eye service, as men-pleasers; but as bondmen of Christ, doing the
will of God from the heart; {6:7} with good will doing service, as unto the
Lord, and not unto men: {6:8} knowing that whatsoever good thing each one does,
the same shall he receive again from the Lord, whether [he be] bond or free.
{6:9} And, you masters, do the same things unto them, and forbear threatening:
knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is
no respect of persons with him. {6:10} Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in
the strength of his might. {6:11} Put on the whole armor of God, that you may
be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. {6:12} For our wrestling is
not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the
powers, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual
[hosts] of wickedness in the heavenly [places]. {6:13} Therefore take up the
whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and,
having done all, to stand. {6:14} Stand therefore, having girded your loins
with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, {6:15} and
having shod your feet with the preparation of the good news of peace; {6:16}
together with taking up the shield of faith, wherewith you shall be able to
quench all the fiery darts of the evil [one]. {6:17} And take the helmet of
salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: {6:18} with
all prayer and supplication praying at all seasons in the Spirit, and watching
thereunto in all perseverance and supplication for all the Holy People, {6:19}
And on my behalf, that utterance may be given unto me in opening my mouth, to
make known with boldness the mystery of the good news, {6:20} for which I am an
ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
{6:21} But that you also may know my affairs, how I do, Tychicus, the agape
beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord, shall make known to you all
things: {6:22} whom I have sent unto you for this very purpose, that you may
know our state, and that he may comfort your hearts. {6:23} Peace be to the
brethren, and agape love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Yehsus
Christ. {6:24} Grace be with all them that agape love our Lord Yehsus Christ
with [the agape love] incorruptible.
{N11)1} Philippians Chapter One. The Epistle of the Apostle Paul to the
Philippians. {1:1} Paul and Timothy,
servants of Christ Yehsus, to all the Holy People in Christ Yehsus that are at
[N11)2} Philippians Chapter Two. {2:1} If there is therefore any exhortation
in Christ, if any consolation of agape love, if any fellowship of the Spirit,
if any tender mercies and compassions, {2:2} make full my joy, that you be of
the same mind, having the same agape love, being of one accord, of one mind;
{2:3} [doing] nothing through faction or through vainglory, but in lowliness of
mind each counting [the] other better than himself; {2:4} not looking each of
you to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others. {2:5} Have
this mind in you, which was also in Christ Yehsus: {2:6} who, existing in the
form of God, counted not the being on an equality with God a thing to be
grasped, {2:7} but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being made in
the likeness of men; {2:8} and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled
himself, becoming obedient [even] unto death, behold, the death of the cross.
{2:9} Therefore also God highly exalted him, and gave unto him the name [Ho
Theos-All Mighty God] which [name] is above every name; {2:10} that in the name
of Yehsus every knee should bow, of [things] in heaven and [things] on earth
and [things] under the earth, {2:11} and that every tongue should confess that Yehsus
Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. {2:12} So then, my agape beloved,
even as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more
in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; {2:13} for
it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.
{2:14} Do all things outside murmurings and questionings: {2:15} that you may
become blameless and harmless, children of God outside blemish in the midst of
a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the
world, {2:16} holding forth the word of life; that I may have where to glory in
the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain neither labor in vain. {2:17}
behold, and if I am offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I
joy, and rejoice with you all: {2:18} and in the same manner do you also joy,
and rejoice with me. {2:19} But I hope in the Lord Yehsus to send Timothy
shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state.
{2:20} For I have no man like intent, who will care truly for your state.
{2:21} For they all seek their own, not the things of Yehsus Christ. {2:22} But
you know the proof of him, that, as a child [serve] a father, [so] he served
with me in furtherance of the good news. {2:23} Him therefore I hope to send
immediately, as soon as I shall see how it will go with me: {2:24} but I trust
in the Lord that I myself also shall come shortly. {2:25} But I counted it
necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow-worker and
fellow-soldier, and your messenger and minister to my need; {2:26} since he
longed after you all, and was sore troubled, because you had heard that he was
sick: {2:27} for indeed he was sick near unto death: but God had mercy on him;
and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.
{2:28} I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that, when you see him
again, you may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful. {2:29} Receive
him therefore in the Lord with all joy; and hold such in honor: {2:30} because
for the work of Christ he came near unto death, hazarding his life to supply
that which was lacking in your service toward me.
{N11)3} Philippians Chapter
Three. {3:1} Finally, my brethren,
rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not
irritating but for
you it is safe. {3:2} Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of
the concision: {3:3} for we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of
God, and glory in Christ Yehsus, and have no confidence in the flesh: {3:4}
though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh: if any other man
thinks to have confidence in the flesh, I had more: {3:5} circumcised the
eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of
Hebrews; as touching the [the unwritten Halakhah] law of the Pharisee; {3:6} as
touching zeal, persecuting the Ekklesia [of Christ]; as touching the
righteousness which is in the [unwritten law of the mind the Halakhah] law [of
the Pharisee], [I thought that I was] found blameless. {3:7} Howbeit what
things [I thought] were gain to me, these have I [now] counted loss for Christ.
{3:8} behold verily, and I count all things to be loss for the Excellency of
the knowledge of Christ Yehsus my Lord: for whom I suffered the loss of all
things, and do count them but animal dung, that I may gain Christ, {3:9} and
[to] be found in him, not having a righteousness of mine own, [even] that which
is of the [unwritten Pharisee Halakhah] law, but that which is through faith in
Christ, the [works of] righteousness which is from God by faith: {3:10} that I
may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his
sufferings, becoming conformed unto his death; {3:11} if by any means I may
attain unto the resurrection from the dead. {3:12} Not that I have already obtained,
or am already made perfect: but I press on, if so be that I may lay hold on
that for which also I was laid hold on by Christ Yehsus. {3:13} Brethren, I could not myself yet to
have laid hold: but one thing [I do], forgetting the things which are behind,
and stretching forward to the things which are before, {3:14} I press on toward
the goal unto the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Yehsus. {3:15} Let
us therefore, as many as are perfect, be thus intent: and if in anything you
are otherwise intent, this also shall God reveal unto you: {3:16} only,
whereunto we have attained, by that same [rule] let us walk. {3:17} Brethren,
be you imitators together of me, and mark them that so walk even as you have us
for an ensample. {3:18} For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell
you even weeping, [that they are] the enemies of the cross of Christ: {3:19}
whose end is perdition, whose god is the belly, and [whose] glory is in their
shame, who mind earthly things. {3:20} For our citizenship is in heaven; where
also we wait for a Savior, the Lord Yehsus Christ: {3:21} who shall fashion
anew the body of our humiliation, [that it may be] conformed to the body of his
glory, according to the working whereby he is able even to subject all things
unto himself.
{N11)4} Philippians Chapter Four. {4:1} Therefore, my brethren agape beloved
and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my agape beloved.
{4:2} I exhort Euodia, and I exhort Syntyche, to be of the same mind in the
Lord. {4:3} behold, I ask you also, true yokefellow, help these women, for they
labored with me in the good news, with Clement also, and the rest of my
fellow-workers, whose names are in the book of life. {4:4} Rejoice in the Lord
always: again I will say, Rejoice. {4:5} Let your forbearance be known unto all
men. The Lord is at hand. {4:6} In nothing be anxious; but in everything by
prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto
God. {4:7} And the peace of God, which passes all understanding, shall guard
your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Yehsus.
{4:8} Finally, brethren, what
ever things are true, what ever things are honorable, what ever things are
just, what ever things are pure, what ever things are like agape love, what ever
things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise,
think on these things. {4:9} The things which you both learned and received and
heard and seen in me, these things do: and the God of peace shall be with you.
{4:10} But I rejoice in the Lord greatly, that now at length you have revived
your thought for me; wherein you did indeed take thought, but you lacked
opportunity. {4:11} Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in
what ever state I am, therein to be content. {4:12} I know how to be abased,
and I know also how to abound: in everything and in all things have I learned
the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in
want. {4:13} I can do all things in him that strengthens me. {4:14} Howbeit you
did well that you had fellowship with my affliction. {4:15} And you yourselves
also know, you Philippians, that in the beginning of [teaching] the good news, when I departed from
Macedonia, no Ekklesia had fellowship with me in the matter of giving and
receiving but you only; {4:16} for even in Thessalonica you sent once and again
unto my need. {4:17} Not that I seek for the gift; but I seek for the fruit
that increases to your account. {4:18} But I have all things, and abound: I am
filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things [that came] from you, and
odor of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God. {4:19} And
my God shall supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in
Christ Yehsus. {4:20} Now unto our God and Father [be] the glory for ever and
ever. Amen. {4:21} Salute every Holy Person in Christ Yehsus. The brethren that
are with me salute you. {4:22} All the Holy People salute you, especially they
that are of Caesar's household. {4:23} The grace of the Lord Yehsus Christ be
with your spirit.
{N12)1} Colossians Chapter One. The
Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Colossians. {1:1} Paul, an apostle of Christ Yehsus
through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, {1:2} To the Holy People and
faithful brethren in Christ [that are] at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from
God our Father. {1:3} We give thanks to God the Father of our Lord Yehsus
Christ, praying always for you, {1:4} having heard of your faith in Christ Yehsus,
and of the agape love which you have toward all the Holy People, {1:5} because
of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, where you heard before in
the word of the truth of the good news, {1:6} which is come unto you; even as
it is also in all the world bearing fruit and increasing, as [it does] in you
also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth; {1:7} even as
you learned of Epaphras our beloved fellow-slave, who is a faithful minister of
Christ on our behalf, {1:8} who also declared unto us your agape love in the
Spirit. {1:9} For this cause we also, since the day we heard [it], do not cease
to pray and make request for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of
his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, {1:10} to walk worthily of
the Lord unto all pleasing, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in
the knowledge of God; {1:11} strengthened with all power, according to the
might of his glory, unto all patience and longsuffering with joy; {1:12} giving
thanks unto the Father, who made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of
the Holy People in light; {1:13} who delivered us out of the power of darkness,
and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his agape love; {1:14} in whom
we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins: {1:15} who is the image of
the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation; {1:16} for in him were all
things created, in the heavens and upon the earth, things visible and things
invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things
have been created through him, and unto him; {1:17} and he is before all
things, and in him all things consist. {1:18} And he is the head of the body,
the Ekklesia: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things
he might have the preeminence. {1:19} For it was the good pleasure [of the
Father] that in him should all the fullness dwell; {1:20} and through him to
reconcile all things unto himself, having made peace through the blood of his
cross; through him, [I say], whether things upon the earth, or things in the
heavens. {1:21} And you, being in time past alienated and enemies in your mind
in your evil works, {1:22} yet now has he reconciled in the body of his flesh
through death, to present you holy and outside blemish and un-reprove able
before him: {1:23} if so be that you continue in the faith, grounded and
steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the good news which you heard,
which was preached in all creation under heaven; where I Paul was made a
minister. {1:24} Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on
my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his
body's sake, which is the Ekklesia; {1:25} where I was made a minister,
according to the dispensation of God which was given me to you-ward, to fulfill
the word of God, {1:26} [even] the mystery which has been hid for ages and
generations: but now has it been manifested to his Holy People, {1:27} to whom
God was pleased to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery
among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: {1:28} whom we
proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we
may present every man perfect in Christ; {1:29} whereunto I labor also,
striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.
{N12)2} Colossians Chapter Two. {2:1} For I would have you know how greatly
I strive for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my
face in the flesh; {2:2} that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit
together in agape love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of
understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, [even] Christ, {2:3} in
whom are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge hidden. {2:4} This I say,
that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech. {2:5} For though I am
absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, rejoicing and beholding
your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ. {2:6} As therefore you
received Christ Yehsus the Lord, [so] walk in him, {2:7} rooted and built up in
him, and established in your faith, even as you were taught, abounding in
thanksgiving. {2:8} Take heed lest there shall be any one deceive you to
enslave and to make spoil of you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after
the tradition of men, after the basic principals of the world, and not after [first
principals of] Christ: {2:9} for in him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead
bodily, {2:10} and in him you are made full, who is the head of all
principality and power: {2:11} in whom you were also circumcised with a
circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh,
in the circumcision of Christ; {2:12} having been buried with him in immersion
[in water], wherein you were also resurrected with him through faith in the
working of God, who raised him from the dead. {2:13} And you, being dead
through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, you, [I say], [in
his resurrection] he did make [you] alive together with him, having forgiven us
all our trespasses; {2:14} having blotted out the bond written in ordinances
[through Moses] that was against us, which was contrary to us: and he has taken
it out of the way, nailing it to the cross; {2:15} having despoiled the
principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over
them in it. {2:16} Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in
respect of a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day: {2:17} which are a
shadow of the things to come; but the body [of Ekklesia] is Christ's. {2:18}
Let no man rob you of your prize by a voluntary humility and worshipping of the
messengers, dwelling in the things which he has seen, vainly puffed up by his
fleshly mind, {2:19} and not holding fast the Head, from whom all the body,
being supplied and knit together through the joints and bands, increasing with
the increase of God. {2:20} If you died with Christ from the rudiments of the
world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to [man
made] ordinances, {2:21} Handle not, nor taste, nor touch {2:22} (all which
things are to perish with the using), after the precepts and instructions of
men? {2:23} Which things have indeed a show of wisdom in will-worship, and
humility, and severity to the body; [but are] not of any value against the
indulgence of the flesh.
{N12)3}
Colossians Chapter Three. {3:1}
If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above,
where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. {3:2} Set your mind on the
things that are above, not on the things that are upon the earth. {3:3} For you
died, and your life is hid with Christ in God. {3:4} When Christ, [who is] our
life, shall be manifested, then shall you also with him be manifested in glory.
{3:5} Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth:
fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is
idolatry; {3:6} for which things' sake comes the wrath of God upon the sons of
disobedience: {3:7} wherein you also once walked, when you lived in these
things; {3:8} but now do you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice,
railing, shameful speaking out of your mouth: {3:9} lie not one to another;
seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings, {3:10} and have put
on the new man, that is being renewed unto knowledge after the image of him
that created him: {3:11} where there cannot be Greek and Jew, circumcision and
uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondman, freeman; but Christ is all, and
in all. {3:12} Put on therefore, as God's elect, holy and agape beloved, a
heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, longsuffering; {3:13}
forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any man have a complaint against
any; even as the Lord forgave you, so also do you: {3:14} and above all these
things [put on] agape love, which [agape love] is the bond of perfectness.
{3:15} And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which you were also called
in one body [of Ekklesia]; and be you thankful. {3:16} Let the word of Christ
dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with
Psalms [and] hymns [and] spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts
unto God. {3:17} And what ever you do, in word or in deed, [do] all in the name
of the Lord Yehsus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. {3:18} Wives,
be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. {3:19} Husbands,
agape love your wives, and be not bitter against them. {3:20} Children, obey
your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in the Lord. {3:21}
Fathers, provoke not your children, that they be not discouraged. {3:22}
Servants, obey in all things them that are your masters according to the flesh;
not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing the
Lord: {3:23} what ever you do, work heartily, as unto the Lord, and not unto
men; {3:24} knowing that from the Lord you shall receive the recompense of the
inheritance: you serve the Lord Christ. {3:25} For he that does wrong shall
receive again for the wrong that he has done: and there is no respect of
persons.
{N12)4} Colossians Chapter Four. {4:1} Masters, render unto your servants
that which is just and equal; knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.
{4:2} Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching therein with thanksgiving; {4:3}
withal praying for us also, that God may open unto us a door for the word, to
speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds; {4:4} that I may
make it manifest, as I ought to speak. {4:5} Walk in wisdom toward them that
are outside, redeeming the time. {4:6} Let your speech be always with grace,
seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one. {4:7}
All my affairs shall Tychicus make known unto you, the agape beloved brother
and faithful minister and fellow-slave in the Lord: {4:8} whom I have sent you
for this very purpose, that you may know our state, and that he may comfort
your hearts; {4:9} together with Onesimus, the faithful and agape beloved
brother, who is one of you. They shall make known unto you all things that [are
done] here. {4:10} Aristarchus my fellow-prisoner salutes you, and Mark, the
cousin of Barnabas (touching whom you received commandments; if he come unto
you, receive him), {4:11} and Yehsus that is called Justus, who are of the
circumcision: these only [are my] fellow-workers unto the
{N13)1} First Thessalonians Chapter
One. The First Epistle of Paul to the Thessalonians. {1:1} Paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy,
unto the Ekklesia of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Yehsus
Christ: Grace to you and peace. {1:2} We give thanks to God always for you all,
making mention [of you] in our prayers; {1:3} remembering outside ceasing your
work of faith and labor of agape love and patience of hope in our Lord Yehsus
Christ, before our God and Father; {1:4} knowing, brethren beloved of God, your
election, {1:5} how that our good news came not unto you in word only, but also
in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and [in] much assurance; even as you know
what manner of men we showed ourselves toward you for your sake. {1:6} And you
became imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much
affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit; {1:7} so that you became an ensample
to all that believe in Macedonia and in Achaia. {1:8} For from you has sounded
forth the word of the Lord, not only in
{N13)2}
First Thessalonians Chapter Two.
{2:1} For yourselves, brethren, know our entering in unto you, that it
has not been found vain: {2:2} but having suffered before and been shamefully
treated, as you know, at
{N13)3} First Thessalonians Chapter
Three. {3:1} Therefore when we could no
longer forbear, we thought it good to be left behind at Athens alone; {3:2} and
sent Timothy, our brother and God's minister in the good news of Christ, to
establish you, and to comfort [you] concerning your faith; {3:3} that no man be
moved by these afflictions; for yourselves know that for this purpose we are
appointed. {3:4} For verily, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that
we are to suffer affliction; even as it came to pass, and you know. {3:5} For
this cause I also, when I could no longer forbear, sent that I might know your
faith, lest by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor should be
in vain. {3:6} But when Timothy came even now unto us from you, and brought us
glad tidings of your faith and agape love, and that you have good remembrance
of us always, longing to see us, even as we also [to see] you; {3:7} for this
cause, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction
through your faith: {3:8} for now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord. {3:9}
For what thanksgiving can we render again unto God for you, for all the joy
wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God; {3:10} night and day praying
exceedingly that we may see your face, and may perfect that which is lacking in
your faith? {3:11} Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Yehsus,
direct our way unto you: {3:12} and the Lord make you to increase and abound in
agape love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we also [do] toward
you; {3:13} to the end he may establish your hearts un-blamable in holiness
before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Yehsus with all his Holy
People.
{N13)4}
First Thessalonians Chapter Four.
{4:1} Finally then, brethren, we ask and exhort you in the Lord Yehsus,
that, as you received of us how you ought to walk and to please God, even as
you do walk, --that you abound more and more. {4:2} For you know what charge we
gave you through the Lord Yehsus. {4:3} For this is the will of God, [even]
your sanctification, that you abstain from fornication; {4:4} that each one of
you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor,
{4:5} not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who know not God; {4:6}
that no man transgress [the law], and wrong his brother in the matter: because
the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and
testified. {4:7} For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.
