The Holy Ekklesia Bible
translation. This is the Last Edit June
28, 2022
Ekklesia
Bible is just made better from what was clearly overlooked by the Ekklesia
Bible translators. By the suggestion of
our holy brother Peter
William Dehne is to remove more of the Catholic Catechism from out of the Ekklesia
Bible translation by removing the catholic word “Bishop” and translate correct
as “overseer”. Our
purpose of Ekklesia is to remove all the influence of false Catholic Catechism
from out of the Ekklesia Bible translation. The Ekklesia of Christ thanks our
brother Dehne for his suggestion.
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Ekklesia Bible translation. This is the
latest Electronic version of the computer program of the Ekklesia Bible
translation the most computer coded Bible in the entire world. The more
electronic coding 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.
This Ekklesia Bible
translation can never be completed because this like all Bible translations
must always be open to any dispute to be deliberated before all. Beware of any
Bible translation that will not open for public scrutiny about the instructions
(catechism) written in any translated Bible.
Just try and get false translated Bibles to open to dispute in conduct
of Ekklesia.
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 of our brethren
that oppose the true Ekklesia Bible translation.
Take careful note the entire
ancient languages of the Bible is written only in “the natural occurring space 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 Ekklesia Bible translation altogether removes
the crippling sidereal time mode from this Ekklesia Bible translation. Ekklesia
Bible now becomes the most powerful and the most convincing of all Bible
translations in the entire world.
See how Mark 16:1-2 is
correctly translated in restoring the Ekklesia Bible. Mark 16:1-2 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 false Bible translations.
In 1385 a member of the
Catholic Church John Wycliffe and others will translate the first “Church” 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
false 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 Ekklesia Bible
translation.
The Ekklesia Bible
translation removes all false Catholic Catechism from out of this Bible translation
that since the so called “Big Bang” discovery of the Catholic Priest Georges
Lemaitre a cosmologist teach he has discovered The Big Bang” that is proving
that the Bible of the holy people is a fake and a fraud. Geroges Lemaitre the Catholic priest as a
cosmologist is making the claim that his
discovery of the Big Bang moment is proving
evolution to be true and the Bible is teaching false sidereal time mode. The Pope agrees with Lemaitre that the Bible
is false and evolution is true. (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 warfare of God 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 are you want to be on. Christ said you can not be on both sides of
this warfare. Will you as a holy person
of God 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 Holy 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) Look the Ekklesia is restoring
truth clearly is written in The Catholic Latin Vulgate Bible as the Ecclesiam,
“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 all 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 all popular Bibles are mistranslated
in the pagan calendar of the sidereal time mode.
If as you as a Bible student
that is strict, conservative, orthodox, fundamental that demands only truth in
a true Bible translation then you most read the Holy Ekklesia Bible translation
and compare to the ancient languages of the Bible. All
particle astrophysicists, and astronomers that make a life time study in “space
time” they know perfectly well the difference the natural occurring time or the normal occurring time mode from
the pagan Roman religious calendar of the sidereal time mode of the artificial
week days of the seven pagan sky gods that is mistranslated in all popular Bibles.
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. Do you fully understand very clear the facts that the
truth loving scientists cannot ever accept what they know to be a Bible filled
to the full of false Catholic Catechism (the sidereal time mode of the week
days)?
Only because of false Bible
translation in sidereal timed mode is making modern Scientist hate the false
translated Bibles to 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. Sidereal week days of seven pagan sky
gods is disgusting to the higher educated
know because they study all about sidereal time.
Data given in a poll made by
scientist in 2021 (see the celebrated astrophysicists Neil DeDegrass Tyson on
YOUTUBE “Can Science and Religion Coexist” DeGrasse is teaching that ninety
three (93) percent of all “Elite 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 Bibles when mistranslated in sidereal time mode is making a wreck
out of the entire Bible? 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 domino effect of 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 completely removes this false Bible translation of the
sidereal time mode mistranslated in all popular Bibles.
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 cannot 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. Take note today -All Scientist that are teaching ”The Cold Big
Bang” if there was a Big Bang. are teaching
truth of the cold Big Bang written in the Ekklesia Bible.
The words “Big Bang” is a
false teaching and is 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 were wrong to use the false words “Big
Bang” of the Catholic Priest Georges Lemaitre to describe the beginning of
creation.
The Catholic Preist Georges
Lemaitre is with purpose trying to deceive the entire world with his false
words “Big Bang”. Genesis 1:12 In the
beginning of God creating the beginning of dark energy and dark matter was not
anything that any human could possibly hear a Big Bang. Easy to see the Time
Conspiracy of the Catholic Church is trying to discredit the Bible as being
from God.
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 someone
to write the programs 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 strict Bible believing 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. . Multiplied thousands
of 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 by using braces with
numbers. 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.
Data reveals that people contribute five hundred Million
dollars a year just for translating new Bibles. The translators of the Ekklesia
Bible did not get any money for translating the Ekklesia Bible. The Ekklesia of
Christ is giving our PDF, HTML, Electronic Bible translation away for free.
Wycliffe estimates $500 million (£325
million) is needed to start each translation in the necessary languages.