{4:8} Therefore he that rejects, rejects not man, but God, who gives his Holy
Spirit unto you. {4:9} But concerning philo love of the brethren you have no
need that one write unto you: for you yourselves are taught of God to agape
love one another; {4:10} for indeed you do it toward all the brethren that are
in all
{N13)5} 1Thessalonians Chapter Five. {5:1} But concerning the times and the
seasons, brethren, you have no need that anything be written unto you. {5:2}
For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in
the night. {5:3} When they are saying, Peace and safety, then sudden
destruction comes upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall
in no wise escape. {5:4} But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day
should overtake you as a thief: {5:5} for you are all sons of light, and sons
of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness; {5:6} so then let us not
sleep, as do the rest, but let us watch and be sober. {5:7} For they that sleep
do sleep in the night: and they that are drunk are drunk in the night. {5:8}
But let us, since we are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of
faith and agape love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation. {5:9} For God
appointed us not into wrath, but unto the obtaining of salvation through our
Lord Yehsus Christ, {5:10} who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we
should live together with him. {5:11} Therefore exhort one another, and build
each other up, even as also you do. {5:12} But we ask you, brethren, to know
them that labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;
{5:13} and to esteem them exceeding highly in agape love for their work's sake.
Be at peace among yourselves. {5:14} And we exhort you, brethren, admonish the
disorderly, encourage the fainthearted, support the weak, be longsuffering
toward all. {5:15} See that none render unto any one evil for evil; but always
follow after that which is good, one toward another, and toward all. {5:16} Rejoice
always; {5:17} pray outside ceasing; {5:18} in everything give thanks: for this
is the will of God in Christ Yehsus to you-ward. {5:19} Quench not the Spirit;
{5:20} despise not prophesying; {5:21} prove all things; hold fast that which
is good; {5:22} abstain from every form of evil. {5:23} And the God of peace
himself sanctify you wholly; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved
entire, outside blame at the coming of our Lord Yehsus Christ. {5:24} Faithful
is he that calls you, who will also do it. {5:25} Brethren, pray for us. {5:26}
Salute all the brethren with a holy kiss. {5:27} I adjure you by the Lord that
this epistle be read unto all the brethren. {5:28} The grace of our Lord Yehsus
Christ be with you.
{N14)1} 2Thessalonians Chapter one. The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the
Thessalonians. {1:1} Paul, and
Silvanus, and Timothy, unto the Ekklesia of the Thessalonians in God our Father
and the Lord Yehsus Christ; {1:2} Grace to you and peace from God the Father
and the Lord Yehsus Christ. {1:3} We are bound to give thanks to God always to
you, brethren, even as it is meet, for that your faith growth exceedingly, and
the agape love of each one of you all toward one another abound; {1:4} so that
we ourselves glory in you in the Ekklesias of God for your patience and faith
in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure; {1:5} [which
is] a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God; to the end that you may
be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you also suffer: {1:6} if so
be that it is a righteous thing with God to recompense affliction to them that
afflict you, {1:7} and to you that are afflicted rest with us, at the
revelation of the Lord Yehsus from heaven with the messengers of his power in
flaming fire, {1:8} rendering vengeance to them that know not God, and to them
that obey not the good news of our Lord Yehsus: {1:9} who shall suffer
punishment, [even] eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the
glory of his might, {1:10} when he shall come to be glorified in his Holy
People, and to be marveled at in all them that believed (because our testimony
unto you was believed) in that day. {1:11} To which end we also pray always for
you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every
desire of goodness and [every] work of faith, with power; {1:12} that the name
of our Lord Yehsus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the
grace of our God and the Lord Yehsus Christ.
{N14)2} 2Thessalonians Chapter two. {2:1} Now we ask you, brethren, touching
the coming of our Lord Yehsus Christ, and our gathering together unto him;
{2:2} to the end that you be not quickly shaken from your mind, nor yet be
troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by epistle as from us, as that the
day of the Lord is just at hand; {2:3} let no man deceive you in any wise: for
[it will not be,] except the falling away come first, and the man of sin be
revealed, the son of perdition, {2:4} he that opposes and exalts himself
against all that is called God or that is worshipped; so that he sit-in the
temple of God, setting himself forth as God. {2:5} Remember you not, that, when
I was yet with you, I told you these things? {2:6} And now you know that which
restrains, to the end that he may be revealed in his own [false] time. {2:7}
For the mystery of lawlessness does already work: only [there is] one that
restrains now, until he be taken out of the way. {2:8} And then shall be
revealed the lawless one, whom the Lord Yehsus shall slay with the breath of
his mouth, and bring to nothing by the manifestation of his coming; {2:9} [even
he], whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs
and lying wonders, {2:10} and with all deceit of [illegal] works against law
for them that perish; because they received not the agape love of the truth,
that they might be saved. {2:11} And for this cause God sends them a working of
error, that they should believe a lie: {2:12} that they all might be judged who
believed not the truth, but had pleasure in [illegal] works against the law.
{2:13} But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren agape
beloved of the Lord, for that God chose you from the beginning unto salvation
in sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth: {2:14} whereunto he
called you through our good news, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord
Yehsus Christ. {2:15} So then, brethren, stand fast, and hold the [legal]
traditions which you were taught, whether by word, or by epistle of ours.
{2:16} Now our Lord Yehsus Christ himself, and God our Father who agape loved
us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace, {2:17} comfort your
hearts and establish them in every good work and word.
{N14)3} 2Thessalonians Chapter Three. {3:1} Finally, brethren, pray for us, that
the word of the Lord may run and be glorified, even as also [it is] with you;
{3:2} and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and evil men; for not all
have faith. {3:3} But the Lord is faithful, who shall establish you, and guard
you from the evil [one]. {3:4} And we have confidence in the Lord touching you,
that you both do and will do the things which we command. {3:5} And the Lord
direct your hearts into the agape love of God, and into the patience of Christ.
{3:6} Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Yehsus Christ, that
you withdraw yourselves from every brother that walks disorderly, and not after
the instructions which they received of us. {3:7} For yourselves know how you ought
to imitate us: for we [did] not behaved ourselves disorderly among you; {3:8}
neither did we eat bread for nothing at any man's hand, but in labor and
travail, working night and day, that we might not burden any of you: {3:9} not
because we have not the right, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you, that
you should imitate us. {3:10} For even when we were with you, this we commanded
you, If any will not work, neither let him eat. {3:11} For we hear of some that
walk among you disorderly, that work not at all, but are busybodies. {3:12} Now
them that are such we command and exhort in the Lord Yehsus Christ, that with
quietness they work, and eat their own bread. {3:13} But you, brethren, be not
weary in well-doing. {3:14} And if any man obeys not our word by this epistle,
note that man, that you have no company with him, to the end that he may be
ashamed. {3:15} And [yet] count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a
brother. {3:16} Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in
all ways. The Lord be with you all. {3:17} The salutation of me Paul with mine
own hand, which is the token in every epistle: so I write. {3:18} The grace of
our Lord Yehsus Christ be with you all.
{N15)1} First Timothy Chapter One. The
First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy. {1:1} Paul, an apostle of Christ Yehsus
according to the commandment of God our Savior, and Christ Yehsus our hope;
{1:2} unto Timothy, my true child in faith: Grace, mercy, peace, from God the
Father and Christ Yehsus our Lord. {1:3} As I urged you to tarry at Ephesus,
when I was going into Macedonia, that you might charge certain men not to teach
a different instructions, {1:4} neither to give heed to fables and endless
genealogies, which minister questionings, rather than a dispensation of God
which is in faith; [so do I now]. {1:5} But the end of the charge is agape love
out of a pure heart and a good conscience and faith unfeigned: {1:6} from which
things some having swerved have turned aside unto vain talking; {1:7} desiring
to be teachers of the law [through Moses], though they understand neither what
they say, nor where they confidently affirm. {1:8} But we know that the
[written] law [through Moses] is good, if a man use it lawfully, {1:9} as
knowing this, that [written] law [through Moses] is not made for a righteous
[working] man, but for the lawless and unruly, for the ungodly and sinners, for
the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for
man slayers, {1:10} for fornicators, for abusers of themselves with men, for
men stealers, for liars, for false swearers, and if there be any other thing
contrary to the sound instructions; {1:11} according to the good news of the
glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust. {1:12} I thank him
that enabled me, [even] Christ Yehsus our Lord, for that he counted me
faithful, appointing me to [his] service; {1:13} though I was before a
[Pharisee] blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: howbeit I obtained
mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief; {1:14} and the grace of our
Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and agape love which is in Christ Yehsus.
{1:15} Faithful is the saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ
Yehsus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief: {1:16} howbeit
for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me as chief [sinner] might Yehsus
Christ show forth all his longsuffering, for an ensample of them that should
thereafter believe on him unto eternal life. {1:17} Now unto the King eternal,
immortal, invisible, the only God, [be] honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
{1:18} This charge I commit unto you, my child Timothy, according to the
prophecies which led the way to you, that by them you may war the good warfare;
{1:19} holding faith and a good conscience; which some having thrust from them
made shipwreck concerning the faith: {1:20} of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander;
whom I delivered unto Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme.
[N15)2} First Timothy Chapter Two. {2:1} I exhort therefore, first of all, that
supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, be made for all men;
{2:2} for kings and all that are in high place; that we may lead a tranquil and
quiet life in all godliness and gravity. {2:3} This is good and acceptable in
the sight of God our Savior; {2:4} who would have all men to be saved, and come
to the knowledge of the truth. {2:5} For there is one God, one mediator also
between God and men, [himself] man, Christ Yehsus, {2:6} who gave himself a
ransom for all; the testimony [to be borne] in its own times; {2:7} whereunto I
was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I speak the truth, I lie not), a
teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth. {2:8} I desire therefore that the
men pray in every place, lifting up holy hands, outside wrath and [vain]
disputing. {2:9} In like manner, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel,
with shame fastness and sobriety; not with braided hair, and gold or pearls or
costly raiment; {2:10} but (which becomes women professing godliness) through
good works. {2:11} Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection. {2:12}
But I permit not a woman to teach, nor to have dominion over a man, but to be
in quietness. {2:13} For Adam was first formed, then Eve; {2:14} and Adam was
not beguiled, but the woman being beguiled has fallen into transgression of the
law: {2:15} but she shall be saved through her child-bearing, if they continue
in faith and agape love and sanctification with sobriety.
{N15)3} First Timothy Chapter Three. {3:1} Faithful is the saying, If a man
seeks the office of a bishop, he desires a good work. {3:2} The bishop
therefore must be outside reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate,
sober-intent, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach; {3:3} no brawler, no
striker; but gentle, not contentious, no lover of money; {3:4} one that rules
well his own house, having [his] children in subjection with all gravity; {3:5}
(but if a man knows not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of
the Ekklesia of God?) {3:6} not a novice, lest being puffed up he fall into the
condemnation of the devil. {3:7} Furthermore he must have good testimony from
them that are outside; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
{3:8} Deacons in like manner [must be] grave, not double-tongued, not given to
much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre; {3:9} holding the mystery of the faith
in a pure conscience. {3:10} And let these also first be proved; then let them
serve as deacons, if they be blameless. {3:11} Women in like manner [must be]
grave, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things. {3:12} Let deacons be
husbands of one wife, ruling [their] children and their own houses well. {3:13}
For they that have served well as deacons gain to themselves a good standing,
and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Yehsus. {3:14} These things
write I unto you, hoping to come unto you shortly; {3:15} but if I tarry long,
that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in the house of God, which
is the Ekklesia of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth. {3:16}
And outside controversy great is the mystery of godliness; He who was
manifested in the flesh, Justified in the spirit, Seen of messengers, Preached
among the nations, Believed on in the world, Received up in glory.
{N15)4} First Timothy Chapter Four. {4:1} But the Spirit said expressly, that
in later times some shall fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing
spirits and instructions of demons, {4:2} through the hypocrisy of men that
speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron; {4:3}
forbidding to marry, [and commanding] to abstain from meats, which God created
to be received with thanksgiving by them that believe and know the truth. {4:4}
For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it be
received with thanksgiving: {4:5} for it is sanctified through the word of God
and prayer. {4:6} If you put the brethren in mind of these things, you shall be
a good minister of Christ Yehsus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of
the good instructions which you have followed [until now]: {4:7} but refuse
profane and old wives' fables. And exercise yourself unto godliness: {4:8} for
bodily exercise is profitable for a little; but godliness is profitable for all
things, having promise of the life which now is, and of that which is to come.
{4:9} Faithful is the saying, and worthy of all acceptation. {4:10} For to this
end we labor and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is
the Savior of all men, specially of them that believe. {4:11} These things
command and teach. {4:12} Let no man despise your youth; but be you an ensample
to them that believe, in word, in manner of life, in agape love, in faith, in
purity. {4:13} Till I come, give heed to reading, to exhortation, to teaching.
{4:14} Neglect not the gift that is in you, which was given you by prophecy,
with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery. {4:15} Be diligent in these
things; give yourself wholly to them; that your progress may be manifest unto
all. {4:16} Take heed to yourself, and to the instructions. Continue in these
things; for in doing these [lawful works] you shall save both yourself and them
that hear you.
{N15)5} First Timothy Chapter Five. {5:1} Rebuke not an elder, but exhort him
as a father; the younger men as brethren: {5:2} the elder women as mothers; the
younger as sisters, in all purity. {5:3} Honor widows that are widows indeed.
{5:4} But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to
show piety towards their own family, and to requite their parents: for this is
acceptable in the sight of God. {5:5} Now she that is a widow indeed, and
desolate, has her hope set on God, and continues in supplication and prayers
night and day. {5:6} But she that gives herself to pleasure is dead while she
lives. {5:7} These things also command, that they may be outside reproach.
{5:8} But if any provides not for his own, and specially his own household, he
has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever. {5:9} Let none be
enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, [having been] the wife of one man,
{5:10} well reported of for good works; if she has brought up children, if she
has used hospitality to strangers, if she has washed the Holy People' feet, if
she has relieved the afflicted, if she has diligently followed every good work.
{5:11} But younger widows refuse: for when they have waxed wanton against
Christ, they desire to marry; {5:12} having condemnation, because they have
rejected their first pledge. {5:13} And withal they learn also [to be] idle,
going about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and
busybodies, speaking things which they ought not. {5:14} I desire therefore
that the younger [widows] marry, bear children, rule the household, give no
occasion to the adversary for reviling: {5:15} for already some are turned
aside after Satan. {5:16} If any woman that believes has widows, let her
relieve them, and let not the Ekklesia be burdened; that it may relieve them
that are widows indeed. {5:17} Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy
of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching. {5:18}
For the scripture said, you shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the
corn. And, The laborer is worthy of his hire. {5:19} Against an elder receive
not an accusation, except at [the mouth of] two or three witnesses. {5:20} Them
that sin reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear. {5:21}
I charge [you] in the sight of God, and Christ Yehsus, and the elect
messengers, that you observe these things outside prejudice, doing nothing by
partiality. {5:22} Lay hands hastily on no man, neither be partaker of other
men's sins: keep yourself pure. {5:23} Be no longer a drinker of water, but use
a little wine for your stomach's sake and your often infirmities. {5:24} Some
men's sins are evident, going before unto judgment; and some men also they
follow after. {5:25} In like manner also there are good works that are evident;
and such as are otherwise cannot be hid.
{N15)6} First Timothy 6. {6:1} Let as many as are servants under the
yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the
instructions be not blasphemed. {6:2} And they that have believing masters, let
them not despise them, because they are brethren; but let them serve them the
rather, because they that partake of the benefit are believing and agape
beloved. These things teach and exhort. {6:3} If any man teaches a different
instructions, and consents not to sound words, [even] the words of our Lord
Yehsus Christ, and to the instructions which is according to godliness; {6:4}
he is puffed up, knowing nothing, but doting about questionings and disputes
over unimportant words, where comes envy, strife, blasphemes, evil
disputations, {6:5} wrangling of men corrupted in mind and bereft of the truth,
supposing that godliness is a way of gain. {6:6} But godliness with contentment
is great gain: {6:7} for we brought nothing into the world, for neither can we
carry anything out; {6:8} but having food and covering we shall be with
content. {6:9} But they that are intent to be rich fall into a temptation and a
snare and many foolish and hurtful lusts, such as drown men in destruction and
perdition. {6:10} For the [philo-arguria to covet] of money is a root of all
kinds of evil: which some reaching after have been led astray from the faith, and have pierced themselves
through with many sorrows. {6:11} But
you, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after [legal] works of the
law, godliness, faith, agape love, patience, meekness. {6:12} Fight the good
fight of the faith, lay hold on the life eternal, whereunto you was called, and
did bear witness the good profession in the sight of many witnesses. {6:13} I
charge you in the sight of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ
Yehsus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed the good confession; {6:14} that
you keep the commandment, outside spot, outside reproach, until the appearing
of our Lord Yehsus Christ: {6:15} which in its own times he shall show, who is
the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords; {6:16}
who only has immortality, dwelling in light unapproachable; whom no man has
seen, nor can see: to whom [be] honor and power eternal. Amen. {6:17} Charge
them that are rich in this present world, that they be not high-minded, nor
have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who gives us
richly all things to enjoy; {6:18} that they do good, that they be rich in good
works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to communicate; {6:19} laying
up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that
they may lay hold on the life which is [life] indeed. {6:20} O Timothy, guard
that which is committed unto [you], turning away from the profane babblings and
oppositions of the knowledge which is falsely so called; {6:21} which some
professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with you.
{N16)1} Second Timothy Chapter one. The Second Epistle of the Apostle Paul to
Timothy. {1:1} Paul, an apostle of
Christ Yehsus through the will of God, according to the promise of the life
which is in Christ Yehsus, {1:2} to Timothy, my agape beloved child: Grace,
mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Yehsus our Lord. {1:3} I thank
God, whom I serve from my forefathers in a pure conscience, how unceasing is my
remembrance of you in my supplications, night and day {1:4} longing to see you,
remembering your tears, that I may be filled with joy; {1:5} having been
reminded of the unfeigned faith that is in you; which dwelt first in your
grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice; and, I am persuaded, in you also.
{1:6} For which cause I put you in remembrance that you stir up the gift of
God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands. {1:7} For God gave us
not a spirit of fearfulness; but of power and agape love and discipline. {1:8}
Be not ashamed therefore of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner:
but suffer hardship with the good news according to the power of God; {1:9} who
saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our [PAST] works,
but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Yehsus
before times eternal, {1:10} but has now been manifested by the appearing of
our Savior Christ Yehsus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality
to light through the good news, {1:11} whereunto I was appointed a preacher,
and an apostle, and a teacher. {1:12} For which cause I suffer also these
things: yet I am not ashamed; for I know him whom I have believed, and I am
persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed unto him against
that day. {1:13} Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me,
in faith and agape love which is in Christ Yehsus. {1:14} That good thing which
was committed unto [you] guard through the Holy Spirit which dwells in us.