Today the total cost to make
a Bible translation that must be ten percent different from all other Bible
translation just to get a copyright will cost over one million dollars (see the
Wycliffe Bible society). The cost of just for translating a Bible in the twenty-first
century is about $35.00 for each verse written in the Bible.
We know this fact that majority
of all Bible translators pleagerurize , chapter verse numbers and translations from
other translated Bibles because near all Bibles can be seen to mistranslate the
other Bible mistranslations.
In making this Ekklesia Bible
translations thousands of highly educated contributors and 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 in the Ekklesia Bible, 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, by which 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 whatever 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 deceived 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 forever-- {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 forever, 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, whatever 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 by which 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, everyone 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. Everyone 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 maids,
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 deceived 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 by which 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: everyone
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, everyone 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,
whenever 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, whatever 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 maid,
and spoke kindly unto the maid. {34:4} And Shechem spoke unto his father Hamor,
saying, Get me this maid 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 Anger 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 whatever 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 forever: {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 forever. {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 sixty 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 seventy. {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; forevery
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 Anger, 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; everyone 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 defeated 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 by
which 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, by which 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 by which he had sent him, and all the
signs by which 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 eighty years old, and Aaron
eighty 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 defeated
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 defeated 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 defeated throughout
all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast; and the
hail defeated 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 forever. {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 forever. {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 forever. {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 defeated 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 defeated 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, whatever 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 forever.
{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 Anger,
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 forever 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 seventy 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 by which 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 defeated 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 forever. {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 defeated 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 whatever
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} Forevery
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, by which 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, by which 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 forever 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, by which 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, everyone 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 forever 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 bull 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 bull 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 bull before the tent of meeting: and Aaron
and his sons shall lay their hands upon the head of the bull. {29:11} And you
shall kill the bull before Yahweh, at the door of the tent of meeting. {29:12}
And you shall take of the blood of the bull, 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 bull, 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 forever 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 by which 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 bull 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; whatever 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 by which 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, everyone 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} Everyone 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 forever 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: whatever
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: everyone 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 forever: 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 Anger 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 Anger 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 Anger, 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 forever. {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 defeated 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 everyone 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 Cannot 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, everyone whose heart stirred him up, and everyone 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} Everyone 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
everyone 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, by which 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, by which 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 by which 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, by
which 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 seventy five shekels, after the
shekel of the sanctuary: {38:26} a beak a head, [that is], half a shekel, after
the shekel of the sanctuary, foreveryone 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, by which 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, everyone 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,
by which 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 bull 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 bull outside blemish unto Yahweh for a sin-offering. {4:4} And he shall
bring the bull unto the door of the tent of meeting before Yahweh; and he shall
lay his hand upon the head of the bull, and kill the bull before Yahweh. {4:5}
And the anointed priest shall take of the blood of the bull, 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 bull 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 bull 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 bull, and all its
flesh, with its head, and with its legs, and its inwards, and its dung, {4:12}
even the whole bull 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 bull
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 bull
before Yahweh; and the bull shall be killed before Yahweh. {4:16} And the
anointed priest shall bring of the blood of the bull 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 bull; as he did with the bull 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 bull outside the camp, and burn it as he
burned the first bull: 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, whatever his uncleanness be by
which 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, whatever 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 whatever 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
forever 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 forever 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} Whatever 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, everyone 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 forever 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 forever
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 bull 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 bull of the sin-offering: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the
head of the bull 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 bull, 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 forever
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 forever; 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} Whatever 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: whatever 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} Whatever 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, by which 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: everyone that touches them shall be
unclean. {11:27} And whatever 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 whatever 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, whatever vessel it be, by which 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, whatever 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} Whatever
goes upon the belly, and whatever goes upon all fours, or whatever 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 sixty 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 contagious 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 contagious
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 threat, 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 whatever 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 contagious
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 bull 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 bull 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 bull of the sin-offering, which is for himself, and
shall make atonement for himself, and for his house, and shall kill the bull 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 bull,
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 bull, 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 bull, 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 bull 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 forever 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 forever. {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, Whatever 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 whatever 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} Foreveryone 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 whatever 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, whatever 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 bulls, of the sheep, or of the goats. {22:20} But whatever 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 bull 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 bull, 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 forever 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 bull, 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 forever 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 Anger; 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; everyone 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 by which 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, by which 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, by
which 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, by which 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 everyone 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 whatever 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, everyone 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, everyone 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, everyone 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, everyone 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, everyone
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 eighty. {4:49} According to the commandment of
Yahweh they were numbered by Moses, everyone 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 everyone 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 forevery 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 bull, 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 bull, 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 bull, 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 bull, 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 bull, 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 bull, 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 bull, 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 bull, 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 bull, 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 bull, 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 bull,
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 bull, 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 bulls, 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 bulls,
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 outermost
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 bull 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 bull 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 bull, 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 everyone 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 forever 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 bull 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, everyone
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 Anger 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 bulls and
seven rams. {23:2} And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam
offered on every altar a bull 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 whatever 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 bull 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 bulls, 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 bull;
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 bull, 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 bulls, 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 bull, and two tenth parts for the ram; {28:21} a tenth
part shall you offer forevery 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 bulls, one ram, seven
he-lambs a year old; {28:28} and their meal-offering, fine flour mingled with
oil, three tenth parts for each bull, two tenth parts for the one ram, {28:29}
a tenth part forevery 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 bull, 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 bull, two tenth parts for the ram,
{29:4} and one tenth part forevery 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 bull, 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 bull, two
tenth parts for the one ram, {29:10} a tenth part forevery 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 bulls, 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 forevery bull of the thirteen bulls,
two tenth parts for each ram of the two rams, {29:15} and a tenth part forevery
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 bulls, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old
outside blemish; {29:18} and their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for
the bulls, 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 bulls, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old outside blemish;
{29:21} and their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the bulls, 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 bulls,
two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old outside blemish; {29:24} their
meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the bulls, 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 bulls,
two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old outside blemish; {29:27} and their
meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the bulls, 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 bulls, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a
year old outside blemish; {29:30} and their meal-offering and their
drink-offerings for the bulls, 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 bulls, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old outside
blemish; {29:33} and their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the bulls,
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 bull,
one ram, seven he-lambs a year old outside blemish; {29:37} their meal-offering
and their drink-offerings for the bull, 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 defeated
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: everyone 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 everyone 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, forever. {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 defeated, 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 forever! {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 Anger 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 whatever 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 forever,
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: forevery 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: whatever has fins and scales may you eat; {14:10} and whatever
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 whatever
your soul desires, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or
for whatever 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 whatever 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, by which 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 maid, and her mother, take and bring forth the
tokens of the maid's virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate; {22:16}
and the maid'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 maid, 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 maid; {22:21} then they shall bring
out the maid 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 maid 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 maid,
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 maid 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 maid you shall do
nothing; there is in the maid 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 maid cried, and there was none to save
her. {22:28} If a man find a maid
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 maid'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 forever: {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 forever. {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 outermost 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, by which
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 whereeveryou 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 whereeveryou 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 whereeveryou
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 forever. {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 defeated 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 defeated, 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 defeated 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 everyone 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 bull, even the second bull 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 bull, 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 bull 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 seventy 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 seventy [pieces] of silver out of the
house of Baal-berith, by which 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 seventy 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, by which 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, seventy 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 defeated 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 maid saw him, he rejoiced to meet
him. {19:4} And his father-in-law, the maid'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 maid'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 maid'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 maid'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 maid'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 by which 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 defeated 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 defeated
of the men of Beth-shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of Yahweh, he defeated
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 defeated 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 outermost 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 whereeverSaul 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 defeated 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 defeated 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, Whatever 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 forever; no,
not when Yahweh has cut off the enemies of David everyone 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 forever. {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, forever. 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 whatever 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
Twenty-Seven. {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
Twenty-Eight. {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 whereeveryou 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 forever. {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 forever before you: your throne shall be established forever.
{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 defeated 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 defeated 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 defeated 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 defeated 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 whereeverhe 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 defeated
the other, and killed him. {14:7} And, behold, the whole family is risen
against your handmaid, and they say, Deliver him that defeated 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 by which 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, forevermore.
{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 maid 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 forever. {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 whereeveryou
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 sixty
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
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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
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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 forever; 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 forever, 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 everyone 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
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Ten. {10:1} And when the queen of
{10:11} And the ships 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, whatever 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 sixty 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
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Thirteen. {13:1} And, behold, there
came a man of God out of
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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
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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
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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
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One. {1:1} And Moab rebelled against
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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
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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.
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Five. {5:1} Now Naaman, captain of the
host of the king of
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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
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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
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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
{O12)19} Second Kings Chapter
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, by which 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 eighty 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 everyone 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 whereeveryou 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 forever. {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 forever; and his throne shall be established forever. {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 defeated the Philistines, and subdued them,
and took Goth and its towns out of the hand of the Philistines. {18:2} And he defeated
{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 sixty 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; sixty 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, forevery
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 forever: 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 forever, 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 forever. {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 forevery 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, forevery 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 forevery bowl; and for
the silver bowls by weight forevery 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, by which 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, forever 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 forever 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 bulls, 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 seventy thousand men to bear burdens, and eighty 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] forever 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 sixty 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 forever. {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] forever. {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] forever,) 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 forever, 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 eighty 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 sixty 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 Anger 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, everyone 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 everyone 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 forever; that you may be strong, and eat the good of
the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever. {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 forever: 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, everyone
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, everyone 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, everyone 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 forever,
{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 eighty
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 Anger 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: whatever 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 Anger. {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 Anger 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 Anger 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 Anger 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, whereeverthe 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 defeated 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 defeated 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 everyone 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 everyone 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 forever 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 Anger 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 forever
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 by which 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 Anger, 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 Anger
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 forever! {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 Anger [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 forever 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 everyone
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 Anger 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 Anger. {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
Anger 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 by which 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 Anger? {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 Cannot 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 forever 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 Anger of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram:
against Job was his Anger kindled, because he justified himself rather than
God. {32:3} Also against his three friends was his Anger 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 Anger 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 forever, 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 Anger 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 whatever 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, you shall come
to here, 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 everyone that
is proud, and abase him. {40:12} Look on everyone 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 forever? {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? [Whatever 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 Anger
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 bulls 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 everyone 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 whatever 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 Anger, 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 outermost
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 Anger 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, Whatever 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 forever and ever. {9:6} The enemy are come to an end, they are desolate forever;
And the cities which you have overthrown, The very remembrance of them is perished.