{1:15} This you know, that all that are in Asia turned away from me; of whom
are Phygelus and Hermogenes. {1:16} The Lord grant mercy unto the house of
Onesiphorus: for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain; {1:17}
but, when he was in Rome, he sought me diligently, and found me {1:18} (the
Lord grant unto him to find mercy of the Lord in that day); and in how many
things he ministered at Ephesus, you know very well.
{N16)2}
Second Timothy Chapter Two. {2:1}
you therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Yehsus.
{2:2} And the things which you have heard from me among many witnesses, the
same commit you to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also. {2:3}
Suffer hardship with [me], as a good soldier of Christ Yehsus. {2:4} No soldier
on service entangled himself in the affairs of [this] life; that he may please
him who enrolled him as a soldier. {2:5} And if also a man contend in the
games, he is not crowned, except he have contended lawfully. {2:6} The
husbandmen that labors must be the first to partake of the fruits. {2:7}
Consider what I say; for the Lord shall give you understanding in all things.
{2:8} Remember Yehsus Christ, risen from the dead, of the seed of David,
according to my good news: {2:9} wherein I suffer hardship unto bonds, as a
malefactor; but the word of God is not bound. {2:10} Therefore I endure all
things for the elect's sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is
in Christ Yehsus with eternal glory. {2:11} Faithful is the saying: For if we
died with him, we shall also live with him: {2:12} if we endure, we shall also
reign with him: if we shall deny him, he also will deny us: {2:13} if we are
faithless, he abides faithful; for he cannot deny himself. {2:14} Of these
things put them in remembrance, charging [them] in the sight of the Lord, that
they strive not about words, to no profit, to the subverting of them that hear.
{2:15} Give diligence to present yourself approved unto God, a workman that
needs not to be ashamed, handling aright the word of truth. {2:16} But shun
profane babblings: for they will proceed further in works against law, {2:17}
and their word will eat as does a gangrene: of whom is Hymenaeus an Philetus;
{2:18} men who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is
past already, and overthrow the faith of some. {2:19} Howbeit the firm
foundation of God stands, having this seal, The Lord knows them that are his:
and, Let every one that names the name of the Lord depart from works against
law. {2:20} Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of
silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some unto honor, and some unto
dishonor. {2:21} If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a
vessel unto honor, sanctified, meet for the master's use, prepared unto every
good work. {2:22} after lawful works, faith, agape love, peace, with them that
call on the Lord out of a pure heart. {2:23} But foolish and ignorant
questionings refuse, knowing that they gender strife. {2:24} And the Lord's
slave must not strive, but be gentle towards all, apt to teach, forbearing,
{2:25} in meekness correcting them that oppose themselves; if perhaps God may
give them repentance unto the knowledge of the truth, {2:26} and they may
recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by
him unto his will.
{N16)3} Second Timothy Chapter Three. {3:1} But know this, that in the last days
grievous times shall come. {3:2} For men shall be [philo-autos] lovers of self,
[The Greek philarguros] lovers of money, boastful, haughty, blasphemers,,
disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, {3:3} outside natural affection,
implacable, slanderers, outside self-control, fierce, not lovers of good [The
Greek aphilagothos], {3:4} traitors, headstrong, puffed up, lovers of pleasure
rather than lovers of God; {3:5} holding a form of godliness, but having denied
the power therefore. From these also turn away. {3:6} For of these are they
that creep into houses, and take captive silly women laden with sins, led away
by divers lusts, {3:7} ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge
of the truth. {3:8} And even as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these
also withstand the truth. Men corrupted in mind, reprobate concerning the
faith. {3:9} But they shall proceed no further. For their folly shall be
evident unto all men, as theirs also came to be. {3:10} But you did follow my
teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, longsuffering, agape love, patience, {3:11}
persecutions, sufferings. What things befell me at
{N16)4} Second Timothy Chapter Four. {4:1} I charge [you] in the sight of God,
and of Christ Yehsus, who shall judge the living and the dead, and by his
appearing and his kingdom: {4:2} preach the word; be urgent in season, out of
season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. {4:3} For
the time will come when they will not endure the sound instructions; but,
having itching ears, will heap to themselves teachers after their own lusts;
{4:4} and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn aside unto fables.
{4:5} But be you sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an
evangelist, fulfill your ministry. {4:6} For I am already being offered, and
the time of my departure is come. {4:7} I have fought the good fight, I have
finished the course, I have kept the faith: {4:8} from here on there is laid up
for me the crown for Good works, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall
give to me at that day; and not to me only, but also to all them that have
agape loved his appearing. {4:9} Give diligence to come shortly unto me: {4:10}
for Demas forsook me, having agape loved this present world, and went to
Thessalonica; Crescens to
{N17)1} Titus 1. The Epistle of Paul to Titus. {1:1} Paul, a slave of God, and an apostle
of Yehsus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the knowledge of
the truth which is according to godliness, {1:2} in hope of eternal life, which
God, who cannot lie, promised before times eternal; {1:3} but in his own
seasons manifested his word in the message, wherewith I was entrusted according
to the commandment of God our Savior; {1:4} to Titus, my true child after a
common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Yehsus our Savior.
{1:5} For this cause I left you in Crete, that you should set in order the
things that were wanting, and appoint elders in every city, as I gave you charge;
{1:6} if any man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children that
believe, who are not accused of riot or unruly. {1:7} For the bishop must be
blameless, as God's steward; not self-willed, not soon angry, no brawler, no
striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; {1:8} but given to hospitality, a
[philoxenos] lover of good,
[philagothos] sober-intent, just, holy, self-controlled; {1:9} holding to the
faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort
in the sound instructions, and to convict the gainsayers. {1:10} For there are
many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the
circumcision, {1:11} whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole
houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain sake. {1:12}
One of themselves, a prophet of their own, said, Cretans are always liars, evil
beasts, idle gluttons. {1:13} This testimony is true. For which cause reprove
them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith, {1:14} not giving heed to Jewish
fables, and commandments of men who turn away from the truth. {1:15} To the
pure all things are pure: but to them that are defiled and unbelieving nothing
is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled. {1:16} They
profess that they know God; but by their works they deny him, being abominable,
and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
{N17)2}
Titus Chapter Two. {2:1} But
speak you the things which befit the sound instructions: {2:2} that aged men be
temperate, grave, sober-intent, sound in faith, in agape love, in patience:
{2:3} that aged women likewise be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers nor
enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good; {2:4} that they may
train the young women to [philandros] love their husbands, to [philoteknos]
love their children, {2:5} [to be] sober-intent, chaste, workers at home, kind,
being in subjection to their own husbands, that the word of God be not
blasphemed: {2:6} the younger men likewise exhort to be sober-intent: {2:7} in all
things showing yourself an ensample of good works; in your instructions
[showing] no corruptness, gravity, {2:8} sound speech, that cannot be
condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil
thing to say of us. {2:9} [Exhort] servants to be in subjection to their own
masters, [and] to be well-pleasing [to them] in all things; not gainsaying;
{2:10} not purloining, but showing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the
instructions of God our Savior in all things. {2:11} For the grace of God has
appeared, bringing salvation to all men, {2:12} instructing us, to the intent
that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly and
righteously and godly in this present world; {2:13} looking for the blessed
hope and appearing of the glory of the great God and our Savior Yehsus Christ;
{2:14} who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all work [done]
against law, and purify unto himself a people for his own possession, zealous
of good works. {2:15} These things speak and exhort and reprove with all
authority. Let no man despise you.
{N17)3} Titus Chapter Three. {3:1} Put them in mind to be in subjection
to rulers, to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready [subjective only] unto
every good work, {3:2} to speak evil of no man, not to be contentious, to be
gentle, showing all meekness toward all men. {3:3} For we also once were
foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in
malice and envy, hateful, hating one another. {3:4} But when the kindness of
God our Savior, and his benevolent Agape love toward man, appeared, {3:5} not
by lawful works, which we doing ourselves, but according to his mercy he saved
us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, {3:6}
which he poured out upon us richly, through Yehsus Christ our Savior; {3:7}
that, being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the
hope of eternal life. {3:8} Faithful is the saying, and concerning these things
I desire that you affirm confidently, to the end that they who have believed
God may be careful to maintain good works. These things [good works] are good
and profitable unto men: {3:9} but shun foolish questionings, and genealogies,
and strifes, and fightings about law [Greek nomikos or by laws written through
Moses]; for they are unprofitable and vain. {3:10} A factious man after a first
and second admonition refuse; {3:11} knowing that such a one is perverted, and
sins, being self-condemned. {3:12} When I shall send Artemas unto you, or
Tychicus, give diligence to come unto me to Nicopolis: for there I have
determined to winter. {3:13} Set forward Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their
journey diligently, that nothing be wanting unto them. {3:14} And let our
[people] also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not
unfruitful. {3:15} All that are with me salute you. Salute them that philo love
us in faith. Grace be with you all.
{N18)1} Philemon Chapter One. The Epistle of Paul to Philemon. {1:1} Paul, a prisoner of Christ Yehsus,
and Timothy our brother, to Philemon our agape beloved and fellow-worker, {1:2}
and to Apphia our sister, and to Archippus our fellow-soldier, and to the
Ekklesia in your house: {1:3} Grace to you and peace from God our Father and
the Lord Yehsus Christ. {1:4} I thank my God always, making mention of you in
my prayers, {1:5} hearing of your agape love, and of the faith which you have
toward the Lord Yehsus, and toward all the Holy People; {1:6} that the fellowship
of your faith may become effectual, in the knowledge of every good thing which
is in you, unto Christ. {1:7} For I had much joy and comfort in your agape
love, because the hearts of the Holy People have been refreshed through you,
brother. {1:8} Therefore, though I have all boldness in Christ to enjoin you
that which is befitting, {1:9} yet for agape love's sake I rather ask, being
such a one as Paul the aged, and now a prisoner also of Christ Yehsus: {1:10} I
ask you for my child, whom I have begotten in my bonds, Onesimus, {1:11} who
once was unprofitable to you, but now is profitable to you and to me: {1:12}
whom I have sent back to you in his own person, that is, my very heart: {1:13}
whom I would fain have kept with me, that in your behalf he might minister unto
me in the bonds of the good news: {1:14} but outside your mind I would do
nothing; that your goodness should not be as of necessity, but of free will.
{1:15} For perhaps he was therefore parted [from you] for a season, that you
should have him for ever; {1:16} no longer as a slave, but more than a slave
[to man], a brother agape beloved, specially to me, but how much rather to you,
both in the flesh and in the Lord. {1:17} If then you count me a partner,
receive him as myself. {1:18} But if he has wronged you at all, or owes [you]
anything, put that to mine account; {1:19} I Paul write it with mine own hand,
I will repay it: that I say not unto you that you owe to me even your own self
besides. {1:20} behold, brother, let me have joy of you in the Lord: refresh my
heart in Christ. {1:21} Having confidence in your obedience I write unto you,
knowing that you will do even beyond what I say. {1:22} But with prepare me
also a lodging: for I hope that through your prayers I shall be granted unto you.
{1:23} Epaphras, my fellow-prisoner in Christ Yehsus, salutes you; {1:24} [and
so do] Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, Luke, my fellow-workers. {1:25} The grace of
our Lord Yehsus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.
{N19)1} Hebrews Chapter One. The Epistle to
the Hebrews. {1:1} God, having of old
time spoken unto the fathers in the prophets by different portions and in different
manners, {1:2} has at the end of these days spoken unto us in [his] Son, whom
he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds; {1:3}
who being the radiance of his glory, and the very image of his substance, and
upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had made purification of
sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; {1:4} having become by
so much better than the messengers, as he has inherited a more excellent name
than they.
{1:5} For unto which of the
messengers [of God] said he at any time, you are my Son, This day I have
begotten you [again]? And again, I
will be to him a Father, And he shall be to me a Son? 1:6} And when He [resurrects to] bring the
firstborn again into the inhabitable world He said, And let all the messengers
of God worship him. {1:7} And of the messengers [of God] He said, "Who
makes His messengers winds, And His ministers flames of fire?: {1:8} but to the Son He [The Father] said,
Your throne, [Ho Theos] "The Almighty God," is for ever and ever; And
the Scepter of good works is the Scepter of your kingdom. {1:9} you have agape
loved [legal] works of the law, and hated works against law; Therefore God,
your [Father] God, has anointed you [as The Christ] with the oil of gladness
above your fellows.
{1:10} And, you, Lord, in the
beginning did lay the foundation of the earth, And the heavens are the works of
your hands: {1:11} They shall perish; but you continue: And they all shall wax
old as does a garment; {1:12} And as a mantle shall you roll them up, As a
garment, and they shall be changed: But you are the same, And your years shall
not fail. {1:13} But of which of the
messengers has he said at any time, Sit you on my right hand, Till I make your
enemies the footstool of your feet?
{1:14} Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to do service
for the sake of them that shall inherit salvation?
{N19)2} Hebrews 2. {2:1} Therefore we ought to give the more
earnest heed to the things that were heard, lest haply we drift away [from
them]. {2:2} For if the word spoken through messengers proved steadfast, and
every transgression of the law and disobedience received a just recompense of
reward; {2:3} how shall we escape, if we neglect so great a salvation? which
having at the first been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed unto us by them
that heard; {2:4} God also bearing witness with them, both by signs and
wonders, and by manifold powers, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to
his own will. {2:5} For not unto messengers did he subject the world to come,
where we speak. {2:6} But one has somewhere testified, saying, What is man,
that you are mindful of him? Or the son of man, that you visits him? {2:7} you
made him a little lower than the messengers; you crowned him with glory and
honor, And did set him over the works of your hands: {2:8} you did put all
things in subjection under his feet. For in that he subjected all things unto
him, he left nothing that is not subject to him. But now we see not yet all
things subjected to him. {2:9} But we behold him who has been made a little
lower than the messengers, [even] Yehsus, because of the suffering of death
crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death
for every [man]. {2:10} For it became him, for whom are all things, and through
whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the author of their
salvation perfect through sufferings. {2:11} For both he that sanctifies and
they that are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to
call them brethren, {2:12} saying, I will declare your name unto my brethren,
In the midst of the assembly I will sing your praise. {2:13} And again, I will put my trust in
him. And again, Behold, I and the children whom God has given me. {2:14} Since
then the children are sharers in flesh and blood, he also himself in like
manner partook of the same; that through death he might bring to nothing him
that had the power of death, that is, the devil; {2:15} and might deliver all
them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
{2:16} For verily not to messengers does he give help, but he gives help to the
seed of Abraham. {2:17} Therefore it behooved him in all things to be made like
unto his brethren, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in
things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.
{2:18} For in that he himself has suffered being tempted, he is able to succor
them that are tempted.
{N19)3} Hebrews Chapter Three. {3:1} Therefore, holy brethren, partakers
of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession,
[even] Yehsus; {3:2} who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also was
Moses in all his house. {3:3} For he has been counted worthy of more glory than
Moses, by so much as he that built the house has more honor than the house.
{3:4} For every house is built by some one; but he that built all things is
God. {3:5} And Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a
testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken; {3:6} but Christ
as a son, over his house; whose house are we, if we hold fast our boldness and
the glorying of our hope [stay] firm unto the end. {3:7} Therefore, even as the
Holy Spirit said, To-day if you shall hear his voice, {3:8} Harden not your
hearts, as in the provocation, Like as in the day of the trial in the
wilderness, {3:9} Where your fathers tried [me] by proving [me,] And saw my
works forty years. {3:10} Therefore I was displeased with this generation, And
said, They do always err in their heart: But they did not know my ways; {3:11}
As I swore in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest. {3:12} Take heed, brethren, lest haply
there shall be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away
from the living God: {3:13} but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is
called To-day; lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin:
{3:14} for we are become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of
our confidence firm unto the end: {3:15} while it is said, To-day if you shall
hear his voice, Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation. {3:16} For who, when they heard, did
provoke? No, did not all they that came out of
{N19)4}
Hebrews 4. {4:1} Let us fear
therefore, lest haply, a promise being left of entering into his rest, any one
of you should seem to have come short of it. {4:2} For indeed we have had good
tidings preached unto us, even as also they: but the word of hearing did not
profit them, because it was not united by faith with them that heard. {4:3} For
we who have believed do enter into that rest; even as he has said, As I swear
in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest: although the works were
finished from the foundation of the world. {4:4} For he has said somewhere of
the seventh [day] on this wise, And God rested on the seventh day from all his
works; {4:5} and in this [place] again, They shall not enter into my rest. {4:6} Seeing therefore it remains that some
should enter there into, and they to whom the good tidings were before preached
failed to enter in because of disobedience, {4:7} he again defines a certain
day, To-day, saying in David so long a time afterward (even as has been said
before), To-day if you shall hear his voice, Harden not your hearts. {4:8} For if Joshua had given them rest,
he would not have spoken afterward of another day. {4:9} There remains
therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God. {4:10} For he that is entered
into his rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from his.
{4:11} Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, that no man
fall after the same example of disobedience. {4:12} For the word of God is
living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to
the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and quick to
discern the thoughts and intents of the heart. {4:13} And there is no creature
that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and laid open
before the eyes of him with whom we have to do. {4:14} Having then a great high
priest, who has passed through the heavens, Yehsus the Son of God, let us hold
fast our confession. {4:15} For we have not a high priest that cannot be
touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but one that has been in all
points tempted like as [we are, yet] outside sin. {4:16} Let us therefore draw
near with boldness unto the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may
find grace to help [us] in time of need.
{N19)5} Hebrews Chapter Five. {5:1} For every high priest, being taken
from among men, is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may
offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins: {5:2} who can bear gently with the
ignorant and erring, for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity;
{5:3} and by reason of it is bound, as for the people, so also for himself, to
offer for sins. {5:4} And no man takes the honor unto himself, but when he is
called of God, even as was Aaron. {5:5} So Christ also glorified not himself to
be made a high priest, but he that spoke unto him, you are my Son, This day
have I begotten you: {5:6} as he said
also in another [place,]you are a priest for ever After the order of
Melchizedek. {5:7} Who in the days of
his flesh, having offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and
tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and having been heard for
his godly fear, {5:8} though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things
which he suffered; {5:9} and having been made perfect, he became unto all them
that obey him the author of eternal salvation; {5:10} named of God a high
priest after the order of Melchizedek. {5:11} Of whom we have many things to
say, and hard of interpretation, seeing you are become dull of hearing. {5:12}
For when by reason of the time you ought to be teachers, you have need again
that some one teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the oracles of
God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food. {5:13}
For every one that partakes of milk is outside experience of the word of [the
legal] works of the law; for he is a babe. {5:14} But solid food is for
full-grown men, [even] those who by reason of use have their senses exercised
to discern good and evil.