{9:7} But Yahweh sits[as king] forever: 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 forever 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 everyone 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 forever. {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 forever? 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 forevermore.
{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, forevermore.
{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 forever: 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 forever
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 forever: 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
Anger, 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 forever. {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 forever.
{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 forever.
{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 forever. {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 forever.
{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 everyone
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 forever, 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} Worry 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: Worry 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 Anger: Worry 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 forever. {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 daylong he deals
graciously, and lends; And his seed is blessed. {37:27} Depart from evil, and
do good; And dwell forevermore. {37:28} For Yahweh agape loves justice, And
forsakes not his Holy People; They are preserved forever: But the seed of the
wicked shall be cut off. {37:29} The lawful worker shall inherit the land, And
dwell therein forever. {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 Anger; 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 forever. {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 forever.
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 forever. {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 forever. {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 forever 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 forever
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 forever. 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 forever 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 forever;) {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] forever, [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 bull out of your house, Nor
he-goats out of your folds. {50:10} Forevery 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 bulls 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 forever; 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 forever
and ever. {52:9} I will give you thanks forever, 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} Everyone 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 Anger, 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 defeated
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 forever: 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 forever: Oh
prepare loving kindness and truth, that they may preserve him. {61:8} So will I
sing praise unto your name forever, 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: Everyone 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 everyone
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 outermost 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 forever; 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 bulls 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] forever. {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 maids 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 bull 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 everyone 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 forever; 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 forever; 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 forever. {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 forever?
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 forever? {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 forever. {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 forever, 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 Anger of man shall praise you: The residue of Anger 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 forever? And will he be favorable no more? {77:8} Is his
loving kindness clean gone forever? Does his promise fail forevermore? {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 defeated 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 defeated 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 Anger. {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, Anger,
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 defeated 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 defeated 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 forever.
{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 forever? shall your jealousy burn like fire? {79:6}
Pour out your Anger 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, by which they have reproached you, O Lord. {79:13}
So we your people and sheep of your pasture Will give you thanks forever: 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 forever. {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 forever; 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; Everyone 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 Anger; 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 forever? 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 forevermore. {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 Anger 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 Anger 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 forever: With my mouth will I make known your faithfulness to all
generations. {89:2} For I have said, Mercy shall be built up forever; 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 forever,
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 forevermore; And my covenant shall stand fast with him.
{89:29} His seed also will I make to endure forever, 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 forever, And his throne as the
sun before me. {89:37} It shall be
established forever 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 forever? [How
long] shall your Anger 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} By which
your enemies have reproached, O Yahweh, By which they have reproached the
footsteps of your anointed. {89:52}
Blessed be Yahweh forevermore. 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 Anger 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 Anger:
We bring our years to an end as a sigh. {90:10} The days of our years are seventy
years, Or even by reason of strength eighty 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 Anger 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 forever. {92:8} But you, O Yahweh, are on high forevermore.
{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, forevermore.
{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 Anger, 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] forever, 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 Anger: 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 forever;
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] forever. {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 forever. {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 forever; 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 forever,
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 defeated 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 defeated
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 Anger, 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 forevermore. {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 Anger 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] forever. {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 by which he covers
himself, And for the girdle by which 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 forever
After the order of Melchizedek. {110:5} The Lord at your right hand Will strike
through kings in the day of his Anger. {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 forever.
{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 forever and ever; They are done in truth and uprightness. {111:9}
He has sent redemption unto his people; He has commanded his covenant forever:
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 forever.
{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 forever. {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 forever: 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 forevermore. {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 whatever
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, everyone 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 forevermore. 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] forever. 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] forever. {118:2} Let Israel now say, That his agape loving kindness
[endures] forever. {118:3} Let the house of Aaron now say, That his agpae loving kindness [endures] forever.
{118:4} Let them now that fear Yahweh say, That his agpae loving kindness
[endures] forever. {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] forever.
{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} By which 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 Forever
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} Forever, 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 forever;
For they are the rejoicing of my heart. {119:112} I have inclined my heart to
perform your statutes Forever, 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 forever: 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 forever.
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 everyone of your righteous ordinances
[endures] forever. 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 forevermore.
{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 Anger 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 forever. {125:2} As the mountains
are round about Jerusalem, So Yahweh is round about his people From this time
forth and forevermore. {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 everyone 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} By which 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 forevermore.
{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 forevermore. {132:13} For Yahweh has chosen Zion; He has
desired it for his habitation. {132:14} This is my resting-place forever: 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 forevermore.