{N19)6} Hebrews Chapter Six. {6:1} Therefore leaving the instructions of
the first principles of Christ, let us press on unto perfection; not laying
again a foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,
{6:2} of the teaching of immersions, and of laying on of hands, and of
resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. {6:3} And this will we do,
if God permit. {6:4} For as touching those who were once enlightened and tasted
of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit, {6:5} and
tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the age to come, {6:6} and
[then] fell away, it is impossible to renew them again unto repentance; seeing
they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
{6:7} For the land which has drunk the rain that comes oft upon it, and brings
forth herbs meet for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receives blessing
from God: {6:8} but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near
unto a curse; whose end is to be burned. {6:9} But, agape beloved, we are
persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we
thus speak: {6:10} for God is not working to cause pain and suffering or to
forget your work and the agape love which you showed toward his name, in that
you ministered unto the Holy People, and still do minister. {6:11} And we
desire that each one of you may show the same diligence unto the fullness of
hope even to the end: {6:12} that you be not sluggish, but imitators of them
who through faith and patience inherit the promises. {6:13} For when God made
promise to Abraham, since he could swear by none greater, he swear by himself,
{6:14} saying, Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will
multiply you. {6:15} And thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the
promise. {6:16} For men swear by the greater: and in every dispute of theirs
the oath is final for confirmation. {6:17} Wherein God, being intent to show
more abundantly unto the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel,
interposed with an oath; {6:18} that by two immutable things, in which it is
impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled
for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us: {6:19} which we have as an
anchor of the soul, [a hope] both sure and steadfast and entering into that
which is within the veil; {6:20} where as a forerunner Yehsus entered for us,
having become a high priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
{N19)7} Hebrews Chapter Eight. {7:1} For this Melchizedek, king of Salem,
priest of God Most High, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the
kings and blessed him, {7:2} to whom also Abraham divided a tenth part of all
(being first, by interpretation, King of righteousness, and then also King of
Salem, which is King of peace; {7:3} outside father, outside mother, outside
genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like unto
the Son of God), abides a priest continually. {7:4} Now consider how great this
man was, unto whom Abraham, the patriarch, gave a tenth out of the chief
spoils. {7:5} And they indeed of the sons of Levi that receive the priest's
office have commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law
[through Moses], that is, of their brethren, though these have come out of the
loins of Abraham: {7:6} but he whose genealogy is not counted from them has
taken tithes of Abraham, and has blessed him that has the promises. {7:7} But
outside any dispute the less is blessed of the better. {7:8} And here men that
die receive tithes; but there one, of whom it is witnessed that he lives. {7:9}
And, so to say, through Abraham even Levi, who receives tithes, has paid
tithes; {7:10} for he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchizedek met
him. {7:11} Now if there was perfection through the Levitical priesthood (for
under it has the people received the law [through Moses]), what further need
[was there] that another priest should arise after the order of Melchizedek,
and not be reckoned after the order of Aaron? {7:12} For the priesthood being
changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law [through Moses].
{7:13} For he of whom these things are said belongs to another tribe, from
which no man has given attendance at the altar. {7:14} For it is evident that
our Lord has sprung out of
{N19)8} Hebrews 8. {8:1} Now in the things which we are saying
the chief point [is this]: We have such a high priest, who sat down on the
right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, {8:2} a minister of the
sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man. {8:3}
For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices:
Therefore it is necessary that this [high priest] also have somewhat to offer.
{8:4} Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, seeing there
are those who offer the gifts according to the law [through Moses]; {8:5} who
serve [that which is] a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses
is warned [of God] when he is about to make the tabernacle: for, See, said he,
that you make all things according to the pattern that was showed you in the
mount. {8:6} But now has he obtained a ministry the more excellent, by so much
as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted upon
better promises. {8:7} For if that first [covenant] had been faultless, then
would no place have been sought for a second. {8:8} For finding fault with
them, he said, Behold, the days come, said the Lord, That I will make a new
covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah; {8:9} Not
according to the covenant that I made with their fathers In the day that I took
them by the hand to lead them forth out of the land of Egypt; For they continued
not in my covenant, And I regarded them not, said the Lord. {8:10} For this is
the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel After those days, said
the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, And on their heart also will I
write them: And I will be to them a God, And they shall be to me a people:
{8:11} And they shall not teach every man his fellow-citizen, And every man his
brother, saying, Know the Lord: For all shall know me, From the least to the
greatest of them. {8:12} For I will be merciful to their works against law, And
their sins will I remember no more.
{8:13} In that he said, A new [covenant] he has made the first old. But
that which is becoming old and waxes old is near unto vanishing away.
{N19)9} Hebrews Chapter Nine. {9:1} Now even a first [covenant] had
ordinances of divine service, and its sanctuary, [a sanctuary] of this world.
{9:2} For there was a tabernacle prepared, the first, wherein [were] the
candlestick, and the table, and the showbread; which is called the Holy place.
{9:3} And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holy of
holies; {9:4} having a golden altar of incense, and the ark of the covenant
overlaid round about with gold, wherein [was] a golden pot holding the manna,
and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant; {9:5} and above it
cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy-seat; of which things we cannot now
speak severally. {9:6} Now these things having been thus prepared, the priests
go in continually into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the services; {9:7}
but into the second the high priest alone, once in the year, not outside blood,
which he offers for himself, and for the errors of the people: {9:8} the Holy
Spirit this signifying, that the way into the holy place has not yet been made
manifest, while the first tabernacle is yet standing; {9:9} which [is] a figure
for the time present; according to which are offered both gifts and sacrifices
that cannot, as touching the conscience, make the worshipper perfect, {9:10}
[being] only (with meats and drinks and divers washings) carnal ordinances,
imposed until a time of reformation. {9:11} But Christ having come a high
priest of the good things to come, through the greater and more perfect
tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation, {9:12}
nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood,
entered in once for all into the holy place, having obtained eternal
redemption. {9:13} For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a
heifer sprinkling them that have been defiled, sanctify unto the cleanness of
the flesh: {9:14} how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the
eternal Spirit offered himself outside blemish unto God, cleanse your
conscience from dead works to serve the living God? {9:15} And for this cause
he is the mediator of a new covenant, that a death having taken place for the
redemption of the transgression of the law that were under the first covenant,
they that have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
{9:16} For where a testament is, there must of necessity be the death of him
that made it. {9:17} For a testament is of force where there has been death:
for it does never avail while he that made it lives. {9:18} Therefore even the
first [covenant] has not been dedicated outside blood. {9:19} For when every
commandment had been spoken by Moses unto all the people according to the law
[through Moses], he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet
wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, {9:20}
saying, This is the blood of the covenant which God commanded to you-ward.
{9:21} Furthermore the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry he
sprinkled in like manner with the blood. {9:22} And according to the law
[through Moses], I may almost say, all things are cleansed with blood, and
apart from shedding of blood there is no remission. {9:23} It was necessary
therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with
these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
{9:24} For Christ entered not into a holy place made with hands, like in
pattern to the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear before the face of God
for us: {9:25} nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest
enters into the holy place year by year with blood not his own; {9:26} else
must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once at
the end of the ages has he been manifested to put away sin by the sacrifice of
himself. {9:27} And inasmuch as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after
this [comes] judgment; {9:28} so Christ also, having been once offered to bear
the sins of many, shall appear a second time, apart from sin, to them that wait
for him, unto salvation.
{N19)10} Hebrews Chapter Ten. {10:1} For the [written] law [through Moses]
having a shadow of the good [things] to come, not the very image of the things,
can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually,
make perfect them that draw near. {10:2} Else would they not have ceased to be
offered? because the worshippers, having been once cleansed, would have had no
more consciousness of sins. {10:3} But in those [sacrifices] there is a
remembrance made of sins year by year. {10:4} For it is impossible that the
blood of bulls and goats should take away sins. {10:5} Therefore when he comes
into the world, he said, Sacrifice and offering you would not, But a body did you
prepare for me; {10:6} In whole burnt offerings and [sacrifices] for sin you
had no pleasure: {10:7} Then said I, Lo, I am come (In the roll of the book it
is written of me) To do your will, O God.
{10:8} Saying above, Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings
and [sacrifices] for sin you would not, neither had pleasure therein (the which
are offered according to the law [through Moses]), {10:9} then has he said, Lo,
I am come to do your will. He takes away the first, that he may establish the
second. {10:10} By which will we have been sanctified through the offering of
the body of Yehsus Christ once for all. {10:11} And every priest indeed stands
day by day ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, the which
can never take away sins: {10:12} but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for
sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; {10:13} from here on
expecting till his enemies be made the footstool of his feet. {10:14} For by
one offering he has perfected for ever them that are sanctified. {10:15} And
the Holy Spirit also bears witness to us; for after he has said, {10:16} This
is the covenant that I will make with them After those days, said the Lord: I
will put my laws on their heart, And upon their mind also will I write
them; [then said he,] {10:17} And their
sins and their works against law will I remember no more. {10:18} Now where remission of these is,
there is no more offering for sin. {10:19} Having therefore, brethren, boldness
to enter into the holy place by the blood of Yehsus, {10:20} by the way which
he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say,
his flesh; {10:21} and [having] a great priest over the house of God; {10:22}
let us draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts
sprinkled from an evil conscience: and having our body washed with pure water,
{10:23} let us hold fast the confession of our hope that it waver not; for he
is faithful that promised: {10:24} and let us consider one another to provoke unto
agape love and good works; {10:25} not forsaking our own assembling together,
as the custom of some is, but exhorting [one another]; and so much the more, as
you see the [solar resurrection] day [to worship] drawing near. {10:26} For if
we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there
remains no more a sacrifice for sins, {10:27} but a certain fearful expectation
of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which shall devour the adversaries.
{10:28} A man that has set at nothing Moses law dies outside compassion on [the
word of] two or three witnesses: {10:29} of how much sorer punishment, think
you, shall he be judged worthy, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and
has counted the blood of the covenant wherewith he was sanctified an unholy
thing, and has done despite unto the Spirit of grace? {10:30} For we know him
that said, Vengeance belongs unto me, I will recompense. And again, The Lord
shall judge his people. {10:31} It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of
the living God. {10:32} But call to remembrance the former days, in which,
after you were enlightened, you endured a great conflict of sufferings; {10:33}
partly, being made a gazing stock both by reproaches and afflictions; and
partly, becoming partakers with them that were so used. {10:34} For you both
had compassion on them that were in bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of
your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and
an abiding one. {10:35} Cast not away therefore your boldness, which has great
recompense of reward. {10:36} For you have need of patience, that, having done
the will of God, you may receive the promise. {10:37} For yet a very little
while, He that comes shall come, and shall not tarry. {10:38} But my righteous
one shall live by faith: And if he shrink back, my soul has no pleasure in
him. {10:39} But we are not of them
that shrink back unto perdition; but of them that have faith unto the saving of
the soul.
{N19)11} Hebrews Chapter Eleven. {11:1} Now faith is assurance of [written
things] hoped for, a conviction of [written] things not seen. {11:2} For
therein the elders had witness borne to them. {11:3} By faith we understand
that the worlds have been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen has
not been made out of things which appear. {11:4} By faith Abel offered unto God
a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had witness borne to him
that he was righteous, God bearing witness in respect of his gifts: and through
it he being dead yet speak. {11:5} By faith Enoch was translated that he should
not see death; and he was not found, because God translated him: for he has had
witness borne to him that before his translation he had been well-pleasing unto
God: {11:6} And outside faith it is impossible to be well-pleasing [unto him];
for he that comes to God must believe that he is, and [that] he is a rewarder
of them that seek after him. {11:7} By faith Noah, being warned [of God]
concerning things not seen as yet, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark to
the saving of his house; through which he condemned the world, and became heir
of the [legal] works of the law which is according to faith. {11:8} By faith
Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out unto a place which he was to
receive for an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing where he went. {11:9}
By faith he became a alien in the land of promise, as in a [land] not his own,
dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same
promise: {11:10} for he looked for the city which has the foundations, whose
builder and maker is God. {11:11} By faith even Sarah herself received power to
conceive seed when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had
promised: {11:12} Therefore also there sprang of one, and him as good as dead,
[so many] as the stars of heaven in multitude, and as the sand, which is by the
sea-shore, innumerable. {11:13} These all died in faith, not having received
the promises, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having
confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. {11:14} For they
that say such things make it manifest that they are seeking after a country of
their own. {11:15} And if indeed they had been mindful of that [country] from
which they went out, they would have had opportunity to return. {11:16} But now
they desire a better [country], that is, a heavenly: Therefore God is not
ashamed of them, to be called their God; for he has prepared for them a city.
{11:17} By faith Abraham, being tried, offered up Isaac: behold, he that had
gladly received the promises was offering up his only begotten [son]; {11:18}
even he to whom it was said, In Isaac shall your seed be called: {11:19}
accounting that God [is] able to raise up, even from the dead; from where he
did also in a figure receive him back. {11:20} By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and
Esau, even concerning things to come. {11:21} By faith Jacob, when he was
dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph; and worshipped, [leaning] upon the
top of his staff. {11:22} By faith Joseph, when his end was near, made mention
of the departure of the children of
{N19)12} Hebrews Chapter Twelve. {12:1} Therefore let us also, seeing we are
compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight, and
the sin which does so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race
that is set before us, {12:2} looking unto Yehsus the author and perfecter of
[our] faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross,
despising shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
{12:3} For consider him that has endured such gainsaying of sinners against
himself, that you wax not weary, fainting in your souls. {12:4} you have not
yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin: {12:5} and you have forgotten
the exhortation which reasons with you as with sons, My son, regard not lightly
the chastening of the Lord, Nor faint when you are reproved of him; {12:6} For whom
the Lord agape loves he chastens , And scourges every son whom he
receives. {12:7} It is for chastening
that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom
[his] father chastens not? {12:8} But if you are outside chastening, where all
have been made partakers, then your conception is not lawful, and not sons.
{12:9} Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we gave
them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of
spirits, and live? {12:10} For they indeed for a few days chasten [us] as
seemed good to them; but he for [our] profit, that [we] may be partakers of his
holiness. {12:11} All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but
grievous; yet afterward it yields peaceable fruit unto them that have been
exercised thereby, [even the fruit] of [legal] works of the law. {12:12}
Therefore lift up the hands that hang down, and the knees that are weak;
{12:13} and make straight paths for your feet, that that which is lame be not
turned out of the way, but rather be healed. {12:14} Follow after peace with
all men, and the sanctification outside which no man shall see the Lord:
{12:15} looking carefully lest [there be] any man that falls short of the grace
of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble [you], and thereby the
many be defiled; {12:16} lest [there be] any fornication, or profane person, as
Esau, who for one mess of meat sold his own birthright. {12:17} For you know
that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected;
for he found no place for a change of mind [in his father,] though he sought it
diligently with tears.
{12:18} For you [Holy
People] are not come unto [a mountain]
that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and unto blackness, and
darkness, and tempest, {12:19} and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of
words; which [voice] that they heard
begged [God] no more word should be spoken unto them; {12:20} for they could not
endure that which was commanded, If even a beast touch the mountain, it shall
be stoned; {12:21} and so fearful was the appearance, [that] Moses said, I
exceedingly fear and quake:
12:22} but you [Holy People]
are come into mount Zion, and into the city of the living God, the heavenly
Jerusalem, and [you Holy People have come]
into the hosts of messengers [of God] that cannot be numbered, {12:23}
[You Holy People have come] to the Passover [supper] Assembly and to [the] Ekklesia of the
firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the
spirits of just men made perfect, {12:24} and [you Holy People have come] into
Yehsus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that
speaks better than [that of] Abel. {12:25} See that you refuse not him that speaks.
For if they escaped not when they refused him that warned [them] on earth, much
more [shall not] we [escape] who turn away from him that [warns] from heaven:
{12:26} whose voice then shook the earth: but now he has promised, saying, yet
once more will I make to tremble not the earth only, but also the heaven.
{12:27} And this [word], yet once more, signifies the removing of those things
that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are
not shaken may remain. {12:28} Therefore, [as Holy People] receiving a kingdom
that cannot be shaken, let us have grace, whereby we may offer service
well-pleasing to God with reverence and awe: {12:29} for our God is a consuming
fire.
{N19)13} Hebrews Chapter Thirteen. {13:1} Let philo love of the brethren
continue. {13:2} Forget not to show philo love unto strangers: for thereby some
have entertained messengers [of God] unawares. {13:3} Remember them that are in
bonds, as bound with them; them that are ill-treated, as being yourselves also
in the body. {13:4} [Let] marriage [be] had in honor among all, and [let] the
bed [be] undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge. {13:5} Be
you free from the philo love for more of everything of the world; [Be] content
with such things as you have: for himself has said, I will in no wise fail you,
neither will I in any wise forsake you. {13:6} So that with good courage we
say, The Lord is my helper; I will not fear: What shall man do unto me? {13:7} Remember them that had the rule
over you, men that spoke unto you the word of God; and considering the issue of
their life, imitate their faith. {13:8} Yehsus Christ [is] the same yEstherday
and to-day, [behold] and for ever. {13:9} Be not carried away by diverse and
strange instructions: for it is good that the heart be established by grace;
not by meats, wherein they that occupied themselves were not profited. {13:10}
We have an altar, where they have no right to eat that serve the tabernacle.
{13:11} For the bodies of those beasts whose blood is brought into the holy
place by the high priest [as an offering] for sin, are burned outside the camp.
{13:12} Therefore Yehsus also, that he might sanctify the people through his
own blood, suffered outside the gate. {13:13} Let us therefore go forth unto
him outside the camp, bearing his reproach. {13:14} For we have not here an
abiding city, but we seek after [the city] which is to come. {13:15} Through
him then let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the
fruit of lips which make confession to his name. {13:16} But to do good and to
communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased. {13:17}
Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit [to them]: for they [are
those that} watch in behalf of your souls, as they that shall give account;
that they may do this with joy, and not with grief: for this [were]
unprofitable for you. {13:18} Pray for us: for we are persuaded that we have a
good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things. {13:19} And I exhort
[you] the more exceedingly to do this, that I may be restored to you the
sooner. {13:20} Now the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great
shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, [even] our Lord
Yehsus, {13:21} make you perfect in every good thing to do his will, working in
us that which is well-pleasing in his sight, through Yehsus Christ; to whom
[be] the glory for ever and ever. Amen. {13:22} But I exhort you, brethren,
bear with the word of exhortation, for I have written unto you in few words.
{13:23} Know you that our brother Timothy has been set at liberty; with whom,
if he come shortly, I will see you. {13:24} Salute all them that have the rule
over you, and all the Holy People. They of
{N20)1} James Chapter
One. The General Epistle of James. {1:1} James, a slave of God and of the
Lord Yehsus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are of the Dispersion, greeting.