{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} Whatever 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 defeated 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 defeated
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] forever; 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, everyone
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] forever. {136:2} Oh give
thanks unto the God of gods; For his agape loving kindness [endures] forever.
{136:3} Oh give thanks unto the Lord of lords; For his agape loving kindness
[endures] forever: {136:4} To him who alone does great wonders; For his agape
loving kindness [endures] forever: {136:5} To him that by understanding made
the heavens; For his agape loving kindness [endures] forever: {136:6} To him
that spread forth the earth above the waters; For his agape loving kindness
[endures] forever: {136:7} To him that made great lights; For his agape loving
kindness [endures] forever: {136:8} The sun to rule by day; For his agape
loving kindness [endures] forever; {136:9} The moon and stars to rule by night;
For his agape loving kindness [endures] forever: {136:10} To him that defeated
Egypt in their first-born; For his agape loving kindness [endures] forever;
{136:11} And brought out Israel from among them; For his agape loving kindness
[endures] forever; {136:12} With a strong hand, and with an outstretched arm;
For his agape loving kindness [endures] forever: {136:13} To him that divided
the Red Sea in sunder; For his agap loving kindness [endures] forever; {136:14}
And made Israel to pass through the midst of it; For his agape loving kindness
[endures] forever; {136:15} But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red Sea;
For his agape loving kindness [endures] forever: {136:16} To him that led his
people through the wilderness; For his agape loving kindness [endures] forever:
{136:17} To him that defeated great kings; For his agape loving kindness
[endures] forever; {136:18} And slew famous kings; For his agape loving
kindness [endures] forever: {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] forever; {136:21} And gave their land for a
heritage; For his agape loving kindness [endures] forever; {136:22} Even a
heritage unto Israel his servant; For his agape loving kindness [endures] forever:
{136:23} Who remembered us in our low estate; For his agape loving kindness
[endures] forever; {136:24} And has delivered us from our adversaries; For his
loving kindness [endures] forever: {136:25} Who gives food to all flesh; For
his agape loving kindness [endures] forever. {136:26} Oh give thanks unto the
God of heaven; For his agape loving kindness [endures] forever.
{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 Anger 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] forever;
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 outermost 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 forever
and ever. {145:2} Every day will I bless you; And I will praise your name forever
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 forever 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 forever; {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 forever, 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 forever 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 One. {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 everyone
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 everyone 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 Four. {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 Five. {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 Six. {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 Anger; 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
Anger. {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 forever; 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 Anger will be [against] him that causes shame.
{o20)15} Proverbs Chapter Fifteen. {15:1} A
soft answer turns away Anger; 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 Angerful 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} Everyone 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 Anger 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 hateful 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 Anger 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 Anger 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 everyone 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 everyone 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 Anger. {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 hateful 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 Anger 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 Angerful 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 by which 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 Anger from him. {24:19} Worry 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} Anger 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 forever: 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 Anger. {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 forever.
{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 Angerful 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 Anger 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 forever. {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 whatever 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 forever; 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} Foreverything there is a season, and a
time forevery 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, whatever God does, it shall be forever: 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 forevery purpose and forevery 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 Anger. {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} Whatever 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 whatever 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 forever 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} Whatever 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 everyone [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 everyone 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; sixty 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 love, From the daughters of Jerusalem. {3:11} Go forth, O you
daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon, With the crown by which 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 everyone 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 defeated 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 everyone 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 sixty queens, and eighty 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; Everyone 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 bulls, 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; everyone 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, everyone by another, and everyone 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 everyone 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 sixty 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 outermost 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 everyone
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 enrage
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 forever. 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 defeated 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; foreveryone 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 Anger 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 Anger 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 defeated 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 outermost
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 Anger 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 Anger 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} Everyone
that is found shall be thrust through; and everyone 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 defeated the
peoples in Anger 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 outermost
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 outermost 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, everyone
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 forever. {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 defeated 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, everyone 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 Anger; his boastings are nothing. {16:7} Therefore shall Moab wail for
Moab, everyone 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 everyone against his brother, and everyone 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; everyone 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 outermost
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 forever; 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
forever; 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} Anger 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 defeated those that defeated 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] forever
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 by which 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, by which 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 forever, 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 forever.
{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 Cannot
comprehend, of a strange tongue that you Cannot 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 Anger 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 bulls 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 forever; from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none
shall pass through it forever 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, everyone
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 forever; 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 Thirty Six. {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 everyone of his vine, and everyone of his fig-tree, and drink you everyone 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, by which 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 defeated in the camp
of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty 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 defeated 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 Thirty Nine. {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 Forty One. {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 everyone 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 Forty Two. {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} everyone 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 Forty-Five. {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 forever; 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 everyone 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, by which 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 forever,
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 forever, 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 Anger; 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 Anger 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 Anger; 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 everyone 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 Anger 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, everyone 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, everyone 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 forever, 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 defeated 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, Anger 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 forever.
{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 Anger I defeated 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 forever,
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 Sixty-Three. {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 Anger; 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 Anger, it upheld me. {63:6} And
I trod down the peoples in mine anger, and made them drunk in my Anger, 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 Sixty-Four. {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 forever: 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 Sixty-Five. {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 forever 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 Sixty-Six. {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 whatever 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 everyone 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] forever?
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] forever. {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
Anger 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; everyone 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; everyone 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 everyone 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 Anger 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 everyone is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the
priest everyone 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 outermost 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, everyone 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 forevermore. {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 Anger 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 Anger. {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? everyone 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: foreveryone from the least even
unto the greatest is given to covetousness; from the prophet even unto the
priest everyone 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 everyone of his neighbor, and trust you not in
any brother; forevery brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go
about with slanders. {9:5} And they will deceive everyone 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 everyone 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 Anger 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 Anger 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 everyone 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] everyone 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 everyone 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 forever. {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 forever. {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, by which 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 everyone 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 everyone 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; everyone 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 Anger 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; everyone 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 everyone the flesh of his friend, in the siege and in the distress, by
which 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 defeated 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, everyone 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, by which 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 Anger, 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 Anger 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, everyone 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 everyone 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] Anger, 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 everyone 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 everyone
to his neighbor, and everyone to his brother, What has Yahweh answered? and,
What has Yahweh spoken? {23:36} And the burden of Yahweh shall you mention no
more: forevery 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 everyone 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 forevermore; {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 forever. {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 Anger 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 outermost 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, by which 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, forevery 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,
everyone 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] Anger, 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 outermost 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 defeated 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 everyone 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 forever. {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 forever.
{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 everyone 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 Anger 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 Anger, 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 forever, 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 Anger, 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] forever; [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 everyone should
let his man-servant, and everyone 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, forever: {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 forever.
{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 everyone
from his evil way; for great is the anger and the Anger 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 defeated 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 defeated 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 eighty 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 whatever 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 by
which 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 Anger has
been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so shall my Anger 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, by which 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 Anger 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 defeated 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 defeated
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 Anger, 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} Forevery 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: everyone 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 defeated. 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 forever: 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 Anger of Yahweh
she shall not be inhabited, but she shall be wholly desolate: everyone 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 everyone to his people, and they shall flee everyone
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 bulls; 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 forever;
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 outermost 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, everyone 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 everyone 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 forever, 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 forever. {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 by which 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 sixty 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 defeated 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, By which 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 Anger
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 Anger 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 Anger. {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 forever. {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 Anger, 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 forever; Your
throne is from generation to generation. {5:20} Therefore do you forget us forever,
[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 Chapter One. {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 everyone
had four faces, and everyone 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 everyone 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 everyone were joined one to another, and
two covered their bodies. {1:12} And they went everyone 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} Whereeverthe 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: everyone had two which covered on this side, and everyone
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 Chapter Two. {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 Chapter Three. {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 Cannot 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 Chapter Four. {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 Chapter Five. {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 Anger 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 Anger 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 Anger, and in Angerful
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 Chapter Six. {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 Anger 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 Chapter Seven. {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 Anger 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 Anger
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 Anger 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, everyone 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 Anger
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 Chapter Eight. {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 Anger; 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 Chapter Nine. {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 defeated 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 Anger
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 Chapter Ten. {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 everyone 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} Everyone had four faces, and everyone 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 everyone straight
forward.
{O26)11} Ezekiel Chapter Eleven. {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 Chapter Twelve. {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 Chapter Thirteen. {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 by which you have daubed it? {13:13} Therefore thus said the
Lord Yahweh: I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my Anger; and there
shall be an overflowing shower in mine anger, and great hailstones in Anger 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 Anger 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, by which 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 Chapter Fourteen. {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} Foreveryone 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 Anger 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 Chapter Fifteen. {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 Chapter Sixteen. {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 everyone 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, by which 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 everyone 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 Anger 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 Anger
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, everyone 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 Chapter Seventeen. {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 Chapter Eighteen. {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, everyone 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 Chapter nineteen. {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 Chapter Twenty. {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 Anger 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 Anger 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 Anger
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 Anger 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 Anger 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 everyone 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 Chapter Twenty-one. {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 Anger 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 Anger; 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 Chapter
Twenty-Two. {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, everyone 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 Anger, 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 Anger, 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 Anger
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 Anger: their own way have I
brought upon their heads, said the Lord Yahweh.
{O26)23} Ezekiel Twenty Three. {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 Chapter Twenty-Four. {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 Anger 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 Anger 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 Chapter Twenty-Five. {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 Anger; 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 Angerful rebukes; and
they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them.
{O26)26} Ezekiel Chapter Twenty-Six. {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 Chapter Twenty-Six. {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 Chapter Twenty-Eight. {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}Ezekiel Chapter Twenty-Nine. {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 Chapter Thirty. {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 Anger 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 Chapter Thirty-One. {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 Chapter Thirty-Two. {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 by which 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 outermost 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 Chapter Thirty-Three. {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 everyone 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 everyone 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, everyone 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 Chapter Thirty-Four. {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 Chapter Thirty-Five. {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 Chapter Thirty Six. {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 Anger, 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 Anger 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 Chapter Thirty Seven. {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, forever:
and David my servant shall be their prince forever. {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 forevermore. {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 forevermore.