{1:2} Count it all joy, my brethren, when you fall into manifold temptations;
{1:3} Knowing that the proving of your faith works patience. {1:4} And let
patience have [its] perfect work, that you may be perfect and entire, lacking
in nothing. {1:5} But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives
to all liberally and upbraids not; and it shall be given him. {1:6} But let him
ask in faith, nothing doubting: for he that doubts is like the surge of the sea
driven by the wind and tossed. {1:7} For let not that man think that he shall
receive anything of the Lord; {1:8} a double minded man, unstable in all his
ways. {1:9} But let the brother of low degree glory in his high estate: {1:10}
and the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he
shall pass away. {1:11} For the sun arises with the scorching wind, and withers
the grass: and the flower of it falls, and the grace of the fashion of it
perishes: so also shall the rich man fade away in his goings. {1:12} Blessed is
the man that endures temptation; for when he has been approved, he shall
receive the crown of life, which [the Lord] promised to them that agape love
him. {1:13} Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God; for God
cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no man: {1:14} but each man
is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed. {1:15} Then the
lust, when it has conceived, bears sin: and the sin, when it is full-grown,
brings forth death. {1:16} Be not deceived, my agape beloved brethren. {1:17}
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the
Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, neither shadow that is cast by
turning. {1:18} Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that
we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures. {1:19} you know [this],
my agape beloved brethren. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak,
slow to wrath: {1:20} for the wrath of man works not the [legal] works of the
law of God. {1:21} Therefore putting away all filthiness and overflowing of
wickedness, receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save
your souls. {1:22} But be you doers of the word, and not hearers only, deluding
your own selves. {1:23} For if any one is a hearer of the word and not a doer,
he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a mirror: {1:24} for he
beholds himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what manner of man he
was. {1:25} But he that looks into the perfect law, the [law] of liberty, and
[so] continues, being not a hearer that forgets but a doer that works, this man
shall be blessed in his doing. {1:26} If any man thinks himself to be
religious, while he bridles not his tongue but deceives his heart, this man's
religion is vain. {1:27} Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father
is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep
oneself unspotted from the world.
{N20)2} James Chapter Two. {2:1} My brethren, hold not the faith of our
Lord Yehsus Christ, [the Lord] of glory, with respect of persons. {2:2} For if
there come into your congregation synagogue a man with a gold ring, in fine
clothing, and there come in also a poor man in vile clothing; {2:3} and you
have regard to him that wears the fine clothing, and say, Sit you here in a
good place; and you say to the poor man, Stand you there, or sit under my
footstool; {2:4} Do you not make distinctions among yourselves, and become
judges with evil thoughts? {2:5} Hear, my agape beloved brethren; did not God
choose them that are poor as to the world [to be] rich in faith, and heirs of
the kingdom which he promised to them that love him? {2:6} But you have
dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you, and themselves drag you
before the judgment-seats? {2:7} Do not they blaspheme the honorable name by
which you are called? {2:8} Howbeit if you fulfill the royal law [of Christ the
King], according to the scripture, you shall agape love your neighbor as [you
agape love] yourself, you do well: {2:9} but if you have respect of persons,
you commit sin, being convicted by the [royal] law as transgressors [of the
Royal law]. {2:10} For anyone who shall keep the whole {royal] law, and yet
stumble in one [point], he is become guilty of all. {2:11} For he that said, Do
not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if you do not commit adultery,
but kill, you are become a transgressor of the [royal] law. {2:12} So speak
you, and so do, as men that are to be judged by a [Royal] law of liberty. {2:13} For judgment
[is] outside mercy to him that has showed no mercy: mercy rejoices against
judgment. {2:14} What does it profit, my brethren, if a man say he has faith,
but have not works? can that faith save him? {2:15} If a brother or sister be
naked and in lack of daily food, {2:16} and one of you say unto them, Go in
peace, be you warmed and filled; and yet you give them not the things needful
to the body; what does it profit? {2:17} Even so faith, if it have not works,
[faith] is dead in itself. {2:18} behold, a man will say, you have faith, and I
have works: show me your faith apart from [your] works, and I by my works will
show you [my] faith. {2:19} you believe that God is one; you do well: the
demons also believe, and shudder. {2:20} But will you know, O vain man, that
faith apart from works is unproductive? {2:21} Was not Abraham our father
justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son upon the altar? {2:22}
you see that faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect;
{2:23} and the scripture was fulfilled which said, And Abraham believed God,
and it was reckoned unto him for good works of the law; and he was called the
friend of God. {2:24} you see that by [good] works a man is justified, and not
only by faith. {2:25} And in like manner was not also Rahab the prostitute
justified by [good] works, in that she received the messengers, and sent them
out another way? {2:26} For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so
faith apart from [good] works is dead.
{N20)3} James Chapter Three. {3:1} Be not many [of you] teachers, my
brethren, knowing that we shall receive heavier judgment. {3:2} For in many
things we all stumble. If any stumbles not in word, the same is a perfect man,
able to bridle the whole body also. {3:3} Now if we put the horses' bridles
into their mouths that they may obey us, we turn about their whole body also.
{3:4} Behold, the ships also, though they are so great and are driven by rough
winds, are yet turned about by a very small rudder, where the impulse of the
steersman wills. {3:5} So the tongue also is a little member, and boasts great
things. Behold, how much wood is kindled by how small a fire! {3:6} And the
tongue is a fire: the world of work against law among our members is the
tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the wheel of nature, and
is set on fire by hell. {3:7} For every kind of beasts and birds, of creeping
things and things in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind. {3:8}
But the tongue can no man tame; [it is] a restless evil, [it is] full of deadly
poison. {3:9} With bless we the Lord and Father; and with a curse we men, who
are made after the likeness of God: {3:10} out of the same mouth comes forth
blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. {3:11} Does
the fountain send forth from the same opening sweet [water] and bitter? {3:12}
Can a fig tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a vine figs? Neither [can] salt
water yield sweet. {3:13} Who is wise and understanding among you? let him show
by his good life his works in meekness of wisdom. {3:14} But if you have bitter
jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth.
{3:15} This wisdom is not [a wisdom] that comes down from above, but is
earthly, sensual, devilish. {3:16} For where jealousy and faction are, there is
confusion and every vile deed. {3:17} But the wisdom that is from above is
first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and
good fruits, outside variance, outside hypocrisy. {3:18} And the fruit of
lawful works is sown in peace for them that make peace.
{N20)4} James Chapter Four. {4:1} Where [comes] wars and where [comes]
fightings among you? [come they] not from here, [even] of your pleasures that
war in your members? {4:2} you lust, and have not: you kill, and covet, and
cannot obtain: you fight and war; you have not, because you ask not. {4:3} you
ask, and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you may spend [it] in your
pleasures. {4:4} you adulteresses, know you not that the friendship of the world
is enmity with God? Anyone who therefore would be a friend of the world makes
himself an enemy of God. {4:5} Or think you that the scripture speaks in vain?
Does the spirit which he made to dwell in us long unto envying? {4:6} But he
gives more grace. Therefore [the scripture] said, God resists the proud, but
gives grace to the humble. {4:7} Be subject therefore unto God; but resist the
devil, and he will flee from you. {4:8} Draw near to God, and he will draw near
to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double
minded. {4:9} Be afflicted, and grieve, and weep: let your laughter be turned
to grieving, and your joy to heaviness. {4:10} Humble yourselves in the sight
of the Lord, and he shall exalt you. {4:11} Speak not one against another,
brethren. He that speaks against a brother, or judges his brother, speaks
against the law [of Christ], and judges the law: but if you judge the law, you
are not a doer of the law, but a judge. {4:12} One [only] is the lawgiver and
judge, [even] he who is able to save and to destroy: but who are you that judge
your neighbor? {4:13} Come now, you that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go
into this city, and spend a year there, and trade, and get gain: {4:14} whereas
you know not what shall be on the morrow. What is your life? For you are a
vapor, that appeared for a little time, and then vanishes away. {4:15} For that
you ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall both live, and do this or that.
{4:16} But now you glory in your bragging: all such glorying is evil. {4:17} To
him therefore that knows to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin.
{N20)5} James Chapter
Five. {5:1} Come now, you rich, weep and
howl for your miseries that are coming upon you. {5:2} Your riches are
corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. {5:3} Your gold and your silver
are rusted; and their rust shall be for a testimony against you, and shall eat
your flesh as fire. you have laid up your treasure in the last days. {5:4}
Behold, the hire of the laborers who mowed your fields, which is of you kept
back by fraud, cries out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into
the ears of the Lord of the army of Holy People. {5:5} you have lived
delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure; you have nourished your
hearts in a day of slaughter. {5:6} you have condemned, you have killed the
righteous [one]; he does not resist you. {5:7} Be patient therefore, brethren,
until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waits for the precious
fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receive the early and
latter rain. {5:8} Be you also patient; establish your hearts: for the coming
of the Lord is at hand. {5:9} Murmur not, brethren, one against another, that
you be not judged: behold, the judge stands before the doors. {5:10} Take,
brethren, for an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets who spoke
in the name of the Lord. {5:11} Behold, we call them blessed that endured: you
have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord, how that
the Lord is full of pity, and merciful. {5:12} But above all things, my
brethren, swear not, neither by the heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other
oath: but let your behold be behold, and your No, No; that you fall not under
judgment. {5:13} Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let
him sing praise. {5:14} Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of
the Ekklesia; and let them pray over him, anointing him with olive oil in the
name of the Lord: {5:15} and the prayer of faith shall save him that is sick,
and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, it shall be
forgiven him. {5:16} Confess therefore your sins one to another, and pray one
for another, that you may be healed. The supplication of a righteous man avails
much in its working. {5:17} Elijah was a man of like passions with us, and he
prayed fervently that it might not rain; and it rained not on the earth for
three years and six moons. {5:18} And he prayed again; and the heaven gave
rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit. {5:19} My brethren, if any among
you err from the truth, and one convert him; {5:20} let him know, that he who
converts a sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and
shall cover a multitude of sins.
{ N21)1} First Petros Chapter
One. The First Epistle General of
Petros. (Christ gave Simon son of Jonah the name "Petros" meaning "The Small
Stone") {1:1} Petros, an apostle
of Yehsus Christ, to the elect who are aliens of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia,
Cappadocia, Asia, and Biyournia, {1:2} according to the foreknowledge of God
the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of
the blood of Yehsus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied. {1:3} Blessed
[be] the God and Father of our Lord Yehsus Christ, who according to his great
mercy gives us [spiritual] rebirth unto a living hope through the resurrection
[moment] of Yehsus Christ from the dead, {1:4} unto an inheritance
incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fades not away, reserved in heaven for
you, {1:5} who by the power of God are guarded through faith unto a salvation
ready to be revealed in the last time. {1:6} Wherein you greatly rejoice,
though now for a little while, if need be, you have been put to grief in
manifold trials, {1:7} that the proof of your faith, [being] more precious than
gold that perishes though it is proved by fire, may be found unto praise and
glory and honor at the revelation of Yehsus Christ: {1:8} whom not having seen
you agape love; on whom, though now you see him not, yet believing, you rejoice
greatly with joy unspeakable and full of glory: {1:9} receiving the end of your
faith, [even] the salvation of [your] souls. {1:10} Concerning which salvation
the prophets sought and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that
[should come] unto you: {1:11} searching what [time] or what manner of time the
Spirit of Christ which was in them did point unto, when it testified beforehand
the sufferings of Christ, and the glories that should follow them. {1:12} To
whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto you, did they minister
these things, which now have been announced unto you through them that preached
the good news unto you by the Holy Spirit sent forth from heaven; which things
messengers desire to look into. {1:13} Therefore girding up the loins of your
mind, be sober and set your hope perfectly on the grace that is to be brought
unto you at the revelation of Yehsus Christ; {1:14} as children of obedience,
not fashioning yourselves according to your former lusts in [the time of] your
ignorance: {1:15} but like as he who called you is holy, be you yourselves also
holy in all manner of living; {1:16} because it is written, you shall be holy;
for I am holy. {1:17} And if you call on him as Father, who outside respect of
persons judges according to each man's work, pass the time of your sojourning
in fear: {1:18} knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things,
with silver or gold, from your vain manner of life handed down from your
fathers; {1:19} but with precious blood, as of a lamb outside spot, [even the
blood] of Christ: {1:20} who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the
world, but was manifested at the end of times for your sake, {1:21} who through
him are believers in God, that raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; so
that your faith and hope might be in God. {1:22} Seeing you have purified your
souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned philo love of the brethren,
agape love one another from the heart fervently: {1:23} having been begotten
again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God,
which lives and abides. {1:24} For, All flesh is as grass, And all the glory of
it as the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls: {1:25} But
the word of the Lord abides for ever. And this is the word of good tidings
which was preached unto you.
{N21)2} First Petros Chapter Two. {2:1} Putting away therefore all
wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speaking,
{2:2} as newborn babes, long for the spiritual milk which is outside clever
deceit, that you may grow thereby unto salvation; {2:3} if you have tasted that
the Lord is gracious: {2:4} unto whom coming, a living stone, rejected indeed
of men, but with God elect, precious, {2:5} you also, as living stones, are
built up a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual
sacrifices, acceptable to God through Yehsus Christ. {2:6} Because it is
contained in scripture, Behold, I lay in
{N21)3} First Petros Chapter
Three. {3:1} In like manner, you
wives, [be] in subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the
word, they may outside the word be gained by the behavior of their wives; {3:2}
beholding your chaste behavior [coupled] with fear. {3:3} Whose [adorning] let
it not be the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of
gold, or of putting on apparel; {3:4} but [let it be] the hidden man of the
heart, in the incorruptible [apparel] of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in
the sight of God of great price. {3:5} For after this manner aforetime the holy
women also, who hoped in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their
own husbands: {3:6} as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose children
you now are, if you do well, and are not put in fear by any terror. {3:7} you
husbands, in like manner, dwell with [your wives] according to knowledge,
giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also
joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.
{3:8} Finally, [be] you all like minded, compassionate, philo loving as
brethren, tenderhearted, humble minded: {3:9} not rendering evil for evil, or
reviling for reviling; but contrariwise blessing; for hereunto were you called,
that you should inherit a blessing. {3:10} For, He that would agape love life,
And see good days, Let him refrain his tongue from evil, And his lips that they
speak no guile: {3:11} And let him turn away from evil, and do good; Let him
seek peace, and pursue it. {3:12} For the eyes of the Lord are upon the
righteous, And his ears unto their supplication: But the face of the Lord is
upon them that do evil. {3:13} And
who is he that will harm you, if you be zealous of that which is good? {3:14}
But even if you should suffer for sake of Lawful works, blessed [are you:] and fear
not their fear, neither be troubled; {3:15} but sanctify in your hearts Christ
as Lord: [being] ready always to give answer to every man that asks you a
reason concerning the hope that is in you, yet with meekness and fear: {3:16}
having a good conscience; that, wherein you are spoken against, they may be put
to shame who revile your good manner of life in Christ. {3:17} For it is
better, if the will of God should so will, that you suffer for well-doing than
for evil-doing. {3:18} Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the
righteous for the unlawful works, that he might bring us to God; being put to
death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit; {3:19} in which also he went
and preached unto the spirits in prison, {3:20} that before time were
disobedient, when the long suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while
the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls, were saved through
water: {3:21} which also after a true likeness [saving through water] does now
save you, [even] immersion [in water], not the putting away of the filth of the
flesh, but the obedience of a good conscience toward God, through the
resurrection of Yehsus Christ; {3:22} who is on the right hand of God, having
gone into heaven; messengers and authorities and powers being made subject unto
him.
{N21)4} First Petros Chapter
Four. {4:1} Forasmuch then as Christ
suffered in the flesh, arm you yourselves also with the same mind; for he that
has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin; {4:2} that you no longer should
live the rest of your time in flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of
God. {4:3} For the time past may suffice to have wrought the desire of the
Gentiles, and to have walked in lasciviousness, lusts, wine-to the excess,
reveling, carousing, and abominable idolatries: {4:4} wherein they think it
strange that you run not with [them] into the same excess of riot, speaking
evil of [you]: {4:5} who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the
living and the dead. {4:6} For unto this end was the good news preached even to
the dead, that they might be judged indeed according to men in the flesh, but
live according to God in the spirit. {4:7} But the end of all things is at
hand: be you therefore of sound mind, and be sober unto prayer: {4:8} above all
things being fervent in your agape love among yourselves; for agape love covers
a multitude of sins: {4:9} using hospitality one to another outside murmuring:
{4:10} according as each has received a gift, ministering it among yourselves,
as good stewards of the manifold grace of God; {4:11} if any man speak,
[speaking] as it were oracles of God; is any man ministers, [ministering] as of
the strength which God supplies: that in all things God may be glorified
through Yehsus Christ, whose is the glory and the dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
{4:12} Agape beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial among
you, which comes upon you to prove you, as though a strange thing happened unto
you: {4:13} but insomuch as you are partakers of Christ's sufferings, rejoice;
that at the revelation of his glory also you may rejoice with exceeding joy.
{4:14} If you are reproached for the name of Christ, blessed [are you]; because
the [Spirit] of glory and the Spirit of God rests upon you. {4:15} For let none
of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil-doer, or as a meddler in
other men's matters: {4:16} but if [a man suffer] as a Christian, let him not
be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this name. {4:17} For the time [is come]
for judgment to begin at the house of God: and if [it begin] first at us, what
[shall be] the end of them that obey not the good news of God? {4:18} And if
the righteous is scarcely saved, where shall the ungodly and sinner appear?
{4:19} Therefore let them also that suffer according to the will of God commit their
souls in well-doing unto a faithful Creator.
{N21)5} First Petros Chapter Five. {5:1} The elders among you I exhort, who am
a fellow-elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, who am also a
partaker of the glory that shall be revealed: {5:2} Tend the flock of God which
is among you, exercising the oversight, not of constraint, but willingly,
according to [the will of] God; nor yet for undeserved gain, but of a ready
mind; {5:3} neither as lording it over the charge allotted to you, but making
yourselves ensamples to the flock. {5:4} And when the chief Shepherd shall be
manifested, you shall receive the crown of glory that fades not away. {5:5}
Likewise, you younger, be subject unto the elder. behold, all of you gird
yourselves with humility, to serve one another: for God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.
{5:6} Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may
exalt you in due time; {5:7} casting all your anxiety upon him, because he
cares for you. {5:8} Be sober, be watchful: your adversary the devil, as a
roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour, {5:9} whom withstand
steadfast in your faith, knowing that the same sufferings are accomplished in
your brethren who are in the world. {5:10} And the God of all grace, who called
you unto his eternal glory in Christ, after that you have suffered a little
while, shall himself perfect, establish, strengthen you. {5:11} To him [be] the
dominion for ever and ever. Amen. {5:12} By Silvanus, our faithful brother, as
I account [him], I have written unto you briefly, exhorting, and testifying
that this is the true grace of God. Stand you fast therein. {5:13} She that is
in Babylon, elect together with [you], salutes you; and [so does] Mark my son.
{5:14} Salute one another with a kiss of agape love. Peace be unto you all that
are in Christ.