{O26)38} Ezekiel Chapter Thirty Eight. {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 outermost 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 outermost 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 Anger
shall come up into my nostrils. {38:19} For in my jealousy and in the fire of
my Anger 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 Chapter Thirty Nine. {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 outermost 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 bulls, 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 anymore 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 Chapter Forty. {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, sixty 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
by which 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 Forty One. {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 Chapter Forty Two. {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 Chapter Forty Three. {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
forever. 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 forever.
{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 bull 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
bull 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 bull. {43:23} When you have made an end of cleansing
it, you shall offer a young bull 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 bull, 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 Chapter Forty Four. {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 Chapter Forty Five. {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 [whatever 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 bull
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 foreveryone 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 bull for a
sin-offering. {45:23} And the seven days of the feast he shall prepare a
burnt-offering to Yahweh, seven bulls 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 bull, 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 Chapter Forty Six. {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 bull 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 bull, 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 bull, 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 Chapter Forty Seven. {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 whereeverthe 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 Chapter Forty Eight. {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
forever: 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 sixty cubits, and the breadth of it six cubits: he
set it up in the plain of Dura, in the
{O27)4} Daniel Chapter Four. {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 forever; 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 Chapter Five. {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 defeated 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 sixty two years old.
{O27)6} Daniel Chapter Six. {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 forever. {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 forever. {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 forever, 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 Daniel Chapter Seven. {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 forever, even forever 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 defeated 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 Chapter Eleven. {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
{O27)12} Daniel Chapter
Twelve. {12:1} And at that time shall
Michael stand up, the great prince who stands for the children of your people;
and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a
nation even to that same time: and at that time your people shall be delivered,
everyone that shall be found written in the book. {12:2} And many of them that
sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some
to shame and everlasting contempt. {12:3} And they that are wise shall shine as
the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as
the stars forever and ever. {12:4} But you, O Daniel, shut up the words, and
seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and
knowledge shall be increased. {12:5} Then I, Daniel, looked, and, behold, there
stood other two, the one on the brink of the river on this side, and the other
on the brink of the river on that side. {12:6} And one said to the man clothed
in linen, who was above the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the
end of these wonders? {12:7} And I heard the man clothed in linen, who was
above the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand
unto heaven, and swears by him that lives forever that it shall be for a time,
times, and a half; and when they have made an end of breaking in pieces the
power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished. {12:8} And I
heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my lord, what shall be the issue of
these things? {12:9} And he said, Go your way, Daniel; for the words are shut
up and sealed till the time of the end. {12:10} Many shall purify themselves,
and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked shall do wickedly;
and none of the wicked shall understand; but they that are wise shall
understand. {12:11} And from the time that the continual [burnt-offering] shall
be taken away, and the abomination that makes desolate set up, there shall be a
thousand and two hundred and ninety days. {12:12} Blessed is he that waits, and
comes to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days. {12:13} But go
you your way till the end be; for you shall rest, and shall stand in your lot,
at the end of the days.
{O28)1}
Hosea Chapter One. {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 Chapter Two. {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 forever;
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 Chapter Three. {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 Chapter Four. {4:1} Hear the word of Yahweh, you children
of
{O28)5}
Hosea Chapter Five. {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 Chapter Six. {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 Chapter Seven. {7:1} When I would heal
{O28)8} Hosea Chapter Eight. {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 Chapter Nine. {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 Chapter Ten. {10:1}
{O28)11}
Hosea Chapter Eleven. {11:1} When
{o28)12}
Hosea Chapter Twelve. {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 Chapter Thirteen. {13:1} When Ephraim spoke, there was
trembling; he exalted himself in
{O28)14} Hosea Chapter Fourteen. {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 everyone on his ways, and they break not their ranks. {2:8} Neither
does one thrust another; they march everyone 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, everyone 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 everyone 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 forever: 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 defeated 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 one hundred twenty 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 forever. {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 everyone in the name of his god; and we will walk in the name of
Yahweh our God forever 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 forever. {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 Cannot
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 Anger 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 defeated
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, everyone 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
forever? {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 seventy 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: foreveryone that steals shall be
cut off on the one side according to it; and everyone 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 Anger 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 everyone 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, so much 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, Everyone 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, by which 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 everyone 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 everyone
[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
everyone 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 Cannot make one hair
white or black. {5:37} But let your speech be, yes-yes, or no-no; and whatever 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} foreveryone 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 whatever 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 everyone 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} Everyone 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 everyone 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 defeated
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 whereeveryou
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, so much 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 maid 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 maid
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, so much 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, so much 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 whatever 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 maid: 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 by which 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 whatever 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 conquer her [my
Ekklesia]. {16:19} I will give unto
you [my Ekklesia] the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatever you [my
Ekklesia] shall bind on earth is already bound in heaven; and whatever 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 whatever 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 [by which]
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 everyone 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 forevery 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 whatever 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 whatever 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 everyone 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: so much 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 defeated 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 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; so much 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 whatever
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 whatever you will, and I will give it you.