{N22)1} Second Petros Chapter
One. The Second Epistle General of
Petros (the "Small Stone")
{1:1} Simon Petros, a slave and apostle of Yehsus Christ, to them that
have obtained a like precious faith with us in the lawful works of our God and
[the] Savior Yehsus Christ: {1:2} Grace to you and peace be multiplied in the
knowledge of God and of Yehsus our Lord; {1:3} seeing that his divine power has
granted unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the
knowledge of him that called us by his own glory and virtue; {1:4} whereby he
has granted unto us his precious and exceeding great promises; that through
these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the
corruption that is in that world by lust. {1:5} behold, and for this very cause
adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply virtue; and in [your]
virtue knowledge; {1:6} and in [your] knowledge self-control; and in [your]
self-control patience; and in [your] patience godliness; {1:7} and in [your]
godliness brotherly kindness; and in [your] brotherly kindness agape love.
{1:8} For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not idle
nor unfruitful unto the knowledge of our Lord Yehsus Christ. {1:9} For he that
lacks these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the
cleansing from his old sins. {1:10} Therefore, brethren, give the more
diligence to make your calling and election certain: for if you do these
things, you shall never fail: {1:11} for thus
shall be richly supplied unto you the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Yehsus Christ.
{1:12} Therefore I shall be ready always to put you in remembrance of these things,
though you know them, and are established in the truth which is with [you].
{1:13} And I think it right, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up
by putting you in remembrance; {1:14} knowing that the putting off of my
tabernacle comes swiftly, even as our Lord Yehsus Christ signified unto me.
{1:15} behold, I will give diligence that at every time you may be able after
my decease to call these things to remembrance. {1:16} For we did not follow
cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of
our Lord Yehsus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. {1:17} For he
received from God the Father honor and glory, when there was borne such a voice
to him by the Majestic Glory, This is my agape beloved Son, in whom I am well
pleased: {1:18} and this voice we [ourselves] heard borne out of heaven, when
we were with him in the holy mount. {1:19} And we have the word of prophecy
[made] more sure; whereunto you do well that you take heed, as unto a lamp
shining in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your
hearts: {1:20} knowing this first, that no prophecy of scripture is of private
interpretation. {1:21} For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but men
spoke from God, being moved by the Holy Spirit.
{N22)2} Second Petros Chapter
Two. {2:1} But there arose false
prophets also among the people, as among you also there shall be false
teachers, who shall in secret bring in destructive heresies, denying even the
Master that bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. {2:2} And
many shall follow their lascivious doings; by reason of whom the way of the
truth shall be evil spoken of. {2:3} And in covetousness shall they with
feigned words make merchandise of you: whose sentence now from of old lingers
not, and their destruction slumbers not. {2:4} For if God spared not messengers
when they sinned, but cast them down to hell, and committed them to pits of
darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; {2:5} and spared not the ancient world,
but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he
brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; {2:6} and turning the cities of
Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, having made
them an example unto those that should live ungodly; {2:7} and delivered
righteous Lot, sore distressed by the lascivious life of the wicked {2:8} (for
that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed [his]
righteous soul from day to day with [their] lawless deeds): {2:9} the Lord
knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to keep the unrighteous
under punishment unto the day of judgment; {2:10} but chiefly them that walk
after the flesh in the lust of defilement, and despise dominion. Daring, self-willed,
they tremble not to rail at dignities: {2:11} whereas messengers, though
greater in might and power, bring not a railing judgment against them before
the Lord. {2:12} But these, as creatures outside reason, born mere animals to
be taken and destroyed, railing in matters where they are ignorant, shall in
their destroying [the hope of others shall] surely be destroyed, {2:13}
suffering wrong as the hire of wrong-doing;
[men] that count it pleasure to revel in the day-time, spots and
blemishes, reveling in their deceiving while they feast with you; {2:14} having
eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; enticing un-steadfast
souls; having a heart exercised in covetousness; children of cursing; {2:15}
forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam
the [son] of Beor, who agape loved the hire of wrong-doing; {2:16} but he was
rebuked for his own transgression of the law [through Moses]: a dumb donkey
spoke with man's voice and stayed the madness of the prophet. {2:17} These are
springs outside water, and mists driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of
darkness has been reserved. {2:18} For, uttering great swelling [words] of
vanity, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by lasciviousness, those who are
just escaping from them that live in error; {2:19} promising them liberty,
while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for of whom a man is
overcome [by sin], of the same is he also brought into bondage. {2:20} For if,
after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of
the Lord and Savior Yehsus Christ, [through sin] they are again entangled
therein and overcome, the last state is become worse with them than the first.
{2:21} For it were better for them not to have known the way of lawful works,
than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered unto
them. {2:22} It has happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog
turning to his own vomit again, and the sow that had washed to wallowing in the
mire.
{N22)3} Second Petros Chapter Three. {3:1} This is now, agape beloved, the second
epistle that I write unto you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind
by putting you in remembrance; {3:2} that you should remember the words which
were spoken before by the holy prophets, and the commandments of the Lord and
Savior through your apostles: {3:3} knowing this first, that in the last days
mockers shall come with mockery, walking after their own lusts, {3:4} and
saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for, from the day that the fathers
fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the
creation. {3:5} For this they willfully forget, that there were heavens from of
old, and an earth compacted out of water and amidst water, by the word of God;
{3:6} by which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water,
perished: {3:7} but the heavens that now are, and the earth, by the same word
have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and
destruction of ungodly men.
{3:8} But forget not this one thing, agape
beloved, that [the eye measure of] one day is with the Lord as thousands of
years [in the eye measure of man], and the [eye measure of] thousands of years
[for the eye of man] as [the eye measure of only] one day [in the eye of the
Lord]. {3:9} The Lord is not slack
concerning his promise, as some count slackness; but is longsuffering to
you-ward, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to
repentance. {3:10} But the day of the Lord will come as a thief; in the which
the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall be
dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are therein shall
be burned up. {3:11} Seeing that these things are thus all to be dissolved,
what manner of persons ought you to be in [all] holy living and godliness,
{3:12} looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, by
reason of which the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements
shall melt with fervent heat? {3:13} But, according to his promise, we look for
new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwells good works. {3:14} Therefore, agape
beloved, seeing that you look for these things, give diligence that you may be
found in peace, outside spot and blameless in his sight. {3:15} And account
that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our agape beloved
brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote unto you; {3:16}
as also in all [his] epistles, speaking in them of these things; wherein are
some things hard to be understood, which the ignorant and un-steadfast
withhold, as [they do] also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
{3:17} you therefore, agape beloved, knowing [these things] beforehand, beware
lest, being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own
steadfastness. {3:18} But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and
Savior Yehsus Christ. To him [be] the glory both now and for ever. Amen.
{N23)1} First Epistle of John
Chapter One. {1:1} That which was from the beginning, that
which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we
beheld, and our hands handled, concerning the Word of life {1:2} (and the life
was manifested, and we have seen, and bear witness, and declare unto you the
life, the eternal [life], which was with the Father, and was manifested unto
us); {1:3} that which we have seen and heard declare we unto you also, that you
also may have fellowship with us: behold, and our fellowship is with the
Father, and with his Son Yehsus Christ: {1:4} and these things we write, that
our joy may be made full. {1:5} And this is the message which we have heard
from him and announce unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at
all. {1:6} If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness,
we lie, and do not the truth: {1:7} but if we walk in the light, as he is in
the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Yehsus his Son
cleans us from all sin. {1:8} If we say that we have no sin, we deceive
ourselves, and the truth is not in us. {1:9} If we confess our sins, he is
faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all
[illegal] works against the law. {1:10} If we say that we have not sinned, we
make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
{N23)2} First Epistle of John Chapter Two. {2:1} My little children, these things
write I unto you that you may not sin. And if any man sin, we have an Advocate
with the Father, Yehsus Christ the righteous: {2:2} and he is the propitiation
for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for the whole world. {2:3} And
hereby we know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. {2:4} He that
said, I know him, and keeps not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is
not in him; {2:5} but who so keeps his word, in him verily has the agape love
of God been perfected. Hereby we know that we are in him: {2:6} he that said he
abides in him ought himself also to walk even as he walked. {2:7} Brethren, no
new commandment write I unto you, but an old commandment which you had from the
beginning: the old commandment is the word which you heard. {2:8} Again, a new
commandment write I unto you, which thing is true in him and in you; because
the darkness is passing away, and the true light already shines. {2:9} He that
said he is in the light and hates his brother, is in the darkness even until
now. {2:10} He that agape loves his brother abides in the light, and there is
no occasion of stumbling in him. {2:11} But he that hates his brother is in the
darkness, and walks in the darkness, and knows not where he goes, because the
darkness has blinded his eyes. {2:12} I write unto you, [my] little children,
because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake. {2:13} I write unto
you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write unto you,
young men, because you have overcome the
evil one. I have written unto you, little children, because you know the Father.
{2:14} I have written unto you, fathers, because you know him who is from the
beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because you are strong, and the
word of God abides in you, and you have overcome [temptation from] the evil one.
{2:15} Agape love not the
world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man agape love the world, the agape
love of the Father is not in him. {2:16} For all that is in the world, the lust
of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the vain glory of life, is not of the
Father, but is of the world. {2:17} And the world passes away, and the lust
there: but he that does [works in] the will of God abides for ever. {2:18} Little children, it is the last hour:
and as you heard that antichrist comes, even now have there arisen many
antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last hour. {2:19} They went out
from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have
continued with us: but [they went out], that they might be made manifest that
they all are not of us. {2:20} And you
have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all the things. {2:21} I have
not written unto you because you do not know the truth, but because you know
it, and because no lie is of the truth. {2:22} Who is the liar but he that denies
that Yehsus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, [even] he that denies the
Father and the Son. {2:23} Anyone who denies the Son, the same has not the
Father: he that confesses the Son has the Father also. {2:24} As for you, let that abide in you
which you heard from the beginning. If that which you heard from the beginning
abide in you, you also shall abide in the Son, and in the Father. {2:25} And
this is the promise which he promised us, [even] the life eternal. {2:26} These things have I written unto
you concerning them that would lead you astray. {2:27} And as for you, the
anointing which you received of him abides in you, and you need not that any
one teach you; but as his anointing teaches you; concerning all things, and is
true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you abide in him. {2:28} And now, [my] little children, abide
in him; that, if he shall be manifested, we may have boldness, and not be
ashamed before him at his coming. {2:29} If you know that he is righteous, you
know that every one also that does lawful works is begotten of him.
{N23)3} First Epistle of John
Chapter Three. {3:1} Behold what manner
of agape love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called
children of God; and [such] we are. For this cause the world knows us not,
because it knew him not. {3:2} Agape Beloved, now are we children of God, and
it is not yet made manifest what we shall be. We know that, if he shall be
manifested, we shall be like him; for we shall see him even as he is. {3:3} And
every one that has this hope [set] on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.
{3:4} Every one that does sin does also lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness.
{3:5} And you know that he was manifested to take away sins; and in him is no
sin. {3:6} Anyone who abides in him sins not: anyone who sins has not seen him,
neither knows him. {3:7} [My] little children, let no man lead you astray: he
that does lawful works is legal or lawful, even as he is [made by his works]
lawful: {3:8} he that does sin is of the devil; for the devil sins from the
beginning. To this end was the Son of God manifested, that he might destroy the
works of the devil. {3:9} Anyone who is begotten of God does no sin, because
his seed abides in him: and he cannot sin, because he is begotten of God.
{3:10} In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil:
anyone who does not lawful works, is not of God, neither he that agape loves
not his brother. {3:11} For this is the message which you heard from the
beginning, that we should agape love one another: {3:12} not as Cain was of the
evil one, and slew his brother. And Therefore slew he him? Because his works
were evil, and his brother's works were lawful. {3:13} Marvel not, brethren, if
the world hates you. {3:14} We know that we have passed out of death into life,
because we agape love the brethren. He that agape loves not abides in death.
{3:15} Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer: and you know that no
murderer has eternal life abiding in him. {3:16} Hereby know we agape love,
because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for
the brethren. {3:17} But who so has the world's goods, and beholds his brother
in need, and shuts up his compassion from him, how does the agape love of God
abide in him? {3:18} [My] Little children, let us not agape love in word,
neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth. {3:19} Hereby shall we know
that we are of the truth, and shall assure our heart before him: {3:20} because
if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.
{3:21} Agape Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, we have boldness toward God;
{3:22} and what ever we ask we receive of him, because we keep his commandments
and do the things that are pleasing in his sight. {3:23} And this is his
commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son Yehsus Christ, and
agape love one another, even as he gave us commandment. {3:24} And he that
keeps his commandments abides in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he
abides in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.
{N23)4} First Epistle of John
Chapter Four. {4:1} Agape beloved,
believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, whether they are of God;
because many false prophets are gone out into the world. {4:2} Hereby know you
the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Yehsus Christ is come in
the flesh is of God: {4:3} and every spirit that confesses not Yehsus is not of
God: and this is the [spirit] of the antichrist, where you have heard that it
comes; and now it is in the world already. {4:4} you are of God, [my] little
children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you than he
that is in the world. {4:5} They are of the world: therefore speak they [as] of
the world, and the world hears them. {4:6} We are of God: he that knows God
hears us; he who is not of God hears us not. By this we know the spirit of
truth, and the spirit of error. {4:7} Agape beloved, let us agape love one
another: for agape love is of God; and every one that agape loves is begotten
of God, and knows God. {4:8} He that agape loves not knows not God; for God is
agape love. {4:9} Herein was the agape love of God manifested in us, that God
has sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live through him.
{4:10} Herein is agape love, not that we agape loved God, but that he agape
loved us, and sent his Son [to be] the propitiation for our sins. {4:11} Agape
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to agape love one another. {4:12} No
man has beheld God at any time: if we agape love one another, God abides in us,
and his agape love is perfected in us: {4:13} hereby we know that we abide in
him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. {4:14} And we have
beheld and bear witness that the Father has sent the Son [to be] the Savior of
the world. {4:15} Anyone who shall confess that Yehsus is the Son of God, God
abides in him, and he in God. {4:16} And we know and have believed the agape
love which God has in us. God is agape love; and he that abides in agape love abides
in God, and God abides in him. {4:17} Herein is agape love made perfect with
us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as he is, even so
are we in this world. {4:18} There is no fear in agape love: but perfect agape
love cast out fear, because fear has punishment; and he that fears is not made
perfect in agape love. {4:19} We agape love, because he first agape loved us.
{4:20} If a man say, I agape love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar: for
he that agape loves not his brother whom he has seen, cannot agape love God
whom he has not seen. {4:21} And this commandment have we from him, that he who
agape loves God agape love his brother also.
{N23)5} First Epistle of John
Chapter Five. {5:1} Every one who
believes that Yehsus is the Christ is begotten of God: and every one who agape
loves him that is begot, agape loves him also that is begotten of him. {5:2}
Hereby we know that we agape love the children of God, when we agape love God
and do his commandments. {5:3} For this is the agape love of God, that we keep
his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous. {5:4} For every one
that is begotten of God overcomes the world [of sin]: and this is the victory
that has overcome [the sin of] the world, [even] our faith. {5:5} And who is he
that overcomes the world [of sin], but he that believes that Yehsus is the Son
of God? {5:6} This is he that came by water and blood, [even] Yehsus Christ;
not with the water only, but with the water and with the blood. {5:7} And it is
the Spirit that bears witness, because the Spirit is the truth. {5:8} For there
are three who bear witness, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and the
three agree in one. {5:9} If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God
is greater: for the witness of God is this, that he has borne witness
concerning his Son. {5:10} He that believes on the Son of God has the witness
in him: he that believes not God has made him a liar; because he has not
believed in the witness that God has borne concerning his Son. {5:11} And the
witness is this, that God gave unto us eternal life, and this life is in his
Son. {5:12} He that has the Son has the life; he that has not the Son of God
has not the life. {5:13} These things have I written unto you, that you may know
that you have eternal life, [even] unto you that believe on the name of the Son
of God. {5:14} And this is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we
ask anything according to his will, he hears us: {5:15} and if we know that he
hears us what ever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have
asked of him. {5:16} If any man see his brother sinning a sin not unto death,
he shall ask, and [God] will give him life for them that sin not unto death.
There is a sin unto death: not concerning this do I say that he should make
request. {5:17} All [illegal] works against law is sin: and there is a sin not
unto death. {5:18} We know that anyone who is begotten of God sins not; but he
that was begotten of God keeps himself, and the evil one touches him not.
{5:19} We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the evil one.
{5:20} And we know that the Son of God is come, and has given us an
understanding, that we know him that is true, and we are in him that is true,
[even] in his Son Yehsus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life. {5:21}
[My] little children, guard yourselves from idols.
{N24)1} Second Epistle of
John Chapter One. {1:1} The elder unto
the elect Lady [Ekklesia] and her children, whom I agape love in truth; and not
I only, but also all they that know the truth; {1:2} for the truth's sake which
abides in us, and it shall be with us for ever: {1:3} Grace, mercy, peace shall
be with us, from God the Father, and from Yehsus Christ, the Son of the Father,
in truth and agape love. {1:4} I rejoice greatly that I have found [certain] of
your children walking in truth, even as we received commandment from the
Father. {1:5} And now I ask you Lady [Ekklesia], not as though I wrote to you a
new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we agape love
one another. {1:6} And this is agape love, that we should walk after his
commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning,
that you should walk in it. {1:7} For many deceivers are gone forth into the
world, [even] they that confess not that Yehsus Christ comes in the flesh. This
is the deceiver and the antichrist. {1:8} Look to yourselves, that you lose not
the things which we have wrought, but that you receive a full reward. {1:9}
Anyone who goes onward and abides not in the instructions of Christ, has not
God: he that abides in the instructions, the same has both the Father and the
Son. {1:10} If any one comes unto you, and brings not these instructions,
receive him not into [your] house, and do not say God be with you: {1:11} for
he that gives him greetings partakes in his evil works. {1:12} Having many
things to write unto you, I would not [write them] with paper and ink: but I
hope to come unto you, and to speak face to face, that your joy may be made
full. {1:13} The children of your elect sister [Ekklesia] salute you.
{N25)1} Third Epistle of John
Chapter One. {1:1} The elder unto Gaius the agape
beloved, whom I agape love in truth. {1:2} Beloved, I pray that in all things
you may prosper and be in health, even as your soul prospers. {1:3} For I
rejoiced greatly, when brethren came and bare witness unto your truth, even as
you walk in truth. {1:4} Greater joy have I none than this, to hear of my
children walking in the truth. {1:5} Beloved, you do a faithful work in what
ever you do toward them that are brethren and strangers withal; {1:6} who bare
witness to your agape love before the Ekklesia: whom you will do well to set
forward on their journey worthily of God: {1:7} because that for the sake of
the Name they went forth, taking nothing of the Gentiles. {1:8} We therefore
ought to welcome such, that we may be fellow-workers for the truth. {1:9} I
wrote a few things unto the Ekklesia: but Diotrephes, who loves to have the
preeminence among them, [he] receives us not. {1:10} Therefore, if I come, I
will bring to remembrance his works which he does, prating against us with
wicked words: and not content with, neither does he himself receive the
brethren, and them that would he forbid and cast [them] out of the Ekklesia.