{6:23} And he swore unto her, Whatever 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 now 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 maid; and the maid 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, whatever they had done, and whatever 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 whatever 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; so much 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 whatever 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 outermost
part of the earth to the outermost 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; so much 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 defeated 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 [again] 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 Anger 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 everyone 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 everyone 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} Everyone 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 whatever 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 whatever 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 whatever 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 everyone 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} Foreveryone 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, so much 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 whatever 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, Everyone
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 everyone 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 [by which] 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 eighty. {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 by which 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 defeated 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: foreveryone 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} Everyone 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 sixty 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, Whatever 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 everyone 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, Everyone that commits sin is the slave to sin. {8:35} And the
slave [to sin] abides not in the house forever: the son abides forever. {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 by which 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 Cannot
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 whatever
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 forever,
{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 whatever 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 whatever 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 whatever 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 whatever 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. Everyone 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: everyone
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} so much 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 defeated 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 Anger in the day
of Anger 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] Anger 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 Anger? (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 Anger; 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 Anger
[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, [8:4}God,
sending his own Son in the likeness of
sinful flesh and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: {8:5} 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. {8:6}
For the mind of the flesh is death; but the mind of the Spirit is life and
peace: {8:7} 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: {8:8} 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. {8:10} And if Christ is in
you, the body is dead because of sin; but the spirit is life because of
righteous works. {8:11} 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. {8:12}
So then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh:
{8:13} 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. {8:14} For as many as are led by the Spirit
of God, these are sons of God. {8:15} For you received not the spirit of
bondage again unto fear; but you received the spirit of adoption, whereby we
cry, Abba, Father. {8:16} The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit,
that we are children of God: {8:17} 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]. {8:18} 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. {8:19} For the earnest expectation of the creation waits
for the revealing of the sons of God. {8:20} For the creation was subjected to
vanity, not of its own will, but by reason of him who subjected it, in hope
{8:21} that the creation itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of
corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God. {8:22} For we
know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.
{8:23} 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? {8:25} But
if we hope for that which we see not, [then] do we with patience wait for it.
{8:26} 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; {8:27} 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. {8:28} 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. {8:29} 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: {8:30} 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. {8:31} What then shall we say to
these things? If God [is] for us, who [is] against us? {8:32} 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? {8:33} Who shall lay anything to the charge of
God's elect? It is God that justifies; {8:34} 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. {8:35} Who shall
separate us from the agape love of Christ? shall tribulation, or anguish, or
persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? {8:37} 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. {8:38} For I am persuaded, that
neither death, nor life, nor messengers, nor principalities, nor things
present, nor things to come, nor powers, {8:39} 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 forever.
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 everyone
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 Anger [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 Anger to him that does evil. {13:5} Therefore
[you] must needs be in subjection, not only because of the Anger, 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 whatever 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 whatever 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, Whatever 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. {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 forevermore,
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 wheneveryou 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 by which 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, so much 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 by which 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 I helped
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 restricted
from us, but you are restricted from 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} So much 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 forever. {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 by which 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 deceived 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 forever 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 everyone 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 everyone 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, Angers, 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 carry 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 whatever 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 Anger, even as the
rest:-- {2:4} but God, being rich in mercy, for his great agape love by which
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 forever 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 by which 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 Anger: {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 Anger, 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 Anger 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: foreverything 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 Anger:
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, by which 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 destruction, 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, whatever
things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever
things are pure, whatever things are like agape love, whatever 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 whatever 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 forever 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 Anger 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, Anger, 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 whatever 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} whatever 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 by
which 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 Anger, 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 destruction, {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 Anger 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 deceived, but the woman being deceived 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 an overseer, he desires a good work. {3:2} The overseer
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}
Forevery 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 more
willing, 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 rob you 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 destruction. {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 everyone 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 Chapter One. 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, by which 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 overseer
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 forever; {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 forever 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
forevery [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} Forevery 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 Anger, 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 Anger, 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} Forevery 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 forever 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} Foreveryone
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 forever 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} Forevery
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 forever, 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 forever 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 by which 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 destruction; 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
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 discipline
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 are leading 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 yesterday and
to-day, [behold] and forever. {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 forever
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 Anger: {1:20} for the Anger 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} Forevery 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 forever. 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 forever 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 so much 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 forever 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 mescoffrchandise 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 scolding
judgment against them before the Lord. {2:12} But these, as creatures outside
reason, born mere animals to be 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, pleasuring self 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, 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 forever. 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 forever. {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 everyone 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
everyone that has this hope [set] on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.
{3:4} Everyone 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 whatever 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 everyone 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} Everyone who
believes that Yehsus is the Christ is begotten of God: and everyone 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} Foreveryone 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 whatever 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 forever: {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 whatever
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 forever 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 Cannot 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 forever 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 forever
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, forever 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 Anger of the Lamb: {6:17} for the great
day of their Anger 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 forever 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 forever 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 sixty
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 Anger, 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 whereeverhe 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 Anger 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 Anger
of God, who lives forever 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 Anger 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 [belly of the beast of her religion] was fed 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 destruction. 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 destruction. {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 forever 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 Anger 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, by which 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 forever 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 forever 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 everyone 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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