{1:11} Beloved, imitate not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that
does good is of God: he that does evil has not seen God. {1:12} Demetrius has
the witness of all [men], and of the truth itself: behold, we also bear
witness: and you know that our witness is true. {1:13} I had many things to
write unto you, but I am unwilling to write [them] to you with ink and pen:
{1:14} but I hope shortly to see you, and we shall speak face to face. Peace
[be] unto you. The friends salute you. Salute the friends by name.
{N26)1} The General Epistle
of Jude Chapter One. {1:1} Jude, a slave
of Yehsus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are called, agape beloved
in God the Father, and kept for Yehsus Christ: {1:2} Mercy unto you and peace
and agape love be multiplied. {1:3} Agape beloved, while I was giving all
diligence to write unto you of our common salvation, I was compelled [by the
spirit] to write unto you exhorting you to debate earnestly for the faith which
was [written just] once for all [time and] delivered unto the Holy People.
{1:4} For there are certain men crept in secretly, [even] they who were of old
written of beforehand unto this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of
our God into lasciviousness, and denying our only Master and Lord, Yehsus
Christ. {1:5} Now I desire to put you in remembrance, though you know all
things once for all, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the
{N27)1} Revelation Chapter
One. The Book of Revelation to Holy
Person of the Apostle John. {1:1} The
Revelation of Yehsus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his slaves, [even]
the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified [it] by
his messenger unto his servant John; {1:2} who bare witness of the word of God,
and of the testimony of Yehsus Christ, [even] of all things that he saw. {1:3}
Blessed is he that reads, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and
keep the things that are written therein: for the time is at hand. {1:4} John
to the seven Ekklesias that is in Asia: Grace to you and peace, from him who is
and who was and who is to come; and from the seven Spirits that are before his
throne; {1:5} and from Yehsus Christ, [who is] the faithful witness, the
firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. Unto him that
agape loves us, and loosed us from our sins by his blood; {1:6} and he made us
[to be in his] kingdom, [to be] priests unto his God and Father; to him [be]
the glory and the dominion for ever and ever. Amen. {1:7} Behold, he comes with
the clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they that pierced him; and all the
tribes of the earth shall grieve over him. Even so, Amen. {1:8} I am the Alpha
and the Omega, said the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the
Almighty. {1:9} I John, your brother and partaker with you in tribulation and
kingdom and patience [which are] in Yehsus, was in the isle that is called
{N27)2} Revelation Chapter Two. {2:1} To the messenger of the Ekklesia in
Ephesus write: These things said he that holds the seven stars in his right
hand, he that walks in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks: {2:2} I know
your works, and your toil and patience, and that you Can not bear evil men, and
did try them that call themselves apostles, and they are not, and did find them
false; {2:3} and you have patience and did bear for my name's sake, and have
not grown weary. {2:4} But I have [this] against you, that you did leave your
first agape love. {2:5} Remember therefore where you are fallen, and repent and
do the first works; or else I come to you, and will move your candlestick out of
its place, except you repent. {2:6} But this you have, that you hate the works
of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. {2:7} He that has an ear, let him hear
what the Spirit said to the Ekklesias. To him that overcomes [temptation to
sin], to him will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise
of God. {2:8} And to the messenger of the Ekklesia in
{N27)3} Revelation Chapter
Three. {3:1} And to the messenger of
the Ekklesia in
{N27)4} Revelation Chapter Four. {4:1} After these things I saw, and behold, a
door opened in heaven, and the first voice that I heard, [a voice] as of a
trumpet speaking with me, one saying, Come up here, and I will show you the
things which must come to pass hereafter. {4:2} Immediately I was in the
Spirit: and behold, there was a throne set in heaven, and one sitting upon the
throne; {4:3} and he that sat [was] to look upon like a jasper stone and a
sardius: and [there was] a rainbow round about the throne, like an emerald to
look upon. {4:4} And round about the throne [were] four and twenty thrones: and
upon the thrones [I saw] four and twenty elders sitting, arrayed in white
garments; and on their heads crowns of gold. {4:5} And out of the throne
proceed lightnings and voices and thunders. And [there was] seven lamps of fire
burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God; {4:6} and before
the throne, as it were a sea of glass like a crystal; and in the midst of the
throne, and round about the throne, four living creatures full of eyes before
and behind. {4:7} And the first creature [was] like a
lion, and the second creature like a calf, and the third creature had a face as
of a man, and the fourth creature [was] like a flying eagle. {4:8} and the four
living creatures, having each one of them six wings, are full of eyes round
about and within: and they have no rest day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, [is] the Lord God, the
Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come. {4:9} And when the living creatures shall
give glory and honor and thanks to him that sits on the throne, to him that
lives for ever and ever, {4:10} the four and twenty elders shall fall down
before him that sits on the throne, and shall worship him that lives for ever
and ever, and shall cast their crowns before the throne, saying, {4:11} Worthy are you, our Lord and our
God, to receive the glory and the honor and the power: for you did create all
things, and because of your will they were, and were created.
{N27)5} Revelation Chapter Five.
{5:1} And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book
written within and on the back, close sealed with seven seals. {5:2} And I saw
a strong messenger proclaiming with a great voice, Who is worthy to open the
book, and to loose the seals there? {5:3} And no one in the heaven, or on the
earth, or under the earth, was able to open the book, or to look thereon. {5:4}
And I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open the book, or to look
thereon: {5:5} and one of the elders said unto me, Weep not; behold, the Lion
that is of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome to open the book
and the seven seals there. {5:6} And I saw in the midst of the throne and of
the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, a Lamb standing, as
though it had been slain, having seven horns, and seven eyes, which are the
seven Spirits of God, sent forth into all the earth. {5:7} And he came, and he
takes [it] out of the right hand of him that sat on the throne. {5:8} And when
he had taken the book, the four living creatures and the four and twenty elders
fell down before the Lamb, having each one a harp, and golden bowls full of
incense, which are the prayers of the Holy People. {5:9} And they sing a new
song, saying, Worthy are you to take
the book, and to open the seals there: for you was slain, and did purchase unto
God with your blood [men] of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation,
{5:10} and made them [to be] unto our God a kingdom and priests; and they reign
upon earth. {5:11} And I saw, and I
heard a voice of many messengers round about the throne and the living creatures
and the elders; and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and
thousands of thousands; {5:12} saying with a great voice, Worthy is the Lamb that has been slain to
receive the power, and riches, and wisdom, and might and honor, and glory, and
blessing. {5:13} And every created thing
which is in the heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and on the sea,
and all things are in them, heard I saying,
Unto him that sits on the throne, and unto the Lamb, [be] the blessing,
and the honor, and the glory, and the dominion, for ever and ever. {5:14} And the four living creatures said,
Amen. And the elders fell down and worshipped.
{N27)6} Revelation Chapter
Six. {6:1} And I saw when the Lamb
opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures
saying as with a voice of thunder, Come. {6:2} And I saw, and behold, a white
horse, and he that sat thereon had a bow; and there was given unto him a crown:
and he came forth conquering, and to conquer. {6:3} And when he opened the
second seal, I heard the second living creature saying, Come. {6:4} And another
[horse] came forth, a red horse: and to him that sat thereon it was given to
take peace from the earth, and that they should slay one another: and there was
given unto him a great sword. {6:5} And when he opened the third seal, I heard
the third living creature saying, Come. And I saw, and behold, a black horse;
and he that sat thereon had a balance in his hand. {6:6} And I heard as it were
a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, A measure of wheat
for a shilling, and three measures of barley for a shilling; and the oil and
the wine hurt you not. {6:7} And when he opened the fourth seal, I heard the
voice of the fourth living creature saying, Come. {6:8} And I saw, and behold,
a pale horse: and he that sat upon him, his name was Death; and Hades followed
with him. And there was given unto them authority over the fourth part of the
earth, to kill with sword, and with famine, and with death, and by the wild
beasts of the earth. {6:9} And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath
the altar the souls of them that had been slain for the word of God, and for
the testimony which they held: {6:10} and they cried with a great voice,
saying, How long, O Master, the holy and true, do you not judge and avenge our
blood on them that dwell on the earth? {6:11} And there was given them to each
one a white robe; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a
little time, until their fellow-servants also and their brethren, who should be
killed even as they were, should have fulfilled [their course]. {6:12} And I
saw when he opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake; and the
sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the whole moon became as blood;
{6:13} and the stars of the heaven fell unto the earth, as a fig tree cast her
unripe figs when she is shaken of a great wind. {6:14} And the heaven was
removed as a scroll when it is rolled up; and every mountain and island were
moved out of their places. {6:15} And the kings of the earth, and the princes,
and the chief captains, and the rich, and the strong, and every bondman and
freeman, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains; {6:16}
and they say to the mountains and to the rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from
the face of him that sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: {6:17}
for the great day of their wrath is come; and who is able to stand?
{N27)7 Revelation Chapter
Seven. {7:1} After his I saw four
messengers standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of
the earth, that no wind should blow on the earth, or on the sea, or upon any
tree. {7:2} And I saw another messenger ascend from the sun rising, having the
seal of the living God: and he cried with a great voice to the four messengers
to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, {7:3} saying, Hurt not the
earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we shall have sealed the servants
of our God on their foreheads. {7:4} And I heard the number of them that were
sealed, a hundred and forty and four thousand, sealed out of every tribe of the
children of Israel: {7:5} Of the tribe of Judah [were] sealed twelve thousand:
Of the tribe of Reuben twelve thousand; Of the tribe of Gad twelve thousand;
{7:6} Of the tribe of Asher twelve thousand; Of the tribe of Naphtali twelve
thousand; Of the tribe of Manasseh twelve thousand; {7:7} Of the tribe of
Simeon twelve thousand; Of the tribe of Levi twelve thousand; Of the tribe of
Issachar twelve thousand; {7:8} Of the tribe of Zebulun twelve thousand; Of the
tribe of Joseph twelve thousand; Of the tribe of Benjamin [were] sealed twelve
thousand. {7:9} After these things I
saw, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could number, out of every
nation and of [all] tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne
and before the Lamb, arrayed in white robes, and palms in their hands; {7:10}
and they cry with a great voice, saying, Salvation unto our God who sits on the
throne, and unto the Lamb. {7:11} And
all the messengers were standing round about the throne, and [about] the elders
and the four living creatures; and they fell before the throne on their faces,
and worshipped God, {7:12} saying,
Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honor, and
power, and might, [be] unto our God for ever and ever. Amen. {7:13} And one of the elders answered,
saying unto me, These that are arrayed in white robes, who are they, and where
came they? {7:14} And I say unto him, My lord, you know. And he said to me,
These are they that come of the great tribulation, and they washed their robes,
and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. {7:15} Therefore are they before
the throne of God; and they serve him day and night in his temple: and he that
sits on the throne shall spread his tabernacle over them. {7:16} They shall
hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun strike upon
them, nor any heat: {7:17} for the Lamb that is in the midst of the throne shall
be their shepherd, and shall guide them unto fountains of waters of life: and
God shall wipe away every tear from their eyes.
{N27)8} Revelation Chapter Eight. {8:1} And when he opened the seventh seal,
there followed a silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. {8:2} And I
saw the seven messengers that stand before God; and there were given unto them
seven trumpets. {8:3} And another messenger came and stood over the altar,
having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he
should add it unto the prayers of all the Holy People upon the golden altar
which was before the throne. {8:4} And the smoke of the incense, with the
prayers of the Holy People, went up before God out of the messenger's hand.
{8:5} And the messenger takes the censer; and he filled it with the fire of the
altar, and cast it upon the earth: and there followed thunders, and voices, and
lightnings, and an earthquake. {8:6} And the seven messengers that had the
seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound. {8:7} And the first sounded, and
there followed hail and fire, mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the
earth: and the third part of the earth was burnt up, and the third part of the
trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up. {8:8} And the second
messenger sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast
into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood; {8:9} and there died
the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, [even] they that had
life; and the third part of the ships was destroyed. {8:10} And the third
messenger sounded, and there fell from heaven a great star, burning as a torch,
and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of the
waters; {8:11} and the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part
of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they
were made bitter. {8:12} And the fourth messenger sounded, and the third part
of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of
the stars; that the third part of them should be darkened, and the day should
not shine for the third part of it, and the night in like manner. {8:13} And I
saw, and I heard an eagle, flying in mid heaven, saying with a great voice, A curse,
A curse, A curse, for them that dwell on the earth, by reason of the other
voices of the trumpet of the three messengers, who are yet to sound.
{N27)9} Revelation Chapter Nine. {9:1} And the fifth messenger sounded, and I
saw a star from heaven fallen unto the earth: and there was given to him the
key of the pit of the abyss. {9:2} And he opened the pit of the abyss; and
there went up a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the
sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. {9:3} And out
of the smoke came forth locusts upon the earth; and power was given them, as
the scorpions of the earth have power. {9:4} And it was said unto them that
they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither
any tree, but only such men as have not the seal of God on their foreheads.
{9:5} And it was given them that they should not kill them, but that they
should be tormented five moons: and their torment was as the torment of a
scorpion, when it strikes a man. {9:6} And in those days men shall seek death,
and shall in no wise find it; and they shall desire to die, and death flees
from them. {9:7} And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared
for war; and upon their heads as it were crowns like unto gold, and their faces
were as men's faces. {9:8} And they had hair as the hair of women, and their
teeth were as [teeth] of lions. {9:9} And they had breastplates, as it were
breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of
chariots, of many horses rushing to war. {9:10} And they have tails like unto
scorpions, and stings; and in their tails is their power to hurt men five
moons. {9:11} They have over them as king the messenger of the abyss: his name
in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in the Greek [language] he has the name Apollyon.
{9:12} The first curse is past: behold, there come yet two curses hereafter.
{9:13} And the sixth messenger sounded, and I heard a voice from the horns of
the golden altar which is before God, {9:14} one saying to the sixth messenger
that had one trumpet, Loose the four messengers that are bound at the great
river Euphrates. {9:15} And the four messengers were loosed, that had been
prepared for the hour and day and moon and year, that they should kill the third
part of men. {9:16} And the number of the armies of the horsemen was twice ten
thousand times ten thousand: I heard the number of them. {9:17} And thus I saw
the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates [as]
of fire and of hyacinth and of brimstone: and the heads of lions; and out of
their mouths proceeds fire and smoke and brimstone. {9:18} By these three
plagues was the third part of men killed, by the fire and the smoke and the
brimstone, which proceeded out of their mouths. {9:19} For the power of the
horses is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails are like unto
serpents, and have heads; and with them they hurt. {9:20} And the rest of
mankind, who were not killed with these plagues, repented not of the works of
their hands, that they should not worship demons, and the idols of gold, and of
silver, and of brass, and of stone, and of wood; which can neither see, nor
hear, nor walk: {9:21} and they repented not of their murders, nor of their
sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
{N27)10}
Revelation Chapter Ten. {10:1}
And I saw another strong messenger coming down out of heaven, arrayed with a
cloud; and the rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as the sun, and his
feet as pillars of fire; {10:2} and he had in his hand a little book open: and
he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left upon the earth; {10:3} and he
cried with a great voice, as a lion roars: and when he cried, the seven
thunders uttered their voices. {10:4} And when the seven thunders uttered
[their voices], I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying,
Seal up the things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not. {10:5}
And the messenger that I saw standing upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up
his right hand to heaven, {10:6} and swear by him that lives for ever and ever,
who created the heaven and the things that are therein, and the earth and the
things that are therein, and the sea and the things that are therein, that
there shall be delay no longer: {10:7} but in the days of the voice of the
seventh messenger, when he is about to sound, then is finished the mystery of
God, according to the good tidings which he declared to his servants the
prophets. {10:8} And the voice which I heard from heaven, [I heard it] again
speaking with me, and saying, Go, take the book which is open in the hand of
the messenger that stands upon the sea and upon the earth. {10:9} And I went
unto the messenger, saying unto him that he should give me the little book. And
he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make your belly bitter,
but in your mouth it shall be sweet as honey. {10:10} And I took the little
book out of the messenger's hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet
as honey: and when I had eaten it, my belly was made bitter. {10:11} And they
say unto me, you must prophesy again over many peoples and nations and tongues
and kings.
{N27)11} Revelation Chapter Eleven. {11:1} And there was given me a reed like
unto a rod: and one said, Rise, and measure the
{N27)12}
Revelation Chapter Twelve. {12:1}
And a great sign was seen in heaven: a woman arrayed with the sun, and the moon
under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars; {12:2} and she was
with child; and she cries out, travailing in birth, and in pain to be
delivered. {12:3} And there was seen another sign in heaven: and behold, a
great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his heads seven
diadems. {12:4} And his tail draws the third part of the stars of heaven, and
did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stands before the woman that is
about to be delivered, that when she is delivered he may devour her child.
{12:5} And she was delivered of a son, a man child, who is to rule all the
nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and unto his
throne. {12:6} And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place
prepared of God, that there they may nourish her two thousand two hundred and
threescore days. {12:7} And there was war in heaven: Michael and his messengers
[going forth] to war with the dragon; and the dragon warred and his messengers;
{12:8} And they prevailed not, neither was their place found any more in
heaven. {12:9} And the great dragon was cast down, the old serpent, he that is
called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world; he was cast down
to the earth, and his messengers were cast down with him. {12:10} And I heard a
great voice in heaven, saying, Now is
come the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom of our God, and the
authority of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, who
accuses them before our God day and night. {12:11} And they overcame him
because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony;
and they agape loved not their life even unto death. {12:12} Therefore rejoice,
O heavens, and you that dwell in them. A curse for the earth and for the sea:
because the devil is gone down unto you, having great wrath, knowing that he
has but a short time. {12:13} And
when the dragon saw that he was cast down to the earth, he persecuted the woman
that brought forth the man [child]. {12:14} And there were given to the woman
the two wings of the great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness unto
her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from
the face of the serpent. {12:15} And the serpent cast out of his mouth after
the woman water as a river, that he might cause her to be carried away by the
stream. {12:16} And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth
and swallowed up the river which the dragon cast out of his mouth. {12:17} And
the dragon waxed wroth with the woman, and went away to make war with the rest
of her seed, that keep the commandments of God, and hold the testimony of
Yehsus:
{N27)13} Revelation Chapter Thirteen. {13:1} and he stood upon the sand of the
sea. And I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns, and seven
heads, and on it’s horns ten diadems, and upon his heads names of blasphemy.
{13:2} And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as
[the feet] of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave
him it’s power, and his throne, and great authority. {13:3} And [I saw] one of
his heads as though it had been smitten unto death; and his death-stroke was
healed: and the whole earth wondered after the beast; {13:4} and they
worshipped the dragon, because it gave his authority unto the beast; and they
worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? And who is able to
war with it? {13:5} and there was given to it a mouth speaking great things and
blasphemies; and there was given to it authority to continue forty and two
moons. {13:6} And it opened it’s mouth for blasphemies against God, to
blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, [even] them that dwell in the heaven.
{13:7} And it was given unto it to make war with the Holy People, and to
overcome them: and there was given to it authority over every tribe and people
and tongue and nation. {13:8} And all that dwell on the earth shall worship it,
[every one] whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in
the book of life of the Lamb that has been slain. {13:9} If any man has an ear,
let him hear. {13:10} If any man [is] for captivity, into captivity he goes: if
any man shall kill with the sword, with the sword must he be killed. Here is
the patience and the faith of the Holy People. {13:11} And I saw another beast
coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like unto lamb, and he spoke
as a dragon. {13:12} And he exercises all the authority of the first beast in
his sight. And it makes the earth and them dwell therein to worship the first
beast, whose death-stroke was healed. {13:13} And it does great signs, that he
should even make fire to come down out of heaven upon the earth in the sight of
men. {13:14} And he deceives them that dwell on the earth by reason of the
signs which it was given it to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them
that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast who has
the stroke of the sword and lived. {13:15} And it was given [unto it] to give
breath to it, [even] to the image to the breast, that the image of the beast
should both speak, and cause that as many as should not worship the image of
the beast should be killed. {13:16} And it causes all, the small and the great,
and the rich and the poor, and the free and the bond, that there be given them
a mark on their right hand, or upon their forehead; {13:17} and that no man
should be able to buy or to sell, save he that has the mark, [even] the name of
the beast or the number of his name. {13:18} Here is wisdom. He that has
understanding, let him count the number of the beast; for it is the number of a
man: and his number is Six hundred and sixty and six.
{N27)14} Revelation Chapter Fourteen.
{14:1} And I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on the mount Zion, and
with him a hundred and forty and four thousand, having his name, and the name
of his Father, written on their foreheads. {14:2} And I heard a voice from
heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and
the voice which I heard [was] as [the voice] of harpers harping with their
harps: {14:3} and they sing as it were a new song before the throne, and before
the four living creatures and the elders: and no man could learn the song save
the hundred and forty and four thousand, [even] they that had been purchased
out of the earth. {14:4} These are they that were not defiled with women; for
they are virgins. These [are] they that follow the Lamb where ever he goes.
These were purchased from among men, [to be] the first fruits unto God and unto
the Lamb. {14:5} And in their mouth was found no lie: they are outside blemish.
{14:6} And I saw another messenger flying in mid heaven, having eternal good
tidings to proclaim unto them that dwell on the earth, and unto every nation
and tribe and tongue and people; {14:7} and he said with a great voice, Fear
God, and give him glory; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him
that made the heaven and the earth and sea and fountains of waters. {14:8} And
another, a second messenger, followed, saying, Fallen, fallen is
{N27)15} Revelation Chapter Fifteen. {15:1} And I saw another sign in heaven,
great and marvelous, seven messengers having seven plagues, [which are] the
last, for in them is finished the wrath of God. {15:2} And I saw as it were a
sea of glass mingled with fire; and them that come off victorious from the
beast, and from his image, and from the number of his name, standing by the sea
of glass, having harps of God. {15:3} And they sing the song of Moses the slave
of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying,
Great and marvelous are your works, O Lord God, the Almighty; righteous
and true are your ways, you King of the ages. {15:4} Who shall not fear, O
Lord, and glorify your name? for you only are holy; for all the nations shall
come and worship before you; for your righteous acts have been made
manifest. {15:5} And after these
things I saw, and the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was
opened: {15:6} and there came out from the temple the seven messengers that had
the seven plagues, arrayed with [precious] stone, pure [and] bright, and girt
about their breasts with golden girdles. {15:7} And one of the four living
creatures gave unto the seven messengers seven golden bowls full of the wrath
of God, who lives for ever and ever. {15:8} And the temple was filled with
smoke from the glory of God, and from his power; and none was able to enter
into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven messengers should be
finished.
{N27)16} Revelation Chapter Sixteen. {16:1} And I heard a great voice out of the
temple, saying to the seven messengers, Go you, and pour out the seven bowls of
the wrath of God into the earth. {16:2} And the first went, and poured out his
bowl into the earth; and it became a noisome and grievous sore upon the men
that had the mark of the beast, and that worshipped his image. {16:3} And the
second poured out his bowl into the sea; and it became blood as of a dead man;
and every living soul died, [even] the things that were in the sea. {16:4} And
the third poured out his bowl into the rivers and the fountains of the waters;
and it became blood. {16:5} And I heard the messenger of the waters saying,
Righteous are you, who are and who was, you Holy One, because you did thus judge:
{16:6} for they poured out the blood of the Holy People and the prophets, and
blood have you given them to drink: they are worthy. {16:7} And I heard the
altar saying, behold, O Lord God, the Almighty, true and righteous are your
judgments. {16:8} And the fourth poured out his bowl upon the sun; and it was
given unto it to scorch men with fire. {16:9} And men were scorched men with
great heat: and they blasphemed the name of God who has the power over these
plagues; and they repented not to give him glory. {16:10} And the fifth poured
out his bowl upon the throne of the beast; and his kingdom was darkened; and
they gnawed their tongues for pain, {16:11} and they blasphemed the God of
heaven because of their pains and their sores; and they repented not of their
works. {16:12} And the sixth poured out his bowl upon the great river, the
[river] Euphrates; and the water of it was dried up, that the way might by made
ready for the kings that [come] from the sun rising. {16:13} And I saw [coming]
out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of
the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits, as it were frogs:
{16:14} for they are spirits of demons, working signs; which go forth unto the
kings of the whole world, to gather them together unto the war of the great day
of God, the Almighty. {16:15} (Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that
watches, and keeps his garments, lest he walked naked, and they see his shame.)
{16:16} And they gathered them together into the place which is called in
Hebrew Har-magedon. {16:17} And the seventh poured out his bowl upon the air;
and there came forth a great voice out of the temple, from the throne, saying,
It is done: {16:18} and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunders; and
there was a great earthquake, such as was not since there were men upon the
earth, so great an earthquake, so mighty. {16:19} And the great city was
divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and
{N27)17} Revelation Chapter Seventeen.
{17:1} And there came one of the seven messengers that had the seven
bowls, and spoke with me, saying, Come here, I will show you the judgment of
the great Prostitute that sits upon many waters; {17:2} with whom the kings of
the earth committed fornication, and they that dwell in the earth were made
drunk with the wine of her fornication. {17:3} And he carried me away in the
Spirit into a wilderness: and I saw a woman riding upon a scarlet-colored beast
[of her religion] that [beast] was [fed to the belly of her beast, her religion
is fed to the] full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
{17:4} And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and decked with gold
and precious stone and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of
abominations, even the unclean things of her fornication, {17:5} and upon her
forehead a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HER
[DAUGHTER] PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. {17:6} And I saw
the woman drunk with the blood of the Holy People, and with the blood of the
martyrs of Yehsus. And when I saw her, I wondered with a great wonder. {17:7}
And the messenger said unto me, Therefore did you wonder? I will tell you the
mystery of the woman, and of the beast [of her religion] that carries her,
which has the seven heads and the ten horns. {17:8} The beast [of her religion] that you saw was [a religion],
and is not [a true religion]; and is about to come up out of the abyss, and to
go into perdition. And they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, [they] whose
names has not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the
world, when they behold the beast [of her religion], how that he is [a
religion], and he] is not [a true religion], and [this beast of a religion]
shall come. {17:9} Here is the mind that has wisdom. The seven heads are seven
mountains [of a religion] , on which the woman sits: {17:10} and they are seven
kings; the five are fallen, the one is, the other is not yet come; and when he
[the beast of her religion] comes, he [the beast of her religion] must continue
a little while. {17:11} And the beast that is [a religion], and is not [a true
religion], is himself also an eighth, and is of the [other] seven; and he [the
beast of her religion] goes into
perdition. {17:12} And the ten horns that you saw are ten kings, who have
received no kingdom as yet; but they receive authority as kings, with the beast
[of her religion], for one hour. {17:13} These [rulers] have [the religion of]
one mind, and they give their power and authority unto the beast [of her
religion]. {17:14} These [ten kings]
shall [make] war against the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them, for he is
Lord of lords, and King of kings; and they [the Holy People also shall
overcome] that are with him, called and chosen and faithful. {17:15} And he
said unto me, The waters which you saw, where the prostitute sits, are [the]
peoples [of her religion] , and multitudes, and nations, and tongues. {17:16}
And the ten horns which you saw, and the beast [of her religion], these shall
hate [their mother] the [great] prostitute, and shall make her desolate and
naked, and shall eat her flesh, and shall burn her utterly with fire. {17:17}
For God did put in their hearts to do his mind, and to come to one mind, and to
give their kingdom [they call Christ] unto the beast [of her religion], until
the words of God should be accomplished. {17:18} And the woman whom you saw is
the great city, which reigns over the kings of the earth.
{N27)18} Revelation Chapter Eighteen. {18:1} After these things I saw another
messenger coming down out of heaven, having great authority; and the earth was
lightened with his glory. {18:2} And he cried with a mighty voice, saying,
Fallen, fallen is
{N27)19}
Revelation Chapter Nineteen.
{19:1} After these things I heard as it were a great voice of a great
multitude in heaven, saying,
Hallelujah; Salvation, and glory, and power, belong to our God: {19:2}
for true and righteous are his judgments; for he has judged the great prostitute,
her that corrupted the earth with her fornication, and he has avenged the blood
of his servants at her hand. {19:3}
And a second time they say, Hallelujah. And her smoke goes up for ever and
ever. {19:4} And the four and twenty elders and the four living creatures fell
down and worshipped God that sits on the throne, saying, Amen; Hallelujah.
{19:5} And a voice came forth from the throne, saying, Give praise to our God, all you his
servants, you that fear him, the small and the great. {19:6} And I heard as it were the voice of
a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty
thunders, saying, Hallelujah: for the
Lord our God, the Almighty, reigns. {19:7} Let us rejoice and be exceeding
glad, and let us give the glory unto him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come,
and his wife [the Ekklesia] has made herself ready. {19:8} And it was given
unto her that she should array herself in fine linen, bright [and] pure: for
the fine linen is the righteous acts of the Holy People. {19:9} And he said unto me, Write, Blessed
are they that are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he said unto
me, These are true words of God. {19:10} And I fell down before his feet to
worship him. And he said unto me, See you do it not: I am a fellow-slave with
you and with your brethren that hold the testimony of Yehsus: worship God; for
the testimony of Yehsus is the spirit of prophecy. {19:11} And I saw the heaven opened; and
behold, a white horse, and he that sat thereon called Faithful and True; and in
good works he does judge and make war. {19:12} And his eyes [are] a flame of
fire, and upon his head [are] many diadems; and he has a name written which no
one knows but he himself. {19:13} And he [is] arrayed in a garment sprinkled
with blood: and his name is called The Word of God. {19:14} And the armies
which are in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen,
white [and] pure. {19:15} And out of his mouth proceeds a sharp sword, that
with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron:
and he treads the winepress of the fierceness of the wrath of God, the
Almighty. {19:16} And he has on his garment and on his thigh a name written,
KINGS OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS. {19:17} And I saw an messenger standing in
the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds [of prey] that
fly in mid heaven, Come [and] be gathered together unto the great supper of
God; {19:18} that you may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains,
and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses and of them that sit
thereon, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, and small and great.
{19:19} And I saw the [religion of the] beast, and the kings of the earth, and
their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat upon the
horse, and against his army. {19:20} And the beast [of a religion] was taken,
and with him the false prophet that wrought the signs in his sight, wherewith
he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast and them that
worshipped his image: they two were cast alive into the lake of fire that burns
with brimstone: {19:21} and the rest were killed with the sword of him that sat
upon the horse, [even the sword of God] which came forth out of his mouth: and
all the birds [of prey at the supper hour] were filled with their flesh.
{N27)20} Revelation Chapter Twenty. {20:1} And I saw an messenger coming down out
of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. {20:2}
And he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent, which is the Devil and Satan,
and bound him for a thousands of years, {20:3} and cast him into the abyss, and
shut [it], and sealed [it] over him, that he should deceive the nations no
more, until the thousands of years should be finished: after this he must be
loosed for a little time. {20:4} And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and
judgment was given unto them: and [I saw] the souls of them that had been
beheaded for the testimony of Yehsus, and for the word of God, and such as
worshipped not the beast, neither his image, and received not the mark upon
their forehead and upon their hand; and they lived, and reigned with Christ
thousands of years. {20:5} The rest of the dead lived not until the thousands
of years should be finished. This is the first resurrection. {20:6} Blessed and
holy is he that has part in the first resurrection: over these the second death
has no power; but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign
with him thousands of years. {20:7} And when the thousands of years are
finished, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, {20:8} and shall come forth
to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and
Magog, to gather them together to the war: the number of whom is as the sand of
the sea. {20:9} And they went up over the breadth of the earth, and compassed
the camp of the Holy People about, and the agape beloved city: and fire came
down out of heaven, and devoured them. {20:10} And the devil that deceived them
was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where are also [are those in] the
beast [of a religion] and the false prophet; and they shall be tormented day
and night for ever and ever. {20:11} And I saw a great white throne, and him
that sat upon it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there
was found no place for them. {20:12} And I saw the dead, the great and the
small, standing before the throne; and books were opened: and another book was
opened, which is [the book] of life: and the dead [in Christ] were judged out
of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.
{20:13} And the sea gave up the dead that were in it; and death and Hades gave
up the dead that were in them: and they were judged every man according to
their works. {20:14} And death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This
is the second death, [even] the lake of fire. {20:15} And if any was not found
written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.
{N27)21} Revelation Chapter Twenty
One. {21:1} And I saw a new heaven and
a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth are passed away; and the
sea is no more. {21:2} And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out
of heaven from God, made ready as [Ekklesia]
a bride adorned for her husband. {21:3} And I heard a great voice out of
the throne saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he shall
dwell with them, and they shall be his peoples, and God himself shall be with
them, [and be] their God: {21:4} and he shall wipe away every tear from their
eyes; and death shall be no more; neither shall there be grieving, nor crying,
nor pain, any more: the first things are passed away. {21:5} And he that sits
on the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said, Write: for
these words are faithful and true. {21:6} And he said unto me, They are come to
pass. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto
him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. {21:7} He that
overcomes [sin] shall inherit these things; and I will be his God, and he shall
be my son. {21:8} But for the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable, and
murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their
part [shall be] in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone; which is the
second death. {21:9} And there came one of the seven messengers who had the
seven bowls, who were laden with the seven last plagues; and he spoke with me,
saying, Come here, I will show you the bride, the wife [the Ekklesia} of the
Lamb. {21:10} And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and
high, and showed me the holy city Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from
God, {21:11} having the glory of God: her light was like unto a stone most
precious, as it were a jasper stone, clear as crystal: {21:12} having a wall
great and high; having twelve gates, and at the gates twelve messengers; and
names written thereon, which are [the names] of the twelve tribes of the
children of Israel: {21:13} on the east were three gates; and on the north
three gates; and on the south three gates; and on the west three gates. {21:14}
And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them twelve names of
the twelve apostles of the Lamb. {21:15} And he that spoke with me had for a
measure a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates there, and the wall
there. {21:16} And the city lies foursquare, and the length there is as great
as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand
furlongs: the length and the breadth and the height of it are equal. {21:17}
And he measured the wall there, a hundred and forty and four cubits, [according
to] the measure of a man, that is, of an messenger. {21:18} And the building of
the wall of it was jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto pure glass.
{21:19} The foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with all manner of
precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the
third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald; {21:20} the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth,
sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the
tenth, chrysoprase; the eleventh, jacinth; the twelfth, amethyst. {21:21} And
the twelve gates were twelve pearls; each one of the several gates was of one
pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.
{21:22} And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God the Almighty, and the
Lamb, are the temple there. {21:23} And the city has no need of the sun,
neither of the moon, to shine upon it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and
the lamp of it [is] the Lamb. {21:24} And the nations shall walk amidst the
light there: and the kings of the earth bring their glory into it. {21:25} And
the gates of it shall in no wise be shut by day (for there shall be no night
there): {21:26} and they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations
into it: {21:27} and there shall in no wise enter into it anything unclean, or
he that makes an abomination and a lie: but only they that are written in the
Lamb's book of life.
{N27)22} Revelation Chapter Twenty-Two. {22:1} And he showed me a river of water of
life, bright as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb,
{22:2} in the midst of the street there. And on this side of the river and on
that was the tree of life, bearing twelve [manner of] fruits, yielding its
fruit every moon: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the
nations. {22:3} And there shall be no curse any more: and the throne of God and
of the Lamb shall be therein: and his servants shall serve him; {22:4} and they
shall see his face; and his name [shall be] on their foreheads. {22:5} And
there shall be night no more; and they need no light of lamp, neither light of
sun; for the Lord God shall give them light: and they shall reign for ever and
ever. {22:6} And he said unto me, These words are faithful and true: and the
Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, sent his messengers to show unto
his servants the things which must shortly come to pass. {22:7} And behold, I
come quickly. Blessed is he that keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.
{22:8} And I John am he that heard and saw these things. And when I heard and
saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the messenger that showed me
these things. {22:9} And he said unto me, See you do it not: I am a
fellow-slave with you and with your brethren the prophets, and with them that
keep the words of this book: worship God. {22:10} And he said unto me, Seal not
up the words of the prophecy of this book; for the time is at hand. {22:11} He
that is [illegal] in works, let him do [illegal] works against the law still:
and he that is filthy, let him be made filthy still: and he that is [legal] in
good works, let him do [lawful] works in the law still: and he that is holy,
let him be made holy still. {22:12} Behold, I come quickly; and my reward is
with me, to render to each man according as his work is. {22:13} I am the Alpha
and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end. {22:14}
Blessed are they that wash their robes, that they may have the right [to come]
to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city. {22:15}
outside are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the
murderers, and the idolaters, and every one that philo loves to make a lie.
{22:16} I Yehsus have sent mine messenger to testify unto you these things for
the Ekklesias. I am the root and the offspring of David, the bright, the
morning star. {22:17} And the Spirit and the [Ekklesia] bride say, Come. And he
that hears, let him say, Come. And he that is athirst, let him come: he that
will, let him take the water of life freely. {22:18} I testify unto every man
that hears the words of the prophecy of this book, if any man shall add unto
them, God shall add unto him the plagues which are written in this book:
{22:19} and if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this
prophecy, God shall take away his part from the tree of life, and out of the
holy city, which are written in this book. {22:20} He who testifies these
things said, behold: I come quickly. Amen: come, Lord Yehsus. {22:21} The grace
of the Lord Yehsus be with the Holy People. Amen.
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